The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley

chapter 1 part 1 of the water babies this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by corey samuel the water babies by charles kingsley chapter one part one

i heard a thousand blended notes while in a grove i sat reclined in that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind to her fair works did nature link the human soul that through me ran and much it grieved my heart to think what man has made of man wordsworth

once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep and his name was tom that is a short name and you have heard it before so you will not have much trouble in remembering it he lived in a great town in a north country where there were plenty of chimneys to sweep and plenty of money for tom to earn and his master to spend he could not read nor write and did not care to do either and he never washed himself for there was no water up the court where he lived he had never been taught to say his prayers he had never heard of god or of christ except in words which you have never heard and which it would have been as well if he had never heard he cried half his time and laughed the other half he cried when he had to climb the dark flues rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw and when the soot got into his eyes which it did every day in the week and when his master beat him which he did every day in the week and when he had not enough to eat which happened every day in the week likewise and he laughed the other half of the day when he was tossing half knees with the other boys or playing leapfrog over the posts or bowling stones at the horse's legs as they trotted by which last was excellent fun when there was a wall at hand behind which to hide as for chimney sweeping and being hungry and being beaten he took all that for the way of the world like the rain and snow and thunder and stood manfully with his back to it till it was over as his old donkey did to a hailstorm and then shook his ears and was as jolly as ever and thought of the fine times coming when he would be a man and a master sweep and sit in the public house with a quart of beer and a long pipe and play cards for silver money and wear velveteens and ankle jacks and keep a white bulldog with one grey ear and carry her puppies in his pocket just like a man and he would have apprentices one two three if he could how he would bully them and knock them about just as his master did to him and make them carry home the soot sacks while he rode before them on his donkey with a pipe in his mouth and a flower in his buttonhole like a king at the head of his army yes there were good times coming and when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town

one day a smart little groom rode into the court where tom lived tom was just hiding behind a wall to heave half a brick at his horse's legs as is the custom of that country when they welcomed strangers but the groom saw him and he lured to him to know where mr grimes the chimney sweep lived now mr grimes was tom's own master and tom was a good man of business and always civil to customers so he put the half brick down quietly behind the wall and proceeded to take orders mr grimes was to come up next morning to sir john harthoves at the place for his old chimney sweep was gone to prison and the chimneys wanted sweeping and so he rode away not giving tom time to ask what the sweep had gone to prison for which was a matter of interest to tom as he had been in prison once or twice himself moreover the groom looked so very neat and clean with his drab gators drab breeches drab jacket snow white tie with a smart pin in it and clean round ruddy face that tom was offended and disgusted at his appearance and considered him a stuck-up fellow who gave himself heirs because...

The Water-Babies
by Charles Kingsley

chapter 1 part 1 of the water babies this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by corey samuel the water babies by charles kingsley chapter one part one

i heard a thousand blended notes while in a grove i sat reclined in that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts bring sad thoughts to the mind to her fair works did nature link the human soul that through me ran and much it grieved my heart to think what man has made of man wordsworth

once upon a time there was a little chimney sweep and his name was tom that is a short name and you have heard it before so you will not have much trouble in remembering it he lived in a great town in a north country where there were plenty of chimneys to sweep and plenty of money for tom to earn and his master to spend he could not read nor write and did not care to do either and he never washed himself for there was no water up the court where he lived he had never been taught to say his prayers he had never heard of god or of christ except in words which you have never heard and which it would have been as well if he had never heard he cried half his time and laughed the other half he cried when he had to climb the dark flues rubbing his poor knees and elbows raw and when the soot got into his eyes which it did every day in the week and when his master beat him which he did every day in the week and when he had not enough to eat which happened every day in the week likewise and he laughed the other half of the day when he was tossing half knees with the other boys or playing leapfrog over the posts or bowling stones at the horse's legs as they trotted by which last was excellent fun when there was a wall at hand behind which to hide as for chimney sweeping and being hungry and being beaten he took all that for the way of the world like the rain and snow and thunder and stood manfully with his back to it till it was over as his old donkey did to a hailstorm and then shook his ears and was as jolly as ever and thought of the fine times coming when he would be a man and a master sweep and sit in the public house with a quart of beer and a long pipe and play cards for silver money and wear velveteens and ankle jacks and keep a white bulldog with one grey ear and carry her puppies in his pocket just like a man and he would have apprentices one two three if he could how he would bully them and knock them about just as his master did to him and make them carry home the soot sacks while he rode before them on his donkey with a pipe in his mouth and a flower in his buttonhole like a king at the head of his army yes there were good times coming and when his master let him have a pull at the leavings of his beer tom was the jolliest boy in the whole town

