Bulka Leo Tolstoy Children's Short Works Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain

Bulka Leo Tolstoy Children's Short Works Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain

hello tellers and mini jazz players and anyone else who's popped by to the performing arts free school welcome to my uh little nightly class um i'm going to work through lots of exercises in the coming weeks and these are exercises and tips and tricks and things that are going to really benefit you not just if you're a jazz improv student of mine or if you're um you know working with the blues or if you're improvising or any of that although it's very helpful and uh or a necessity actually let's face it this is also really good if you're just a plain old classical musician and if you're doing any of the graded exams you're doing suzuki whatever it is that you're doing these are really really good classes to um just you know give it some advantage really but the other thing about these warm-ups is they're really useful for sounding pretty good you sound pretty good pretty quick that's very important for the neighbors i think so what are we going to do we're going to do a flowing arpeggio a sweep of the keys we'll do it really slowly i don't recommend that you speed these things up for a very long time because when you start rushing you make mistakes and what happens is when you learn a mistake when you do it more than once or twice or three times it becomes so ingrained you can't get rid of it so we're going to start well i've got a quite a small yamaha a yamaha what is it an e353 my baby crayon baby ground arrives thursday apparently it's been delayed in bath but anyway i'm digressing um so i haven't got that many octaves i've got my middle c and then uh two other c's and then i've got three uh in the other direction so for today that's i'm afraid that's the best i can do but hope uh you know one would hope that you've got a bigger keyboard than i if you only get one you can do it with one you can just um repeat rather than doing the sweep you can just repeat as i go up and down the keyboard okay so i'm not going to hold having a small one against you whatsoever we can make do we all do we all make do us musicians so let's start on whatever c you've got i'm starting two octaves to the left of middle c and i want you to spread your whole hand out to the next c now if you're a little person you may or may not be able to manage that if you can't reach you're just going to have to move and you know sometimes small hands are a bit of a hindrance to pianists and cellists actually um and we just have to work ways around uh the problem of distance and often that means shifting we have to be shifty shifty little characters that's what we have to be if we have small um digits so um let's let's start on that base c and then i want you to play your e with your third or fourth whichever is more comfortable personally i use my third on the e and then the second with the g and we've got this big scoop in our hands look it's rather generous spacing that means we can miss two notes out now and we can go back to the c well not back to the c where it's another c so let me play that um that's familiar isn't it yes of course it is because it's the third fifth and root note and this is so much music today is made up of those chords but we'll talk about that another time so c e g c c e g c

okay now i want you to practice that over and over and over again and be nice and fluid about it make sure your pinky and your thirds or your fourth uh are pressing nicely and evenly and you can play the whole chord if you like but now what we're going to do this is something really oh it's quite exciting a bit of a new thing we're going to come over with our third and play that e again now what happened there your pinkies landed on the c don't play it but look you're in perfect position to play the arpeggio an octave higher that's how does that work when you're putting your third over well think about it

it makes perfect sense so if we came over with our fifth

that would be really difficult and clumsy so we don't we come over...

hello tellers and mini jazz players and anyone else who's popped by to the performing arts free school welcome to my uh little nightly class um i'm going to work through lots of exercises in the coming weeks and these are exercises and tips and tricks and things that are going to really benefit you not just if you're a jazz improv student of mine or if you're um you know working with the blues or if you're improvising or any of that although it's very helpful and uh or a necessity actually let's face it this is also really good if you're just a plain old classical musician and if you're doing any of the graded exams you're doing suzuki whatever it is that you're doing these are really really good classes to um just you know give it some advantage really but the other thing about these warm-ups is they're really useful for sounding pretty good you sound pretty good pretty quick that's very important for the neighbors i think so what are we going to do we're going to do a flowing arpeggio a sweep of the keys we'll do it really slowly i don't recommend that you speed these things up for a very long time because when you start rushing you make mistakes and what happens is when you learn a mistake when you do it more than once or twice or three times it becomes so ingrained you can't get rid of it so we're going to start well i've got a quite a small yamaha a yamaha what is it an e353 my baby crayon baby ground arrives thursday apparently it's been delayed in bath but anyway i'm digressing um so i haven't got that many octaves i've got my middle c and then uh two other c's and then i've got three uh in the other direction so for today that's i'm afraid that's the best i can do but hope uh you know one would hope that you've got a bigger keyboard than i if you only get one you can do it with one you can just um repeat rather than doing the sweep you can just repeat as i go up and down the keyboard okay so i'm not going to hold having a small one against you whatsoever we can make do we all do we all make do us musicians so let's start on whatever c you've got i'm starting two octaves to the left of middle c and i want you to spread your whole hand out to the next c now if you're a little person you may or may not be able to manage that if you can't reach you're just going to have to move and you know sometimes small hands are a bit of a hindrance to pianists and cellists actually um and we just have to work ways around uh the problem of distance and often that means shifting we have to be shifty shifty little characters that's what we have to be if we have small um digits so um let's let's start on that base c and then i want you to play your e with your third or fourth whichever is more comfortable personally i use my third on the e and then the second with the g and we've got this big scoop in our hands look it's rather generous spacing that means we can miss two notes out now and we can go back to the c well not back to the c where it's another c so let me play that um that's familiar isn't it yes of course it is because it's the third fifth and root note and this is so much music today is made up of those chords but we'll talk about that another time so c e g c c e g c

