An in depth look at the piece we are playing with analysis and structure for learning it with Sarnia de la Maré FRSA.

hi guys welcome to the charles taylor club and welcome to um an analysis of the witches dance so we're doing the theme from the witches dance we're using the suzuki books you should have the suzuki recordings it's really important i think if you're going through the suzuki method to have the materials that they use because then everything makes sense and then they're affordable they're quite cheap now i've got uh digital recordings we're going to use that because the digital recordings kind of get rid of all the flamboyance so they take away the things like the uh the dynamics where things are contrasting and the pause marks there's a big pause mark in this but when you're first analyzing a piece before you've even picked up your instrument it's quite a useful tool just to hear a digital representation and just analyze what's going on really here so this recordings might sound a bit weird because it's not made by a human it's made by a machine but this is really good for us we're going to really be able to analyze things now the first thing you should do when you embark on a new work and this goes for a piece that you know is for a grade one uh grade eight a piece you know if you've been playing for 20 years we've been playing for two days this works okay so we look at the piece of music in front of us and the way i teach i recommend using the music always why because the music tells us so much that the mind can forget and if you can read music your repertoire is going to be much more accessible and besides that it's really good fun i love looking at these black blobs on lines so i do recommend that if you can you learn to read music there's a wealth of wonderful wonderful things you can do if you can read music and you know it helps with other instruments if you start to learn other instruments too so i do recommend that but if you're playing by ear that's fine too so the theme from the witches dance by paganini and it's it should be fairly fast and quite fun so here's a digital version of it that we can analyze so um the speed might be not the speed that we're going to use at the end when we you know when we've completed our performance of it um and certainly the dynamics a bit different let's play it through anyway and just have a little listen before we analyze everything

it's great fun isn't it really great fun there's a few tricky bits so for your first um homework if you like what i'd like you to do before we start breaking this down and looking at bits and bobs is to understand where the sections are the phrases and when you do that that really helps to work out your practices now i do recommend your 20 times practice but i don't recommend that you just do 20 times practice and you don't think of it in terms of the bigger picture because then you're going to find it quite difficult to put it all together so the first analysis i'd like you to look at the piece and understand where there are natural breaths that happen in it okay so that you can break things up into sections and then subsection so for example one bar one and uh bar one and up to um the g in bar 2 could be one section but then it could also be a whole section when you take it to bar 6 or another a complete sort of phrase if you like by the time you take it to uh bar eight so you you need to understand where your sections are and the best way to do that is to listen now the thing is if you just practice a section say you just practiced bar one or taking up two bar two you're going to struggle to fit it in when you join it up with bar three so what i like to do is to do the whole phrase so taking it all the way up to uh bar eight and do that quite a few times maybe three or four times and then separate it and break it down to single notes that you need to work on and single shifts okay so for example whenever...