one day a smart little groom rode into the court where tom lived tom was just hiding behind a wall to heave half a brick at his horse's legs as is the custom of that country when they welcomed strangers but the groom saw him and he lured to him to know where mr grimes the chimney sweep lived now mr grimes was tom's own master and tom was a good man of business and always civil to customers so he put the half brick down quietly behind the wall and proceeded to take orders mr grimes was to come up next morning to sir john harthoves at the place for his old chimney sweep was gone to prison and the chimneys wanted sweeping and so he rode away not giving tom time to ask what the sweep had gone to prison for which was a matter of interest to tom as he had been in prison once or twice himself moreover the groom looked so very neat and clean with his drab gators drab breeches drab jacket snow white tie with a smart pin in it and clean round ruddy face that tom was offended and disgusted at his appearance and considered him a stuck-up fellow who gave himself heirs because...

The Story of the Mikado by W. S. Gilbert 1:2 Home School Tools Educational Kids Library.

section 2 of the story of the mikado this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by noel badrian the story of the mikado by w s gilbert chapter one part two

now this pooh bar may be described without any hesitation as one of the most remarkable characters in ancient or modern history he was not a clever man he was in fact an intolerably conceited donkey but he was such a remarkable donkey that his very donkey dumb entitled him to the affectionate respect of his fellow townsmen as being infinitely more remunerative than the very highest form of educated intelligence could possibly be personally i would rather be a very wise man than a stupid but if i couldn't be a very wise man i have tried and i find i can't i would rather be so stupid as to excite wonder and admiration on account of the extraordinary and exceptional quality of my stupidity i do not mean to suggest that i am right in holding this opinion but if there is one character that i dislike more than another it is that particular kind of average person which i happen to be well phubar was as i have said a remarkable character he got it into his thick head that he was the last descendant of a family of extraordinary antiquity and this was a matter of which he was so stupid as to be inordinately proud whenever he saw or fancied he saw the faintest possible resemblance to himself in the personal appearance of any eminent historical personage he at once concluded that that historical personage must necessarily be one of his ancestors so he collected all the portraits of dead celebrities that he could find and managed to detect some resemblance to himself in all of the most illustrious of them thus he worked his way backwards through mankind until he had exhausted all the specimens he could find and having done this he fell back upon the animal kingdom and by means of fancied resemblances traced his ancestry through gorillas orangutans bulberry apes capuchin monkeys marmosets lemurs flying squirrels bats canary birds butterflies moths ladybirds black beetles cheese mites jellyfish coleoptera rotifera bacteria tololaria twaddle area nonsense area absurd area ridicule area and thousands of other queer little creatures whose names i entirely forget but could easily invent and no one but sir edwin ray lancaster kcb would be the wiser until he came at last to a protoplasma primordial atomic globule exactly like him which he found reclining in great state and dignity at the business end of an amazingly powerful microscope and as 50 million of these gentry can be comfortably accommodated on the point of a needle he considered and i think that in this he showed a glimmer of sense that it would be pedantic to pursue his researches any further his family tree was quite a curiosity in itself and i wish i could reproduce it here but as it was about 15 miles long it would make this book too bulky and it's bulky enough already goodness knows but this was only one phase of his complicated character he was sufficiently intelligent to know that it was not only very illogical but extremely wrong to be inordinately proud of his long family descent for he had done nothing towards it except to be the last of them all which wasn't much so he virtuously resolved to mortify this family pride at every opportunity that presented itself consequently when all the high officers of state who were also very proud people resigned in a body because they would not bring themselves to serve under a lord high executioner who had formerly been nothing more than an advertising tailor phubar unhesitatingly accepted all their offices to which extremely handsome salaries happened to be attached of course his income from these appointments was enormous but that circumstance was in itself a...

