Piano Lesson with Sarnia A Toy No. 193 Fitzwilliam Slow Live Performance Free Class ABRSM.
hi guys welcome to the telltaler club now in the united kingdom we do an exam a syllabus called the mabrsm which is a piano examination board and um we have a series of um books that are published every couple of years and we can pick um three of our favorites from three different sections for an examination now um in america i think you can set the exams as well because they've started after covid they've started doing distance examinations and so which is really exciting news means you can do them wherever you are in the world and they're highly highly respected however i really don't necessarily um believe in the uh the necessity to take exams to you know to create a fulfilling musician so i'm not um specifically saying that you should do the exams far from it but what i do really like is structured learning yeah structured learning where you create um goals and habits is the best way to learn a musical instrument um the discipline is by far and away the most advantageous way to develop your musicianship okay so i'm a strong believer in that and for that reason i'm going to do um over the coming couple of months the whole list of grade one jello and piano as well as suzuki i do suzuki and the abrsm jazz and classical syllabuses so we're going to be doing them all so lots of hours in the day we can do this you don't have to do them all what i want you to do is pick um your favorites and you can follow me or if you're particularly um able adventurous or have lots and lots of time to spare then you can pick and choose and do as many as you like these recordings will last forever anyway so the piano exam piece um that we're going to uh have a quick listen to now a little chat about is called a toy um and it is number 193 from the fitzwilliam virginal book volume 2. um obviously a children's book um and this is a i i think it's my favorite um of the a section of the the pieces that we have at our disposal but we've got a massive choice um ahead of us now what i've done is i've slowed it down i'm going to play you this very very slowly and the reason i'm doing it slowly is because it's less frightening and we'll be starting slowly and what i'll be doing is i'll be doing the left and right hand separately for you and then you can play the corresponding hand and i've got a lovely method for teaching um a wonderful all-rounded um way of playing uh piano so it's going to be really great fun for us so let's let's have a quick listen and then and then maybe talk about what i think it can offer
so if you listen carefully you would have heard that there's quite a lot of um sections that are single-handed so we've got a bit in the right and big bit in the left sort of a kind of um not an echo more of a sort of round um and i think that's um that's really that's really good for us because it means um we can be fairly confident because we're sort of learning repeat motifs and repeat patterns it was a piece it was very sweet wasn't it in terms of um almost uh childlike it was quite childlike but a little bit almost verging on a sort of um uh lullaby nursery song but don't forget i've slowed it down i've played it very slowly there and when we speed it up a bit it uh it sounds a bit more playful so it is quite a playful number and let's look at the title it's called a toy so we can see already that um this idea that it could be perhaps could it be a puppet moving its arms and legs or something something animated definitely i guess you know contemporary toys uh animations and things like that might might be quite good to imagine if you're learning this piece look depending on how old you are you're going to have different ideas about what this piece represents if you're a mom or a dad um you might think very differently to if you're five or six for example um the age for anyone doing a grade one um standard piece really would be um...