hello wonderful tale tellers from the world the international breadth and depth of musicianship welcome to the music room and welcome today to twinkle twinkle little star the variations variation a from suzuki book one this is um one of my standard lessons we do several lessons a day and we're going back to revisit these we have already done them so if you've um if you looked at the back catalogue you would have found some other versions of this now what i'd suggest is that you have the cd or that you go to youtube and you look up twinkle twinkle little star suzuki and you listen over and over again or you can just come to me and listen to my versions of course um but when you listen to me you get me talking too so i do lessons really rather than recordings we're going to have livy shortly who's going to play our bass and she's going to be our metronome and a metronome helps us keep time but i'm just going to go over some um some quick instructions so we've got our pinky on this base c so here's your middle c we're going straight down to base c it's one octave lower lower an octave is each section where the notes start again okay so i'll play it through uh it's common time that means four whole beats because we're doing lots of quarter beats in eight beat notes so you've got a lot to fit in in our four beats um that c means common time that's that's telling us that it's four beats to each bar okay and the um the other squirrely thing that's like a backwards c that's telling us we're using the bass clef to read this music and the bass clef generally is from middle c left on the piano okay so i'll just play it through i'll give a bit of instruction no i won't i'll just play it through once and then be aware that after we've played the c we're going to play this g with our second finger so we're going to move up there's going to be a shift there darlings a shift so from this first position we're just going to shift up so that then we've got enough uh we've got some thumb action for this a you see and then we go back down to that two and then to the three and the four and the five but we've got to shift back down do you see we have to do some shifting so that's the hardest thing about this piece so let's put it through

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okay so that's the rough guide now you know what i really like to do i like to play around with it when i when i do my practice sessions it's really good practice uh warm-up session i like to do things like maybe do it really quietly like this do you see how quiet can you get it oh really really daddy which is hard on a yamaha an electric and my um my baby ground comes tomorrow so we'll be able to play these in a much better fashion so really loud

you see i can't get much volume out of that but i do i can do it i can actually turn the uh the volume up i mean that's the beauty of it isn't it

that's fantastic isn't it but then i'm um i can see that i'm overdoing it and the recorder is going red so let's livvy livy could you play some c major arpeggios very nice very nice libby thank you so what we're going to do now we're going to slow it down a bit because i want you to join in okay so let me just play one bar for you

okay so see if we can join in i'll count us in um

and

so

so

there we go how did you get on well look you know what i'm going to do i'm going to run this for a minute or so without my intervention and that'll give you something to practice it too so off you go don't forget you can subscribe on various apps we're all over the internet now with telltale kids um you can also subscribe subscribe on my website and you can find us on facebook we've got a facebook page and a youtube page we're just everywhere everywhere it's fantastic absolutely brilliant and then you'll get um if you sign up you see it's all free everything's free at telltale kids and if you but if you sign up...

hello wonderful tale tellers from the world the international breadth and depth of musicianship welcome to the music room and welcome today to twinkle twinkle little star the variations variation a from suzuki book one this is um one of my standard lessons we do several lessons a day and we're going back to revisit these we have already done them so if you've um if you looked at the back catalogue you would have found some other versions of this now what i'd suggest is that you have the cd or that you go to youtube and you look up twinkle twinkle little star suzuki and you listen over and over again or you can just come to me and listen to my versions of course um but when you listen to me you get me talking too so i do lessons really rather than recordings we're going to have livy shortly who's going to play our bass and she's going to be our metronome and a metronome helps us keep time but i'm just going to go over some um some quick instructions so we've got our pinky on this base c so here's your middle c we're going straight down to base c it's one octave lower lower an octave is each section where the notes start again okay so i'll play it through uh it's common time that means four whole beats because we're doing lots of quarter beats in eight beat notes so you've got a lot to fit in in our four beats um that c means common time that's that's telling us that it's four beats to each bar okay and the um the other squirrely thing that's like a backwards c that's telling us we're using the bass clef to read this music and the bass clef generally is from middle c left on the piano okay so i'll just play it through i'll give a bit of instruction no i won't i'll just play it through once and then be aware that after we've played the c we're going to play this g with our second finger so we're going to move up there's going to be a shift there darlings a shift so from this first position we're just going to shift up so that then we've got enough uh we've got some thumb action for this a you see and then we go back down to that two and then to the three and the four and the five but we've got to shift back down do you see we have to do some shifting so that's the hardest thing about this piece so let's put it through

