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hello mini tail tellers welcome to e flat major i'm going to go um over the fingering that you're going to need for your cellos and um i'll play a backing track so you can play along at your convenience this is just a fingering lesson you're we're not going to talk about um the option of the four slurred notes the quake the group of quavers that are that we're slurring the second option this is the abrsm course but of course this this scale is great for it's used so much in contemporary composition jazz blues rock and pop if you know this scale you're really um putting yourself in a very good position to know an awful lot of music i'd say it's an intermediate level piece uh scale um it's only two octaves it's tricky i'm going to tell you how to do it let's play eleanor with our backing track so we're going to find that e flat to play it with our second finger and then the g sorry the f

and then an open g and the back extension will be a flat now you can you i recommend that you move back down to play a b flat with your second and that's normal first position fourth on the c okay i think that's fairly straightforward so let's just do that again two zero down and another zero and another back extension so this pattern

been exactly the same and in fact to the um to the f natural so you've just repeated do you see easy peasy now now it gets a bit trickier because instead of playing that um with g with your foot with your fourth you're going to play it with your first and then two and four

easy so as long as you get that g you you're all right and now we're going to do another back extension up to the c and then four and oh sorry three and four okay back down back up back down back out

okay so i i think that's um fairly straightforward fairly straightforward keep playing this tape play this recording over and over again until you get it okay so um i'll just play the backing track for you nice i'll turn the volume up a bit i'll play that for a couple of minutes and then i recommend that you

you can certainly look at the notes but it's so easy once you learn it by memory it just becomes second nature play it a hundred times and um you're going to feel very good and then you can mix the notes up and you can play them backwards upside down different orders things like that i'll be back later with more of the same but different

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