Violin Lesson Tuesday 12/11/2007

Practice List Tuesday 12/11/2007 Lesson 22 Week 12

Practice List Daily
1. NEW: 5 MHD A string & 5 MHD E string w/ 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)
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
a. Nora plays her own bread (not model and then your turn)
b. Keep doing both play / sing variations of this practice
i. Sing & sign the bread and Play the two peanut butter and jelly parts, then sing and sign the bread to end.
ii. Play bread (herself) and sign and sing the two peanut butter and jelly parts, then Play the bread (herself) to end.
1. * raise just bow arm (not fiddle)
2. smile and bow

3. NEW: Note Cards shown to her when she has violin to play them with MHD
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 ____?”
a. Aunt Rhody vs Long Long Ago
b. Perpetual Motion vs (Etude, Song of Wind. May Song, Allegretto, Andantino)
c. Allegretto vs Andantino

5. Pitch: Mr S said that Nora’s self generated A is often a bit low to start and she can learn to make it higher without making her voice get louder. Higher and softer singing for the A.

6. Crossed Violin hand off and thank you bow

7. Eye contact for presentations of poem and listening piece


Notes:

1. We missed the last lesson because Nora had a cold.


2. Nora sang an A for Mr S and he said that she tended to sing the A a bit low and then get louder as she raised her pitch to match his source. He told her to sing higher and more quietly and she did it one time.


3. Nora recited her poem well, though most of the time, she did not look at Mr S (eye contact). The poem was one he had not heard (very unusual, he said he has heard most poems the children bring in)and it made him laugh. It was taken from the back of a ravioli package, “Old Mother Hubbard” with a twist! When Old Mother Hubbard came home, the dog was eating itsy bitsy raviolis!


4. Nora continued to have difficulty identifying some of her assigned songs in book one. We will have to remember to tell him on Friday that our “mystery song” was Perpetual Motion!


5. He played Allegro first and Nora identified it immediately. After that he alternated playing just the ones that she has particularly had difficulty with. Aunt Rhody versus Long Long Ago (he played 8 and she missed Then he ran Allegretto, Andantino and Etude and she got them all except that her responses were quite slow. Perpetual Motion was still the hardest for her, even when given the choice “ is it Etude or Perpetual Motion?” We are to practice these in a similar manner this week. Is it X or Y?


6. He asked her to play her MHD twinkle playing the bread without a teacher. Mommy, Mima model first. Nora did this quite well with just a bit of coaching from Mr S for the note E after the F# and for a C#.


7. She told him her school poem about county corn and geese flying east and west. He had her do to a 2nsd time and she was able to give him more eye contact. He told Mima to introduce the hand signal for “looking” at her partner/audience. Mima notes that when she talked to him at other times in the lesson this eye contact with her communication partner (Mr S0 was also missing.


8. She followed most of his directions the first time, but needed one or two repetitions for such things as getting on her green feet.


9. KEY: bow arm opens at elbow joint (if possible one hand or person gently guide elbow joint using finger/s inside elbow the other finger/s at outside of joint. We really need to do this!