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Whispering Tongues
by Homer Greene

Publication date 2021-09-27
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, fiction, college, juvenile, fall from grace, hazing
LibriVox recording of Whispering Tongues by Homer Greene.
Read in English by Donald Cummings

Parmenter and Lee are good friends who attend Concord College. But a hazing incident tears the friendship apart, and affects the lives of both the hazers and the hazee. And the whispering tongues of classmates of falsehoods, jealousy and rumor, serve only to make matters worse. Another heart-warming tale of disgrace and redemption from Homer Greene. (Summary by Donald Cummings)

chapter 1 of whispering tongues published 1902 this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org reading by donald cummings whispering tongues by homer greene to professor william wells lld known and loved by many generations of union college students as billy wells this little volume is affectionately inscribed alas they have been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth and constancy lives in realms above and life is thorny and youth is vain and to be wrought with one we love doth work like madness in the brain samuel taylor coleridge chapter 1 the moonlight rush it's the way we have it all concord it's a way we have at old concord it's a way we have at old concord to drive dull care away one moonlight evening in the early spring under a cloudless sky a party of 12 concord college sophomores sang these lines as they marched up the street toward the college grounds they were young all in a happy mood they kept stepped to the strokes of their canes on the pavement and swung along with vigor and elasticity making the air throb with herolicking songs parmenter was with them he was the tenor voice that rang out with such strength and clearness above the others he was the leader of his class in favor with the faculty popular with his fellows a welcome guest at any gathering the party passed on up the hill through the college gate and along the terrace still singing they halted in front of professor samuel lee's residence face toward it and begin a new song here's to sammy lee drink it down bring it down here's to sammy lee drink it down drink it down here's to sammy lee and a right good fellow he drink it down drink it down drink it down down down bomb of gilead gilead bomb of gilead gilead bomb of gilead way down on the bingo farm the last words were hardly out of the mouths of the singers before the door of the house was opened and from the square of light thus made the old professor himself stepped out upon the porch thank you young gentleman he said pleasantly this is a glorious night for a song i've heard students sing along this terrace for 20 years and more and i never liked their songs better than i do tonight the music of them grows upon me always thank you again gentlemen and good night you're welcome sammy shouted one irrepressible from the group while all the rest responded with a hearty good night no one intended to be disrespectful to professor lee the use of his nickname was meant as a mark of affection and he understood it so but in the classroom his dignity was never trespassed upon there were one or two good stories handed down from class to class narrating the just fate that befell audacious students of the past who had ventured to be rude to sammy these possibly apocryphal incidents made him more popular and in private he was the trusted friend of every student at concord college besides that he had a boy of his own an only child with whom he kept in close sympathy and in whom the best and brightest of all his hopes were centered this boy charlie was a member of the southmoor class he was a bright lovable popular fellow impetuous perhaps somewhat lacking instability but...

