Adult Class Works on Fiddle Tune, Simple Gifts, and Nowell

After tuning we played the D scale using half note followed by two quarter notes, G scale using quarter and eighths, and C scale using half notes. We will vary those rhythm patterns each week on the one octave scales.

We successfully passed "For Pete's Sake" song 76. Our Ode to Joy is sounding better and better.

I passed out new copies of Bile Em Cabbage Down, which we can do for Post Falls Days. We learned to do what they call double stops: starting with playing F# and open A string together while you play the melody of the song like we played last week-- always playing open A together with melody. We reviewed slurring of break part of song and you can learn break on your own. We will not have class next week due to holiday, so that you will have lots of time to practice. Combining of tune and back-up was fun!

We did some sharing with some of the string orchestra. Then we all played the melody line of First Nowell. Combining harmony was good. We will improve, and actually for the first times through it is sounding quite good. It really helped to go over it several times. Keep practicing your part.

We started to learn the song on page 45 Simple Gifts, which we can play also at Post Falls Days. Pizzacato is good at first. It has a simple rhythm of quarter and eighth notes with slurrs. We will all try to learn melody these few weeks. You can write all fingering numbers in parts until you learn it because it does jump around more than our other songs have. We'll see how everyone does at practicing for 2 weeks. There is a chart for numbering fingering on page 47, OR YOU CAN USE YOUR SCALE SHEETS FOR D SCALE. I helped those who stayed with numbering the first line and you can continue numbering the rest of line A (melody line) in music.

I can't wait to hear you in two weeks. Especially on Simple Gifts!