Scales Challenge Grade 3 ABRSM A E Major Free Downloads Daily Lessons All Levels

hi guys welcome to e major abrsm grade 3 scales challenge today we are going to go through the a major i'm just going to play it once through right hand left hand nice and steady not too fast and the e major fingering is identical so i won't um be calling that out um it's only when we have major changes that i'm going to tell you to change fingering so the biggest difference with this e major is that we're adding a sharp we're sharpening our d so let's start with the a major and the left hand

another e major

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how did you get on well done so um i feel quite chuffed actually that we we've managed to the a and the e and keep that nice and steady and they're very similar the a and the e all you have to worry about is that extra sharp and there's no concern with fingering and likewise the b major which we're going to be doing next um is this is the same fingering and it's just so it's just a matter of adding an extra sharp i mean what could be what could be harder very little so well two sharps i suppose or um a whole bunch of new flats that would be rather dodgy wouldn't it okay i'll be back presently with the b major

Scales Challenge Grade 3 ABRSM A E Major Free Downloads Daily Lessons All Levels

hi guys welcome to e major abrsm grade 3 scales challenge today we are going to go through the a major i'm just going to play it once through right hand left hand nice and steady not too fast and the e major fingering is identical so i won't um be calling that out um it's only when we have major changes that i'm going to tell you to change fingering so the biggest difference with this e major is that we're adding a sharp we're sharpening our d so let's start with the a major and the left hand

another e major

do

how did you get on well done so um i feel quite chuffed actually that we we've managed to the a and the e and keep that nice and steady and they're very similar the a and the e all you have to worry about is that extra sharp and there's no concern with fingering and likewise the b major which we're going to be doing next um is this is the same fingering and it's just so it's just a matter of adding an extra sharp i mean what could be what could be harder very little so well two sharps i suppose or um a whole bunch of new flats that would be rather dodgy wouldn't it okay i'll be back presently with the b major

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Scales Challenge Grade 3 ABRSM A MAJOR Free Downloads Piano Lessons

hello little tail tellers welcome to the rather wonderful um scales challenge scales are so boring aren't they when you do them on your own but i figure if we do them together like this every day we'll it'll go so much quicker and we'll find that it's all rather good fun so what we're going to do is we're going to start with the we're doing grade 3 by the way abrsm and we're starting with the a major and then tomorrow or the next episode we'll add e major but we'll have to do the a major before we do the e major and then after that we'll add the b major but we'll have to play the a major and the e major and then the b major do you see and so it goes on but we're going to do this really really slowly and we're not going to rush stress or be particularly worried about anything other than getting the notes right and the fingering okay that's all we need to worry about we're going to worry about timing a bit later on it's very difficult before you've learned the fingering to keep in time you're still feeling your way around things okay so don't worry about that too much just yet so we're going to start two below the c the middle c here okay i'll call out the fingering once and then we'll just play it through okay so one two three under two three four under two three under two three four five four three two one three two one four three two one three two one okay so let's do that without me calling out

do

how did you get on jolly good now let's do the left hand so we're starting now um here's your middle c so we're coming down um a whole octave lower than we start with the right hand so this is the a that we're using i'll call out the fingering the first time 5 4 3 2 1 three two one four three two one three two one two three one two three four one two three one two three four five okay let's do it nice and slowly without me counting

so

okay so whatever happens you need to start on a pinky and um come up on your to end on a thumb at the top of the scale and end up with your pinky down the bottom and that will put you in the best possible position for playing uh any any other music um for now for grade three okay so i hope you enjoyed that now what i recommend that you do is just practice that a couple of times without me and um i'm going to do a broadcasting minute for e major but i'm going to do the a major and the e major okay but we we don't spend time on the previous one that we've done do you see we just do it okay so this is the challenge we've got to add to it and not make any mistakes as each day goes on it's going to be really tricky let me tell you um so i hope you enjoyed that uh i'm loving this i'm absolutely um i just think it's gonna be really good fun and don't forget once we've once we've licked this and we've got our finger incorrect it's all set in our brains we're going to put our hands together which is very exciting and then we're going to start speeding things up so um how cool is that well start speeding up the right hand and the left hand separately anyway we will be doing that um but we'll have to start now when we put them together again because we don't want to make any mistakes so i hope you enjoyed a major um i i think it's my favorite i really like b major i quite like b major what's your favorite pop over to my facebook page and and drop me a message tell me which your favorite grade 3 scale is

