Muzik Class

Every truly cultured music student knows

You must learn your scales and your arpeggios

Bring the music ringing from your chest

And not your nose

While you sing your scales and your arpeggios.

If your faithful to your daily practicing

You will find you progress is encouraging

Do mi so mi do me so mi fa la so it goes

When you do your scales and your arpeggios.

do mi sol do do sol mi do

do mi sol do do sol mi do

Though at first it seems as though it doesn't show

Like a tree ability will bloom and grow

If you're smart you'll learn by heart what every artist knows

Your must sing your scales

And your arpeggios!

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with A-B-C
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi

Do-re-mi, do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be
Do-re-mi, do-re-mi

[Maria:]
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti
[spoken]
Let's see if I can make it easy

Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)

[Maria and Children:]
[Repeat above verse twice]

[Maria:]
Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do
So-do!

[Maria: (spoken)]
Now children, do-re-mi-fa-so and so on
are only the tools we use to build a song.
Once you have these notes in your heads,
you can sing a million different tunes by mixing them up.
Like this.

So Do La Fa Mi Do Re
[spoken]
Can you do that?
[Children:]
So Do La Fa Mi Do Re
[Maria:]
So Do La Ti Do Re Do
[Children:]
So Do La Ti Do Re Do
[Maria:]
[spoken]
Now, put it all together.

[Maria and Children:]
So Do La Fa Mi Do Re, So Do La Ti Do Re Do
[Maria:]
[spoken]
Good!
[Brigitta:]
[spoken]
But it doesn't mean anything.
[Maria:]
[spoken]
So we put in words. One word for every note. Like this.

When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything
[spoken]
Together!

[Maria and Children:]
When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything

Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do

Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do
Do Ti La So Fa Mi Re

[Children:]
Do Mi Mi
Mi So So
Re Fa Fa
La Ti Ti
[Repeat above verse 4x as Maria sings]

[Maria:]
When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything

[Maria and Children:]
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to

[Maria:]
[Children:]

Do . . . So Do
Re . . . La Fa
Mi . . . Mi Do
Fa . . . Re
So . . . So Do
La . . . La Fa
Ti . . . La So Fa Mi Re
Ti Do - oh - oh Ti Do -- So Do

For Unto You, hallelu!

On a Starlit Night

All Things are Posible

Last Friday I send a letter announcing about our first performance. Yes!!! the kids and I are very exited, we have been practicing in the Chapel for two weeks.

This Saturday will be performing at the Weslaco Spanish Church. The church is located in 1015 S. Bridge Ave, just across form the Academy.

We will need to be ready around 10:45 a.m. The attire will be church clothes.

I hope I can see you child there!!

I'm so proud of my students, they are very musical.  They can repeat any rhythm that I play and read the rhythm cards.  

Here are some pictures. In the song "It Is Good to Give Thanks to the Lord" we are singing to play with the Psaltery, Lyre & Harp, so the kids learn what those instruments are and also colored.