okay now i want you to practice that over and over and over again and be nice and fluid about it make sure your pinky and your thirds or your fourth uh are pressing nicely and evenly and you can play the whole chord if you like but now what we're going to do this is something really oh it's quite exciting a bit of a new thing we're going to come over with our third and play that e again now what happened there your pinkies landed on the c don't play it but look you're in perfect position to play the arpeggio an octave higher that's how does that work when you're putting your third over well think about it

it makes perfect sense so if we came over with our fifth

that would be really difficult and clumsy so we don't we come over...

hello everybody welcome to um a little exercise session we're working this week at the performance arts free school on establishing a really good practice routine and actually fundamentally your practice for any instrument doesn't really change very much over the years you still have to keep dexterous you still have to keep your wing your finger your wings even but your fingers working you still have to warm up and there are certain exercises that you you're going to find useful all of your life especially for the warm up really the only difference is that you're going to become really really quick at them so today i've got uh two little podcasts this is the first one and i'm going to show you a little way of warming up and this is a preliminary exercise for the arpeggios that we're going to be doing later so what i want you to do is i want to get you to get your pinky and play it put it play the c an octave after middle c hopefully your piano is big enough and you have that octave um i know some people join me and they have you know very small pianos but hopefully you've got that you can play hopefully chords at least an octave on pretty much any piano that i've seen um so even if you don't have a piano but you've you know maybe your kids have got one you could use theirs so c hopefully an octave uh to your left of middle c but whatever you've got because we can play it up here you can also play it up here you can play it down here wherever but i'm going to use this one so and i want you to play your c your e and your g but look i want you to do it a bit a bit differently i don't want you to play five three thumb i want you to play five three one okay why am i asking you to do that well that's because when you play an arpeggio we're going to use our thumb for something else but we're not doing that today this is a warm-up exercise that you will hopefully hold on to for the rest of your days as a pianist so we're going to play that try add with three fingers down all at once okay and now separately

together separately

okay it could come back down again but we'll talk about that in a minute and now what i want you to do is move everything up one note now that was a c major triad by the way now if you move everything up a note

it sounds different doesn't it that's because it's a minor it's a d minor triad listen to that again

it's a rattling i think uh it's my glasses i think let's try this again

yes my glasses so let's do that again properly c major tread d minor tread is something different isn't there in the third some different quality about it let's move up another note everything move to the right so now we're on a g an e a g and a b it's another minor it's an e minor e minor tread or e minor chord

let's move up one more to the f ah we're back to majors can you hear it slightly um it's all in the third is that slightly uh um brighter more um whoa here i am sort of sound and it's all to do with that third what it means is the space between the thirds and the first has an extra semitone okay now we're going to go up again towards i'd say my window but you don't actually know where my window is so up coming up towards middle c and this tried this is a g major triad some another major

let's play it separately g b d wonderful now let's come up again ah it's that minor isn't it can you hear it really tell when you when you do all this you know one after the other okay and now we're going to come up another one and this chord is called b minor diminished don't worry about y at the moment just is and then if we come up one more we're back to c

okay let's do that again so what i want you to do is play the chord and then play the three notes and go to the d and then come up to the e and up to the f major

up to the g major up to the a minor

and up to the b diminished okay and then we're back at c again and when we...

