North Side Team Orchestra

@NorthSideOrch plays their first concert in 3 years! @EastWillistonSD @EWFineArts #EWLearns

🎻🎻🎻Wow! So much control and finesse transitioning from arco to pizzicato in our #violin lesson today! Bravo! #ewlearns #beginnerorchestra

Another string technique this week is learning how to transition from #pizzicato (plucking) to #arco (using the bow) without much time to do it! High-five to our beginner #cellist for maintaining strength & flexibility in her hand shapes while doing so! #ewlearns #nyphilharmonic

🎻💜Exploring #dynamics by trying to use very little bow while still maintaining a clear, focused & rhythmically accurate sound! Not easy to do, but these violinists are on the right path! #progressnotperfection #beginnerstrings #violin #orchestra #musiceducation #ewlearns

🎻♥️📽🎞Great work to one of our #cellists and other Team #Orchestra #musicians who have playing along with #Disney’s #Encanto for the first time in our lessons this week! #sightreading #bowhold #WeDontTalkAboutBruno #cello #beginnerorchestra #ewlearns #violin #viola #bass

🎻♥️Trying out the opening to our new song ‘Fancy Fiddles’! So proud of our Team Orchestra beginner #violin players! #ewlearns #beginnerorchestra

🎻🤍Here is a glimpse into one of our first big Team #Orchestra rehearsals! What a big healthy sound! So proud of every 4th grade musician for giving 100% effort and focus! ♥️🎻♥️🎻 #beginnerorchestra #violin #viola #cello #bass #ewlearns

🎻📚🎻Some fabulous lower string lessons today as we continue our note-reading adventure ! 🎻📚🎻 #beginnerstrings #ewlearns #doublebass #cello

@mrsLBliss Love this!! 🎤🎤🎤🎤❤️❤️❤️

@Ddinamaria @SirakisVivian @LMReadWrite Thank you!! 😊

IDEA ALERT: I loved watching students transition so seamlessly with these song cues. Everyone knew exactly what to do, what they needed, and also got a little shift in their environment. The teacher didn’t have to say a single word! 😍 It was like witnessing magic. Go @mrsLBliss!

Reading music isn’t easy! Staff notation is a graph;the vertical axis is pitch & the horizontal axis is time. It is well adapted to 2 fundamental aspects of Western music: harmony & rhythm. So proud of our #musicians as they venture into note-reading! #ewlearns

🎻🧠Our #cellists brought 100% focus to our lessons today which revolved around reading music on the #music staff! And of course, we are still learning how the different skills required by right & left hands/arms must somehow work together to make a beautiful sound 🎻#ewlearns

🎻🎻🎻Excellent bowholds and left-hands as we explore our new note “B” on our cellos today! #cello #ewlearns #beginnerstrings

❤️🎻Some lovely bow arm movement and left-hand shape happening here! #violin #ewlearns #beginnerorchestra

❤️🎨🎻What else would we dress up as?!❤️🎻🎨 #musicandart #ewlearns

🧡👻🎻Happy Halloween from some spooky #cellists! 🧡👻🎻 #cello #orchestra #halloweencostume #musiced #ewlearns

🎻⭐️Wow!!⭐️🎻 Only a few weeks in and we have some star beginner #violinists right here! Beautiful bowholds & bow strokes as they practice left-hand finger independence training in our short song “Lift Off”! #essentialelements #violin #ewlearns #violin #viola #orchetra #musiced

@kyrou_art So neat!!

🎻So proud of these beginner #violinists who not only added a professional “lift of the bow” on the last note to let it ring, but who also worked on ensemble skills for “Manhattan Blues” by listening 2 each other & moving their bows together! They even sang along 🎻#ewlearns

🎻🤍🧡Really working hard on maintaining our curved finger left-hand shape to produce our new D-string notes with a healthy and focused tone! #cello #ewlearns #beginnerorchestra