NEED TO KNOW
Purple Magic #9: Thank you for coming to class this week! It's so fun showing off for you the things we do in class and the amazing musicians your kids are becoming!
FLASH CARDS: Take the rubber band off the next section and release the bass spaces, adding them into your working cards. The only thing left in the band should be the bass line notes. If you are using the Itty Bitty Flashcards, add the bass spaces there too!
SHOWTIME: Next week is our showtime on Halloween Night! I'm looking for them to understand c minor chords in the left hand, as well as the 3/4 time signature feel. They all did this in class over the past few weeks and I'm not worried about them at all!
SONGBOOK MARKING: In Song of Joy, we circled all the downbeats and put a star over the important up-beat. We also crossed out the downbeat note tied to the up-beat because we don't play that one... we just keep holding the note from the up-beat. If you missed class, here is what it should look like:
MORE SONGBOOK MARKING: It's time for Turkey in the Straw! The melody of this fun tune bounces between the right hand and the left hand. I highlighted the students' books to show where the melody goes. When the melody bounces to the left hand, it plays "MI FA SOL SOL SOL." The left hand also plays red chords on the second two SOLs as accompaniment. This week, the practice assignment is to play the melody. It's up to your student if they add in those red chords or not. Either way works for me! If your student didn't have his book in class, please mark it like this:
TUITION: Thanks you for paying tuition on time! It helps me so much! If you didn't get it in, I'll send a request/reminder.
GOOD TO KNOW
LET'S PLAY MUSIC: We've been singing this song since the first day of Red Balloons, and using our very well-known class-opening song is the perfect stepping stone to practice transposition. That's just a fancy word for changing keys, in this case reading notes in one key and playing in another. And it's kind of a big deal! All the background your student has in solfege, intervals, skips, and steps makes transposing simple. We'll practice transposing many more times this year.
HALLOWEEN NIGHT: Improvisation means playing the music in a way that's different than printed. Transposition (what we did in the Let's Play Music song) is one way to improvise. Halloween Night gives us another way. In class, your students read the block c minor cadence chords, and played them as broken c minor cadence chords. They are amazing!
FUN TO KNOW
We have a new puppet show! Banditen Gallopp by Strauss is from an operetta about a bandit gang who wants to overthrow a prince. This piece comes from the scene where the bandits are galloping away. It's pretty exciting!
* Here is a link to printable coloring pages of the Skaters puppet show. (There are also coloring pages in your songbook that your student can color at any time... we won't be using them specifically in class.)
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