Musik & Me – Featuring Lets Play Music and Sound Beginnings

Thank you, parents for attending this week!

SPIRIT WEEK IS UNDERWAY! Let me know if you need any substitutions for any of the squares. The BINGO card is in the Spirit Week email, if you lose yours and need to make a copy (or if you didn’t get one)! As a reminder, some of the drawing prizes are some instruments and an MP3 player that you can put your class music on! 

One of the items on the BINGO card is to leave a Google review. I’m striving for a 5 star rating. If you don’t plan to give me 5 stars, please talk to me BEFORE you post a review so I can address any issues you may have. Unfortunately, negative feedback has much more impact than positive feedback does, so please give me the chance to earn 5 stars if I’m not already there. If you already left one previously, now is a good time to update it with additional comments! Thanks! Here is the link to post a review on Google: https://g.page/musikandmebethany/review

Bridge is a fun class for Let’s Play Music graduates that is a great “bridge” between Let’s Play Music classes and private lessons. I will be starting a new Bridge 1class next year, and will be teaching it as a 2-year program. Here is where you REGISTER for Bridge 1 and get more information. I’d love to see ALL the 3rd Year kids do Bridge! Even if you feel like they were a little behind in Let’s Play Music, there is lots of review and it is easier to personalize the songs to meet each student at their level. And if they were totally on top of Let’s Play Music, there’s still room for even more growth! And it is so much fun!

I just want to remind you of our new puppet show elements that can be incorporated into your student’s composition. We have the introduction, which is at the beginning of a piece, the coda, which is at the tail (end) of the piece, and the bridge that leads from one section to another, often when changing keys. If your child has changes they’d like to make before our private lesson in 2 weeks, feel free to take a picture and send it to me!

We’ve been working on our G Major scale this week. Don’t forget that the key of G has the F# as the magic key!

Bagatelle Bridges
This repertoire piece has all the elements that we’ve learned about in our puppet shows! It has an introduction, a CODA (special ending) and it has 2 BRIDGES. We will actually learn the theme in C Major and then we will get to show off our transposing skills to play it in F Major and G Major. 

G Major Scale
This is the last of the major scales we will learn during our time in Let’s Play Music. All of our scales have taught us finger technique and strength, but also allowed us to understand key signatures and scale compositions. Just as our Magic Keys Song will tell us, "the F# is a ti which leads to DO on C" so don’t forget to play that F# on ti!!!

G Major Scale

a minor Cadence

Even Disney’s Aristocats know how important it is to practice their scales (and arpeggios)!

Also, it’s in the book, but you can download additional coloring pages for our new Circus Puppet Show! Have your child color and cut them out, add sticks, and perform their very own circus puppet show for your family!