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Scales Challenge Grade 3 ABRSM A MAJOR Free Downloads Piano Lessons

hello little tail tellers welcome to the rather wonderful um scales challenge scales are so boring aren't they when you do them on your own but i figure if we do them together like this every day we'll it'll go so much quicker and we'll find that it's all rather good fun so what we're going to do is we're going to start with the we're doing grade 3 by the way abrsm and we're starting with the a major and then tomorrow or the next episode we'll add e major but we'll have to do the a major before we do the e major and then after that we'll add the b major but we'll have to play the a major and the e major and then the b major do you see and so it goes on but we're going to do this really really slowly and we're not going to rush stress or be particularly worried about anything other than getting the notes right and the fingering okay that's all we need to worry about we're going to worry about timing a bit later on it's very difficult before you've learned the fingering to keep in time you're still feeling your way around things okay so don't worry about that too much just yet so we're going to start two below the c the middle c here okay i'll call out the fingering once and then we'll just play it through okay so one two three under two three four under two three under two three four five four three two one three two one four three two one three two one okay so let's do that without me calling out

do

how did you get on jolly good now let's do the left hand so we're starting now um here's your middle c so we're coming down um a whole octave lower than we start with the right hand so this is the a that we're using i'll call out the fingering the first time 5 4 3 2 1 three two one four three two one three two one two three one two three four one two three one two three four five okay let's do it nice and slowly without me counting

so

okay so whatever happens you need to start on a pinky and um come up on your to end on a thumb at the top of the scale and end up with your pinky down the bottom and that will put you in the best possible position for playing uh any any other music um for now for grade three okay so i hope you enjoyed that now what i recommend that you do is just practice that a couple of times without me and um i'm going to do a broadcasting minute for e major but i'm going to do the a major and the e major okay but we we don't spend time on the previous one that we've done do you see we just do it okay so this is the challenge we've got to add to it and not make any mistakes as each day goes on it's going to be really tricky let me tell you um so i hope you enjoyed that uh i'm loving this i'm absolutely um i just think it's gonna be really good fun and don't forget once we've once we've licked this and we've got our finger incorrect it's all set in our brains we're going to put our hands together which is very exciting and then we're going to start speeding things up so um how cool is that well start speeding up the right hand and the left hand separately anyway we will be doing that um but we'll have to start now when we put them together again because we don't want to make any mistakes so i hope you enjoyed a major um i i think it's my favorite i really like b major i quite like b major what's your favorite pop over to my facebook page and and drop me a message tell me which your favorite grade 3 scale is

hello mini tail tellers welcome welcome to the music room here at royal clarence now today we've been looking at our new choices for the abrsm grade 1 pieces i'm going through the list this week and we'll be covering all of the pieces not just three we're going to cover all of the pieces in the coming weeks okay and then we're going to go on through the other grades as well so all these lessons are free and everybody is welcome that's the first thing to know now this one is a traditional irish dance piece and it's very very different to the other pieces that we've already done today um it's a traditional irish sort of folk song i guess an irish jig called john ryan's polka okay now these exam pieces are all for grade one and they are valid until 2023 which is pretty good isn't it so we've got plenty of time there's no rush but look you can do these pieces even if you're not doing the exam that doesn't matter at all it doesn't matter an iota that so let's have a look at it now the thing with this piece it looks easy but it isn't and it isn't easy because many of us don't have a focus on experience so we're you know we tend to be a little bit locked into certain styles of music many of us aren't familiar with irish music um or folk music and many of us may be you know more uh traditionally biased towards english choral type music or um you know other genres perhaps i think if you've come from suzuki you'll find this piece quite easy except for the string crossings there are some rather tricky string crossings which are really going to throw us a little bit um it's very lively though and there are lots of little motifs which are reminiscent of suzuki so i think you'll be okay let's see what you think i've slowed it down a tad um we'll just play the first two lines today

