Music News - Deb Brydon
Coming up soon in our school music calendar
Week 5 – Monday morning Junior Band begins – 7:30am (continuing each Monday morning).
Week 7 – 5 June – Fanfare for Senior Choir and Year 3 Choir. Permissions have been sent out on QParents.
Week 9 – 17 June – Winter concert for Beginner Strings, Junior Strings, Senior Strings, Junior Band, Senior Band, Senior Choir. 12:45pm School concert and 6pm Concert for families.
Week 10 – 26 June – JindaJam combined workshops with Middle Park and Jindalee SS for Year 4 Band and Year 3 Strings (at JHSS).
Junior Band
The Junior Band had their first rehearsal together last week. How exciting that after only about 10 lessons on their instruments they know enough notes to play some simple songs together! They did a great job for their first rehearsal. Rehearsals are now on Monday mornings before school. Learners need to arrive at 7:30am to set up. Welcome to the early mornings parents! Let’s watch this group of learners grow over the year and even over the next 2 years!
Practising an instrument
The persistence and resilience that develops when children (or anyone!) learn an instrument is huge! Lessons and rehearsals are often the highlight of the process. The thing that everyone struggles with is the practise in between lessons. This is so important though. This is where the struggle happens and our brains need a struggle to develop strong neural pathways.
Practising at home is not only a struggle for children but for parents as well! Here is an article with a few tips. My personal tip is bribery! ?The amazing thing about practise is that it spirals, the more children practise, the more fulfilling practising is and so the more motivated they feel – we as parents just need to get them over the hump of settling in to do it!
A LITTLE BIT OF MUSIC FUN
Here are the clips that upper school students have watched recently in Music. We often only watch part of the clip in class due to time constraints and the learners are always asking to watch the rest. I tell them to ask their parents to show them from the newsletter. Why not watch them as a family and share the fun!
Week 3 - Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody) Lightsaber Duel - The Piano Guys
Week 4 – Queen (ACAPELLA Medley) - Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Don’t Stop Me Now, and MORE!