I may well take you up on that offer Cyrilla - if you can PM/email me details, that'd be brill, thank you!

My Kodaly 333 exercises book got a bit of a looking-at between pupils today......

I've been to the Royal Academy to hear a masterclass taken by Andrew Marinner. It was a great day. Free of charge, lunch in the restaurant and heard some lovely playing. Its given me alot of inspiration. If I wasn't so tired I'd be practising now!
Carl

I been practising loads cos I'm quite scared about my grade 8. somehow knowing that i actually have to take it this term is really making me practise more!

practising pieces to decide what to choose to play next month.
I think I have decided...

oh noodle.......

Was it only 333? I'm sure it felt like thousands...

Did you do them backwards?
In canon?
With rhythm ostinato?

Don't recall backwards...

neither do I........

We did them backwards.
And backwards and forwards at the same time (needs at least 2 people of course).

Greetings from Hungary!

I have only just discovered this thread as I was very pleased to see Cyrilla getting some well deserved praise from two people who she is teaching at the moment. I was taught by her for two years before I came here and know exactly what a brilliant experience it is and what a brilliant teacher she is.

As for me, I have two and a half hours of solfege tomorrow, a methodology class, conducting class, Kodaly philosophy lecture as well as lots of piano practice. I'm hoping the snow that began tonight might continue so we can make a snowman as well!

Awww, sbhoa, don't spoil my fun! I was saving that as a special treat for next time




Grrr sorry I messed up the quote and my reply...

Ah, but well worth the rediscovery (try Three Places In New England, particularly the middle movement, Putnam's Camp). And in fairness Ives made virtually no attempt to have his music performed after about 1908, so it was a case of people not knowing it was there rather than ignoring it.

Anyway, the point was that Ives's father used to get the family to sing hymns round the piano, and he would make them sing in one key while he was accompanying in another "to stretch their ears". A very good exercise.

Well, after my Music A2 class, and if I survive my driving lesson, I'll be doing some flute practice. We have sectionals in orchestra this weekend

Hope the driving goes well Nicki !

I shall now do the homework I got yesterday and vow to complete it before lunchtime.

today's activity - so far - has been to load the car at 7.15am to deliver a complete drumkit to college... and unload it when we got there
lots of activity, not so much music, more like weight-lifting and keep fit !!

let's hope to get to some sax playing soon.

Apart from my usual lessons this evening I have to plan what to do in my Hedgehogs kids music group on saturday. We had great fun last week at ouf first meeting of the new term playing Old Macdonald had a Farm using some brilliant wooden instruments from a German street market that my other half had bought recently. They are shaped like owls, a duck, a crocodile and a pig and we have three wooden frogs too that are the same type of thing/instrument/toy. We added sound effects in the chorus, almost always in the right places. I think that I enjoyed it more than the children! I have to find some more songs for three to six year olds to play and sing about frogs and things today.

Having just received a phone call telling me there's no organist available for church on Sunday, I shall spend today recording the music for the anthem onto a CD for the service. It's too complicated to sing unaccompanied.

Or I could just spend the time reading through the minister's sermon notes trying to find a suitable alternative anthem that I can sing unaccompanied (so re-doing the activity of earlier this week, but with more constraints on it....)

Well now... Musical activities for this week:

Monday... Music at college... Drum lesson in the evening... Clarinet pracitice...

Tuesday... Music and Music Tech at college... Recording piano to Take Five at lunch time... Clarinet less and practice in the evening... Pack up drum kit - including heavy hardware bag which weighs more than I do!

Wednesday... Music Tech at college... Gig in the evening - went really well! Got in at about midnight...

Thursday... Up early - take kit (still packed up from Wednesday night) into college... Move everything into music room... Music lesson at college... Move everything down to studio ON MY OWN! Music Tech lesson at college... Recording for an hour and three quarters... Then move everything back up to music room, and set the room up for Music Recital that evening... Set up kit... Catch bus home... Catch a fever! Then go back into college to perform on drum piece and one clarinet piece for Music Recital... Pack up everything... Take it home... Unpack it... Go to bed - still with fever!

