I am playing archive tracks on my new show today that are being lovingly preserved by keen archivists.

I suppose I too am preserving memories by playing them, although my show will only last as long as my will I suspect.


I like this one because of the smoking suffragette, made me chuckle

Jack NorworthFor Months And Months And Months
Written by Joseph Tabrar (1857 - 1931)
Performed by Jack Norworth
Recording date: 1910
Cat Number: VICTOR 60030
Duration: 02'50"
License: Public Domain
Other tags for this recording: british music hall / vocal / male vocal / music / Free-to-air / musica blues / open the gum song / comedy / Funny /
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And this next one is dedicated to President Biden who is bearing the brunt of the world's disapproval as he pulled troops out of Afganistan.

Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers
White House Blues
Written by
Performed by Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers
Recording date: 20.9.1926
Cat Number: Columbia 15099-d
Duration:
License: Public Domain
Other tags for this recording: Roud 787 / New York / 1926 / parallel anthology / folk /
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I love these old tracks and the wealth of historic music is a small doorway into real lives through history.

welcome listeners to royal clarence radio i'm having a sort of slow lazy morning i hope you are too not too much rushing around it's the rushing around that stresses one isn't it now then i've just had notice from alva valley now there's a facebook page called the alpha valley it's really useful if you're into nature walks um a little bit curious about the you know your surroundings in gosport um join their facebook page give them a like um now they've suggested a walk tomorrow a wednesday wonder in the wild grounds 8 p.m till uh sorry 6 p.m till 8 pm um i'll read a loosely guided walk in the reserve to see what can be found in this haven for wildlife how exciting now unfortunately they're only taking the first 15 so it may well be overbooked already but i'll give you the email grange gospel dot gov dot uk okay it's two pounds for adults and 150 for concessions not too bad um now i really recommend that you get yourself along to alva valley it's absolutely incredible and it's right on our doorstep and it's quite a nice contrast actually to the marina because the mirroring is very watery and very yachty and alva valley is you're immersed absolutely immersed in the countryside and it's very very much um a haven for wildlife in fact and you you know there are darks a little dark pond lots of grassland lots of wildflowers um and lots of insects it's a great place to take the dog as well but please you know be careful of leads etc um so i have a little uh like of their page on facebook and you'll obviously get updates although i think things might be a little bit tight in terms of you know getting on these walks but you don't need to be on an official walk you do in i think the certain parts of it you need to be um some sort of permit or something but most of it's free access and it's absolutely um inspiring you know artistically it's very inspiring um so what else this vehicle rally in family day which is on the 30th now i doubt you'll have trouble getting into this one pound entry for adults and 50p for children two pounds for family not bad is it and um there's all cars and motorcycles a petting farm i assume that's animals not um joe from the office um interactive big noise samba band now i don't know what interactive means does that mean you can get up and sing who knows who knows darlings face painting painting toboggan ride food and drink offs and um a display of electric motorcycles oh i quite like to look at that actually i might go along and maybe do a little interview for the radio station that'd be...

I am playing archive tracks on my new show today that are being lovingly preserved by keen archivists.

I suppose I too am preserving memories by playing them, although my show will only last as long as my will I suspect.


I like this one because of the smoking suffragette, made me chuckle

Jack NorworthFor Months And Months And Months
Written by Joseph Tabrar (1857 - 1931)
Performed by Jack Norworth
Recording date: 1910
Cat Number: VICTOR 60030
Duration: 02'50"
License: Public Domain
Other tags for this recording: british music hall / vocal / male vocal / music / Free-to-air / musica blues / open the gum song / comedy / Funny /
Tag this recording
Download MP3

And this next one is dedicated to President Biden who is bearing the brunt of the world's disapproval as he pulled troops out of Afganistan.

Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers
White House Blues
Written by
Performed by Charlie Poole With The North Carolina Ramblers
Recording date: 20.9.1926
Cat Number: Columbia 15099-d
Duration:
License: Public Domain
Other tags for this recording: Roud 787 / New York / 1926 / parallel anthology / folk /
Tag this recording
Download MP3

I love these old tracks and the wealth of historic music is a small doorway into real lives through history.

welcome listeners to royal clarence radio i'm having a sort of slow lazy morning i hope you are too not too much rushing around it's the rushing around that stresses one isn't it now then i've just had notice from alva valley now there's a facebook page called the alpha valley it's really useful if you're into nature walks um a little bit curious about the you know your surroundings in gosport um join their facebook page give them a like um now they've suggested a walk tomorrow a wednesday wonder in the wild grounds 8 p.m till uh sorry 6 p.m till 8 pm um i'll read a loosely guided walk in the reserve to see what can be found in this haven for wildlife how exciting now unfortunately they're only taking the first 15 so it may well be overbooked already but i'll give you the email grange gospel dot gov dot uk okay it's two pounds for adults and 150 for concessions not too bad um now i really recommend that you get yourself along to alva valley it's absolutely incredible and it's right on our doorstep and it's quite a nice contrast actually to the marina because the mirroring is very watery and very yachty and alva valley is you're immersed absolutely immersed in the countryside and it's very very much um a haven for wildlife in fact and you you know there are darks a little dark pond lots of grassland lots of wildflowers um and lots of insects it's a great place to take the dog as well but please you know be careful of leads etc um so i have a little uh like of their page on facebook and you'll obviously get updates although i think things might be a little bit tight in terms of you know getting on these walks but you don't need to be on an official walk you do in i think the certain parts of it you need to be um some sort of permit or something but most of it's free access and it's absolutely um inspiring you know artistically it's very inspiring um so what else this vehicle rally in family day which is on the 30th now i doubt you'll have trouble getting into this one pound entry for adults and 50p for children two pounds for family not bad is it and um there's all cars and motorcycles a petting farm i assume that's animals not um joe from the office um interactive big noise samba band now i don't know what interactive means does that mean you can get up and sing who knows who knows darlings face painting painting toboggan ride food and drink offs and um a display of electric motorcycles oh i quite like to look at that actually i might go along and maybe do a little interview for the radio station that'd be...

For students who have chosen the Beethoven piece in section B ABRSM 2003

hi guys welcome to the sonata in f minor this is one of the choices for the abrsm uh course um but it's a beautiful beautiful piece by beethoven and there's no excuse for not learning it um if you're a classical pianist and you want to perhaps increase your repertoire whatever so i really like it um it's quite lively and it doesn't pose too many problems except for that i suppose these um these triplets that we're just going to do the first line today these triplets give us a little bit of grief i'm going to play it through at um half speed have a listen

okay so i think you can hear there can't you that it's um the when you set it down you can really notice that very plodding bass line which is really our metronome for this whole piece it's very very steady throughout and these crushed notes uh um they're they're in the off beat they're sort of in between uh this chord

okay so it's all going to come together quite nicely but what i want you to do of course is play hands separately until we really get to know everything so let's just pop the metronome on and then we'll talk about it after that

so i'm going to count us in for this left just so you can i mean don't worry about um when you come in what you want to know is that you've got a count of four so we're going to come in on the third beat of of this with the right hand but with the left hand we're not doing anything for the first two bars actually two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four do you see so the the first bar that we've got any action has just got this chord

and then the next chord all you have to do is literally you're moving a couple of fingers so what i'd like you to do is if i just turn that off for a second uh practice this movement and have a look at your hands what the fingering that you're doing um you'll get my score on uh instagram under my facebook page so you literally it's one three five and then you just uh you're sticking your uh you're moving two fingers down and playing a b flat so you you're playing four notes instead of the three you've got the triad there and then you're moving and you've got that lovely chord okay and then you're going to play that chord so i'll put the metronome on again and we'll just give you a little

one two three four one two three four one two three four and that's it steady as you like very ploddy isn't it it's a bit bloody really um i'll turn that off for a minute um so the all the action the exciting stuff is in is actually in the right hand don't worry about volume and dynamics or anything like that at the moment now i put the fingering that i suggest um it's always very flexible but if you've been practicing your f minor scale you're going to know exactly what fingering to use anyway so we've got a c and an f and a flattened a and then i think pass your thumb under okay

much easier than um if you play your fifth and then you pass it under it it's a big movement if you just literally just like that it's so easy it's the arpeggio fingering there's nothing difficult about that um as long as you've been practicing your scales in your arpeggios okay so one two three under one and then three and four or two and four whatever you find more comfortable and then the this is this effectively it's a trill it's a little group of notes that you play quickly um so it's a bit like a trill and it sounds like a trill when when the whole thing's put together okay so three two one and it's a natural and then that's staccato and don't forget i probably didn't did i hold down that a on a staccato i'm not sure i can't remember staccato staccato staccato hold staccato okay and um the it is the in the left hand that's going to keep you all nice and steady so you've got one two and if you keep everything down one two and then this um trill in before you play...