The Story of the Mikado by W. S. Gilbert 1:2 Home School Tools Educational Kids Library.

section 2 of the story of the mikado this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by noel badrian the story of the mikado by w s gilbert chapter one part two

now this pooh bar may be described without any hesitation as one of the most remarkable characters in ancient or modern history he was not a clever man he was in fact an intolerably conceited donkey but he was such a remarkable donkey that his very donkey dumb entitled him to the affectionate respect of his fellow townsmen as being infinitely more remunerative than the very highest form of educated intelligence could possibly be personally i would rather be a very wise man than a stupid but if i couldn't be a very wise man i have tried and i find i can't i would rather be so stupid as to excite wonder and admiration on account of the extraordinary and exceptional quality of my stupidity i do not mean to suggest that i am right in holding this opinion but if there is one character that i dislike more than another it is that particular kind of average person which i happen to be well phubar was as i have said a remarkable character he got it into his thick head that he was the last descendant of a family of extraordinary antiquity and this was a matter of which he was so stupid as to be inordinately proud whenever he saw or fancied he saw the faintest possible resemblance to himself in the personal appearance of any eminent historical personage he at once concluded that that historical personage must necessarily be one of his ancestors so he collected all the portraits of dead celebrities that he could find and managed to detect some resemblance to himself in all of the most illustrious of them thus he worked his way backwards through mankind until he had exhausted all the specimens he could find and having done this he fell back upon the animal kingdom and by means of fancied resemblances traced his ancestry through gorillas orangutans bulberry apes capuchin monkeys marmosets lemurs flying squirrels bats canary birds butterflies moths ladybirds black beetles cheese mites jellyfish coleoptera rotifera bacteria tololaria twaddle area nonsense area absurd area ridicule area and thousands of other queer little creatures whose names i entirely forget but could easily invent and no one but sir edwin ray lancaster kcb would be the wiser until he came at last to a protoplasma primordial atomic globule exactly like him which he found reclining in great state and dignity at the business end of an amazingly powerful microscope and as 50 million of these gentry can be comfortably accommodated on the point of a needle he considered and i think that in this he showed a glimmer of sense that it would be pedantic to pursue his researches any further his family tree was quite a curiosity in itself and i wish i could reproduce it here but as it was about 15 miles long it would make this book too bulky and it's bulky enough already goodness knows but this was only one phase of his complicated character he was sufficiently intelligent to know that it was not only very illogical but extremely wrong to be inordinately proud of his long family descent for he had done nothing towards it except to be the last of them all which wasn't much so he virtuously resolved to mortify this family pride at every opportunity that presented itself consequently when all the high officers of state who were also very proud people resigned in a body because they would not bring themselves to serve under a lord high executioner who had formerly been nothing more than an advertising tailor phubar unhesitatingly accepted all their offices to which extremely handsome salaries happened to be attached of course his income from these appointments was enormous but that circumstance was in itself a...

The Story of the Mikado
by W. S. Gilbert

section one of the story of the mikado this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by noel badrian the story of the mikado by w s gilbert forward and chapter one part one

forward some of those who owe many a delightful hour to the genius of sir william s gilbert may be interested in hearing how this book came to be written in the pre-war days that now seems so dim and distant it occurred to his publisher that the story of the mikado told afresh by its author would be welcomed by many of his admirers sir william gilbert accepted the project with even more than his usual geniality and many talks about it with him will always be remembered by those who had the good fortune to be present

that its publication has been so long delayed must be attributed mainly to the difficulties which have obstructed the production of books especially those with coloured illustrations during the last seven years but the evidence of never failing popularity which recent revivals of the savoy operas have afforded suggests that this last literary work of sir w s gilbert should be no longer withheld from the public and it is now offered to his devotees with fresh illustrations by miss ellis b woodward whose talented work and sympathetic renderings of all that is humorous and fanciful have made her known to a wide circle of admirers daniel o'connor chapter one part one it has recently been discovered that japan is a great and glorious country whose people are brave beyond all measure wise beyond all telling amiable to excess and extraordinarily considerate to each other and to strangers this is the greatest discovery of the early years of the 20th century and is one of the results of the tremendous lesson the japanese inflicted on the russians who attempted to absorb a considerable portion of manchuria a few years ago the japanese however attained their present condition of civilization very gradually and at the date of my story they had peculiar tastes ideas and fashions of their own many of which they discarded when they found that they did not coincide with the ideas of the more enlightened countries of europe so if my readers are of opinion as they very likely will be that some of their customs as they are revealed in this story are curious odd or ridiculous they must bear in mind that the japan of that time was very unlike the japan of today it is important to bear this in mind because our government being in their heart of hearts a little afraid of the japanese are extremely anxious not to irritate or offend them in any way lest they should come over here and give us just such a lesson as they gave the russians a few years ago my readers will understand that this fear is not entertained by the generality of inhabitants of great britain and ireland who as a body are not much afraid of any nation it is confined mainly to the good and wise gentlemen who rule us just now and whose wishes should consequently be respected many years ago i won't say how many because i don't know japan was ruled by a great and powerful mikado and a mikado in those days was regarded as four fifths a king and one fifth a god it has recently been decided that there is less of the god in him than people originally supposed and he is now regarded simply as an absolute monarch but at the time of my story the mistake that his subjects made as to how he was put together had not been discovered if the existing mikado had one fault mind i don't say that he had it was a habit of punishing every mistake however insignificant with death and this caused him to be regarded with a kind of respectful horror by his subjects at large but it must be remembered that he lived a long time ago and no mikado of the present day would ever think of doing anything of the kind now in those days there was a certain...