do

okay so that's pretty pretty straightforward really but remember the uh you'll have to play it a bit faster than that in the exam so you can catch this music on my facebook page so you can follow my um my annotations because they're very helpful um i can just play by ear as well of course and if you've got the music in front of you then you can annotate yourselves so what have we got we've got a four four it's an f major we've got an f sorry g major it's an f sharp nice and loud nice and lively i'd give it a little uh a little bit of definition i'd define all the notes

and i define them because that makes them lively okay

now here we've got string crossings galore at bar two so we've got open three string crossing open three string crossing four so suddenly is an awful lot to think about now move all your hands up fingers over

um that's a closed hand run easy peasy and then bar four

we've got that string crossing again

and again

and again

string crossings everywhere you're really going to have to learn how to do those well smoothly very straight bow i really don't think you should be attempting this without a mirror in front of you okay so you really need especially when we've got we've got here because that's bar uh five six right over the other side

okay so if your if your bow is not straight that's not that's going to sound grim isn't it so do you like this piece i think it's fantastic i mean it's really dancey i recommend we'll play it again now at this speed 90 bpm and what i recommend you do is you mime it over and over again and really feel the dance and then visualize the eating cake and dancing and swishy skirts and boys with caps and you know all that sort of thing just uh really visualize this party atmosphere and that's going to help you to play really really well and impress the examiner actually because when you're transferring feeling to um a listener it really makes all the difference all the difference now there's no phrasing in um in my copy but there will be phrasing in the uh abrsm copies i'm sure so when we go over this we'll...

hello mini tail tellers welcome welcome to the music room here at royal clarence now today we've been looking at our new choices for the abrsm grade 1 pieces i'm going through the list this week and we'll be covering all of the pieces not just three we're going to cover all of the pieces in the coming weeks okay and then we're going to go on through the other grades as well so all these lessons are free and everybody is welcome that's the first thing to know now this one is a traditional irish dance piece and it's very very different to the other pieces that we've already done today um it's a traditional irish sort of folk song i guess an irish jig called john ryan's polka okay now these exam pieces are all for grade one and they are valid until 2023 which is pretty good isn't it so we've got plenty of time there's no rush but look you can do these pieces even if you're not doing the exam that doesn't matter at all it doesn't matter an iota that so let's have a look at it now the thing with this piece it looks easy but it isn't and it isn't easy because many of us don't have a focus on experience so we're you know we tend to be a little bit locked into certain styles of music many of us aren't familiar with irish music um or folk music and many of us may be you know more uh traditionally biased towards english choral type music or um you know other genres perhaps i think if you've come from suzuki you'll find this piece quite easy except for the string crossings there are some rather tricky string crossings which are really going to throw us a little bit um it's very lively though and there are lots of little motifs which are reminiscent of suzuki so i think you'll be okay let's see what you think i've slowed it down a tad um we'll just play the first two lines today

do

okay so that's pretty pretty straightforward really but remember the uh you'll have to play it a bit faster than that in the exam so you can catch this music on my facebook page so you can follow my um my annotations because they're very helpful um i can just play by ear as well of course and if you've got the music in front of you then you can annotate yourselves so what have we got we've got a four four it's an f major we've got an f sorry g major it's an f sharp nice and loud nice and lively i'd give it a little uh a little bit of definition i'd define all the notes

and i define them because that makes them lively okay

now here we've got string crossings galore at bar two so we've got open three string crossing open three string crossing four so suddenly is an awful lot to think about now move all your hands up fingers over

um that's a closed hand run easy peasy and then bar four

we've got that string crossing again

and again

and again

string crossings everywhere you're really going to have to learn how to do those well smoothly very straight bow i really don't think you should be attempting this without a mirror in front of you okay so you really need especially when we've got we've got here because that's bar uh five six right over the other side

okay so if your if your bow is not straight that's not that's going to sound grim isn't it so do you like this piece i think it's fantastic i mean it's really dancey i recommend we'll play it again now at this speed 90 bpm and what i recommend you do is you mime it over and over again and really feel the dance and then visualize the eating cake and dancing and swishy skirts and boys with caps and you know all that sort of thing just uh really visualize this party atmosphere and that's going to help you to play really really well and impress the examiner actually because when you're transferring feeling to um a listener it really makes all the difference all the difference now there's no phrasing in um in my copy but there will be phrasing in the uh abrsm copies i'm sure so when we go over this we'll...