For students who have chosen the Beethoven piece in section B ABRSM 2003

hi guys welcome to the sonata in f minor this is one of the choices for the abrsm uh course um but it's a beautiful beautiful piece by beethoven and there's no excuse for not learning it um if you're a classical pianist and you want to perhaps increase your repertoire whatever so i really like it um it's quite lively and it doesn't pose too many problems except for that i suppose these um these triplets that we're just going to do the first line today these triplets give us a little bit of grief i'm going to play it through at um half speed have a listen

okay so i think you can hear there can't you that it's um the when you set it down you can really notice that very plodding bass line which is really our metronome for this whole piece it's very very steady throughout and these crushed notes uh um they're they're in the off beat they're sort of in between uh this chord

okay so it's all going to come together quite nicely but what i want you to do of course is play hands separately until we really get to know everything so let's just pop the metronome on and then we'll talk about it after that

so i'm going to count us in for this left just so you can i mean don't worry about um when you come in what you want to know is that you've got a count of four so we're going to come in on the third beat of of this with the right hand but with the left hand we're not doing anything for the first two bars actually two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four do you see so the the first bar that we've got any action has just got this chord

and then the next chord all you have to do is literally you're moving a couple of fingers so what i'd like you to do is if i just turn that off for a second uh practice this movement and have a look at your hands what the fingering that you're doing um you'll get my score on uh instagram under my facebook page so you literally it's one three five and then you just uh you're sticking your uh you're moving two fingers down and playing a b flat so you you're playing four notes instead of the three you've got the triad there and then you're moving and you've got that lovely chord okay and then you're going to play that chord so i'll put the metronome on again and we'll just give you a little

one two three four one two three four one two three four and that's it steady as you like very ploddy isn't it it's a bit bloody really um i'll turn that off for a minute um so the all the action the exciting stuff is in is actually in the right hand don't worry about volume and dynamics or anything like that at the moment now i put the fingering that i suggest um it's always very flexible but if you've been practicing your f minor scale you're going to know exactly what fingering to use anyway so we've got a c and an f and a flattened a and then i think pass your thumb under okay

much easier than um if you play your fifth and then you pass it under it it's a big movement if you just literally just like that it's so easy it's the arpeggio fingering there's nothing difficult about that um as long as you've been practicing your scales in your arpeggios okay so one two three under one and then three and four or two and four whatever you find more comfortable and then the this is this effectively it's a trill it's a little group of notes that you play quickly um so it's a bit like a trill and it sounds like a trill when when the whole thing's put together okay so three two one and it's a natural and then that's staccato and don't forget i probably didn't did i hold down that a on a staccato i'm not sure i can't remember staccato staccato staccato hold staccato okay and um the it is the in the left hand that's going to keep you all nice and steady so you've got one two and if you keep everything down one two and then this um trill in before you play...

Free classes for cellists daily uploads all welcome. Grade 4 ABRSM. Suzuki intermediate.

hello mini tail tellers welcome to e flat major i'm going to go um over the fingering that you're going to need for your cellos and um i'll play a backing track so you can play along at your convenience this is just a fingering lesson you're we're not going to talk about um the option of the four slurred notes the quake the group of quavers that are that we're slurring the second option this is the abrsm course but of course this this scale is great for it's used so much in contemporary composition jazz blues rock and pop if you know this scale you're really um putting yourself in a very good position to know an awful lot of music i'd say it's an intermediate level piece uh scale um it's only two octaves it's tricky i'm going to tell you how to do it let's play eleanor with our backing track so we're going to find that e flat to play it with our second finger and then the g sorry the f

and then an open g and the back extension will be a flat now you can you i recommend that you move back down to play a b flat with your second and that's normal first position fourth on the c okay i think that's fairly straightforward so let's just do that again two zero down and another zero and another back extension so this pattern

