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It's a difficult balance to give playing tests to assess student progress and still have adequate instructional time so that we continue to make good progress. Playing tests take a lot of class time.

We are still finishing up the playing test on #36 - Jesse James in 7th grade. In the meantime we're continuing to forge ahead with the dotted quarter-8th note rhythm, hooked bowing, new notes in the key of A major (see below) and today we looked at the dotted eighth-16th note rhythm, hooked.

Future playing tests will be #47 – Rondeau (assessing dotted quarter-eighth note rhythm, hooked bowing, crescendo) and #56 A Song For Anne (assessing A major notes c#, g#, forward extension for celli, high 3 and fourth finger for violins and violas and ½ pos. for bass).

Posted by Mr. Doemel