The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recorded by shanda williams atlanta georgia april 2006 the three musketeers by alexander dumas chapter 6 his majesty king louis xiii this affair made a great noise manjour dates reveal scolded his musketeers in public and congratulated them in private but as no time was to be lost in gaining the king monjour dates reveal hastened to report himself at the louvre it was already too late the king was closeted with the cardinal and manjor de triville was informed that the king was busy and could not receive him at that moment in the evening manjor de travail attended the king's gaming table the king was winning and as he was very avaricious he was in an excellent humor perceiving manjour de treville at a distance come here manjar captain he said come here that i may growl at you do you know that his eminence has been making fresh complaints against your musketeers and that with so much emotion after this evening his imminence is indisposed aw these musketeers of yours are very devil's fellows to be hanged no sire replier treville who saw at the first glance how things would go on the contrary they are good creatures as meek as lambs and have but one desire i'll be their warranty and that is that their swords may never leave their scabbards but in your majesty's service but what are they to do the guards of manjour the cardinal are forever seeking quarrels with them and for the honor of the core even the poor young men are obliged to defend themselves listen to manjour de travis said the king listen to him would not one say he was speaking of a religious community in truth my dear captain i have a great mind to take away your commission and give it to mademoiselle de chemoro to whom i promised to navi but don't fancy that i'm going to take you on your bare word i am called louis the just bonjour de treville and by and by by and by we will see ah sire it is because i confide in that justice that i shall wait patiently and quietly the good pleasure of your majesty wait then monjour wait said the king i will not detain you long in fact fortune changed and as the king began to lose what he had won he was not sorry to find an excuse for playing charlemagne if we may use a gaming phrase of whose origin we confess our ignorance the king therefore arose a minute after and putting the money which lay before him into his pocket the major part of which arose from his winnings la ville said he'd take my place i must speak to manjorda treville on an affair of importance ah i had 80 louis before me put down the same sum so that they who have lost may have nothing to complain of justice before everything then turning toward manjour de treville and walking with him toward the embrasure of a window well monjour continued he you say it is his imminence is guard to have sought a quarrel with your musketeers yes sire as they always do and how did the thing happen let us see for you know my dear captain a judge must hear both sides good lord in the most simple and natural manner possible three of my best soldiers whom your majesty knows by name and whose devotedness you have more than once appreciated and who have i dare affirm to the king his service much at heart three of my best soldiers i say athos porthos and aramis had made a party of pleasure with a young fellow from gascony whom i had introduced to them the same morning the party was to take place at saint germain i believe and they had appointed to meet at the carm day show where they were disturbed by dejuzac kaihuzak and bikara and two other guardsmen who certainly did not go there in such a numerous company without some ill intention against the edicts ah you incline me to think so said the king there is no doubt they went thither to fight themselves i do not accuse the messiah but i leave...

The Phantom Town Mystery by Grace May North 5 Young Adult Novels Audiobook Adventure

chapter 5 of the phantom town mystery this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the phantom town mystery by carol norton chapter five poor little bodel old mr harvey was dozing in a tilted arm chair close to his stove he sat up with a start when his discordant toned bell rang and blinked into the half darkness near the door the smoked chimney on his hanging kerosene lamp in the middle of the room and near the ceiling did little to illumine the place when he saw who his visitors were he gave his queer cackling laugh

well i'll be dinged if i weren't a dreaming i was back in hold up days and that some of them their bandits was busting to clean out my stock then as he rose almost creakingly he said disparagingly as he glanced about at the dust and cobweb covered shells not as how they'd find anything now worth the toten away having by that time gone around the back of his long counter he peered through misty spectacles at mary is there something that could be getting for you little miss he asked jerry stepped forward and placed a half dollar on the counter stamps please mr harvey he said i reckon that's all we're wanting tonight thanks

the cowboy put the stamps in his pocket dropped his mother's letter in a slot and turned as though he were about to leave but mary detained him with oh jerry you don't have to hurry away do you i thought her sweet appealing smile turned toward the old man that perhaps mr harvey might be willing to tell us a story if we stayed a while sure is shooting the unkempt old man seemed pleased indeed to walk into mary's trap yo sat here little miss it was his own chair by the stove he was offering no indeed mary protested that one just fits you jerry and dick are bringing some in from the porch the boys sat on the counter the girls trying to hide triumphant smiles drew their chairs close to the stove old mr harvey put in another stick then chewing on an end of gray whisker he peered over his glasses at mary a moment before asking was there anything special you wanted to hear tell about

mary leaned forward her pretty face animated oh yes mr harvey this afternoon dora and i saw that small stone house that's built so it's almost hidden on a cliff of the mountains can you tell us anything about the man who built it why he did it and what became of him the old man's shaggy brows drew together thoughtfully he seemed to hesitate mary glanced at dora who said with eager interest oh that would be a thrilling story i'm sure i'd just love to hear it wisely the boys who were not in the line of the old man's vision said nothing in fact he seemed to have forgotten their presence the storekeeper was silent for so long staring straight ahead of him at the stove that the girls thought they also had been forgotten then suddenly he looked up and smiled toothlessly at mary nodding his grisly head many times before he spoke

well i reckon sven peterson wouldn't want to hold me to secrecy no longer 30 years back tis since he suddenly paused and held up a bony shaky hand you didn't hear no gunshot did you

the girls had heard nothing they glanced almost fearfully up at the boys jerry shook his head and put a finger to his lips the girls understood that he thought it wise that the old man continued to forget their presence wow i reckon the winds rising and something loose banged there's plenty loose that certain then turning rather blankly toward mary he asked in a childlike manner what was we talking about mary drew her chair closer and smiled confidingly at him you were going to tell us mr harvey why mr peterson built that rock house and sure show so i was it was 40 year last christmas he come to gleason a tall skinny feller he was not so very old nor so young neither it was an...

