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6th Grade

Hello students and parents/guardians!

Words cannot express how much I miss my students and us being in class together! I hope you are all doing well during these difficult times filled with uncertainty. I also hope that you and your families stay healthy and safe. I know the children are dealing with a lot of emotions, as we all are, but we will get through this.

 To continue some artistic learning, I set up Google Classroom for my classes so my students can have a creative outlet for all the things they may be feeling. Each week I will post an activity, skill practice, resource  or task that they can participate in. Of course, these activities are for enrichment purposes only. Their first activity begins next week. Please have your child login to the Google Classroom page. Students can also download the Google Classroom app onto a phone or tablet if that method is preferred.

 Step 1: go to my Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/u/1/h

Step 2: Click the + sign in the upper right corner

Step 3: Select -  Join Class

Step 4: Enter (or copy and paste) the 6^th grade class code: l6yx6i2

7th Grade

 Step 1: go to my Google Classroom:  https://classroom.google.com/u/1/h

Step 2: Click the + sign in the upper right corner

Step 3: Select -  Join Class

Step 4: Enter (or copy and paste) the 7^th grade class code: ow5npvg

8th Grade

Step 1: go to my Google Classroom: https://classroom.google.com/u/1/h

Step 2: Click the + sign in the upper right corner

Step 3: Select -  Join Class

Step 4: Enter (or copy and paste) the 8^th grade class code: boqj7i2

I look forward to hearing from my students as we navigate a new way of learning together. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Good Morning CAPA Art families and students,

Hello all!

Good Evening Everyone,

Thank you to those of you who responded so quickly in regards to your desires to use an internet platform to communicate and learn. I wanted to update you on how I am going to proceed and help those of you who are interested in progressing in Orchestra during this time. I would still like to do a Zoom (or another platform) session eventually. However, I think if we started playing on an online orchestra immediately, without direction beforehand, this might be a  huge mess and waste of time and energy for everyone. Therefore, I am going to break this down into assignments  before we try to start an online orchestra. If you are going faster than the assignment, please show me where you are at! I want to be pushed to your individual level! I am trying to give you enough push without you getting overwhelmed. I am here for your individual need!

I know that not everyone is going to be participating in sending in videos of individual practice or keeping up with our practice schedule, but for those of you who are interested, I would like to eventually record us playing a song online as a virtual orchestra.  Your practice videos are evidence that you are wanting to participate in this orchestra experience. I want to be clear: we cannot make assignments during this time. This is not for a grade, this is merely for your enjoyment and to push you further as a musician.

While you all are in the process of practicing, I will be figuring out how to make that work, because I have been seeing it happen (mostly on zoom)!

Once you all are showing me you are practicing, I will start working on some strum bowing lessons where we learn how to play our instruments in a guitar fashion. This is one of my childhood heroes and one of my instructors while I was in college at Belmont University in Nashville. He is the one who taught me how to strum bow. You don’t have to watch the whole video, but I just wanted to show you that the way in which you play your instrument can make it sound less like “classical music” and more like the styles you would like to play. He likes rock and jazz. You could apply these to the styles you prefer.
https://youtu.be/Z9x738fFmmc

I am going to break these assignments up into 1) A piece to work on 2)Scales to practice so you don’t get too rusty 3) An exercise to work on to get you to the next level.

For these first recordings, please send in to me by Tuesday, March 31. This will help me know how to pace these lessons out or if I need to switch music.

I hope you all know that I am here for you! I do have two VERY tiny children that demand 98% of my focus, but most evenings, and some days where they both nap, I have the ability to go through e-mails and give feedback! Please don’t hesitate to ask questions and send multiple videos to check and see how you are doing!

CAPA III- Agincourt 1-14 (Record)- Focus on rhythm, intonation, tone, articulations, and dynamics. If you are confused, write out the rhythms under the notes so I can see if you understand. If you have the rhythms correct, send me a video (or audio) of you counting and clapping the rhythms. Then you can play from there.

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lxsB8u1YHx6iPmL3ZKYqPng3B0wE_mti/view?usp=sharing

Scales: C, D, G, A (at least two octaves)

Exercise: Applebaum Book 3 #1 (This is a great practice for third position and tuning the notes up).

Violin: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ww3FGHY5F4E-xaIF_bhw2yBAuT85HMKP/view?usp=sharing

Viola: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x8ED22kfYO_8WE986a3px6iLsXdneiDL/view?usp=sharing

Cello: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mMdEqmQjzFW0Evn8GMtIMxRnBdgxUryM/view?usp=sharing

Bass:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NtanoRBgpRj_yb1osQ4JK9F_6hLVxbFR/view?usp=sharing