G Major Scale ABRSM Grade 1 Suzuki Method Technical Pod-Class All Variations Practical Cello

hello everybody welcome to g major grade one now although this is uh for grade one and it's from the grade one book this is going to be invaluable for my suzuki students so i want everybody to do this but we are using um the suzuk uh the grade one abrsm uh reference book scales are scales scales never change scales are as long as you've got the right name of the scale so g major for example wherever you find g major it will include these notes and only these notes so it doesn't matter what your reference is however i would appreciate it and i think it would be beneficial to you if you had the scale in front of you written down a score and a pencil okay now i'm going to call out the fingering in the background you can hear um i've got a viola a cello and bass playing the g um it's a little bit more attractive than a drone and that's on garageband if you can um get that it's free so it's quite a useful tool so so when we practice our scales we play the keynote

and just listen check you're in tune hopefully you've already um tuned up uh with a with an app don't come to class without tuning up darlings please don't so g really listen and then we're going to put one finger down

for an a and then three

and four

it's quite useful to split the scale up into four four note

sections and a string crossing for the open d okay really hear it it's the fifth of the scale you're going to be you'll be able to hear the harmonic in the um the drone

north sounds perfectly um harmonic and pleasant nothing's agitating you hear the cello ringing out now we're going to put one finger down again on this d string

and then third finger down

and then back to the keynote which of course is an octave higher

let's go back down again use the full bow check the mirror check your straight

okay if you make i see my um my a was a little bit out there move it find out what you're doing wrong am i too close are my semitones too close together are my tones too close together too far apart am i sharp or flat listen there's no point in doing this without listening okay so that was the listening part of the scale and the fingering part of the scale do that first so you check that you're correct okay and then the next time you play it you'll find it's much easier so the pattern is one three four um on both strings unfortunately because um it just is it just is now if you're doing suzuki it's because well i suppose i should say it's because it's got an f sharp um and f sharp and b are next to each other on the plane the plane the axis i call it the axis that goes across the fingerboard and it matches the bridge so the direction of the bridge is the direction of your perfect fifths all the way up to the nut okay so we have on that axis access for the for this scale we have that b natural and that f sharp okay on the axis but of course the bridge isn't straight it's not horizontal okay so it's not level with the with the c it's sloping because the cello is sloping theoretically i mean i don't know how sloping your cello is it depends how you hold it so bear that in mind you're not going to be in a straight line when finding the axis so this is why uh it's important to play with the backing so that you can understand are you sharp or are you flat okay so depending on whether you're coming forward or or backwards towards your body or further away from it and you're more likely to be sharp or flat because our brain has to remind it uh our body has to our brain has to remind our hand that we have to go at a slight angle do you see it's a it's not a perfectly straight line i hope that made sense there's a lot to be thinking about with the scale

not just the intonation okay so is everything straight perfect opportunity for you to practice in the mirror...