What is it about scales? Secrets to musical success by Sarnia de la Maré FRSA Free Lecture

hello everybody welcome to um the podcast now this is a general music uh podcast so it's for my pianists and my um cellist students but really this this applies to all musicians and whether they're just learning or whether they're intermediate or advanced musicians the importance of scales what is it about scales do you know what i'm going to tell you that scales are the secret to absolute success as a musician now you could play your instrument for 10 years you could practice every day you could practice for four hours a day but if you were not practicing scales and arpeggios you will not get past a grade three even in ten years you just wouldn't it wouldn't happen i assure you after 20 years you'd be nowhere okay you have to know your scales and arpeggios but what scales and arpeggios do is they give you a massive springboard so when you do them you can play all your pieces much much better if you're a musician you've been playing for about five years but you've been doing all your skills and arpeggios as you go up the grades you will be within five years able to join an orchestra able to perform in a band able to perform solo pieces i promise you if you've done all your skills and arpeggios every time every lesson every practice you will be that good in five years possibly less if you're joining a school orchestra or perhaps an amateur orchestra okay this is so important and i can't stress enough how much better your life will be if you just do them now the reason people don't like them is because they're difficult when you first start them but i've got some tips for you when you first sit down to look at your scales and hopefully you've got a teacher with you but if not perhaps you're doing my podcast i'm going to run you through everything we go into everything musical with a fine tooth comb over here at the music school because we work in podcasting and we have to be very um concise and very explanatory if you see what i mean we have to explain every tiny thing because you're not in the room with me and the best way to do this is to write down the fingering so i call out the fingering and you write it down with a pencil and the note names if you need to have the note names you don't necessarily um and then you can split the scale up into parts and this is really helpful so one to three notes or one to four notes the fourth the fifths and adding a note each time this is romeo by the way my studio cat talking about string crossing etcetera now once you've done that for the first time and you've written all the information in that you need and you've practiced one note and then two notes and then three and then four and then right up through the scale once you've done that once you're going to find that it improves every time you sit down to do it again now of course the grade one pieces that we're going to do today the scales and this applies to all the grades and whatever course you're doing even suzuki i'm going to be walking through um the different ways that you have to be able to play them so for piano for example you have to do left hand separately right hand separately hands together hands in opposite directions and hands in similar motion so you have to do all of that so that means you're going to practice this scale four times minimum okay so you're already four times better than you were when you started and this happens every time you sit down to do them with a cello and i speak probably for other string instruments although i don't play viola or um violins i can't promise um similarly up up bows down bows legato staccato um for the graded examinations we have to do long tonic short

separate bow movements and then slurred bone movements so again we have to do four different ways of playing the same scale so that means again we've played it four times so that means we we're improving four times...

The Enchanted Castle by E. Nesbit 11 Free Wonder Fantasy Book Children's Audio Collection

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the enchanted castle by e nesbit recorded by peter eastman chapter 11 it was show day at yaldin castle and it seemed good to the children to go and visit mabel and as gerald put it to mingle unsuspected with the crowd to gloat over all the things which they knew and which the crowd didn't know about the castle and the sliding panels the magic ring and the statues that came alive perhaps one of the pleasantest things about magic happenings is the feeling which they give you of knowing what other people not only don't know but wouldn't so to speak believe if they did

on the white road outside the gates of the castle was a dark spattering of breaks and wagonettes and dog carts three or four wading motor cars puffed fatly where they stood and bicycles sprawled in heaps along the grassy hollow by the red brick wall and the people who had been brought to the castle by the breaks and wagonets and dog carts and bicycles and motors as well as those who had walked there on their own unaided feet were scattered about the grounds or being shown over those parts of the castle which were on this one day of the week thrown open to visitors

there were more visitors than usual today because it had somehow been whispered about that lord yalding was down and that the holland covers were to be taken off the state furniture so that a rich american who wished to rent the castle to live in might see the place in all its glory it certainly did look very splendid the embroidered satin gilded leather and tapestry of the chairs which had been hidden by brown holland gave to the rooms a pleasant air of being lived in there were flowering plants and pots of roses here and there on tables or window ledges mabel's aunt prided herself on her tasteful touch in the home and had studied the arrangement of flowers in a series of articles in home drivel called how to make home high class on nine pence a week

