Strings Class Returns, February 3!
Schedule
1st and 3rd Wednesdays (mostly) at 1:30
Class will be about 45 minutes long on Google meets.
Feb 3
***Feb 10 ***
March 3
March 17
***March 31***
April 14
We can reevaluate after this - I’d like to have class until the end of the year in some fashion.
Goals
New material will be introduced on the first Wednesday of each month.
Students will practice in between classes - your lives, you choose how much.
The third Wednesday of each month will be for putting those new skills to use; this is when I plan to have students playing together.
Here is a video of Hot Cross Buns played on the violin. We use fingers on the stickers to play this song and the pattern is:
Blue, Yellow, open D
Blue, Yellow, open D
DDDD, yellow yellow yellow yellow
Blue, Yellow, open D
Hot Cross buns.m4vLogging on to Essential Elements Interactive -the online version of our music book.
I have created one account for fourth grade students and one account for fifth grade students.
Here are the usernames and passwords:
username: FourthGrade/Password: Portlandstudent
username: FifthGrade/Password: Portlandstudent
When you go to the Essential Elements homepage, click on "students" and then type in the username and password. Essential Elements Interactive homepage.
tuning.mp4Tuning your instrument
This video shows the adult in your house how to tune your instrument. The names of the strings from high to low are:
violins: E A D G violas: A D G C
cellos: A D G C basses: G D A E
You may use an app or this website to hear the sounds for each instrument. (Bass guitar has the same sounds as the double bass that we play.) Write in the Google Doc below if you have a question.