do

so

so

okay so that's the rough guide now you know what i really like to do i like to play around with it when i when i do my practice sessions it's really good practice uh warm-up session i like to do things like maybe do it really quietly like this do you see how quiet can you get it oh really really daddy which is hard on a yamaha an electric and my um my baby ground comes tomorrow so we'll be able to play these in a much better fashion so really loud

you see i can't get much volume out of that but i do i can do it i can actually turn the uh the volume up i mean that's the beauty of it isn't it

that's fantastic isn't it but then i'm um i can see that i'm overdoing it and the recorder is going red so let's livvy livy could you play some c major arpeggios very nice very nice libby thank you so what we're going to do now we're going to slow it down a bit because i want you to join in okay so let me just play one bar for you

okay so see if we can join in i'll count us in um

and

so

so

there we go how did you get on well look you know what i'm going to do i'm going to run this for a minute or so without my intervention and that'll give you something to practice it too so off you go don't forget you can subscribe on various apps we're all over the internet now with telltale kids um you can also subscribe subscribe on my website and you can find us on facebook we've got a facebook page and a youtube page we're just everywhere everywhere it's fantastic absolutely brilliant and then you'll get um if you sign up you see it's all free everything's free at telltale kids and if you but if you sign up...

A lovely little poem that is perfect for bedtime stories.

winking lincoln and nod by eugene field

read by the english governors winkin blinken and nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew where are you going and what do you wish the old moon asked the three we have come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea nets of silver and gold have we said winkin blinkin and not the old moon laughed and sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe and the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew the little stars were the herring fish that lived in the beautiful sea now cast your nets wherever you wish never afraid are we so cried the stars to the fishermen three winkin blinkin and nod all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam then down from the skies came the wooden shoe bringing the fishermen home it was also pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be and some folk thought it was a dream they dreamed of sailing that beautiful sea but i shall name you the fisherman three winkin blinkin and nod winkin and blinkin are two little eyes and nod is a little head and the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle bed so shut your eyes while mother sings of wonderful sights that be and you shall see the beautiful things as you rock in the misty sea where the old shoe rocked the fisherman's three winking blinking and nod

A lovely little poem that is perfect for bedtime stories.

winking lincoln and nod by eugene field

read by the english governors winkin blinken and nod one night sailed off in a wooden shoe sailed on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew where are you going and what do you wish the old moon asked the three we have come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea nets of silver and gold have we said winkin blinkin and not the old moon laughed and sang a song as they rocked in the wooden shoe and the wind that sped them all night long ruffled the waves of dew the little stars were the herring fish that lived in the beautiful sea now cast your nets wherever you wish never afraid are we so cried the stars to the fishermen three winkin blinkin and nod all night long their nets they threw to the stars in the twinkling foam then down from the skies came the wooden shoe bringing the fishermen home it was also pretty a sail it seemed as if it could not be and some folk thought it was a dream they dreamed of sailing that beautiful sea but i shall name you the fisherman three winkin blinkin and nod winkin and blinkin are two little eyes and nod is a little head and the wooden shoe that sailed the skies is a wee one's trundle bed so shut your eyes while mother sings of wonderful sights that be and you shall see the beautiful things as you rock in the misty sea where the old shoe rocked the fisherman's three winking blinking and nod

Hans in Luck Kate Douglas Wiggin Free Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.