the great crystal chandeliers released from the bags that at ordinary times shrouded them gleamed with gray and purple splendor the brown linen sheets had been taken off the state beds and the red ropes that usually kept the low crowd in his proper place had been rolled up and hidden away it's exactly as if we were calling with the family sent the grocer's daughter from salisbury to her friend who was in the millinery if the yankee doesn't take it what do you say to you and me setting up here when we get spliced the draper's assistant asked his sweetheart and she said oh reggie how can you you are too funny all the afternoon the crowd in its smart holiday clothes pink blouses and light-colored suits flowery hats and scarves beyond description passed through and through the dark hall the magnificent drawing rooms and boudoirs and picture galleries the chattering crowd was awed into something like quiet by the calm stately bedchambers where men had been born and died where royal guests had lain in long ago summer nights with big bow pots of elder flowers set on the hearth to ward off fever and evil spells the terrace where in old days dames and ruffs had sniffed the sweetbriar and southern wood of the borders below and ladies bright with rouge and powder and brocade had walked in the swing of their hooped skirts the terrace now echoed to the sound of brown boots and the tap tap of high-heeled shoes at 2 and 11 3 and high laughter and shattering voices that said nothing that the children wanted to hear these spoiled for them the quiet of the enchanted castle and outraged the peace of the garden of enchantments

it isn't such a lark after all gerald admitted as from the window of the stone summer house at the end of the terrace they watched the...

The Animal Story Book 2 Sai the Panther Traditional Storytelling International Kids' Audiobook

section 2 the animal storybook edited by andrew lang this is a libribox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by matt bishop psy the panther from loudon's magazine of natural history about 70 or 80 years ago two little panthers were deserted by their mother in one of the forests of ashanti they were too young to get food for themselves and would probably have died had they not been found by a passing traveler and by him taken to the palace as a present to the king here they lived and played happily for several weeks when one day the elder and larger whose name was psy gave his brother in fun such a dreadful squeeze that without meaning it he suffocated him this frightened the king who did not care to keep such a powerful pet about him and he gave him away to mr hutchinson an english gentleman who was a sort of governor for the english traitors settled in that part of africa mr hutchinson and psy took a great fancy to each other and spent a great deal of time together and when a few months later mr hutchinson returned to cape coast he brought psy with him the two friends always had dinner at the same time psy sitting at his master's side and eating quietly whatever was given him in general he was quite content with his portion but once or twice when he was hungrier than usual he managed to steal a foul out of the dish for the sake of his manners the fall was always taken from him although he was invariably given some other food to satisfy his hunger at first the inhabitants of the castle and the children were much afraid of him but he soon became very tame and his teeth and claws were filed so that he could not hurt anyone even in play when he got a little accustomed to the place he was allowed to go where he liked within the castle grounds and the boy was told off to look after him sometimes the boy would go to sleep when he ought to have been watching his charge and then psy who knew perfectly well that this was not at all right would steel quietly weigh and amuse himself till he thought his keeper would be awake again one day when he returned from his wanderings he found the boy as usual comfortably curled up in a cool corner of the doorstep sound asleep psy looked at him for a moment and then thinking that it was full time for him to be taught his duty he gave him one pat on his head which sent the boy over like a nine pin and gave him good fright though it did not harm him any psy was very popular with everybody but he had his own favorites whom he could not bear to let out of his sight when his master went out he would station himself at the drawing room window where he could watch all that was going on and catch the first sight of his returning friends being by this time nearly grown up sia's great body took up all the space to the great disgust of the children who could see nothing they tried to make him move first by coaxing and then by threats but as psy did not pay the smallest attention to either one or the other they at last all took hold of his tail and pulled so hard that he was forced to move strange to say the black people were a great deal more afraid of psy than any of the white ones and one of his pranks nearly caused the death of an old woman who was at the object of it it was her business to sweep out and keep clean the great hall of the castle and one morning she was crouching down on all fours with a short room in her hand thinking of nothing but how to get the dust out of the floor when psy who had hidden himself under a sofa and was biting his time suddenly sprang onto her back when he stood triumphantly the old woman believed her last hour had come and the other servants all ran away shrieking lest it should be their turn next sigh would not budge from his position till the governor who had been...

The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane 3 Oranges and Lemons Archival Nursery Songs for Children

song number three of the babies opera by walter crane this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by jen broda oranges and the lemons

oranges and lemons is the bells of saint clemens you owe me five four things says the bells of saint martins when will you pay me says the bells of old bailey when i grow rich says the bells of shortage when will that be this is the mouse of stephanie

here comes a candle to light you to bed and here comes a chopper to chop off your head

end of song number three recording by jen brodar

The Alexander Technique 3 Intro by John Dewey Free Audiobook for Musicians Actors Artists

The Alexander Technique 5 Sensory Appreciation Man's Development Cont. Free Audiobook.