What Is It All? Campian ABRSM CELLO Free Lesson Grade 1 Free Lessons


hello today tellers welcome to the second lesson today actually for the abrsm grade one cello choices okay so we're going to i'm going to give lessons on all of the pieces anyway so you can pick and choose and see which one you prefer do you know what sometimes i think it's a good idea not just to listen to them all but to actually play at least the first sort of line but you can play all the way through and just think to yourself am i going to be able to really enjoy this piece of music is it me does it reflect me as an artist as a as a musician now we've just played the um the arbo and that's uh completely different to this piece it's still in first position of course and we have a couple of slurs um or string no i don't think there were any slurs in the other one are string crossings um and there are string crossings here too our string crossings here are very slurry the whole thing is legato that means really smooth like water like wind and water gentle wind and water you know there is nothing aggressive about this piece um it is it does start quite loudly though um but it's not aggressive i i think when you're playing as i always recommend that you mime the piece as we play it through we're going to play we're just going to play the first two lines and i i always think miming's a really good way of understanding how you need to play it because then you can hear the musician you see and and the piano and you can sort of think to yourself oh that i see i've got to be really slurry for want of a better word i mean slurry kind of works doesn't it for us um it's not particularly slow um thomas campion uh is the composer we've got a legato we've got an f sharp that's okay we've been doing a lot of f sharps in our classes we're all in first position and we've really not got too much to worry about in these first two lines the biggest thing is just getting that legato right and the contrast between the mf meta forte on the the first four bars and then um and the next uh five six seven eight are all piano so quiet so that contrast is going to get you brownie points well more than brownie points exam points okay so let's let's just play it i've sewed it down a bit let's play it and mimet just mime it if you can

so

okay so it's lovely isn't it it's very pretty um it's a little bit faster than that we'll do that in a minute um so i recommend you mom if you want to see my annotated score you'll need to pop along to my facebook page with tail teller kids has a facebook page and you can even get catch up with all our stories there as well actually but you can catch up with all the sheet music and what i'll do is i'll make an album especially for all the grade one piano and then uh or the grade one cello because we do uh at telltale club we do piano as well and we do jazz too actually so um i will get try and write all the instructions out so you don't even have to listen to these podcasts you're more than welcome to pop along to my facebook page our facebook page and tell tell the kids and just see what you know what the score is literally okay so let's have a little look let's find that uh that g is starting um in g mate well i'm pretty sure it doesn't change but i can't see the full score um so where i mean this the annoying thing actually about um working on a computer a laptop is that you can't usually see the full score and certainly because i wear glasses if i put a school to a page i can't see it so i always recommend that you that you buy the um the abrsm sheet music and have that in front of you the paper copy and you know you'll probably be using that in the exam so let's find that g and then there's a string crossing and a lovely i mean i'd say down with the g and then up with the b and the a now how do you make that smooth well

you no pressure on these notes we want uh very different to the last piece...