hello everybody welcome to um a little exercise session we're working this week at the performance arts free school on establishing a really good practice routine and actually fundamentally your practice for any instrument doesn't really change very much over the years you still have to keep dexterous you still have to keep your wing your finger your wings even but your fingers working you still have to warm up and there are certain exercises that you you're going to find useful all of your life especially for the warm up really the only difference is that you're going to become really really quick at them so today i've got uh two little podcasts this is the first one and i'm going to show you a little way of warming up and this is a preliminary exercise for the arpeggios that we're going to be doing later so what i want you to do is i want to get you to get your pinky and play it put it play the c an octave after middle c hopefully your piano is big enough and you have that octave um i know some people join me and they have you know very small pianos but hopefully you've got that you can play hopefully chords at least an octave on pretty much any piano that i've seen um so even if you don't have a piano but you've you know maybe your kids have got one you could use theirs so c hopefully an octave uh to your left of middle c but whatever you've got because we can play it up here you can also play it up here you can play it down here wherever but i'm going to use this one so and i want you to play your c your e and your g but look i want you to do it a bit a bit differently i don't want you to play five three thumb i want you to play five three one okay why am i asking you to do that well that's because when you play an arpeggio we're going to use our thumb for something else but we're not doing that today this is a warm-up exercise that you will hopefully hold on to for the rest of your days as a pianist so we're going to play that try add with three fingers down all at once okay and now separately

together separately

okay it could come back down again but we'll talk about that in a minute and now what i want you to do is move everything up one note now that was a c major triad by the way now if you move everything up a note

it sounds different doesn't it that's because it's a minor it's a d minor triad listen to that again

it's a rattling i think uh it's my glasses i think let's try this again

yes my glasses so let's do that again properly c major tread d minor tread is something different isn't there in the third some different quality about it let's move up another note everything move to the right so now we're on a g an e a g and a b it's another minor it's an e minor e minor tread or e minor chord

let's move up one more to the f ah we're back to majors can you hear it slightly um it's all in the third is that slightly uh um brighter more um whoa here i am sort of sound and it's all to do with that third what it means is the space between the thirds and the first has an extra semitone okay now we're going to go up again towards i'd say my window but you don't actually know where my window is so up coming up towards middle c and this tried this is a g major triad some another major

let's play it separately g b d wonderful now let's come up again ah it's that minor isn't it can you hear it really tell when you when you do all this you know one after the other okay and now we're going to come up another one and this chord is called b minor diminished don't worry about y at the moment just is and then if we come up one more we're back to c

okay let's do that again so what i want you to do is play the chord and then play the three notes and go to the d and then come up to the e and up to the f major

up to the g major up to the a minor

and up to the b diminished okay and then we're back at c again and when we...

Daily improv tools with the Tale Teller


hello tail tellers and mini jazz players and mini blues players welcome to the performing arts free school um now then let me see how are we going to start well i tell you what we're going to spend the next 12 days working on 12 blues scales okay and they're so easy they're so easy and they're going to allow you to improvise really really easily now if you don't know i'm doing the mini jazz classes grade one abrsm um piano uh book we're working through that and this blues scale is going to help you make beautiful music for your solo parts in your exams but we don't have to do all that exam stuff we don't want to we can just do it for our own pleasure these wonderful scales are going to help you make beautiful beautiful music and you're going to be able to make it up as you go along and that's just fantastic because you'll impress even yourself your biggest critic critic is yourself no doubt so let's start with middle c and then we're going to play an e flat with our second finger and an f natural with our third and then we're going to play an f sharp with our fourth okay go do that for me c e flat f f sharp back down uh let's start with the f sharp f sharp f natural e flat c okay don't worry i'm going to give you a backing track in a minute and you can play around and improvise yourselves it's really great fun and then rather than play the g with our pinky we're going to pass our thumb under and we're going to play thumb on the g section of the b flat and third on the c now there are lots and lots of different ways of um you know mapping out how your scales and and the fingering that you're going to use but this is the fingering we're going to use today okay and this is i think the best for our purposes for the time being that doesn't mean to say you'll be doing this all the time because when you get more advanced you become a little bit more uh flexible and you have to sometimes stretch your hand about the place so let's try that all in one go c e flat f f sharp thumb under g b flat c back down again b flat g f sharp f natural e flat and c okay one more time

okay so don't forget to pass your your fourth finger over now let's try it from the middle c

a mirror version okay and then we're going to come back again i'll explain why we're doing this mirror version in a minute

now i just think it's going to be much more useful for us to start that c down there with our third finger so c base c e flat f

f sharp with your fourth g with your third b flat with your second and thumb on that c okay under back up fourth over okay how did you get on well that's it but i do think it's beneficial to go up and down okay so when you're practicing mix it up a bit start on the c and go outwards and then start on the c's and go upwards and back down again whatever you whatever you want to do and as long as you stick to those notes you're going to be absolutely fine so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to get one of my robots to play a c minor backing track with a bass um should we have libby libby is one of my robots okay now you can play double time so you can do one two three four one two three four one two three four or you can speed it up etc entirely up to you but i'm going to let that run and i recommend you practice as as long as you can have some fun with it and we'll be back tomorrow with d flat the d flat minor but we've got some other classes coming up in a minute for the bedford views if you're interested do do