All musicians will benefit from this book as well as performers and actors.

section 5 of constructive conscious control of the individual by f matthias alexander this liberal acts recording is in the public domain part 1 continued consideration of the mechanism of the human psychophysical organism in relation to the activities called learning and learning to do the foregoing will serve to indicate that in the sphere of learning something or learning to do something as indeed in connection with all psychophysical acts there is an important problem to be solved if we are to progress to that standard of psychophysical functioning and use which will enable us to meet satisfactorily the ever-increasing demands of an advancing civilization since as we have seen the standard of functioning in the performance of any psychophysical act depends upon the conception which influences the direction and control of the mechanisms involved it is most essential to give consideration to this all-important matter of conception in connection with the understanding of what we wish to learn or learn to do and also in connection with that psychophysical activity by means of which we are enabled to arrive at our conceptions concerned with learning and learning to do we will therefore go on to consider the mechanisms of the psychophysical organism in relation to the activity called learning something first for every form of psychophysical activity there must be a stimulus in considering the response to this stimulus i would remind my readers that i do not separate mental and physical operations manifestations in my conception of the manner means whereby of the functioning of the human organism for how can we prove that the response to any stimulus is wholly physical or holy mental on the one hand in what would ordinarily be considered purely physical spheres the performance of physical acts the standard of functioning depends one upon the degree of correctness of the conception of the act to be performed and two upon the degree of coordinated employment of the guiding and controlling orders or directions and of the mechanisms involved in carrying out the activities essential to the correct means whereby the act can be performed on the other hand in what would ordinarily be considered purely mental spheres the standard of functioning depends one upon the degree of reliability of the sensory guidance and direction in the use of the mechanisms involved in conveying the stimuli primarily responsible for the psychophysical processes concerned with conception and 2 upon the standard of coordination reached in the use of the whole organism if the highest standard of the so-called physical functioning is to be reached there must be coordinated employments of the muscular system through coordinated guidance direction and control by processes so-called mental involving action and reaction in psychophysical unity and an adequate standard at all times of the vital functioning of the organism in the same way as i'm prepared to demonstrate later if the highest standard of the so-called mental functioning is to be reached there must be coordinated employment of those processes which are involved in the coordinated use of the so-called physical self involving action and reaction in psychophysical unity an inadequate standard at all times of the vital functioning of the organism footnote we are all aware for instance that a sluggish liver does not make for the best use of the mental powers and we know of people who through bad habits of overindulgence have reached a stage of liver or kidney disorder when their reasoning processes have become seriously impaired and those of remembering practically ruined if the vital functioning of the physical mechanisms and organs is for any reasons inadequate the organism as a whole becomes gradually more or less poisoned...

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson 17-18 Free Adventure Audiobooks Kids Teens Family

treasure island by robert louis stevenson this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org treasure island by robert lewis stevenson read by adrian pritzellis chapter 17 narrative continued by the doctor the jolly boat's last trip this fifth trip was quite different from any of the others in the first place the little galley part of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded five grown men and three of them trelawny red ruth and the captain over six feet high was already more than she was meant to carry add to that the powder pork and the bread bags the gunnels were lipping a stern several times we shipped a little water and my breeches and the tails of my coat were all soaking wet before we had got a hundred yards the captain made us trim the boat and we got her to lie a little more evenly all the same we were afraid to breathe in the second place the ebb was now making a strong rippling current running westward through the basin and then southern and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning even the ripples were a danger to our overloaded craft but the worst of it was that we were swept out of our true course and away from our proper landing place behind the point if we let the current have its way we should come ashore beside the gigs where the pirates might appear at any moment i cannot keep her head for the stockade sir said i to the captain i was staring while he and red ruth two fresh men were at the oars the tide keeps washing her down could you pull a little stronger not without swamping the boat said he you must bear up sir if you please bear up until you see your gaining i tried and found by experiment that the side kept sweeping us westward till i had laid her head due east or just about right angles to the way we ought to go we'll never get ashore at this rate said i if it's the only course we can lie sir we must even lie it return the captain we must keep upstream you see sir he went on if once we drop to leeward of the landing place it's hard to say where we should get ashore besides the chance of being aborted by the gigs whereas the way we go the current must slacken and then we can dodge back along the shore the currents lesser ready sir said the man grey who was sitting in the four sheets you can ease her off a bit thank you my man said i as if nothing had happened for we had all quietly made up our minds to treat him like one of ourselves suddenly the captain spoke up again and i thought his voice was a little changed the gun said he i thought of that said i for i made sure he was thinking of a bombardment of the fort they could never get the gun ashore and if they did they could never haul it through the woods look a stern doctor replied the captain we had entirely forgotten the long nine and there to our horror were the five rogues busy about her getting off her jacket as they called the stout tarpaulin cover under which she sailed not only that but it flashed into my mind at the same moment that the round shot and the powder for the gun had been left behind and the stroke of an axe would put it all into the possession of the evil ones aboard israel was flint's gunner said grey horsley at any risk we put the boat's head directly for the landing place by this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing and i could keep her steady for the goal but the worst of it was that with the course i now held we turned our broadside instead of our stern to the hispaniola and offered a target like a barn door i could hear as well as see that brandy faced rascal israel hands plumping down a round shot on the deck who's the best shot asked the captain mr trelawny out and away said i mr trelawny will you please pick me...

