Suzuki ABRSM skills piano scales thirds for improvisation Bb major Right Hand One Octave
hi guys welcome to um a little exercise b flat major um one octave in thirds uh this is so good to learn and commit to your muscle memory because it's really going to help with your improvising uh lessons that we're doing it's really good for jazz blues it's a key that comes up a lot it tends to be a key that a lot of us don't use um when we're learning but i want all of my students to be working with these exercises early days from grade one up they're great fun and um we'll just do one octave you know let's not panic too much today and tomorrow we might do the two octaves um so let's have a look b flat major in thirds legato from the grade eight abrsm book but don't be put off by that grade eight you can do this you can do this by ear you can do this um the wonderful thing about podcasting is i give you every instruction necessary for you to be able to do this and you can just practice it over and over again until it's there in your muscle memory remember muscle memory is that thing where you know if you if you need to um leave the room if you're leaving your classroom or you need to go to the loo or something you get up you open the door and you leave the room um you don't think you don't sit there thinking oh right i've got to stand up walk towards the door open the door leave the room you don't think any of that you just do it darlings don't you just do it well that's what doing these exercises every day brings for us now hopefully you would have done my my little one yesterday which was the c major so let's look at b flat my major so we're on this b flat we've got a two and a four on the b flat and the d
okay and thumb under one and three on a flattened e two and four d and f
e flat g three and five
thumb under one and three
two and four on the b flat and the g
thumb under one and three
and finish again on your b flat and d so we've come full circle so we're still on the two and four as we were at the start okay and then should we try and come back down again so we're here on this b flat and d okay now let's come down 1 and 3 a and c
2 and 4 g and b flat 1 and 3 f and a
and now it's it just it gets a little bit tricky we've got to come over five and three e flat and g two and four d and f
one and three c and e but it's flat and then we're finishing on two and four b flat and d okay should we do that one more time should i not call out the fingering or shall i call out the finger what do you think i'll call this out two and four
one and three two and four
three and five some under one and
three two and four
thumb under one and three and finish two and four
come back down again now if you're clever you would have kept your hand in that position so you're just falling back on the a and c one and three
okay and now
pass them over