Tale Teller Club lesson for mini jazz and Suzuki students

hi tail tellers welcome to a little session looking at the preparatory left hand study in suzuki book one and this is a preparatory study to get you going with the allegro but i'm going to do something a bit different with it today we're going to talk about which notes you have to play and the fingering of course that's suzuki likes lots of fingering and you know once you learn the shape shapes are very important in music and they're really useful actually for jazz musicians as well because jazz music relies very heavily on chords so this is really good for my even if you're not doing the suzuki method this is really good for my mini jazz players and possibly my baby jazz players too so we're going to talk about the note names and the fingering but then after that i'm going to funk it up a bit and i'm going to put it with some um garageband robotic um backing tracks that i've uh sort of composed today and it's just really good fun and then i'll run it for a while so that you can play along with these these um chords from the preparatory left-hand study okay so welcome if you're one of my jazz students or if you're a suzuki student or wherever you're from whatever uh whatever your um your genre your you know whatever it is you like you can join in so let's have a look the the it's um it's got enough sharp in it darlings that means do you know what that means that means g major so it's gonna be lots of g's in it i mean it's dead giveaway well as soon as you know there's a sharp in it you will probably probably uh you know you can work out the key and you can work out what you're going to need but our first triad this uh g major triad we don't have the seventh in it yet so we don't have that f sharp so we don't have to worry about the f sharp at the moment and it's a triad so it's really easy nice and easy isn't it five pinky three middle one thumb

now you're not going to separate them because that's kind of easier in a way if you're not used to in chords we're going to play them all at the same time all at the same pressure all our fingers down at the same time and then we've got that funny little squeaky thing which means a rest so we're going to play them in a slightly sort of staccato so pseudo staccato star so one two three four one two three four so there's a part of that beat where you're not playing anything do you see what you mean if it's easier when we get on to the actual study you might want to count in one and so one and two and three and four and so during the and there's nothing going on don't move your hand away from the keyboard whatever you do get completely lost so that's the first chord now look uh the second the third beat of the bar we shift we don't have to shift too much all we're actually doing is moving from one and three the b and the d two we're moving your thumb one up and you're going to use your second finger so five two one g c e g c e sing it g c e you don't have to be good at singing

fabulous exciting and similarly one and two and three and four and one and two and three and four and one two three four okay it's a doddle so we can this is that first bar shall we one and two and three and four and and then we go back one and two and now it looks hard this next bit but it's not i promise you all you've got to do is move your pinky to that f sharp and play a c and a d so you're already on the d so you've just got to move to your second and your fifth okay so now your fingering is five on that sharp two on the c and one on the d

okay and similarly one and two and three and four and and sem try and do the same pressure for each note uh if you can one and two and three and four and because if you're not pressing down it you know with the um equal energy kinetic energy that comes all the way from your heart and your soul down through the shoulder through your elbow into your wrist and onto the keys...