do

do

okay guys i hope that was really really helpful and um yeah just open go keep going back and doing more of the same and then of course you can improvise and you can do these in any order that you want

okay have some fun with it it's great isn't it enjoy

Daily improv tools with the Tale Teller


hello tail tellers and mini jazz players and mini blues players welcome to the performing arts free school um now then let me see how are we going to start well i tell you what we're going to spend the next 12 days working on 12 blues scales okay and they're so easy they're so easy and they're going to allow you to improvise really really easily now if you don't know i'm doing the mini jazz classes grade one abrsm um piano uh book we're working through that and this blues scale is going to help you make beautiful music for your solo parts in your exams but we don't have to do all that exam stuff we don't want to we can just do it for our own pleasure these wonderful scales are going to help you make beautiful beautiful music and you're going to be able to make it up as you go along and that's just fantastic because you'll impress even yourself your biggest critic critic is yourself no doubt so let's start with middle c and then we're going to play an e flat with our second finger and an f natural with our third and then we're going to play an f sharp with our fourth okay go do that for me c e flat f f sharp back down uh let's start with the f sharp f sharp f natural e flat c okay don't worry i'm going to give you a backing track in a minute and you can play around and improvise yourselves it's really great fun and then rather than play the g with our pinky we're going to pass our thumb under and we're going to play thumb on the g section of the b flat and third on the c now there are lots and lots of different ways of um you know mapping out how your scales and and the fingering that you're going to use but this is the fingering we're going to use today okay and this is i think the best for our purposes for the time being that doesn't mean to say you'll be doing this all the time because when you get more advanced you become a little bit more uh flexible and you have to sometimes stretch your hand about the place so let's try that all in one go c e flat f f sharp thumb under g b flat c back down again b flat g f sharp f natural e flat and c okay one more time

okay so don't forget to pass your your fourth finger over now let's try it from the middle c

a mirror version okay and then we're going to come back again i'll explain why we're doing this mirror version in a minute

now i just think it's going to be much more useful for us to start that c down there with our third finger so c base c e flat f

f sharp with your fourth g with your third b flat with your second and thumb on that c okay under back up fourth over okay how did you get on well that's it but i do think it's beneficial to go up and down okay so when you're practicing mix it up a bit start on the c and go outwards and then start on the c's and go upwards and back down again whatever you whatever you want to do and as long as you stick to those notes you're going to be absolutely fine so what i'm going to do now is i'm going to get one of my robots to play a c minor backing track with a bass um should we have libby libby is one of my robots okay now you can play double time so you can do one two three four one two three four one two three four or you can speed it up etc entirely up to you but i'm going to let that run and i recommend you practice as as long as you can have some fun with it and we'll be back tomorrow with d flat the d flat minor but we've got some other classes coming up in a minute for the bedford views if you're interested do do

do

do

okay guys i hope that was really really helpful and um yeah just open go keep going back and doing more of the same and then of course you can improvise and you can do these in any order that you want

okay have some fun with it it's great isn't it enjoy

hello tellers and mini jazz players and anyone else who's popped by to the performing arts free school welcome to my uh little nightly class um i'm going to work through lots of exercises in the coming weeks and these are exercises and tips and tricks and things that are going to really benefit you not just if you're a jazz improv student of mine or if you're um you know working with the blues or if you're improvising or any of that although it's very helpful and uh or a necessity actually let's face it this is also really good if you're just a plain old classical musician and if you're doing any of the graded exams you're doing suzuki whatever it is that you're doing these are really really good classes to um just you know give it some advantage really but the other thing about these warm-ups is they're really useful for sounding pretty good you sound pretty good pretty quick that's very important for the neighbors i think so what are we going to do we're going to do a flowing arpeggio a sweep of the keys we'll do it really slowly i don't recommend that you speed these things up for a very long time because when you start rushing you make mistakes and what happens is when you learn a mistake when you do it more than once or twice or three times it becomes so ingrained you can't get rid of it so we're going to start well i've got a quite a small yamaha a yamaha what is it an e353 my baby crayon baby ground arrives thursday apparently it's been delayed in bath but anyway i'm digressing um so i haven't got that many octaves i've got my middle c and then uh two other c's and then i've got three uh in the other direction so for today that's i'm afraid that's the best i can do but hope uh you know one would hope that you've got a bigger keyboard than i if you only get one you can do it with one you can just um repeat rather than doing the sweep you can just repeat as i go up and down the keyboard okay so i'm not going to hold having a small one against you whatsoever we can make do we all do we all make do us musicians so let's start on whatever c you've got i'm starting two octaves to the left of middle c and i want you to spread your whole hand out to the next c now if you're a little person you may or may not be able to manage that if you can't reach you're just going to have to move and you know sometimes small hands are a bit of a hindrance to pianists and cellists actually um and we just have to work ways around uh the problem of distance and often that means shifting we have to be shifty shifty little characters that's what we have to be if we have small um digits so um let's let's start on that base c and then i want you to play your e with your third or fourth whichever is more comfortable personally i use my third on the e and then the second with the g and we've got this big scoop in our hands look it's rather generous spacing that means we can miss two notes out now and we can go back to the c well not back to the c where it's another c so let me play that um that's familiar isn't it yes of course it is because it's the third fifth and root note and this is so much music today is made up of those chords but we'll talk about that another time so c e g c c e g c