Squinty the Comical Pig by Richard Barnum 4 Free Kids' Audiobooks Bedtime Story Library

chapter 4 of squinty the comical pig this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain recording by jadappi squinty the comical pig by richard barnum squinty gets home the rows of corn in the field where squinty the comical pig was lost were like the streets of a city they were very straight and even just like the street where your house is and if you liked you could pretend that each hill of corn was a house perhaps squinty pretended this if pigs ever do pretend at any rate the little lost pig wandered up and down in the rows of corn peering this way and that to see which way to go so he could get home again he began to think that running away was not so much fun as he had at first thought oh dear squinty grunted in his funny squealing voice i wonder if i'll ever see my mama and papa again squinty ran this way and that up and down the rows of corn and you can easily imagine what happened he soon became very tired i think i will take a rest thought squinty talking to himself because there was no one else to whom he could speak i think the little pig would have been very glad just then to speak even to dawn the dog but dawn was not there squinty wondering what happened to little pigs when they were lost and if they ever got home again stretched out on the dirt between two rows of corn it was shady there but overhead the hot sun was shining squinty's breath came very fast just as when a dog runs far on a warm day but the earth was rather cool and squinty liked it he would much rather have been down by the cool brook but he knew he could not have a swim in it until he found it and just now he seemed a good way off from it poor squinty it was bad enough to be tired and warm but to be lost was worse and to be hungry was worse than all especially to a little pig and more than this there was nothing to eat squinty had tried to nibble at some of the green corn stalks but he did not like the taste of them perhaps he'd not yet learned to like them for i have seen older pigs eat corn stalks and pigs are very fond of the yellow corn itself they love to gnaw it off the cob and chew it just as you chew popcorn but the corn was not yet ripe and squinty was too little to have eaten it if it had been ripe later on he would learn to do this just now he cared more about finding his way home and also finding something that he could eat for some time the little lost pig rested on the cool earth in the shade of the rose of corn then he got up with a grunt and a squeal and began rooting in the ground perhaps i may find some potatoes or some pigweed here thought squinty who knows but all he could root up with his queer rubbery nose was some round stones some of these were brown and look so much like the little potatoes that squinty tried to chew one but when he felt the hard stone on his little white teeth he cried out in pain ouch squealed squinty that hurt those are funny potatoes i never knew they could be so hard later on he learned that what he supposed were potatoes were only stones you see it takes a little pig some time to learn all the things he needs to know squinty let the stone roll out of his mouth and he looked at it with such an odd look on his face peering at it with his squinty eye and with one ear cocked up sort of sideways that if you had seen him you could have not helped laughing no one could if they had seen squinty then but there was no one in the field to watch him well thought squinty after a bit this will never do i can't stay here i must try to find my way back home let me see what had i better do i guess the first thing is to find that field of real potatoes and not the make-believe ones like this and he pushed the stone away with his nose when i find the potato field he went on still talking to himself i'm sure i can find the brook where i had a swim and when i find the brook i will know my...

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 11 Free Adventure Teen Novels Family Friendly Library.
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kidnapped by robert louis stevenson chapter 11 the captain knuckles under