Grade 1 ABRSM Piano Mozart Minuet Slow Lesson Demonstration Pod-Class With Sarnia

hello pianists welcome to the music room here at royal clarence now we have started uh the minuet if you saw the uh heard the podcast that i just put up we've laid down the fingering once we've laid down the fingering it's pretty much time to get uh prepared to learn the piece properly but the main thing that i want you to do for homework before we start performing it tomorrow or learning it tomorrow rather is to listen to the track now if you're doing the examination you should be able to

buy the recordings anyway i'm going to play you a slowed down version by way of um backing to play along to and for you to understand um really the construction sometimes when things go a bit fast and you're neutered it's a little bit difficult to understand it's a famous little piece you'll be able to find it all over the internet so have a look around um i did put up there was a chap who did all the pieces from this book on youtube the other day and i did pop him up on my blog so um you'll definitely be able to find it just uh if you um search grade one piano abrsm everything comes up that you need for um you know sort of referencing the audio as it were you may or may not be able to download it to various things enable that um however you can certainly download this class and that's a big help isn't it a very big help i really like this minuet it's a really a really pretty little piece it's got it goes places it does things i think that's why i like it and i'm a big mozart fan um when it comes to piano um i i like bach for cello and mozart for piano a bit of chopin actually wreckman oh goodness me i like them all i like everybody um so i'm going to play this for you as i say it's a slowed down version you won't be asked to play the repeats in the exam i will see how i feel about the repeats it depends sometimes i think there is something lacking if you don't do the repeats um other times i think oh no who can be bothered one makes the decision um when one is performing really quite often if you're filling in something or if you just if you're dying for something to end you wouldn't do the repeats but if you were hoping that something would go on for a while it seemed you know to be a bit more impressive you perhaps do the repeat so there we go we'll talk about that later so i've done the fingering for you here's the slowed down version we are ready to go if this is your choice but of course there's one more in section a there's one more to do so you may want to wait until i've done that tomorrow and then decide so tomorrow first thing well look you know my first thing is probably afternoon um we'll do we'll look at the choices of the third one and um we'll do the fingering and then you can decide you see darlings you can decide and i will be doing them all anyway um but you'll have all the source material it's your disposal and that's um you know the way to go isn't it so here we go here is um the little minuet i think it's k6 by mozart

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ABRSM Grade 1 Piano Minuet Mozart Free Lesson with Sarnia Pod-Class Planning the Fingering

