Hello Orchestra Bulldogs, hoping that you had a good week of working on one piece from your binders. I hope you all had a chance to log into MusicFirst and start to use SightReading Factory on your own. This is an awesome tool. Sightreading is hard for most people but an amazing skill to have. Go to my online learning page and you will find recordings of a another song from your binder to work on.. Make a plan for your practice for the week, don't try to do the entire song in one or 2 days. Continue to use the dronetonetool website that i gave you last week in my blog to help with intonation in your hand from and working on small sections. If you would like to work on your music theory skills you can use the Musition program in MusicFirst or use Remember to look on Wednesday for your Webs. Have a great week. Email me with any questions. Stay safe, miss seeing you Bulldogs! Below are 2 links to some coloring pages from Lisa Divig owner of Alto Clef Gifts.
Hello orchestra Bulldogs! I miss seeing you all so much but i'm excited to be giving you some things to help you grow that we would have been doing in class. Now you will just do them at home. You may want to make a weekly practice plan and incorporate some of the tools that I'm giving you. I have added a page to my website called online learning. please go to this page to find a piano recording of your part for one song each week to learn. 6th graders, your song has some G string C sharps in it. This is the extension we talked about. High 3rd finger for violins and violas in between the tapes (check with a tuner for pitch) Violas you have an F# on the C string too. mark them in with a pencil so you don't forget. Cellos you have a Db on the A string - that is just C# 3rd finger. You will need to stomp your foot and even yell out at the end of the tune. 7th and 8th graders the piece just has some rhythms, and dynamics that you will want to check on. Again write things in your parts to help especially for accidentals. Pianist/harpist i did not record your parts for you. Basses, i played the piano part an octave higher than your notes so you could hear it better Here is a link to Drone Tone Tool. it is a website(free) and a cheap app ($1.99) use this drone as the tonic of your scale and play a passage with it to hear and adjust your pitch. So if you are playing the G scale press the G drone and play the scale with it. You can also change the drone to hear how the pitches need to adjust. You can use if for small passages in a song too just don't play it with the entire song. Press the piano key to turn on, press again to turn off. The second resource I'd like you to use this week is to go into MusicFirst and select SightReading Factory. Make up your own levels, start easy. try at least 2 sightreading examples this week. You can turn on a metronome, even have the names of the notes come up for you 6th graders!! You can find great tutorials for this and you can make it really fancy and hard if you want. Even make the notes disappear as you read forward if you really want a challenge. There are settings for all instruments including piano and harp.
Come back here on Wednesday for Web Wednesdays!! I will have a few videos for you to watch and share with your family. If you need tuning peg help check out youtube. Just remember to pluck the note at all times, loosen the peg a little by pulling it down them tune it up away from you to make it go sharper little at a time. you have to push the peg into the pegbox as you do this to make it stay. Always pluck as you go and know what note you are aiming for and you wont break a string. Good luck and have a great week Mrs. Vail |
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