alan and i sat down to breakfast about six of the clock the floor was covered with broken glass and in a horrid mess of blood which took away my hunger in all other ways we were in a situation not only agreeable but merry having ousted the officers from their own cabin and having it command all the drink in the ship both wine and spirits and all the dainty part of what was eatable such as the pickles and the fine sort of bread this of itself was enough to set us in good humor but the richest part of it was this that the two thirstiest men that ever came out of scotland mr shuon being dead were now shut in the fore part of the ship and condemned to what they hated most cold water and depend upon it allen said we shall hear more of them air long you may keep a man from the fighting but never from his bottle we made good company for each other alan indeed expressed himself most lovingly and taking a knife from the table cut me off one of the silver buttons from his coat i had them says he from my father duncan stewart and i'll give you one of them to be a keepsake for last night's work and wherever you go and show that button the friends of alan breck will come around you he said this as if he had been charlemagne and commanded armies and indeed much as i admired his courage i was always in danger of smiling at his vanity in danger i say for had i not kept my countenance i would be afraid to think what a quarrel might have followed as soon as we were through with our meal he rummaged in the captain's locker till he found a clothes brush and then taking off his coat began to visit his suit and brush away the stains with such care and labor as i supposed to have been only usual with women to be sure he had no other and besides as he said it belonged to a king and so behooved to be royally looked after for all that when i saw what kerry took to pluck out the threads where the button had been cut away i put a higher value on his gift he was still so engaged when we were hailed by mr riach from the deck asking for a parlay an eye climbing through the skylight and sitting on the edge of it pistol in hand and with a bold front though inwardly in fear of broken glass hailed him back again and made him speak out he came to the edge of the roundhouse and stood on a coil of rope so that his chin was on a level with a roof and we looked at each other a while in silence mister riach as i do not think he had been very forward in the battle so he had got off with nothing worse than a blow upon the cheek but he looked out of heart and very weary having been all night afoot either standing watch or doctoring the wounded this is a bad job said he at last shaking his head it was none of our choosing said i the captain says he would like to speak with your friend they might speak at the window and how do we know what treachery he means cried i he means none david return mr riach and if he did i'll tell you the honest truth we couldn't get the men to follow is that so said i i'll tell you more than that said he it's not only the men it's me i'm frictioned davey and he smiled across at me no he continued what we want is to be shot of him thereupon i consulted with allen and the parlay was agreed to and parole given upon either side but this was not the whole of mr riach's business and he now begged me for a dram with such instances and such reminders of his former kindness that at last i handed him a panicking with about half a gill of brandy he drank apart and then carried the rest down upon the deck to share it i suppose with his...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 12 Free Teens Adventure Audiobook Talking Book.
chapter 12 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain bound and gagged how was your fortune mary louise inquired max as the former emerged from the gypsies tent and joined the mary group in the field did she say you'd marry a tall good-looking fellow with lots of personality mary louise laughed no she didn't i guess i'm going to be an old maid then you're the only one remarked hope all the rest of us get rich husbands and trips around the world elsie came up close to mary louise and whispered in her ear she told me to leave dark cedars she said how do you suppose she knew that i lived there must have seen you around i suppose replied mary louise she warned me to get out too but then i told her i was staying there but don't tell jane elsie she'd go in a minute if she heard that hadn't we better all go till aunt maddie gets back from the hospital wouldn't your mother let me stay at your house if i worked for my board of course she would you wouldn't have to work any more than i do just help mother a little but i promised your aunt i'd live at her place and sleep in her bed and i'm going to stay there's some explanation for all this superstition about dark cedars and i mean to find it out stop whispering secrets commanded max miller separating the two girls forcibly of course ken and i know you're talking about us and what you're saying is probably complimentary elsie laughed and followed mary louise into the car the group drove to hope dorsey's as she had suggested and ate the rest of the picnic food for their supper another round of fun followed and it was after 10 when the party finally broke up dropping kenneth dormer at his own home max ran the three girls back to dark cedars don't you think i'd better go into the house and light the lamps for you he inquired it looks so spooky in there oh we have silky for protection returned mary louise lightly thank you just the same max the young man waited however until he saw the girls unlock the front door and light the lamp in the hall everything's okay shouted mary louise we'll be asleep inside of 10 minutes max waved back again and started his engine elsie lighted two more lamps which hannah had left in readiness for the girls and all together with silky at their heels they mounted the creaking staircase you can't sleep upstairs silky said mary louise to her dog miss grant would never allow that go down to your box in the cellar the spaniel seemed to understand for he stood still wagging his tail and looking pleadingly at his mistress i think it's a shame to send him off by himself remarked jane so do i agreed mary louise but it's got to be done he'd get up on the bed as likely as not the way he does at home and just imagine what miss grant would think of that her precious bed turning about she led the little dog to the cellar and there in a box next to the kittens he settled down to sleep when she returned the girls were waiting for her in miss grant's bedroom how do we sleep tonight inquired elsie oh you can have jane again if you want her agreed mary louise it doesn't make any difference to me the younger girl was delighted only added mary louise if you expect to do any prowling around tonight please shout your presence in the room i expect to go right to sleep replied elsie with jane beside me i'll feel safe mary louise smiled and kissed her goodnight in many ways elsie grant seemed like a child to her in spite of her 15 years alone in the room she undressed quickly hanging her clothing on a chair for she could not bring herself to use that big old closet filled with miss grant's things she was very tired and thankful that the night was so much cooler than the preceding one she blew out the lamp and crawled into bed the utter blackness of the room was rather appalling even to a courageous girl like mary louise accustomed as she...