Kingswood School Thurs. Dec. 6 11.40-12.40pm

In our 7th lesson we reviewed the Christmas song I gave you last week: Silent Night.
Some of you did very very good practice: Aidan and Lauren - amazing work!
This was an exercise for you to do with pen and paper, naming the notes. I gave you the answers today. But here they are again:

Silent Night
3 4 3 1
G A G E (x2)

5 5 3 4 4 1
D D B C C G

3 3 5 4 3 2 3 2 1
A A C B A G A G E (x2)

3 3 5 3 1 2 4
D D F D B C E

2 5 3 5 4 2 1
C G E G F D C

You can copy and paste this into Notepad and print off the song, if you'd like to practice it over the holidays. This was, after all, our second last class!
Notice the Finger Numbers/Letters that are in Bold. This is your Hand Position! If you set your thumb on the right key, all your other fingers should fall naturally on the rest of the notes.
For this song, your hand position changes for each line.

After Silent Night, we played some Grand Staff Note Placement. Keep practicing this game at home: http://www.musictheory.net/trainers/html/id82_en.html

We reviewed Pop Goes the Weasel, and talked about 3/4 time. This means you have 3 beats in each bar.
Make sure to count: 1+2+3+ while you play, and count your RESTS as well as your NOTES.

Then, we learned a new song On Top of Old Smokey, that also uses 3/4 time. Watch out for intervals of 2nds, 3rds and 4ths in this song!
Remember, an interval means the distance between 2 notes.

We played a little bit of Bongo Boy at the end of class, and then it was time to go.
I had fun working with you today! Thanks everyone, have a great week!