BLT Elementary School Thurs. May 8 2.30-3.30pm

Today we had a fun class. I was very pleased with how much we accomplished, except we were missing quite a few of you.
Tyrique, Savanna, Krista, Kara and Jazlyn, hope to see you next week.

LEVEL 1 (Taylor and Dylan):

• C major scales. Right hand and Left hand.
  
• Songs: Old Grey Goose, Twinkle Twinkle, Pop Goes the Weasel and new song, On top of Old Smokey. Hands separately and then together.
  
• Review of note values, note naming and intervals.
• Games in the CMJ software,
• Improvisation with the C scale.

LEVEL 2 (Rama):

• C scale in Contrary Motion. New scale, C pentatonic (only 5 notes long).
• Try playing your scales legato and staccato. Here is an exercise to help you practice these two piano techniques: Legato/Stacccato Exercise
• Songs: Let it Be, Happy Birthday and new song, Clementine.
  
• Practiced playing with the metronome and reading by intervals.
• Ear training with CMJ.
• Improvised and recorded some C pentatonic melodies.

LEVEL 3 (Rachelle, Veronica and Grace):

• C Chromatic scale and C, F, and G Pentatonic scales.
• Songs: Ode to Joy, The Baseball Game, and new song, Ten Little Indians.
• Try playing your C pentatonic scale using this worksheet: C Pentatonic Scale. This will give you some practice with writing out your scales as well.
  
• Played a game of interval Face Off to help us in recognizing harmonic 4ths and 5ths.
• Improvised and recorded some C pentatonic melodies using the CMJ software.

Excellent work from all of you. The songs are sounding better and better.