hello pianists welcome to the mini retency by mozart now this is um a two choice for the um 2020 and uh 2021 and 2022 uh abrsm exam so you've got if you're going to the exam you can you've got two years well year and a half to learn it as plenty plenty plenty long enough um even if you've never played vienna before that is plenty pinch long enough but if you haven't uh applied for the exams you don't want to i don't necessarily believe in exams i don't really believe in competition i don't think it's healthy however some people really rise to the challenge of a goal and accomplishment and i would never never dream of telling somebody that that was um either good or bad way to go about things it's entirely up to you um specifically actually what is good about it entering these examinations is that it really tells you if you've achieved certain landmarks and goals so um for that reason i think it's really important that we do them but you know you could ask your teacher to examine you couldn't you you don't have to spend money entering the exams what i will say is if you're in america or russia or you know wherever you're listening to this podcast you can um because of lockdown they were doing the examinations online and i think that is something they're going to keep um so you could do it online but it's not cheap these things are not cheap and it's a perfectly acceptable i think to do all the coursework do the scales and exams and everything and get um another musician who is uh you know ahead of you a teacher or a performer to give you a little sort of pretend exam there would be nothing absolutely nothing wrong with that and said you well look you played that beautifully it was incredible or well you were a bit loud when you started you should be a bit quieter etc etc and get a sort of critique do you see anyway we're here for the exam really after all that waffling the minuet and see wolfgang amadeus mozart um is it said that he wrote this in 1763 um when he was seven years old it's pretty pretty impressive isn't it i when you break it down it's not too too complicated um it's in the key of c for the first half and well it's in the key it it's c all the way i think but then it does shift about a bit we've got lots of sharps there's a lot of movement in it actually um which i like i really like it i think that's what makes it sound more interesting perhaps than the previous one a toy that we did yesterday um it's very pretty it's quite lively um it's got lots of uh interesting sharps in it to move us on a bit and i really like the left hand an awful lot um the left hand's nice and steady and keeps us in check and where the right hand has got some beautiful melody um so i don't think there's much that i can say to criticize this piece um i love it now what i've done for you is i've done a slow version which um is up online uh have i done it today i think i have i think it's up there now and um i've done i'm going to tell you now the fingering that i want you to do so get your pencils ready please have pencils ready when you when you come to class very important because with a podcast i have to tell you what to write down um because i'm not there to scroll all over your music like normal teachers do so uh we're starting on a c and um uh well let's do right hand let's do right hand separately so one and then fingering three one two three two some of those um are written in obviously so it's just this three one two so one and that's written in and then we've got a three a one a two three one two okay and then the three and the two are written in and then we're swapping to a one that's written in so the next bit pretty straightforward three one two so three one two again i better write that in myself three one and two on the shop you see it's a pattern already and when you put a pattern um your brain knows that it's uh it's a...

QUIZ - TOBY LERONE 3 Free Audiobook Fun For All the Family Questions With Answers.
hello everyone toby larone here no jokes please oh dear if you live in london and the south east of england what a week it's been eh people lying in the road holding up the traffic can't get any petrol oh yes gas if you live in america oh dear during that rolling stones record i can't get no satisfaction i thought about doing something similar yeah i can't get the no gas station oh dear idea anyway enough of my worries i've been asked to do another quiz i don't want to argue so i've done one ten questions let's get started i'm going to give you alternative answers again right here we go question one who said success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm was it martin luther king winston churchill charles de gaulle or ronald reagan question two which artist is renowned for his paintings not only of venice but also a london was it rembrandt turner caneletto or picasso question three hms victory was built at which dockyard woolwich chatham portsmouth devonport they're all in the south south of england question four the flag of which country is composed of two horizontal red stripes with a central white stripe bearing the image of a cedar tree is it syria jordan lebanon or cyprus

question five christina stead thomas canelli and patrick white are writers from which country is it south africa australia new zealand or canada question six who was the first english prime minister to be born after queen elizabeth ii succession

was it and they're all living gordon brown john major david cameron or tony blair

question seven in which county is tin tajil or spell that t-i-n-t-a-g-e-l is it devon cornwall kent or dorset question three oh cars when was the british ford cortina first made 1964 1962 1959 or 1971

question nine the band or like these the band madness had a number one uk hit which which are these singles i nearly said shingles there but no it's singles i don't think they did a show about a shinga shong i don't think i did a song about shingles anyway which one of these was a number one uk it wings of a dove ah fun baggy trousers or the prince question five which actor played doctor who for the longest period tom baker colin baker david tennant or william arnold right let's have a look at the answers question one who said success consists of going from failure to failure without loss or enthusiasm it was winston churchill great man

question two which artist is renowned for his paintings not only of venice but of london it was caneletto question three hms victory was built at which dockyard and it was chatham and that was one one of my mates said long time ago chat them up no no no i can't say that anymore right question four the flag of which country is composed of two horizontal red stripes with a central white stripe bearing the image of a cedar tree and it is lebanon although i think it's actually called the tree that is lebanon but anyway take the choice question five christina stead thomas connelly and patrick white are writers from which country it's australia

question six who was the first prime minister to be born after queen elizabeth ii succession out of these was it gordon brown john major david cameron or tony blair it was tony blair

question seven in which county is tin tangil it's cornwall

question eight when was the ford cortina in britain first made 64 62 6 59 or 71 and it was 1962.

question nine the band madness had a uk number one it with which are these singles wings of a dove that's a fun baggy trousers all the prince and it was welcome to the house of fun now i've come of age i won't do any more and question 10 which actor played doctor who for the longest period out of these was it tom baker colin baker david tennant or william arnold and it was tom baker

well that's all the...