hans in luck from tales of laughter by nora archibald smith and kate douglas wigand 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 tj burns hans had served his master for seven years when he one day said to him master my time is up i want to go home to my mother please give me my wages his master answered you have served me well and faithfully and as the service has been so shall the wages be and he gave him a lump of gold as big as his head hans took out his pocket handkerchief and tied up the gold in it and then slung the bundle over his shoulder and started on his homework journey as he walked along just putting one foot before the other a man on horseback appeared riding gaily and merrily along on his capering steed ah said hans quite loud as he passed what a fine thing riding must be you are as comfortable as if you were in an arm chair you don't stumble over any stones you save your shoes and you get over the road you hardly know how the horseman who heard him stopped and said hello hunts why are you on foot i can't help myself said hans for i have this bundle to carry home it is true that it is a lump of gold but i can hardly hold my head up for it and it weighs down my shoulder frightfully i'll tell you what said the horsemen we will change i will give you my horse and you shall give me your bundle with all my heart said hans but you will be rarely weighted down with it the horseman dismounted took the gold and helped hounce up put the bridle into his hands and said when you want to go very fast you must click your tongue and cry yep yep hans was delighted when he found himself so easily riding along on horseback after a time it occurred to him that he might be going faster and he began to click with his tongue and cry yep yep the horse broke into a gallop and before hunts knew where he was he was thrown off into a ditch which separated the fields from the high road the horse would have run away if a peasant coming along the road leading a cow had not caught it hans felt himself all over and picked himself up but he was very angry and he said to the peasant hiding is poor fun at times when you have a nag like mine which stumbles and throws you and puts you in danger of breaking your neck i will never mount it again i think much more of your cow there you can walk comfortably behind her and you have her milk into the bargain every day as well as butter and cheese what i would not give for a cow like that well said the peasant if you have such a fancy for it as all that i will exchange the cow for the horse hans accepted the offer with delight and the peasant mounted the horse and rode happily off hans drove his cow peacefully on and thought what a lucky bargain he had made if only i have a bit of bread and i don't expect ever to be without it i shall always have butter and cheese to eat with it if i'm thirsty i only have to milk my cow when i have milk to drink my heart what more can you desire when he came to an end he made a halt and in his great joy he ate up all the food he had with him all his dinner and his supper and he gave the last coins he had for half a glass of beer then he went on farther in the direction of his mother's village driving the cow before him the heat was very oppressive and as midday drew near hans found himself on a heath which it took him an hour to cross he was so hot and thirsty that his tongue was parched and clung to the roof of his mouth this can easily be set to rights thought hans i will milk my cow and sup up the milk he tied her to a tree and as he had no pail he used his leather cap instead but try as hard as he liked not a single drop of milk appeared as he was very clumsy in his attempts the impatient animal gave him a severe kick on his forehead with one of her hind legs he was...

Hans in Luck Kate Douglas Wiggin Free Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.

