hi guys welcome to um tail teller club and telltale kids actually this is the under 13's class um but of course if you're grown up you're welcome here as well now um the telltale kids uh pops up at least three lessons a day so it's worth following us on the podcast and then you can get updates if you've got the app we're on if itunes and spotify and all over the place all over the place and so i'm sort of doing three a day of our um studies for villanchilo or cello for short and piano and this is a cello class so and what we're doing is we're going through all of the scales very important now i'm just going to talk briefly well i never talk briefly do i i'm probably going to go on a bit but do you know what if you do your scales and your arpeggios it's a bit like cheating because you'll suddenly become really really good at playing anything just because you practiced your scales and your arpeggios it does this weird thing to you it enables you to play really clearly and really in tune without trying so what i recommend you do each day we yesterday we did g d and a the g major d major and the a minor natural from the grade 1 abrsm scales book and what i recommend you do every day every morning or whenever it is that you do your practice you just play them through once that's all you have to do and you know you'll find eventually that you're so incredibly quick at it that you actually don't have to put time aside even but you just do it you know and you can probably get all of your skills that you're working on any one time done in under a minute um how amazing is that to be really good at something in under a minute i mean it's unheard of isn't it you know they do say that to be good at anything takes 10 years well to be good at scales and arpeggios it just takes a couple of days certainly to be good at playing cello or you know really well you will spend a bit longer than a few minutes on it but we're talking about little bite-sized pieces little classes you know little things that are going to improve your skills so today we're going to look at c major and i'm going to pop up three different versions of the c major scale so we're going to do a string section one um a guitar one and then a drum one okay because i really like the percussion and this just gets you in the uh it enables you to play with other people which is quite important you know where if we've been through this very difficult lockdown where we haven't been seeing people and playing with our chums and actually that's um you know it's quite bad for us to not play with other people we get a bit locked into bad habits and a good musician is a good musician wherever they go and whoever they perform with okay so shall we have who should we have today which robot shall i ask clive clive would you consider playing us some c major on your acoustic guitar

and we're going to do um we're going to play each note twice but first of all let's just do the open sleeve and could you use your whole bow from the frog to the tip and keep it there and put your first finger down and play me this little brother glorious e a d spoke on t

and now the e third

all the way down to the tip and now your fourth finger

on the f and now we're going to swap strings and we're going to play an open g all the way to the tip keeping that bow nice and steady right to the tip right to the end really good control one finger down we've got an a three fingers down so that rather glorious b right to the tip do you hear did you hear it i hit the wood and four fingers down for the c now that's one octave right to the frog keep those fingers down now you're going to cross strings and you're going to cross the whole hand over ready to play this next section so we want an open d

first finger down now we're going to put two fingers down this time not three because we're on an f

right to the end keep it there four fingers down so we've missed...