ABRSM Grade 1 Piano The Toy Slow Version Practice and Lesson with Sarnia Free Pod-Class

good afternoon pianists from all around the world welcome welcome to the music room now we're working on our grade one piano and the one we're doing today is a toy well actually we started it yesterday so if you search um grade one uh piano you should be able to find each podcast as it comes up um it's pretty difficult there's a lot of podcasts i do a lot of recording if you have any problems just message me darlings i can point in the right direction i can send you links the best place really to find things is on my blog anyway we're looking at a toy and this is um a very pretty piece uh i'm i might suggest it's a little bit um

boring is that the right word i don't know it's not i think if you're a traditional of a traditional taste where you're quite like a sort of ploddy tune go for this one okay there's nothing too unusual in it it's very very traditional it has some nice contrast between loud and quiet but nothing overly expressive we've got everything in there we could want to be tested on to show our skills so um scale runs staccato notes chords etc etc so there's nothing um lacking in this piece it's a good all-round steady reliable piece okay it uses quite a bit of the keyboard as well which is lovely i really like that it's quite impressive to listen to if you play it right that's really good isn't it so if this is your choice please follow um carry on with the with the lessons if you're not doing the examinations that doesn't matter you are more than welcome and these podcasts um i call them podclasses see what i did there they'll be up forever so you'll be able to even if you do not uh want to sit the examination you can come back to these classes and learn these pieces um and there's there's such a good way of developing your piano skills okay so let's play my rendition which i've slowed right down for you by about 30 percent i'd say um the reason i've sewed it down is so that you can understand what's going on it's much easier when it's slow what i'd like you to do today is listen to it and take your finger and point to the notes as they play on my piano okay and follow it from beginning to end and do that a couple of times and you're really going to get to know how to play the piece now the other thing you can do is quite good fun game is put your phone or whatever you're listening to on on the top of the piano and put your music there and then press play and mime it now miming's such a fun way of understanding where you're going to be going up or down and don't play any notes yet um just pretend but see if you can hit the top notes in the bottom notes another really interesting way of developing um the skills my i tell all my students that miming will give them certain skills and it really does but don't just mime and and pretend randomly to play any note mime the actual uh piece if you can okay so that would be what i'd like you to do now yesterday um my class put in the fingering so it's all written down and i think perhaps if you do all of that today and then go back and revisit the classroom yesterday and write pencil in all the fingering we are good to go tomorrow but in case you don't like it i'm also going to be doing the minuet in c today just planning out the fingering listening to the recordings our way around it understanding which one we prefer and more importantly actually understanding why we prefer it is it more in keeping with your personality for example is one of the uh pieces um more uh old-fashioned are you a mozart fan a minuet in c is a mozart piece and understanding what it is you like is um it was a really interesting way of understanding who you are as a musician so i really recommend that so that's it and we will be looking in detail at some more uh some more of the pieces in the coming days so you can make an informed choice now here we go here's my my slowed down version...

ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Mattachins Lesson Free Pod-Class with Sarnia Slow Performance with Piano
hello everybody what a great day it is in in the cello studio today absolutely over the moon my grade one cello book has arrived now although these um pieces are in a course book really for the examination pieces the abrsm grade 1 examinations 20 20 to 2023 syllabus it doesn't mean that you have to do the exam you can just work with me and do these pieces there are nine pieces and i'm going to be doing all nine so there'll be something that you really like to do the exam you would choose three but if you do all of them with me you're going to be a really really good cellist an all-rounder but you don't need to i'll be doing the scales and arpeggios too now the first one that we're going to look at today is the um mattachine the the um the piece is from a book of uh an instruction book actually for dancers in in paris and matashi matashin is quite hard to say isn't it the um the latin american way would be mata shins

