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Are you a little rusty on Scale Degrees and Modes?
I certainly was. After spending so many years teaching students in the lower grades for piano, I had forgotten a lot of the things I learned many, (many) years ago that I was sure I would never forget. Needing a reminder of what the names of the scale degrees were (there was one that had…
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Christmas String Group in November
December is always a busy time of year, so we did our Christmas String Group songs in November, and we had December off. I thought it would be lots of fun to invite the parents in, give them some percussion to do in our Christmas songs, and perform some favourite previous String Group pieces we had…
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Friday Night at the Movies Violin Trio
This violin trio is an original piece of mine. I had the idea of dramatic movie themes, and taking my violin students on a movie journey during their Friday Night String Group. This piece has been one of their absolute favourites so far. We couldn’t get it quite up to speed on the night, but we…
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Erin’s Dream – A RH Song
I wrote this piece for a mid-teen female student of mine who was fun and whimsical and absolutely adored Anne of Green Gables. This is a very pretty piece (it suits the student very well). Fairly simple RH only song for the piano part, but the teacher part is ‘interesting’. Erin s Dream RH song
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Bronte’s Ballad – A RH Song
Ever had a student break their arm? It’s heartbreaking when they get sad because they think they can’t play piano. One particularly gorgeous student of mine managed to injure her arm twice. The first time she got really worried, until I advised her Mother “It’s okay, I can write music for her until her arm…
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When You Wish Upon A Star violin trio
I wrote out this arrangement in September 2013 for my String Group. It sounded great with the three parts! I haven’t included any fingering, but the top part does require some position work. When You Wish Upon a Star
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‘Nimrod’ from the Enigma Variations for 4 Violins
I love this piece by Edward Elgar. There is something so soothing about it, so moving. It was also one of the last pieces the Athens Symphony Orchestra played after it was asked to shut down by their Government 🙁 So sad! I wrote out an arrangement for my String Group, for 4 violins. It’s not an easy…
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All Through the Night – String Group
Another String Group song: All Through the Night for 4 violins. A very simple but pretty arrangement:- All Through The Night 4 violins The melody is shared between violin 1 and violin2.
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A Natural Minor Scale Round – Violin Trio
A very simple round for students to play – the A Natural Minor scale as a round/violin trio. I love the harmonies created by the natural minor scales, and as the AMEB don’t have string players play them (only as the melodic minor scale descending), it is up to teachers to explain them and have their…
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String Group Boy Band Medley
*Giggles with this post* This is the most absurd thing I have ever written! Honestly! I came up with this little number on the Friday night directly after the May String Group session. For some unknown reason, once the girls had all left, I had a Take That song in my head, quickly followed by One…
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