Learning 2nd Position Suzuki Cello School 2 Bourree Handel Intro Slow Playalong With Sarnia.
hello gorgeous people now listen today we're really working very hard on suzuki cello school book two because it's pouring down with rain and what better way to spend a rainy day than practicing our cellos i want to remind you because we're working through a lot of tunes today i want to remind you to rest as often as possible every 20 minutes is the best idea to have a stretch but i realize we can get quite intense so that doesn't really happen definitely every 45 minutes and i'll be doing that today throughout the day and i'll be right reminding everybody about how they should be sitting how they should be stretching and what they should be doing to keep themselves physically healthy as they work through all these wonderful wonderful suzuki um examples obviously not written by suzuki suzuki just used these very famous tunes and he uses them to teach very young children how to play cello and he was um a bit of a bit of a zealot really wanted little children to perform we have to make sure that we're not performing like monkeys that's my one criticism of suzuki the other thing is adults how do you teach an adult with a child designed method well we can use these tools to our advantage but teaching adults really requires something a little bit different so that's what we try to do at telltale kids make something um make a program of learning that is more suited to a wider a wider student a more developed student if you like that's not to say i can't teach adults i love teaching adults um as much as i love children so suzuki uh cello book two the bouree by gf handel i'm going to play the slow version for you um this is it looks innocuous it's actually really quite difficult to um to get right it throws some curveballs in there so but we're talking we'll be talking about that later let's have a listen

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okay now you by listening you're not going to be able to hear the curveballs that are um really going to throw us we're using second position again we're moving up to an e with our fourth finger it's very tricky so we're going to be working on that today in the workshop and the contrast was quite interesting wasn't it really quiet and then getting really loud that sort of build up with these rising notes very it's quite exciting almost um i mean it plods a bit but let's play it at half speed that was um quartus uh oh no that was half speed sorry let's play it at uh three quarter speed and it it it moves a little bit um it's a bit more sprite it's a bit more interesting i think uh let's have a listen so

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so okay so that's getting a bit more um a bit more interesting isn't it um now i do i should point out that really you need to have the paper music in front of you i'd prefer that if you could buy the book please um you can buy them second hand on ebay and i mean they're running about eight or nine pounds new and i realize that's actually quite a lot of money for a lot of people we don't all have money um so ebay is a really good option you can probably get them for half that the cd you should get the cd or listen you can hear i mean if you go on to youtube you'll be able to hear lots of performers doing this at the full speed and i really recommend you listen but the trick with this listening at full speed thing is listen at full speed and choose your five favorite performances and really get to know it but then while you're learning a piece don't listen at full speed anymore or don't listen to the other performers anymore now you need to trust in yourself and your interpretation so it becomes important really to um to pre use some tools definitely use the metronome use the backing tracks i'm going to be putting up all sorts of backing tracks that going to help us but really to make...