March 2, 2022 Homework Poco Players

Great work today!

Practice your twinkle bread on different rhythms!

  1. Mississippi Hotdog  🌭
  2. Soda (shh!) Pop 🥤
  3. Down Pony, Up Pony 🐎
  4. Pineapple Pineapple 🍍
  5. Fuzzy Yellow Caterpillar 🐛
  6. Blue bird 🐦

 

NEW!!

Peanut butter!

Our song will have 2 layers of peanut butter!

E E 3 3 2 2 1 (blue bird rhythm)

 

The PB handout has the Mississippi Hot Dog rhythm:

E E E E E E

3 3 3 3 3 3

2 2 2 2 2 2

1  1 1  1 1  1

 

Stepping Stones 

Click here for a Stepping Stones handout!
Here is a Stepping Stones recording.  Listen to the Recording to hear how you should play!

Sing and pizzicato (pluck strings):
G G D D A A E E A A D D G G D
G G D D A A E E A A D D G G G

—listen to the recording on the website

Practice the first line pizzicato!

For pizzicato: right thumb touches the fingerboard under the string, pluck with the index finger

—second line is arco! (With the bow)

 

Sing and play the Twinkle Bread!
Twinkle Bread handout
Twinkle Bread audio with instructions
Twinkle Bread audio (music only)

Keep working on your Pickle and Monkey Song chart and when it is complete, bring it back for a PRIZE!!!

Color a Pickle and a Monkey:

When you play a full Pickle song followed by a Monkey song climbing down the ladder!  (Consecutively)

When you finish your chart, turn it in and you will play for the class and pick a present from the box!

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Theory homework: Colorful Egg

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