What Is It All? Campian ABRSM CELLO Free Lesson Grade 1 Free Lessons


hello today tellers welcome to the second lesson today actually for the abrsm grade one cello choices okay so we're going to i'm going to give lessons on all of the pieces anyway so you can pick and choose and see which one you prefer do you know what sometimes i think it's a good idea not just to listen to them all but to actually play at least the first sort of line but you can play all the way through and just think to yourself am i going to be able to really enjoy this piece of music is it me does it reflect me as an artist as a as a musician now we've just played the um the arbo and that's uh completely different to this piece it's still in first position of course and we have a couple of slurs um or string no i don't think there were any slurs in the other one are string crossings um and there are string crossings here too our string crossings here are very slurry the whole thing is legato that means really smooth like water like wind and water gentle wind and water you know there is nothing aggressive about this piece um it is it does start quite loudly though um but it's not aggressive i i think when you're playing as i always recommend that you mime the piece as we play it through we're going to play we're just going to play the first two lines and i i always think miming's a really good way of understanding how you need to play it because then you can hear the musician you see and and the piano and you can sort of think to yourself oh that i see i've got to be really slurry for want of a better word i mean slurry kind of works doesn't it for us um it's not particularly slow um thomas campion uh is the composer we've got a legato we've got an f sharp that's okay we've been doing a lot of f sharps in our classes we're all in first position and we've really not got too much to worry about in these first two lines the biggest thing is just getting that legato right and the contrast between the mf meta forte on the the first four bars and then um and the next uh five six seven eight are all piano so quiet so that contrast is going to get you brownie points well more than brownie points exam points okay so let's let's just play it i've sewed it down a bit let's play it and mimet just mime it if you can

so

okay so it's lovely isn't it it's very pretty um it's a little bit faster than that we'll do that in a minute um so i recommend you mom if you want to see my annotated score you'll need to pop along to my facebook page with tail teller kids has a facebook page and you can even get catch up with all our stories there as well actually but you can catch up with all the sheet music and what i'll do is i'll make an album especially for all the grade one piano and then uh or the grade one cello because we do uh at telltale club we do piano as well and we do jazz too actually so um i will get try and write all the instructions out so you don't even have to listen to these podcasts you're more than welcome to pop along to my facebook page our facebook page and tell tell the kids and just see what you know what the score is literally okay so let's have a little look let's find that uh that g is starting um in g mate well i'm pretty sure it doesn't change but i can't see the full score um so where i mean this the annoying thing actually about um working on a computer a laptop is that you can't usually see the full score and certainly because i wear glasses if i put a school to a page i can't see it so i always recommend that you that you buy the um the abrsm sheet music and have that in front of you the paper copy and you know you'll probably be using that in the exam so let's find that g and then there's a string crossing and a lovely i mean i'd say down with the g and then up with the b and the a now how do you make that smooth well

you no pressure on these notes we want uh very different to the last piece...

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hello mini tail tellers welcome to a free class for the grade one abrsm we're going to do the arbo today um or a bit of it we don't need to do all of them all in one day if this is your chosen piece bravo if not you can have a listen you can sight read it you could see if you like it if you're undecided about which piece to choose then then you're in the right place now i would say this piece is for anyone who really enjoys the bass uh the c and the d on their cello playing these bass notes takes a a different technique to playing the higher notes you need to be slower you need to have really good contact otherwise you can sound muddy and dull so in that respect it makes it difficult but in another respect it's quite easy because these strings are right next to your ear then near your heart and for some people that makes it very exciting also if you really like jazz and improv and blues these strings will put you in good stead so you if especially if you

you know if you like a sort of choppy feel so i'm going to recommend that you choose these if that's your bag okay um if you prefer something uh a little bit more flowy and orchestral um rather than basically we have a base in the orchestra as well and but it tends to be the

the rhythm of the string section do you see so um this is for the cello exam piece uh for the abrsm grade one and it's um from 2020 to 2023 so we've got a bit of time now if you've got an exam coming up these classes will help you a bit but i'm starting from scratch so this is a beginner's really a beginner's class okay and we're going to use the piano accompaniment to help us but i'm also going to help you with fingering and things like that now look if you want the score you're going to have to um my my version of the score that is um you're going to have to pop along to my facebook page the tail teller kids facebook page or to our instagram um i don't really use instagram so much i prefer the facebook page and you'll be able to see my annotations okay so i'll write everything in there we're not going to do too much it doesn't do to do too much in one sitting okay you need to split these sections up so we're just going to go to bar nine before that key change now what key is it in it's in c major okay we so we start on a c that's nice isn't it an open c lovely open c but it's quite loud so um well look listen let's play our section through a bit slower than we're going to play it through for the examination now there's a couple of repeated sections so although it sounds like it's going everywhere it's actually not let's listen