hans in luck from tales of laughter by nora archibald smith and kate douglas wigand 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 tj burns hans had served his master for seven years when he one day said to him master my time is up i want to go home to my mother please give me my wages his master answered you have served me well and faithfully and as the service has been so shall the wages be and he gave him a lump of gold as big as his head hans took out his pocket handkerchief and tied up the gold in it and then slung the bundle over his shoulder and started on his homework journey as he walked along just putting one foot before the other a man on horseback appeared riding gaily and merrily along on his capering steed ah said hans quite loud as he passed what a fine thing riding must be you are as comfortable as if you were in an arm chair you don't stumble over any stones you save your shoes and you get over the road you hardly know how the horseman who heard him stopped and said hello hunts why are you on foot i can't help myself said hans for i have this bundle to carry home it is true that it is a lump of gold but i can hardly hold my head up for it and it weighs down my shoulder frightfully i'll tell you what said the horsemen we will change i will give you my horse and you shall give me your bundle with all my heart said hans but you will be rarely weighted down with it the horseman dismounted took the gold and helped hounce up put the bridle into his hands and said when you want to go very fast you must click your tongue and cry yep yep hans was delighted when he found himself so easily riding along on horseback after a time it occurred to him that he might be going faster and he began to click with his tongue and cry yep yep the horse broke into a gallop and before hunts knew where he was he was thrown off into a ditch which separated the fields from the high road the horse would have run away if a peasant coming along the road leading a cow had not caught it hans felt himself all over and picked himself up but he was very angry and he said to the peasant hiding is poor fun at times when you have a nag like mine which stumbles and throws you and puts you in danger of breaking your neck i will never mount it again i think much more of your cow there you can walk comfortably behind her and you have her milk into the bargain every day as well as butter and cheese what i would not give for a cow like that well said the peasant if you have such a fancy for it as all that i will exchange the cow for the horse hans accepted the offer with delight and the peasant mounted the horse and rode happily off hans drove his cow peacefully on and thought what a lucky bargain he had made if only i have a bit of bread and i don't expect ever to be without it i shall always have butter and cheese to eat with it if i'm thirsty i only have to milk my cow when i have milk to drink my heart what more can you desire when he came to an end he made a halt and in his great joy he ate up all the food he had with him all his dinner and his supper and he gave the last coins he had for half a glass of beer then he went on farther in the direction of his mother's village driving the cow before him the heat was very oppressive and as midday drew near hans found himself on a heath which it took him an hour to cross he was so hot and thirsty that his tongue was parched and clung to the roof of his mouth this can easily be set to rights thought hans i will milk my cow and sup up the milk he tied her to a tree and as he had no pail he used his leather cap instead but try as hard as he liked not a single drop of milk appeared as he was very clumsy in his attempts the impatient animal gave him a severe kick on his forehead with one of her hind legs he was...

The Gray Hare Leo Tolstoy Free Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.

the gray hair by count lev n tolstoy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the gray hair a gray hair was living in the winter near the village when night came he pricked one ear and listened then he pricked a second air moved his whiskers sniffed and sat down on his hind legs then he took a leap or two over the deep snow and again sat down on his hind legs and looked around him nothing could be seen but snow the snow lay in waves and glistened like sugar over the hare's head hovered a frost vapor and through this vapor could be seen the large bright stars the hare had to cross the highway in order to come to a threshing floor he knew of on the highway the runners could be heard squeaking and the horses snorting and seats creaking in the sleighs the hair again stopped near the road peasants were walking beside the sleighs and the collars of their caftans were raised their faces were scarcely visible their beards mustaches and eyelashes were white steam rose from their mouths and noses their horses were sweaty and the [ __ ] frost clung to the sweat the horses jostled under their arches and dived in and out of snowdrifts the peasants ran behind the horses and in front of them and beat them with their whips two peasants walked beside each other and one of them told the other how a horse of his had once been stolen when the carts passed by the hare leaped across the road and softly made for the threshing floor a dog saw the hair from a cart he began to bark and darted after the hair the hair leaped toward the threshing floor over the snow drifts which held him back but the dog stuck fast in the snow after the tenth leap and stopped then the hare too stopped and sat up on his hind legs and then softly went on to the threshing floor on his way he met two other hares on the sewed winter field they were feeding and playing the hare played a while with his companions dug away the frosty snow with them ate the wintergreen and went on in the village everything was quiet the fires were out all one could hear was a baby's cry in a hut and the crackling of the frost in the logs of the cabins the hair went to the threshing floor and there found some companions he played a while with them on the cleared floor ate some oats from the open granary climbed on the kiln over the snow-covered roof and across the wicker fence started back to his ravine the dawn was glimmering in the east the stars grew less and the frost vapors rose more densely from the earth in the nearby village the women got up and went to fetch water the peasants brought the feed from the barn the children shouted and cried there were still more carts going down the road and the peasants talked aloud to each other the hare leaped across the road went up to his old lair picked out a high place dug away the snow lay with his back in his new lair dropped his ears on his back and fell asleep with open eyes

end of the gray hair by count lev and tolstoy read by nemo

The Gray Hare Leo Tolstoy Free Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.

