Kingswood School Thurs. Nov. 1 11.40-12.40pm

Hi Kingswood,

Lovely to see you again. After you helped me set up the table and chairs in the new room (#116), and after lunch, we got to work, performing the songs that I gave you last week for each other.

Lauren, Max, Aidan and Renee all played beautifully for us. Remember to think of the rhythm, when you practice. Some notes are short, and some are long. Try tapping a beat with your foot while you practice so you can see how the beat lines up with the notes.

We learned about the Grand Staff in our Theory Thinker lesson. You learned 4 rhymes to memorize the letter names of the notes on the staff.

For the treble clef (your right hand), the line notes can be found using: Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge. For the space notes: F-A-C-E

In the bass clef (your left hand), we use the rhyme Good Boys Deserve Fudge Always for the line notes, and All Cows Eat Grass, for the space notes.

These are some tricks to find the notes on the staff, but really, you can figure out letter names by counting up or down from middle C, if you can remember where to find it (it has it's own line, below the treble clef staff, or above the bass clef staff).

We played some games to really get a handle on Grand Staff notes names, and then we learned about different note values.
Whole notes are worth 4 beats, Half notes are worth 2 and Quarter notes are worth 1.

Finally, I gave all of you 3 new song sheets to take home and try out for practice.

Make sure you put them in a folder and bring them every Wednesday for Musiq Club class.
I'm going to ask for some new volunteers next time to perform Twinkle Twinkle and Ode to Joy!

Thanks everyone.

Alice