Violin Lesson 12/14/07

Practice List Friday 12/14/2007 Lesson 23 Week 12

Practice List Daily
1. 5 MHD A string & 5 MHD E string w/ “open door” what we will now call the bow arm opening at elbow
a. In order to count as one of the five they must be:
i. In playground especially do not go below the bottom of tape (error of playing above the tape is less problematic) NEW use whole tape area.
ii. Open elbow joint to see smiley face that was penned on inside of her elbow
b. Smiley face drawn on inside of R elbow will be visible when bow is correct

2. MHD Twinkle Dessert Practice –* NEW fix it or move on Game for “open door”
a. Nora plays her own bread when she sings the PB & J
b. NEW Nora plays her own PB & J when she sings the bread
c. Keep doing both play / sing variations of this practice
d. Do some (at least half?) of these as “my turn” “your turn”
e. Keeping even tempo (the word tempo was not used) was discussed with Nora in detail, not too fast, not too slow, just right temp
f. raise just bow arm over head, smile, red feet and bow
g. *If her arm opens at elbow (open door) go in the next note, if not, play note again with “open door”
h. NEW: Mr S showed Mima that Nora’s bow is now sometimes going crooked, at an angle on her “highway” with tip too far angled behind her. We should help Nora to learn what a straight bow on her highway between bridge and fingerboard feels like.

3. Note Cards shown to her when she has violin to play them using MHD rhythm (not done this lesson keep doing this)
a. Nora looks at the card
b. Sings the note she sees
c. Plays MHD rhythm for the note
d. Sing the note again
e. Next card do the same

4. Song Identification Specific Project “Is it ____ or ____?” keep doing these
a. Aunt Rhody vs Long Long Ago *still difficult try to explain that notes go up (LLA) or down (GTAR)
b. Perpetual Motion vs (Etude, Song of Wind. May Song, Allegretto, Andantino)
c. Allegretto vs Andantino
d. NEW: play 3 notes using extremes first and ask if they are going higher or lower (up or down)

5. Pitch: Mr S had Nora sing A and although nothing was said this week, we probably still need to work on Nora learning to adjust pitch without making her voice get louder. In general higher and softer singing for the A.

6. Crossed Violin hand off and thank you bow * remember to say thank you for teaching me …

7. Eye contact for presentations of poem and listening piece


Further Explanations:
- Story Format: for Listening Piece Recitation on Friday: “Peter Tchaikovsky composed The Nutcracker Suite, and it was conducted Michael Tilson Thomas with the Philharmonia Orchestra”
- Poem recitation Tuesday, look at Mr S.