Prep for October 1st rehearsal

Great job last week!  You guys sounded awesome on Rolling in the Deep after we put in the accents and fixed bowing.  Let's focus on that this week for practice:  So here's what we want you to work on for our Oct 1st rehearsal....  For Hanna & Sadie, I will send you a PDF of your new parts.  Check your e-mail on Wed.

Connie and I are currently checking parts and will get them out to you in PDF forms.  That way you will have the correct bowing and articulation for your parts. They will be out hopefully by tomorrow for the following songs...
Rolling in the Deep
I"m Yours
Love Story
Viva La Vida


Please practice the parts that you do have for the above songs.  If we don't get the PDFs out then you will get your parts next Tuesday.

Next week we will also have a couple workshops:
Violin positioning
Facial expressions

Save the Date Planetarium Black Tie Event:  Thursday Oct 11 at 6pm (this is when the event starts) I currently do not know what time we are supposed to arrive and where we are meeting

Please purchase Christmas Favorites Vol 1 & 2 by A Laurence Lyon at Day Murray Music
Day Murray Music is located at 4914 S State St.  Murray

Prep for Sept 24 Rehearsal

Great job everyone!

Next week:
Listen carefully to yourself tuning
Playing I'm Yours
Love Story
Viva La Vida
Defying Gravity with dancing

Review Telephone (check out what homework needed to be done for this last week)

Your homework for the week:
Play & listen to the following selections from the vitamin String Quartet
I'm Your's by Jason Mraz (play & listen)
Love Story by Taylor Swift (listen)
Viva La Vida by Coldplay (play & listen)
Massive Black Hole by Muse (listen)
Our Song by Taylor Swift (listen)

New students: please visit www.vimeo.com and make an account.  I have sent you an invitation to join so you can view videos from last season to learn the choreography.

Please view on vimeo.com Defying Gravity and practice the steps.  We will go over them next week with the music.

Preparation for Sept 17th Rehearsal

Hi returning and new students!  We are going to have a fantastic year!!!!
Please remember to bring your tuition for Sept

Remember to sign your name on a ticket and put it into the Movie Package Drawing - only for those on time

Connie will be doing a workshop on Tuning

Music Theory Game
Dance Moves - Lines moving forward & backward, side to side, staying in your window
Sight reading
Taking home music

New students: You will be given more music from last season to learn and memorize
Rolling in the Deep
Smooth Criminal
Star Spangled Banner
Telephone/Bad Romance
Defying Gravity

Returning Students:
Telephone 
Violin 1 meas 15-24.  We will be listening for C natural to be in tune.
Violin 1 meas 28-32 getting the high E in tune

Violin Meas 33-40 getting the C natural in tune
Everyone 117 getting the octave A in tune

Rolling in the Deep
Violin 1 - 1st meas in tune and even 16th notes, meas 66 - End

Violin 2 & Viola - Meas 5 the first and second notes are both down bow.  Please do a big bow circle and play the 2nd note at the frog.  We will begin from the beginning to meas 5.
All 8th notes play at the frog

Smooth criminal
All groupings of 16th notes even if not marked in the music, start Down Bow!  Please practice bowing a quick bow circle at the frog.  We will review this in class

We will also be playing through Defying Gravity and a couple new songs.