SCR at Oliver

5th class girls in Oliver cast

Daniel tries out the conductors baton at Oliver

Celebrating St Patrick's Day at Blazing Bows

 Sally Garden  Reel  Today we looked at some Irish dance tunes .Ms Vaughan and I demonstrated a reel on tin whistle and fiddle .

Can you remember how many parts make up most polkas and  reels  Why do dance tunes have strong regular  rhythms ?
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We  also worked on our Blues  first finger tune and                         *********************   
We Will Rock You riff

C   B    A    G   AA    We Will Rock You  finger pattern on G string
3    2     1     0    11            REMEMBER 2 AND 3 CLOSE TOGETHER

Dá Téada ag an t-am céanna  - Double Stopping  Everybody learned how to play two strings together at the same time .

The class spent some time during the week looking at  the trad  section on www.exploremusic.ie    

My award for Best Student  went to Katie  today

Tuesday Blues

Today we learned a new song ' Blues '    Well Done .

'Check Out the video tutorial and  how about Ms Vaughan's groovy keyboard riffs !  Cool !

How many open strings are used in Blues ?

Who is the character on my tee shirt supposed to be ?


Niamh  and Christopher, Jake  selected for special mention. 

Oliver  with several pupils from SCR continues all week

Term resumes in Spring Sunshine

 NEWSFLASH  Ennis Musical Society perform OLIVER at GLÓR  from  8th 12th March    Sat Matinee
It was good to start back  after a break of three weeks.   Here is what we did today


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Vivaldi in G  pizz      / Toreadors March warm up

  *NEW TUNE  TWO STRING REGGAE      G z G z   D z D z  G G D D  G z D z  

Wintertime in Russia       bowing work

Athacama Crossing         bowing work   
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**NEW Feature Crossing from one string to the next :
 Starting on D and moving  without  a sound to  A   for Athacama Crossing .

Well done everybody , the rhythm was very sharp . Remember little bows for win-ter-time-in  and longer ones for RUS SIA.

Special Oscars edition :Check out the new video clips featuring stars of the screen

'I loved the reggae beat  '    Mafouz

practice tips  Try scale to wintertime in Russsia on any string    1  1 down 2 down 3 down 3 again lift up 3, lift up 2 lift up1   THE END
Athacama crossing  crossing from  D  to A  to wintertime in rus sia


Extra points   Kevin for excellent violin hold  and Jake  for paying excellent attention. Thanks Mafouz and Katie for helping to pack away

Cathy's Blog: Blazing Bows

Cathy's Blog: Blazing Bows: "We got the 'Blues' We began work on a cool new tune 'Blues ' today . D E D E G G G_ 0 1 0..."

The pupils talk about Blazing Bow's first public performance

I felt nervous about playing in from of the school - Niamh         I felt so relaxed in the hall - Dana.

I felt happy. I enjoyed the bass, I like music - Daniel.        


  I felt very scared at first, I enjoyed ROCK YOU because everyone was singing along - Molly

The pupils' favourite tune



The pupils were asked to hold their fiddles in a funny way!



I enjoyed ROCK YOU - Chloe               I enjoyed the performance - Dillon.                               

      It felt really great -Daniel                

       I felt really scared todayat violin. I enjoyed when the jnr classes started calling my name. I think music is great now after today - Damien.    

                        I felt happy and proud- Katie.

                           I felt excited. I loved the songs. I loved music like before - Emma.



It was wonderful. The songs are good and I had a good day - Jordan

La le Bríde

There was a  definite feeling of Spring this morning and  the   Blazing Bows bounded into the Hall for their weekly lesson. They have been busy preparing their songs for St Brigids Day this  week.

 We took two new steps today.   Today we worked on our new piece , Macchu Piccu Mountain starting on A and climbing all the way to 3 on E . We  did a cool new piece playing on A and E  , Cross Lake Blues. 

We listened to a part of Spring from the Four Seasons by Vivaldi and played pizz on E to the main theme. We learned a new Italian word , Andante. Can you remember what it means?

Composer John Barry

We remembered John  Barry composer of the music for lots of films  including James Bond, Listen to his best known James Bond themes on the clip on this site. What instrument is playing the theme ?   Any guesses ?

http://www.libraryireland.com/LegendaryFictionsIrishCelts/V-13-1.php 
check out this link for a story about Brigid and music from National Library of Ireland