the gray hair by count lev n tolstoy this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the gray hair a gray hair was living in the winter near the village when night came he pricked one ear and listened then he pricked a second air moved his whiskers sniffed and sat down on his hind legs then he took a leap or two over the deep snow and again sat down on his hind legs and looked around him nothing could be seen but snow the snow lay in waves and glistened like sugar over the hare's head hovered a frost vapor and through this vapor could be seen the large bright stars the hare had to cross the highway in order to come to a threshing floor he knew of on the highway the runners could be heard squeaking and the horses snorting and seats creaking in the sleighs the hair again stopped near the road peasants were walking beside the sleighs and the collars of their caftans were raised their faces were scarcely visible their beards mustaches and eyelashes were white steam rose from their mouths and noses their horses were sweaty and the [ __ ] frost clung to the sweat the horses jostled under their arches and dived in and out of snowdrifts the peasants ran behind the horses and in front of them and beat them with their whips two peasants walked beside each other and one of them told the other how a horse of his had once been stolen when the carts passed by the hare leaped across the road and softly made for the threshing floor a dog saw the hair from a cart he began to bark and darted after the hair the hair leaped toward the threshing floor over the snow drifts which held him back but the dog stuck fast in the snow after the tenth leap and stopped then the hare too stopped and sat up on his hind legs and then softly went on to the threshing floor on his way he met two other hares on the sewed winter field they were feeding and playing the hare played a while with his companions dug away the frosty snow with them ate the wintergreen and went on in the village everything was quiet the fires were out all one could hear was a baby's cry in a hut and the crackling of the frost in the logs of the cabins the hair went to the threshing floor and there found some companions he played a while with them on the cleared floor ate some oats from the open granary climbed on the kiln over the snow-covered roof and across the wicker fence started back to his ravine the dawn was glimmering in the east the stars grew less and the frost vapors rose more densely from the earth in the nearby village the women got up and went to fetch water the peasants brought the feed from the barn the children shouted and cried there were still more carts going down the road and the peasants talked aloud to each other the hare leaped across the road went up to his old lair picked out a high place dug away the snow lay with his back in his new lair dropped his ears on his back and fell asleep with open eyes

end of the gray hair by count lev and tolstoy read by nemo

Clara Barton Mary Stoyell Stimpson Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.
clara barton by mary stojell stimson this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libravox.org clara barton it was on the brightest sunniest kind of a christmas morning nearly 100 years ago that clara barton was born in the state of massachusetts besides the parents there were two grown up sisters and two big brothers to pet the new baby there was plenty of love and plenty of money in the barton household so the child knew nothing but happiness clara was a bright little thing as she grew old enough to walk and talk she followed the family about repeating all their words and phrases like a parrot she was not sure as to the meaning of all these words but she liked the sound of them her father who had fought in the french and indian wars had a fondness for the rules and forms that are used among soldiers he taught her the names and rank of army officers also the name of the united states president the vice president and members of the president's cabinet clara's eyes looked so big and her voice was so solemn when she babbled these names that her mother asked her one day what she thought these men look like oh gasped clara papa always says the great president so i guess he's almost a giant i guess the president is as big as the meeting house and probably the vice president is the size of the schoolhouse the schoolteacher sisters were busy with clara so that she was reading and spelling almost as soon as she could talk one of these gave her a geography and clara was so excited over it that she used to wake this poor sister up long before daylight and make her hold a candle close to the maps so that she could find rivers mountains and cities stephen barton the older brother was a wonder in arithmetic it was he who taught clara how to add subtract multiply and divide she made such good figures and so often had the examples right that she enjoyed her little slate next best to riding horseback with her brother david david did not care much for study but did like farm work and horses he taught clara to ride and the two used to gallop across the country at a mad pace she felt as safe on the back of a horse as in a rocking chair she did not look much larger than a doll when the neighbors first noticed her dashing by on the back of a colt which were neither saddle nor bridal clinging to the animal's mane keeping close to david's horse and laughing with joy sometimes button the white dog tore along after them trying his best to keep up with them button belonged to clara he had taken care of her when she was a baby and very gravely picked her up each time she fell in the days when she was learning to walk stephen and david went to a school that was several miles away they wanted to take clara with them it was one of the old-fashioned ungraded schools and the pupils were all ages the snow drifts were high and stephen carried clara on his shoulder clara sat very quiet with her slate until the primer class was called then she stepped before the teacher with the other little ones the serious man pointed to the letters of different words for each child then he asked them to spell short words like dog and cat when claire was asked to do the same she smiled at the teacher and said but i do not spell there where do you spell he inquired i spell in artichoke she answered looking very dignified in that case he laughed i think you belong with the scholars who spell in three and four syllables so after that she spelled in the class of her big brothers when clara was 12 she was very shy of strangers and her parents thought it might help her to get over it if she went away from home to school in new york she was a bright pupil and decided she would like to be a teacher like her two sisters clara made an excellent teacher but was not very well and went to washington dc to work while there...

