Thursday, February 28, 2013

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013

QUOTE:
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
AUTHOR: Ludwig van Beethoven
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“If you cant live with yourself because you act in a way contrary to your ethics 
  all the money in the world will not make you happy.”









COMPOSER
VIVALDI
CONCERTO for TWO VIOLINS, 
STRINGS and CONTINUO 
D MAJOR RV. 512
Performed by violinists David Oistrakh and Isaac Stern
http://www.sydneyconsort.com.au/concerts1.html

GENERAL MUSIC
01.  KEYBOARD WORKSHEETS
........a.  DRAWING A KEYBOARD and ADDING IN THE MUSICAL ALPHABET LETTERS (turned in)
02.  KEYBOARD REVIEW
........a.  PATTERNS OF BLACK and WHITE KEYS
.............1)  BLACK KEYS (PENTATONIC SCALES) PATTERNS OF 3 and 2 (5 BLACK KEYS)
.............2)  WHITE KEYS (DIATONIC SCALE) PATTERNS OF 7 (adding an 8th key makes a scale and octave                                 higher)
.............3)  WHITE and BLACK KEYS COMBINED (CHROMATIC SCALE) ALL THE SOUND COLORS 
........b.  APPLYING THE MUSICAL ALPHABET TO THE WHITE KEYS OF THE KEYBOARD
..............1)  DISCUSSION ON HOW THE KEYBOARD PRODUCES HIGH and LOW SOUNDS
....................a)  HIGHER NOTES MOVE TO THE RIGHT (UP THE MUSICAL ALPHABET)
....................b)  LOWER NOTES MOVE TO THE LEFT (BACKWARDS or DOWN THE MUSICAL ALPHABET)
........c.  FINDING "D" ON THE KEYBOARD BY FIRST LOCATING BLACK KEYS IN PATTERNS OF 2 WITH                              THE WHITE KEY IN BETWEEN BEING THE LETTER "D"
..............1)  BY LOCATING  "D" and KNOWING THAT THE KEYBOARD GOES HIGHER TO THE  RIGHT (UP                         THE MUSICAL ALPHABET) and LOWER TO THE LEFT (BACKWARDS DOWN THE MUSICAL                             ALPHABET) STUDENTS CAN DETERMINE THE LETTER NAMES OF ALL THE OTHER WHITE                          KEY NOTES ON THE KEYBOARD
...............2)  EACH STUDENT IS ASKED TO LOCATE "D" ON THE KEYBOARD
...............3)  PLAYING "B A G" SONGS ON THE KEYBOARD
.....................a)  STUDENTS FIND NOTES "B A G"  and TRY TO PLAY SONGS BY READING THE LETTER
                           NOTE NAMES
.................... b)   DEMONSTRATION ON WHY USING ONLY ONE FINGER IS NOT PRACTICAL TO PERFORM                                 THIS
.....................c)  DISCUSSION OF PREPARING THE FINGERS NEEDED TO PLAY THIS BY PLACING THE                                        FINGERS DOWN LIGHTLY OVER THE KEYS IN ADVANCE AND THEN MOVING THE
                           FINGERS AS WRITTEN DOWN ON THE PAGE WITHOUT USING THE EYES TO LOOK AT                                      THE FINGERS (EYES KEPT ON READING THE NOTES and FINGERS DEPRESS THE KEYS BY                              USING SENSE OF TOUCH)
03.  KEYBOARD RULES
........a.  REVIEWED RULES and PROCEDURES FOR USING THE KEYBOARDS
04   PLAYING AT KEYBOARDS (started today and continued tomorrow)
.........a.  STUDENTS TO LOCATE "D" and THEN LOCATE THE "B A G" LETTERS 
.........b.  STUDENTS TO PREPARE THREE FINGERS AND PLACE THEM LIGHTLY ON THE THREE KEYS                      NEEDED TO PLAY THE SONG
.........c.  STUDENT TO TRY TO PLAY "B A G" SONGS KEEPING EYES OFF THE KEYBOARD and ON THE                        LETTER READING (MOVING FINGERS BY SENSE OF TOUCH)
.........d.  STUDENTS NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULTY IN MOVING THE FINGERS AS                                              INDEPENDENT ENTITIES SOMETHING ESPECIALLY THE THIRD (RING) FINGER

ADV. STRINGS
01.  STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN
........a.  PLAYED WITHOUT THE RECORDED ACCOMPANIMENT
02.  PARADISE

BEG. STRINGS
01.  WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL (MELODY)
........a.  WORKED ON FIRST 2 PASSAGES
........b.  PLAYED ENTIRE PIECE
02.  LOS MACHETES (MELODY)