The Story of the Mikado
by W. S. Gilbert

section one of the story of the mikado this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by noel badrian the story of the mikado by w s gilbert forward and chapter one part one

forward some of those who owe many a delightful hour to the genius of sir william s gilbert may be interested in hearing how this book came to be written in the pre-war days that now seems so dim and distant it occurred to his publisher that the story of the mikado told afresh by its author would be welcomed by many of his admirers sir william gilbert accepted the project with even more than his usual geniality and many talks about it with him will always be remembered by those who had the good fortune to be present

that its publication has been so long delayed must be attributed mainly to the difficulties which have obstructed the production of books especially those with coloured illustrations during the last seven years but the evidence of never failing popularity which recent revivals of the savoy operas have afforded suggests that this last literary work of sir w s gilbert should be no longer withheld from the public and it is now offered to his devotees with fresh illustrations by miss ellis b woodward whose talented work and sympathetic renderings of all that is humorous and fanciful have made her known to a wide circle of admirers daniel o'connor chapter one part one it has recently been discovered that japan is a great and glorious country whose people are brave beyond all measure wise beyond all telling amiable to excess and extraordinarily considerate to each other and to strangers this is the greatest discovery of the early years of the 20th century and is one of the results of the tremendous lesson the japanese inflicted on the russians who attempted to absorb a considerable portion of manchuria a few years ago the japanese however attained their present condition of civilization very gradually and at the date of my story they had peculiar tastes ideas and fashions of their own many of which they discarded when they found that they did not coincide with the ideas of the more enlightened countries of europe so if my readers are of opinion as they very likely will be that some of their customs as they are revealed in this story are curious odd or ridiculous they must bear in mind that the japan of that time was very unlike the japan of today it is important to bear this in mind because our government being in their heart of hearts a little afraid of the japanese are extremely anxious not to irritate or offend them in any way lest they should come over here and give us just such a lesson as they gave the russians a few years ago my readers will understand that this fear is not entertained by the generality of inhabitants of great britain and ireland who as a body are not much afraid of any nation it is confined mainly to the good and wise gentlemen who rule us just now and whose wishes should consequently be respected many years ago i won't say how many because i don't know japan was ruled by a great and powerful mikado and a mikado in those days was regarded as four fifths a king and one fifth a god it has recently been decided that there is less of the god in him than people originally supposed and he is now regarded simply as an absolute monarch but at the time of my story the mistake that his subjects made as to how he was put together had not been discovered if the existing mikado had one fault mind i don't say that he had it was a habit of punishing every mistake however insignificant with death and this caused him to be regarded with a kind of respectful horror by his subjects at large but it must be remembered that he lived a long time ago and no mikado of the present day would ever think of doing anything of the kind now in those days there was a certain...

Stories of Great Composers for Children
by Thomas Tapper

Publication date 2011-02-25
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics Librivox, Audiobook, Biography, Children, Fiction, Music, Teen/Young adult, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Handel, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Grieg,
LibriVox recording of Stories of Great Composers for Children, by Thomas Tapper. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example. Here are links to the online texts so you can read along and look at the pictures:

