001good morning and Welcome to our second kindergarten school second grade concert of this uh spring string Festival that's what we called it this year and we thought it was fun to call it that um we are very well very happy to have all these students and thank you for all the parents for all parents and family for all your support getting their violins having the practice all of this takes a lot of time and we really and effort we really really thank you for all your support we Chang the violin um the string program schedule for concerts for the spring concerts because this year we have over 500 we have 550 students Citywide so bringing yeah so we used to have all these string night the string light started long time ago um I started
002it with my with Mrs karik um in the year 2000 and we had one string night with about 80 students uh together with a chorus night and then we separated and we just did a string night then we had too many kids and we had to separate into two string nights and now we separated into seven eight eight string nights so we we already had two string nights at night for grades three through five last week and then another one from grade 6 through 12 which were very successful they did very well and now we are do doing all every school is doing a k through two U string concert next year if you are in second grade you'll be able to move up to the 3 through 5 concert which is at night and
003it's at the high school and it's very exciting all right and next year we'll do the same and the next year second graders will move out so that is how it will work and once again thank you very much thank you for principles you've been very supportive we thank everybody for all your work and the students who are always in class this is one of the schools that I come and I don't have to call anybody they are always here and it's wonderful thank you good job [Applause] guys you will see during the concert we will sing a lot we have to sing in violin class especially in beginning violin class because pitch recognition is essential for the violin the violin doesn't have any Frets or keys so where you put your fingers it's essential
004so singing and playing is very similar in that way so you will hear a lot of singing and and a lot of playing today so the first one is actually singing showing how we get ready to play [Music] you is 1 2 3 4 [Music] thank you very much thank you ready guys one two three four stump VI out put it on your shoulder please and fly touching the side of your neck pointy part of your chin on your chin wrist slide your thumb back away from your face wiggle your fingers above the strings and say hello string string very good flip your ball pinky on top of the stick please B in the middle of the contact area on the E string the skinniest string on the violin and we are going to play
005strings around the world [Music] [Applause] [Music] second [Music] go [Music] go [Music] St St [Music] St turn three down [Music] out roller coaster [Applause] [Music] ball wo [Applause] thank you I would like to also for those who don't know this is Miss delin Miss Devin teaches along with me we teach together uh she teaches second grade as I teach first grade and we go like that we go to every school together except for the Lafayette school Where Mrs POA is taking care of things there uh Miss develin is also an ex student of mine and she started pretty much like this and she went through the schools and she went to um Berkeley and then and now she's teaching along so this is very good happy to have somebody [Applause] um so that was traveling
006around the world now we are going to sing to you about some of our violin parts that we learned right what the names are so let's sing nice and Loud okay go scroll shoulders brid andin Bridge andin chin scr and shoulders and Chin pegs and finger [Music] now now we are going to go to Manhattan to play some blues for you Manhattan Blues one 2 3 four stump Violet out put it on your shoulder please and button touching the side of your neck not your throat slide your thumb back wiggle your fingers lift your bow hello strings lift your ball trying to put that pinky on top of the stick Thumb in the thumb space ball on the E string roll it over once to the a string and roll it over one more time
007to the D string [Music] over time go 2 time go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] go stop time go stop [Music] [Applause] together together please very good we are not bowing yet we are going to bow on our L thank you all right now we are going to sing about our B parts that we learned right nice and Loud okay ready screw ready go screw [Applause] frog go ahead SC hold it by the all right make sure you hold it ball with the right correct hand okay good excellent so those are our both parts now we are going to go far away from here to Africa and in Africa kids sometimes sing a uh something that we call call and response so a group will sing one thing and then another group will answer so
008we will do that first we'll do singing and then we'll do the same thing but playing the violin so this is J kle and second grade I need you to sing nice and loud with Miss delin okay and I'll sing with K and one [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] very good [Applause] I will play CH G on the violin you guys still sing you guys play one two three four stump by out put it on your shoulder please flip your ball pinky on top of the stick please go on the E string roll it over to the two middle strings the D and the a string we're going to play them both at once together J [Music] Christ Pizza piz [Music] piz [Music] all right now we are going to
009sing a song that helps us remember to bring our violins on Tuesdays right let's sing it nice and loud everybody second grade help us too please okay tu Tuesday it's my viol day Tuesday tues that is when I play bring my folder bring my pencil and my VI Tuesday Tuesday is my violin Tuesday Tuesday that is when I play Hey and I practice every all right now the next piece is a lot of fun but uh we engineered it so that we practice holding the violin up for a long time so that our arms build resistance and it's called techos Symphony one 2 3 4 stump violent out put it on your shoulder right your come back wiggle your fingers hello strings hell here he goes techos [Music] Symphony hey hey [Music] go ready goop
