We are doing cello scales and piano scales all week. Lots of fun challenges and learning games too.
hello guys welcome to um the scales challenge grade three piano for mini tail tellers but also this this um broadcast is actually really good for singers and for uh cellists anyone playing a string instrument i'm going to call out the fingering that's particular to pianists but if you're playing another instrument i'll play it right through the left hand and the right hand and you can you're welcome to use it to keep in tune so this is tricky this one i am not going to pretend otherwise and it's tricky for many reasons mostly because we're we've just been used to the b major and we've done lots of sharps we're doing these in order and now suddenly we've got two flats we've got to think out of the sharp box and jump into the flat box it could be you could look at these flats as sharps um because of course a sharp is you know each note has a corresponding flat or a sharp but i think b flat major is so often used that it's best to think in terms of flats whatever you're doing so let's get out of the sharp box and think in the flat in the flat box okay now we're going to start with the left hand because it's hardest we're going to start on a third finger why why why would it do that to us well it's because this fingering is to enable us to play more fluently more fluidly as well when we're playing complicated pieces of music and what happens is these these fingering patterns become so ingrained in us that we automatically go to them and it's just what we do it becomes such a part of our performance that we don't have to think about it and it means that we don't make mistakes you see so let's let's get this linked so if you're a singer you can sing along with us i'll call out the notes that's directed for pianists of course um the fingering rather if you're a cellist do do use the um you know these broadcasts to keep in tune i'll keep them slow and nice and steady so first run i'll call out fingering next one i won't so uh we're an octave lower than middle c that b flat right next to the c with our third finger so we're going three two one fourth over three two one third over
fourth over onto the thumb and finish on a two okay come down fourth on that flat thumb under third on the flat thumb under
fourth
okay it's not easy i'll do it without talking
so
and finish on the third okay it's tricky isn't it really tricky we need to get it sunk in you know so let's look at the right hand so this is different again so we're starting on a second this time so two one two three under two three four under three under
and we're going to finish on a fourth
thumb over
over with your fourth over with your third and we finish on our two okay i'll play that through
now i don't know if it'll help but you could think of it if you're concerned about your fingering in terms of where there's a a group of two black notes you use your third and where there's a group of three black notes use your fourth and it's actually the opposite uh in the when you're doing the left hand okay i don't know if that will help some people like to think about finger shapes and that gets them through um so that's enough of b flat major really work on it and i'm going to do a broadcast now where i'm going to do um the five that we've already learned or is it four four i think a major e major b major and b flat major so the four i'm going to do those now in the next podcast as part of our challenge um with uh no fingering so the the the next podcast is really about learning it all by heart and i hope you can join me i'll keep it slow let us not panic
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