Bach: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568
Mozart: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582
Beethoven: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737
Haydn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550
Schubert: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070
Handel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157
Chopin: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013
Verdi: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158
Wagner: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128
Grieg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097

section one of stories of great composers for children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org johan sebastian bach the story of the boy who sang in the streets by thomas tapper

this is the house in which johann sebastian bach was born and here there's a photograph of an old-fashioned looking german house with a steeply pointed roof

this house stands in the town of eisenach in germany it looks very much the same today as it did when sebastian was a little boy many people go there to visit this house because the little boy grew to be a famous man in eisennach there is a statue of bach near the palace in the same town in which sebastian was born there stands on the top of a hill a very famous castle built many hundreds of years ago this castle is called the vartberg

as a boy little sebastian used to climb the hill with his friends and they no doubt had a happy time playing about the castle grounds in one of its great halls the minstrels of germany held their song contests when sebastian was old enough he used to travel a foot just as the minstrels did his purpose was to go to hear fine organ players once as he sat weary by the roadside someone threw a herring to him so that he might eat as he rested little sebastian's father was named johann ambrosius bach he too was a musician as his people had been for many years

one of these was a miller who played and sang while the corn was grinding his name was fight bach and his little boy was called hans the player because he too loved to play the violin

when sebastian was 10 years old his father and mother died so he went to live with his brother whose home was a few miles away of this brother sebastian had music lessons and he improved so rapidly that he used to beg to be allowed to play the pieces in a big book in the library but the brother refused him this pleasure however little sebastian was eager to learn all...

Stories of Great Composers for Children
by Thomas Tapper

Publication date 2011-02-25
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics Librivox, Audiobook, Biography, Children, Fiction, Music, Teen/Young adult, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert, Handel, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, Grieg,
LibriVox recording of Stories of Great Composers for Children, by Thomas Tapper. Read by Kara Shallenberg. This is a collection of ten short, entertaining, informative picture-book biographies of famous composers. Each book tells about the childhood and great achievements of a composer, and includes a short musical example. Here are links to the online texts so you can read along and look at the pictures:

Bach: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34568
Mozart: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34582
Beethoven: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34737
Haydn: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34550
Schubert: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35070
Handel: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35157
Chopin: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35013
Verdi: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35158
Wagner: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35128
Grieg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35097

section one of stories of great composers for children this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org johan sebastian bach the story of the boy who sang in the streets by thomas tapper

this is the house in which johann sebastian bach was born and here there's a photograph of an old-fashioned looking german house with a steeply pointed roof

this house stands in the town of eisenach in germany it looks very much the same today as it did when sebastian was a little boy many people go there to visit this house because the little boy grew to be a famous man in eisennach there is a statue of bach near the palace in the same town in which sebastian was born there stands on the top of a hill a very famous castle built many hundreds of years ago this castle is called the vartberg

as a boy little sebastian used to climb the hill with his friends and they no doubt had a happy time playing about the castle grounds in one of its great halls the minstrels of germany held their song contests when sebastian was old enough he used to travel a foot just as the minstrels did his purpose was to go to hear fine organ players once as he sat weary by the roadside someone threw a herring to him so that he might eat as he rested little sebastian's father was named johann ambrosius bach he too was a musician as his people had been for many years

one of these was a miller who played and sang while the corn was grinding his name was fight bach and his little boy was called hans the player because he too loved to play the violin

when sebastian was 10 years old his father and mother died so he went to live with his brother whose home was a few miles away of this brother sebastian had music lessons and he improved so rapidly that he used to beg to be allowed to play the pieces in a big book in the library but the brother refused him this pleasure however little sebastian was eager to learn all...

Robot Orchestra G Major Arpeggio Practice and Improv ABRSM Grade 1 Suzuki bk 1

hello gorgeous tale tellers welcome to improv tuesday

what's improv well you may ask i'm going to tell you improv is really one of the most exciting skills that a musician can develop especially if they're a tale teller musician improv short for improvisation by the way is all about making stuff up on the spur of the moment sounds tricky well it kind of is and it isn't because there are some things that the improvising musician has developed little skills that really are like little cheats to help us get things right now today i've brought along my orchestral robots and i've got a robot who's playing fuzz violins a robot playing second violins a robot playing the villa violas a robot playing cellos and a robot playing double basses do you notice that's all of the string section in the orchestra don't tell the others but i prefer the string section i think the string section is far superior but please don't tell the pianists they will never forgive me now then let's think about how we're sitting are we prepared for the lesson or is our back straight are our mice under our palms not squashed and breathing easily are we chill