010hey hey ready go stop D [Music] go go ready [Music] go ready go e e [Music] ready he hey he hey [Music] now go ready go [Music] 5 2 [Music] 3 4 and [Music] wo hey hey hey go [Music] [Applause] e 5 3 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] excellent position guys position let's bow together 1 2 3 4 at your one 2 3 4 right so this concludes kindergarten portion of the concert however kindergarten is still going to join us for the very last piece that we do called hipop so but first kindergarten only kindergarten students can you walk all the all the way more one more step all right second grade please stand up in rest position single file follow me please [Music] can they sit here yes that's [Music] okay [Music] there we
011that's it all right excellent so now this is the portion of the first and second grade and then first grade will leave and second grade will play by themselves but let's do our uh this portion um our next piece is taking us to to a farm let's see if you like this one we're going to be in a farm right but we're not going to be with McDonald we're going to be with a person called MC Fiddler 1 2 3 four stump by out put it on your shoulder please and button touching the side of your neck slide your thumb back wiggle your finger flip your bow pinky on top of the stick please make sure you sing nice and Loud big mhm thank [Applause] you my where e i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and
012rest position very [Applause] good our next next piece will take us a little bit South to Latin America and we are going to play lria for you one two 3 four stump pent out put it on your shoulder go on the E string roll it over to the A and one more roll to the D we're on the third string the D string this is lasa go hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] B and the next piece is going to take us far away and then come back it's called sailing home and this piece we are playing it so that we learn how to play with very long bows and very gentle and it's a very emotional piece so we call it the emotional piece one two three four stump five up put on your
013shoulder very good lift that bow sailing home start with on the D string please third string down ball and we are going to play long balls please on the knee string please string [Music] open KN long up body down body up down [Music] a b ay down B down [Music] a g [Music] open [Music] a b [Music] as you can see we practiced there how to stay calm in rest position after the musical dog settles and that is a really great moment my favorite moment all right now we're going to do our favorite one right yes 1 2 3 4 stop by an out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin go on [Music] the keep ready go [Music] wo go [Music] byebye and excellent one two three four bow stay stay stay
014up one more time one two three 4 B St stay stay up second grade please stay where you are first grade would you please go and sit on these tables here we just need that table there okay [Applause] [Music] now we are going to start playing a little bit more with our fingers and learn some other violin techniques the one that is in the next piece called little Pato is we learn how to pluck on the violin and it's called Pato so we are playing little Pato with a little attitude right all right guys one two three four stump vient out put it on your shoulder don't forget the little attitude right okay open a ready go a hey A1 [Music] hey CLE uh he a one a long long B good e a e
015a cirle a a y St Long St Long hey good job [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right guys now we are going to Ireland for a little uh jig one two 3 four stump vient up put it on your shoulder with your ball place your go on the E string a string and D string we are starting with D1 Point your finger on the D string right we're doing things with fingers right one [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] want [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now we are going to learn how to play marato notes and we're going to March right okay and we are going to use this is difficult we are going to use all three fingers and they go pretty quick so this is one of our most difficult pieces this year one two
016three four stump fent up put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist start marching right away guys [Music] [Applause] now we are going to go a little more south in uh South America and we're going to play Torito Pinto for you and Torito Pinto one of the techniques that it has is has tremolo and that's when you go back and forth really fast with the bow it's called tremolo all right ready 1 2 3 4 stump vient out put it on your shoulder flip your bow on top of the stick please go on the D string [Music] [Applause] he [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] go [Applause] all right let's bow rest position everybody let's bow together ready one two 3 4 bow stay stay stay one more time one two
017three four bow kindergarten and first grade please stand up where you are grab your violins and you're going to play Right Where You Are just stand up don't sit on the table just yeah very good and we're going to play hip hop any this one is so popular that we play it in the concerts that are three through five at the end of the concert we play it the 6 through 12 concert at the end of the concert everybody always wants to play it CU they it's so much fun and brings them memory from when they were little so this piece also shows the students how to do go on their violin so they loosen up their arms and they do Lando and you'll see other techniques as [Music] well and I have to go
018to get get it started sorry what I'm going to all right ready guys one two 3 4 stop FL out put it on your shoulder chin on your chin wrist so this is the hipop we dance first and slide your fingers up and down [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] stop e i o i a say it again say it again got think from beginning to [Music] [Applause] [Music] end one more time [Applause] [Music] open ready [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] go one more time [Applause] [Music] e i f [Music] [Applause] [Music] i one more time [Music] [Applause] [Music] e slide one last [Music] time that's it that's it job that's it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and rest position very good job everybody one two three four five St again one two three four boun
019please very good excellent job that was our last piece and thank you very much for coming I think we're the students are doing a wonderful job thank you for all your hard work and we'll continue doing our hard work and classes continue thank you very much thank you Mr Brian for coming supporting us all right guys you may go