ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Mattachins Lesson Free Pod-Class with Sarnia Slow Performance with Piano
hello everybody what a great day it is in in the cello studio today absolutely over the moon my grade one cello book has arrived now although these um pieces are in a course book really for the examination pieces the abrsm grade 1 examinations 20 20 to 2023 syllabus it doesn't mean that you have to do the exam you can just work with me and do these pieces there are nine pieces and i'm going to be doing all nine so there'll be something that you really like to do the exam you would choose three but if you do all of them with me you're going to be a really really good cellist an all-rounder but you don't need to i'll be doing the scales and arpeggios too now the first one that we're going to look at today is the um mattachine the the um the piece is from a book of uh an instruction book actually for dancers in in paris and matashi matashin is quite hard to say isn't it the um the latin american way would be mata shins

and so there's lots of different ways of saying it really depending on where you're from but i think because it was published in paris we should say matashim um but i think you know if you're from the east end of london you could say matichins the matichin should we do the matatins we could just if we're feeling self-conscious we could just say a1 because it's the first choice in the a section so i don't want anyone to feel horrified at the prospect of pronouncing a difficult word okay

it's boisterous another big word guys another huge word what's boisterous mean well it's tempting to think that that means boy-like isn't it but it doesn't necessarily because girls can be boisterous too boisterous means kind of all over the place and energetic that's how i'd describe it energetic um definitely a it's a dance instruction so we'd we wouldn't want something sort of lethargic and somber so the opposite of that lively lively if somebody was at a party and there was a lot of cake and sugary things and somebody became a bit over um you know they had an overdose of sugar maybe you'd say they were being a bit boisterous because they'd had a sugar overload so give you an idea of how this place this piece might be played i think it kind of does doesn't it now the first half is all done starting on the c string um and let me look ahead yes we do go on to the g string so the first three lines uses the first two strings so the the big fat um c string i call that the deep blue c because it that's what it feels like to me it feels like a very deep um like perhaps a scavenger type fish on the bottom of the deep blue ocean and that's how i like to describe that note but you have to be careful that you don't play it as if you're gravely as if you're sucking up the gravel unless you want to sound like that but you wouldn't in this piece because it's a dance piece this second section or the repeat for the other three lines it's not a repeat in the same way or the same notes but it's a repeat of the same sort of motif but that starts on the d string and then we even go up to the a string and then we've got a lovely note to finish on which i really really like doing um more about that later now the first section is in c major and the sec second section is is in d major and what's really good about those two um keys is that we're doing those this very week for our scales practices so that's quite exciting as well so if you do the scales you're going to be really good at this piece but that's how these um pieces work they stay in the range of scales that you've been doing okay so what else do we notice it's very loud it starts off moderately loud it gets louder and faster and it finishes really loud so you need to give yourself plenty of opportunity to increase the volume now i've got a recording and i'm going to play it now i i slowed it down when i played it because you need to understand and hear all the notes and...