Friday - get up VERY late... Don't go into college... Hardly any music... Just a few clarinet scales... Oh yeah - and posting some new tracks up on my website!

Saturday - set up kit in a new "radical" position to experiment...!

I have a jazz orchestra concert tonight which will be dead good!!

Concert tonight with Concert Band and Orchestra. Haven't seen the music yet so I don't know what to expect.

Errrmmm regret to say it... Nil

maybe do some tomorrow... though there are diggers outside the window and they will be about tomorrow too

Had clarinet lesson today. That's been it really...

don't seem to have done anything musical today apart from hearing some music while I was doing other things.
not good!

Finished homework for tomorrow - a piano acompaniment to "Early One Morning" which contains none of the melody notes a the same time as the melody.

Had one hour flute lesson.

Just go to practice now.

None today, as Tuesday is my night every week in a Leeds Hotel .
Back home tomorrow for a half an hour on the piano, and I might pop up to church for an organ grind.

Spent the day in the Royal Northern College of music at a GCSE music lecture. I learnt a lot from it ...

Will probably do some clarinet practise later.

Oh wow! That must have been amazing! Sorry I wish my school would do stuff like that...
Anyway, I had music class today. Will do practise later.

It was brilliant, learnt a lot from it.

I have had better times there! I found it informative but the way that the knowledge and information was passed on could have been done in a better way. I fell asleep at one point

If you were interested in music you would have found it interesting and not boring

I am interested in music. But alot of it was common sense and we had already been told about some of it.

Please don't argue!!
Ha a pretty pointless music lesson - we had a cover teacher and we were supposed to be working on our compositions. Hardly anyone was and all I managed to do was re-start my song yet AGAIN!! Think I'm getting somewhere with this idea though.

Well those of us who didnt fall asleep learnt a lot today.

I bought music for my piano exam, hurrah. *Rolls eyes*

Was meant to go into college on my day off for a singing lesson but woke up feeling lousy and so I didn't.

Did a bit of piano and a bit of viola practise before deciding to go back to bed.

Tried out some new mouthpieces for my clarinet today. I'm still undecided what to get...

An orchestra rehearsal, we practised The Dam Busters.

Also, I practised Summer in my clarinet lesson.

Practicing for Fiddle on the Roog.

Do I know that music?

My activities today - practice for the ALC in two weeks...
should be a good day

Been renovating some very tatty ancient music for my teacher - it's a lovely task - scan and then zoom right in and erase blobs and then use the pen tool to fill in any eroded bits.

The other part of the task is to compose & fill in any bits that have been completely lost - in the same style. I've got a Handel Gavotte, and a Largo and some organ music by HY.SMITH called The Guardian Angels - that one's got the most creative scope (the most holes).

I have been playing through some music I got this morning, some clarinet, trombone and Piano stuff. Silly me forgot that all the trombone music will be in bass clef so I have spent the last few hours transposing the parts for treble clef. I had a piano lesson earlier and also a saxophone lesson where I played trombone and accompanied two girls playing clarinet on trombone and played piano for someone else too

Run-through of Danse de la Chevre. Some scales. Don't want to overburden my housemates!

Practising Summer, and salsa and samba listening in GCSE music.

Fairly quiet day music-wise today. Teaching a little later, and I'm going to do a little more on the various compositional projects I have going. And a little clari practice.

And I'll have a look at my Kodaly 333 - my next lesson is in three days time....

Hey! Not fair! You're practising

Fen is on her way over to my house for a rehearsal session for our recital.

Hope your rehearsal goes well - what are you singing for your upcoming recital?

The recital Fen and I will be doing will be the one in Leytonstone in July. A mixed bag of arias and art-songs.

My March recital will be the "B's and Birds" one the Viva Voice folks helped me assemble (!)

More practice , go to a seminar.

I have realised with some horror that my metronome seems to take not a scrap of notice of how beautiful my scales would be if it didn't keep ticking and pretending I don't play smoothly and accurately!

My musical activity will now be to try to bring it into line with my way of thinking of scales