been exactly the same and in fact to the um to the f natural so you've just repeated do you see easy peasy now now it gets a bit trickier because instead of playing that um with g with your foot with your fourth you're going to play it with your first and then two and four

easy so as long as you get that g you you're all right and now we're going to do another back extension up to the c and then four and oh sorry three and four okay back down back up back down back out

okay so i i think that's um fairly straightforward fairly straightforward keep playing this tape play this recording over and over again until you get it okay so um i'll just play the backing track for you nice i'll turn the volume up a bit i'll play that for a couple of minutes and then i recommend that you

you can certainly look at the notes but it's so easy once you learn it by memory it just becomes second nature play it a hundred times and um you're going to feel very good and then you can mix the notes up and you can play them backwards upside down different orders things like that i'll be back later with more of the same but different

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Free classes for cellists daily uploads all welcome. Grade 4 ABRSM. Suzuki intermediate.

hello mini tail tellers welcome to e flat major i'm going to go um over the fingering that you're going to need for your cellos and um i'll play a backing track so you can play along at your convenience this is just a fingering lesson you're we're not going to talk about um the option of the four slurred notes the quake the group of quavers that are that we're slurring the second option this is the abrsm course but of course this this scale is great for it's used so much in contemporary composition jazz blues rock and pop if you know this scale you're really um putting yourself in a very good position to know an awful lot of music i'd say it's an intermediate level piece uh scale um it's only two octaves it's tricky i'm going to tell you how to do it let's play eleanor with our backing track so we're going to find that e flat to play it with our second finger and then the g sorry the f

and then an open g and the back extension will be a flat now you can you i recommend that you move back down to play a b flat with your second and that's normal first position fourth on the c okay i think that's fairly straightforward so let's just do that again two zero down and another zero and another back extension so this pattern

been exactly the same and in fact to the um to the f natural so you've just repeated do you see easy peasy now now it gets a bit trickier because instead of playing that um with g with your foot with your fourth you're going to play it with your first and then two and four

easy so as long as you get that g you you're all right and now we're going to do another back extension up to the c and then four and oh sorry three and four okay back down back up back down back out

okay so i i think that's um fairly straightforward fairly straightforward keep playing this tape play this recording over and over again until you get it okay so um i'll just play the backing track for you nice i'll turn the volume up a bit i'll play that for a couple of minutes and then i recommend that you

you can certainly look at the notes but it's so easy once you learn it by memory it just becomes second nature play it a hundred times and um you're going to feel very good and then you can mix the notes up and you can play them backwards upside down different orders things like that i'll be back later with more of the same but different

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We are starting this super piece this week with our first listen-through along with all the set lists for grade 8. A very pretty little work that is a little demanding on expression and fluidity but is not as problematic as we might first fear.

hello mini tail tellers welcome welcome to the music room at royal clarence now today we're going to have our preliminary listen to the beethoven sonata in f minor up to number one movement one and this is our grade eight piece and we'll be looking at this in great detail over the coming months this is the grade eight uh choice as a group a i believe we'll be good we'll be going through them all so that you don't have to choose this piece if you don't like it but i think it's really pretty and i don't think it's going to be too too difficult for us i'm looking at the score i'm seeing an expressive piece and lots of uh exciting little trills and triplets and crushed notes so i'm going to be teaching you how to do those there's a lot of contrast so we're going to have to work on um you know our loud and quiet and feeling and contrast lots of staccatos we're leaping about a bit we're going to be looking at how not to lose ourselves the baseline is actually it's quite um steady all the way through it's going to keep us good time so we don't have too much to worry about it's a really pretty pretty little beethoven piece it's wonderful to play it's absolutely um beautiful to listen to there are a lot of repetitive sections and that's good for us as musicians because it means we we don't have to work too too hard and it means we get better at them because the we're repeating them and in the examination you won't necessarily be asked to play those repeats anyway so we'll talk about more about that another time so i'm going to leave you with the performance um it's 6 minutes and 11 seconds long thoroughly enjoyable and it's in the public domain so feel free to to share and to engage with it as much as you can download it listen to it over and over again my suzuki students will know we rely very heavily on the oral memory listening over and over to keep in mind where it is we need to go next and where we've just been okay we learn things by heart but the music is just as important for my non sookie students so you're going to study everything about this piece okay enjoy my friends absolutely wonderful wonderful peace