and so there's lots of different ways of saying it really depending on where you're from but i think because it was published in paris we should say matashim um but i think you know if you're from the east end of london you could say matichins the matichin should we do the matatins we could just if we're feeling self-conscious we could just say a1 because it's the first choice in the a section so i don't want anyone to feel horrified at the prospect of pronouncing a difficult word okay

it's boisterous another big word guys another huge word what's boisterous mean well it's tempting to think that that means boy-like isn't it but it doesn't necessarily because girls can be boisterous too boisterous means kind of all over the place and energetic that's how i'd describe it energetic um definitely a it's a dance instruction so we'd we wouldn't want something sort of lethargic and somber so the opposite of that lively lively if somebody was at a party and there was a lot of cake and sugary things and somebody became a bit over um you know they had an overdose of sugar maybe you'd say they were being a bit boisterous because they'd had a sugar overload so give you an idea of how this place this piece might be played i think it kind of does doesn't it now the first half is all done starting on the c string um and let me look ahead yes we do go on to the g string so the first three lines uses the first two strings so the the big fat um c string i call that the deep blue c because it that's what it feels like to me it feels like a very deep um like perhaps a scavenger type fish on the bottom of the deep blue ocean and that's how i like to describe that note but you have to be careful that you don't play it as if you're gravely as if you're sucking up the gravel unless you want to sound like that but you wouldn't in this piece because it's a dance piece this second section or the repeat for the other three lines it's not a repeat in the same way or the same notes but it's a repeat of the same sort of motif but that starts on the d string and then we even go up to the a string and then we've got a lovely note to finish on which i really really like doing um more about that later now the first section is in c major and the sec second section is is in d major and what's really good about those two um keys is that we're doing those this very week for our scales practices so that's quite exciting as well so if you do the scales you're going to be really good at this piece but that's how these um pieces work they stay in the range of scales that you've been doing okay so what else do we notice it's very loud it starts off moderately loud it gets louder and faster and it finishes really loud so you need to give yourself plenty of opportunity to increase the volume now i've got a recording and i'm going to play it now i i slowed it down when i played it because you need to understand and hear all the notes and...

Suzuki Book 1 Cello Beginner's Quick Finger Placement Exercises D Major Free Pod-Classes

hi cellists welcome to our preparatory exercises for suzuki method book one and it's very exciting because after this uh exercise we're going to go on and we're going to be doing um something called first position which means we're on the track to be doing real pieces but you need to get this exercise lipped so we're on an open d

you can have in the background i'm going to play the g um major backing although this is actually in d but because we're starting on a g it's a bit easier with a g in the background do you hear it's just easier because we're starting on that so i hope you've listened to the track let's just do a couple of long bows on that g so four fingers down put all four fingers down to play me this first g

and do a couple of bows to check that you're playing the correct note

okay so you should have four fingers down and this is actually called first position um you don't really need to worry about that at the moment but what we're going to be doing is lifting one of our fingers every bar for the next two bars and then we're actually going to lift two fingers right so let's let's just play it it's much easier so middle of the bow after me

and then there's two rests now i want you to lift your pinky and play the next bar

two rests now lift two fingers

and now lift the last finger

okay that's all you have to do for that exercise but what we're doing is during the rest we're lifting our fingers or one finger or two fingers whichever it is okay so the next bar we don't have a rest so the first uh sorry the next line we don't have rest between each section so we have a rest in the first bar that squiggly thing that looks like a seagull is um a rest so during that rest we put all our fingers down again and then we play our four notes and then our two staccatos

and there's no rest so we have to pick up that finger quickly do you see

and there we have it so that's all you have to do now practice that over and over again until you can play it in a smooth way or without a break in the middle as possible you don't want to be doing on the second line as we were doing on the first with a pause in between okay listen to the reference material really hear the absence of space because uh a space means a rest and if there's no rest in the music that means you're getting it wrong okay hope that helped i think that's very exciting because as i say the next um lesson is first position and we're going to be doing a little bit of a scale a d major scale so this is all very thrilling for me as i take you onward um on your cello journey so welcome my friends please practice your preparatory exercises and don't forget

make sure that bow is nice and straight for me

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...