hi Tale tellers welcome to our new book for piano for the suzuki method and we're going to skip right off with a scale exercise in c major i think we'll just do the right hand and we'll come back and do the left hand tomorrow i don't think anyone should do too much at one sitting i think we should do a little bit of theory and a lot of practice and good fun things but for today because we're starting a new book let's just start with the right hand and let's play it a few times so you're going to start on middle c

and then you're going to play d e and you're going to put your thumb under on the f right up to that top c and you're going to come back down again now look we've run out of fingers third finger over

let's do that again focusing on the fingering i'll call it out

one two three one two three four five four three two one over three two one now you try i'll do it slowly and see if you can join in

should we try it one more time

now it's very important that you hold the c's the thumb c and the pinky c for a count of two beats and that's because it's the keynote it's the name of the scale and it helps our ears understand the key that we should be playing in and we can really hear if we make a mistake so it's really important to do that it's important also that you practice your scales slowly they should never be rushed even when you get really good don't play them too fast we need to understand exactly what we're doing when we practice and that means slow practice is the best way to learn and to improve

well that's it for today i'll be back tomorrow with the left hand and oh yes some cello we're doing some suzuki cello in the music room today which is rather exciting bye