okay now i want you to practice that over and over and over again and be nice and fluid about it make sure your pinky and your thirds or your fourth uh are pressing nicely and evenly and you can play the whole chord if you like but now what we're going to do this is something really oh it's quite exciting a bit of a new thing we're going to come over with our third and play that e again now what happened there your pinkies landed on the c don't play it but look you're in perfect position to play the arpeggio an octave higher that's how does that work when you're putting your third over well think about it

it makes perfect sense so if we came over with our fifth

that would be really difficult and clumsy so we don't we come over...

hello tellers and mini jazz players and anyone else who's popped by to the performing arts free school welcome to my uh little nightly class um i'm going to work through lots of exercises in the coming weeks and these are exercises and tips and tricks and things that are going to really benefit you not just if you're a jazz improv student of mine or if you're um you know working with the blues or if you're improvising or any of that although it's very helpful and uh or a necessity actually let's face it this is also really good if you're just a plain old classical musician and if you're doing any of the graded exams you're doing suzuki whatever it is that you're doing these are really really good classes to um just you know give it some advantage really but the other thing about these warm-ups is they're really useful for sounding pretty good you sound pretty good pretty quick that's very important for the neighbors i think so what are we going to do we're going to do a flowing arpeggio a sweep of the keys we'll do it really slowly i don't recommend that you speed these things up for a very long time because when you start rushing you make mistakes and what happens is when you learn a mistake when you do it more than once or twice or three times it becomes so ingrained you can't get rid of it so we're going to start well i've got a quite a small yamaha a yamaha what is it an e353 my baby crayon baby ground arrives thursday apparently it's been delayed in bath but anyway i'm digressing um so i haven't got that many octaves i've got my middle c and then uh two other c's and then i've got three uh in the other direction so for today that's i'm afraid that's the best i can do but hope uh you know one would hope that you've got a bigger keyboard than i if you only get one you can do it with one you can just um repeat rather than doing the sweep you can just repeat as i go up and down the keyboard okay so i'm not going to hold having a small one against you whatsoever we can make do we all do we all make do us musicians so let's start on whatever c you've got i'm starting two octaves to the left of middle c and i want you to spread your whole hand out to the next c now if you're a little person you may or may not be able to manage that if you can't reach you're just going to have to move and you know sometimes small hands are a bit of a hindrance to pianists and cellists actually um and we just have to work ways around uh the problem of distance and often that means shifting we have to be shifty shifty little characters that's what we have to be if we have small um digits so um let's let's start on that base c and then i want you to play your e with your third or fourth whichever is more comfortable personally i use my third on the e and then the second with the g and we've got this big scoop in our hands look it's rather generous spacing that means we can miss two notes out now and we can go back to the c well not back to the c where it's another c so let me play that um that's familiar isn't it yes of course it is because it's the third fifth and root note and this is so much music today is made up of those chords but we'll talk about that another time so c e g c c e g c

okay now i want you to practice that over and over and over again and be nice and fluid about it make sure your pinky and your thirds or your fourth uh are pressing nicely and evenly and you can play the whole chord if you like but now what we're going to do this is something really oh it's quite exciting a bit of a new thing we're going to come over with our third and play that e again now what happened there your pinkies landed on the c don't play it but look you're in perfect position to play the arpeggio an octave higher that's how does that work when you're putting your third over well think about it

it makes perfect sense so if we came over with our fifth

that would be really difficult and clumsy so we don't we come over...