Instrumental Messages
Term 2 2026
Cello & Double Bass
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Description text goes here
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Drums
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Well Done! First lesson completed and you’re on your way to being a great drummer.
Homework this week:
Practice lesson 1
Remember to check if you’re using the right or left hand
Keep a steady beat. Use the click track below to help stay in time
Try to practice 4-5 days
Have Fun!
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Another great lesson this week.
All students now have their music books for the year and their practice journals.
Practice Journals: please encourage your child to enter how many minutes practice they have completed each day (I suggest that at this early stage minutes practiced = age of child), what they have practiced and give them self a rating.
They can make up their own rating but encourage it to be out of three (e.g. frowny/straight/Smiley face, red/yellow/green light)
I have attached the link for the book purchase below. The price includes a second book, Music theory for kids, to come in the next 1-2 lessons.
Have a great week and enjoy the long weekend.
Practice:
Study at bottom of lesson 1 and pieces 1-4 on lesson two
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Drum Worksheets and Audio Tracks
Violin & Viola
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Listening Homework: please listen to this piece of music and note down 3 things you can hear. For example: slow music, sad/happy music, lots of instruments.
Edward Elgar (composer)
Daniel Hope (violinist)
Piece: Salut d’amour
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Beethoven Romance. Performed by Anne Sophie Mutter in Berlin
This is your listening homework this week. Please watch this video and write down 3 things you can hear in your journal. Examples could be: which instruments do you hear or see? What do you notice about this concert? Do you like it? What don’t you like?
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Guitar
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Well Done! First lesson done and dusted and you’re on your way to being really great guitar players.
Homework this week:
N.B. Worksheet and audio tracks are below
Learn the names of the strings (E–A–D–G–B–E) and make up a funny rhyme to remember them
Practice Em and G chord. Practice them slowly. Slow, good practice is better than fast and wrong
Practice moving between both of these chords slowly
Play along to the backing track.
First Chord in song G
Second chord song Em
Firstly, practice 1 chord per 8 counts then as you get better, do 2 chords per 8 counts
Have Fun!
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Another Great lesson this week.
All students now have their music books for the year and their practice journals.
Practice Journals: please encourage your child to enter how many minutes practice they have completed each day (I suggest that at this early stage minutes practiced = age of child), what they have practiced and give them self a rating.
They can make up their own rating but encourage it to be out of three (e.g. frowny/straight/Smiley face, red/yellow/green light)
I have attached the link for the book purchase below. The price includes a second book, Music theory for kids, to come in the next 1-2 lessons.
Have a great week and enjoy the long weekend.
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Guitar Worksheets and Audio Tracks
Week 1
Week 1