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super super um apologies if the recording was a bit odd at the end uh um i pressed a button i'm not sure i should have anyway um that's the beethoven sonata in f minor it's actually from set list b for uh 2003 um graders i'm going to go through all of them uh during this week and upload um all the information that you need to assess which of those you're going to be doing you'll need to buy the score when you finally do choose or you can go along to musical and use their facility and these are wonderful wonderful pieces and um i'm absolutely thrilled to be doing them there are 2003 to 2004 um exam lists okay that's the abrsm uh i'm not sure what uh the score is oh a java is a bit of a pun isn't it the score what's the score in america i don't know what exam system they use but i will endeavor to find out because i know a lot of my listeners are from america and now if you're not doing the exams it doesn't matter a hoot because we can um just learn these pieces anyway so the way to practice and to learn is not to just uh over and over again um you know repeat from start to finish this is a really bad way um so i'm going to be teaching a particular method that is really really good for results with less time because what happens is you you can play you can practice for five hours and you've learnt nothing um so we'll be looking at that as well uh the best way to practice in in a short space of time you don't need to be practicing but though you know for that sort of um length of time if...

We are starting this super piece this week with our first listen-through along with all the set lists for grade 8. A very pretty little work that is a little demanding on expression and fluidity but is not as problematic as we might first fear.

hello mini tail tellers welcome welcome to the music room at royal clarence now today we're going to have our preliminary listen to the beethoven sonata in f minor up to number one movement one and this is our grade eight piece and we'll be looking at this in great detail over the coming months this is the grade eight uh choice as a group a i believe we'll be good we'll be going through them all so that you don't have to choose this piece if you don't like it but i think it's really pretty and i don't think it's going to be too too difficult for us i'm looking at the score i'm seeing an expressive piece and lots of uh exciting little trills and triplets and crushed notes so i'm going to be teaching you how to do those there's a lot of contrast so we're going to have to work on um you know our loud and quiet and feeling and contrast lots of staccatos we're leaping about a bit we're going to be looking at how not to lose ourselves the baseline is actually it's quite um steady all the way through it's going to keep us good time so we don't have too much to worry about it's a really pretty pretty little beethoven piece it's wonderful to play it's absolutely um beautiful to listen to there are a lot of repetitive sections and that's good for us as musicians because it means we we don't have to work too too hard and it means we get better at them because the we're repeating them and in the examination you won't necessarily be asked to play those repeats anyway so we'll talk about more about that another time so i'm going to leave you with the performance um it's 6 minutes and 11 seconds long thoroughly enjoyable and it's in the public domain so feel free to to share and to engage with it as much as you can download it listen to it over and over again my suzuki students will know we rely very heavily on the oral memory listening over and over to keep in mind where it is we need to go next and where we've just been okay we learn things by heart but the music is just as important for my non sookie students so you're going to study everything about this piece okay enjoy my friends absolutely wonderful wonderful peace

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super super um apologies if the recording was a bit odd at the end uh um i pressed a button i'm not sure i should have anyway um that's the beethoven sonata in f minor it's actually from set list b for uh 2003 um graders i'm going to go through all of them uh during this week and upload um all the information that you need to assess which of those you're going to be doing you'll need to buy the score when you finally do choose or you can go along to musical and use their facility and these are wonderful wonderful pieces and um i'm absolutely thrilled to be doing them there are 2003 to 2004 um exam lists okay that's the abrsm uh i'm not sure what uh the score is oh a java is a bit of a pun isn't it the score what's the score in america i don't know what exam system they use but i will endeavor to find out because i know a lot of my listeners are from america and now if you're not doing the exams it doesn't matter a hoot because we can um just learn these pieces anyway so the way to practice and to learn is not to just uh over and over again um you know repeat from start to finish this is a really bad way um so i'm going to be teaching a particular method that is really really good for results with less time because what happens is you you can play you can practice for five hours and you've learnt nothing um so we'll be looking at that as well uh the best way to practice in in a short space of time you don't need to be practicing but though you know for that sort of um length of time if...