Instrumental Messages

Term 2 2026

Cello & Double Bass

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Drums

  • Well Done! First lesson completed and you’re on your way to being a great drummer.

    Homework this week:

    1. Practice lesson 1

    2. Remember to check if you’re using the right or left hand

    3. Keep a steady beat. Use the click track below to help stay in time

    4. Try to practice 4-5 days

    5. Have Fun!

  • 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

Drum Worksheets and Audio Tracks

Violin & Viola

  • 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

    https://youtu.be/v0Hl0CcM-A4

  • https://youtu.be/094KKdAkQgA

    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?

Violin Book Pack
$79.99

Violin folder pack including method book and theory book.

Guitar

  • 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

    1. Learn the names of the strings (E–A–D–G–B–E) and make up a funny rhyme to remember them

    2. Practice Em and G chord. Practice them slowly. Slow, good practice is better than fast and wrong

    3. Practice moving between both of these chords slowly

    4. Play along to the backing track.

      First Chord in song G

      Second chord song Em

    5. Firstly, practice 1 chord per 8 counts then as you get better, do 2 chords per 8 counts

    6. Have Fun!

  • 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.

Guitar Worksheets and Audio Tracks

Week 1

Week 1

Drum book pack
$59.99

Drum folder pack including method book and theory book.

Guitar Book Pack
$49.99

guitar folder pack including method book and theory book.