Clara Barton Mary Stoyell Stimpson Kids Audio Book Short Story Public Domain.
clara barton by mary stojell stimson this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit libravox.org clara barton it was on the brightest sunniest kind of a christmas morning nearly 100 years ago that clara barton was born in the state of massachusetts besides the parents there were two grown up sisters and two big brothers to pet the new baby there was plenty of love and plenty of money in the barton household so the child knew nothing but happiness clara was a bright little thing as she grew old enough to walk and talk she followed the family about repeating all their words and phrases like a parrot she was not sure as to the meaning of all these words but she liked the sound of them her father who had fought in the french and indian wars had a fondness for the rules and forms that are used among soldiers he taught her the names and rank of army officers also the name of the united states president the vice president and members of the president's cabinet clara's eyes looked so big and her voice was so solemn when she babbled these names that her mother asked her one day what she thought these men look like oh gasped clara papa always says the great president so i guess he's almost a giant i guess the president is as big as the meeting house and probably the vice president is the size of the schoolhouse the schoolteacher sisters were busy with clara so that she was reading and spelling almost as soon as she could talk one of these gave her a geography and clara was so excited over it that she used to wake this poor sister up long before daylight and make her hold a candle close to the maps so that she could find rivers mountains and cities stephen barton the older brother was a wonder in arithmetic it was he who taught clara how to add subtract multiply and divide she made such good figures and so often had the examples right that she enjoyed her little slate next best to riding horseback with her brother david david did not care much for study but did like farm work and horses he taught clara to ride and the two used to gallop across the country at a mad pace she felt as safe on the back of a horse as in a rocking chair she did not look much larger than a doll when the neighbors first noticed her dashing by on the back of a colt which were neither saddle nor bridal clinging to the animal's mane keeping close to david's horse and laughing with joy sometimes button the white dog tore along after them trying his best to keep up with them button belonged to clara he had taken care of her when she was a baby and very gravely picked her up each time she fell in the days when she was learning to walk stephen and david went to a school that was several miles away they wanted to take clara with them it was one of the old-fashioned ungraded schools and the pupils were all ages the snow drifts were high and stephen carried clara on his shoulder clara sat very quiet with her slate until the primer class was called then she stepped before the teacher with the other little ones the serious man pointed to the letters of different words for each child then he asked them to spell short words like dog and cat when claire was asked to do the same she smiled at the teacher and said but i do not spell there where do you spell he inquired i spell in artichoke she answered looking very dignified in that case he laughed i think you belong with the scholars who spell in three and four syllables so after that she spelled in the class of her big brothers when clara was 12 she was very shy of strangers and her parents thought it might help her to get over it if she went away from home to school in new york she was a bright pupil and decided she would like to be a teacher like her two sisters clara made an excellent teacher but was not very well and went to washington dc to work while there...