yes we are indeed we are let's check our tuning a d

g

c bravo bravo now if you're you should really uh have been practicing your arpeggios before doing this class but if you haven't it doesn't really matter because i'm going to explain to you the notes we're going to play but we're going to play an arpeggio to the string section and we're going to have in our armory of notes do you remember what um i told you the other day about having a little bag wherever you go and it's got the notes that you need for any situation so today we're going to be using uh the arpeggio notes so in case you don't know those are the g the b the d and the g again so two g's but on different uh strings two g's okay and what those are the only notes we're going to play because an arpeggio only well arpeggio really only has three notes it sort of has a fourth it has the octave higher so but that's it that's it our pictures are so easy and once you know an arpeggio you can play along to anything if you as long as you recognize by your ear the key do you see but look i'm going to tell you that this is in the key of g so we don't have to work it out but actually working it out with your ear isn't that hard at all i'll give you a lesson on finding the right key another time but for today in our little bag we need an open g a three finger down on the g for the b an open d and a fourth finger down for the g those are the only notes we need okay we still need to be careful that we're not squashing a mouse be aware of that so i'm going to put on the robots and just have a listen for a second

well it sounds tricky but it isn't play me an open g

now play me a b

now plenty of open d and now play me the g on the d string

did you notice we were in perfect tune every time we played how is that possible that's because we know the key that the robots are playing in they're playing in g major and we're playing a g major arpeggio and we know the g major arpeggio is a g a b a d and another g now what i want you to do is trust yourselves and play in time to this rather wonderful orchestra any of the notes that i've talked about

and if you're worried about playing them in the wrong order or it makes you nervous just play the arpeggio as you've learned it from your abrsm your grade one book

that's right

now sorry if you were enjoying that i'm going to try a different uh vibe something a little bit uh um contrasting maybe should we go for pop let's go robots play me pop please and oh whoa what happened there well this is fabulous now play me your g string

and now you're b and the g on the d string

it's fantastic did you...

Robot Orchestra G Major Arpeggio Practice and Improv ABRSM Grade 1 Suzuki bk 1

hello gorgeous tale tellers welcome to improv tuesday

what's improv well you may ask i'm going to tell you improv is really one of the most exciting skills that a musician can develop especially if they're a tale teller musician improv short for improvisation by the way is all about making stuff up on the spur of the moment sounds tricky well it kind of is and it isn't because there are some things that the improvising musician has developed little skills that really are like little cheats to help us get things right now today i've brought along my orchestral robots and i've got a robot who's playing fuzz violins a robot playing second violins a robot playing the villa violas a robot playing cellos and a robot playing double basses do you notice that's all of the string section in the orchestra don't tell the others but i prefer the string section i think the string section is far superior but please don't tell the pianists they will never forgive me now then let's think about how we're sitting are we prepared for the lesson or is our back straight are our mice under our palms not squashed and breathing easily are we chill

yes we are indeed we are let's check our tuning a d

g

c bravo bravo now if you're you should really uh have been practicing your arpeggios before doing this class but if you haven't it doesn't really matter because i'm going to explain to you the notes we're going to play but we're going to play an arpeggio to the string section and we're going to have in our armory of notes do you remember what um i told you the other day about having a little bag wherever you go and it's got the notes that you need for any situation so today we're going to be using uh the arpeggio notes so in case you don't know those are the g the b the d and the g again so two g's but on different uh strings two g's okay and what those are the only notes we're going to play because an arpeggio only well arpeggio really only has three notes it sort of has a fourth it has the octave higher so but that's it that's it our pictures are so easy and once you know an arpeggio you can play along to anything if you as long as you recognize by your ear the key do you see but look i'm going to tell you that this is in the key of g so we don't have to work it out but actually working it out with your ear isn't that hard at all i'll give you a lesson on finding the right key another time but for today in our little bag we need an open g a three finger down on the g for the b an open d and a fourth finger down for the g those are the only notes we need okay we still need to be careful that we're not squashing a mouse be aware of that so i'm going to put on the robots and just have a listen for a second

well it sounds tricky but it isn't play me an open g

now play me a b

now plenty of open d and now play me the g on the d string

did you notice we were in perfect tune every time we played how is that possible that's because we know the key that the robots are playing in they're playing in g major and we're playing a g major arpeggio and we know the g major arpeggio is a g a b a d and another g now what i want you to do is trust yourselves and play in time to this rather wonderful orchestra any of the notes that i've talked about

and if you're worried about playing them in the wrong order or it makes you nervous just play the arpeggio as you've learned it from your abrsm your grade one book

that's right

now sorry if you were enjoying that i'm going to try a different uh vibe something a little bit uh um contrasting maybe should we go for pop let's go robots play me pop please and oh whoa what happened there well this is fabulous now play me your g string

and now you're b and the g on the d string

it's fantastic did you...