okay so um the the instruction at the top of the page is boisterous because i've slowed that down a bit it doesn't sound so boisterous but also what does boisterous mean means a bit uh i'd say energetic so really um

i mean you wouldn't want to play it that aggressively for your exam but it's a good idea to sort of practice that the difference because and it's also uh moderately loud that's a comparative thing um later on in the piece it gets it gets quicker um i can't see the score actually ahead of me to see if it gets quieter so i i better look hang on so yeah sorry i have to when you're on a computer it's it's difficult isn't it because you have to keep scrolling up and down bar 15 you'll see a crescendo so you need to save yourself so although you can be fairly loud you need to be even louder later on i'm going to talk to you later on when we get to bar 17 especially but above 15 to 17 really really loud part we'll talk about how to increase your volume okay but for today let's just look at this section we're looking at okay so let's look at well bar one is an intro so we've got a count of four and um let's see what the pianist is doing let me move that let's have a listen

okay that's wrong let's try again

so one two three and four...

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hello mini tail tellers welcome to a free class for the grade one abrsm we're going to do the arbo today um or a bit of it we don't need to do all of them all in one day if this is your chosen piece bravo if not you can have a listen you can sight read it you could see if you like it if you're undecided about which piece to choose then then you're in the right place now i would say this piece is for anyone who really enjoys the bass uh the c and the d on their cello playing these bass notes takes a a different technique to playing the higher notes you need to be slower you need to have really good contact otherwise you can sound muddy and dull so in that respect it makes it difficult but in another respect it's quite easy because these strings are right next to your ear then near your heart and for some people that makes it very exciting also if you really like jazz and improv and blues these strings will put you in good stead so you if especially if you

you know if you like a sort of choppy feel so i'm going to recommend that you choose these if that's your bag okay um if you prefer something uh a little bit more flowy and orchestral um rather than basically we have a base in the orchestra as well and but it tends to be the

the rhythm of the string section do you see so um this is for the cello exam piece uh for the abrsm grade one and it's um from 2020 to 2023 so we've got a bit of time now if you've got an exam coming up these classes will help you a bit but i'm starting from scratch so this is a beginner's really a beginner's class okay and we're going to use the piano accompaniment to help us but i'm also going to help you with fingering and things like that now look if you want the score you're going to have to um my my version of the score that is um you're going to have to pop along to my facebook page the tail teller kids facebook page or to our instagram um i don't really use instagram so much i prefer the facebook page and you'll be able to see my annotations okay so i'll write everything in there we're not going to do too much it doesn't do to do too much in one sitting okay you need to split these sections up so we're just going to go to bar nine before that key change now what key is it in it's in c major okay we so we start on a c that's nice isn't it an open c lovely open c but it's quite loud so um well look listen let's play our section through a bit slower than we're going to play it through for the examination now there's a couple of repeated sections so although it sounds like it's going everywhere it's actually not let's listen

okay so um the the instruction at the top of the page is boisterous because i've slowed that down a bit it doesn't sound so boisterous but also what does boisterous mean means a bit uh i'd say energetic so really um

i mean you wouldn't want to play it that aggressively for your exam but it's a good idea to sort of practice that the difference because and it's also uh moderately loud that's a comparative thing um later on in the piece it gets it gets quicker um i can't see the score actually ahead of me to see if it gets quieter so i i better look hang on so yeah sorry i have to when you're on a computer it's it's difficult isn't it because you have to keep scrolling up and down bar 15 you'll see a crescendo so you need to save yourself so although you can be fairly loud you need to be even louder later on i'm going to talk to you later on when we get to bar 17 especially but above 15 to 17 really really loud part we'll talk about how to increase your volume okay but for today let's just look at this section we're looking at okay so let's look at well bar one is an intro so we've got a count of four and um let's see what the pianist is doing let me move that let's have a listen

okay that's wrong let's try again

so one two three and four...