high tide tellers welcome to d major abrsm um scales book i recommend you learn them by memory i think you have to for the exam anyway um i'd like to welcome daniel who's playing uh the d major arpeggio on guitar in the background that's going to help us keep in tune on our cellos so i'll call out the note names and the fingering d open first finger down for the e

third finger down for the f sharp keep all these fingers down as you go fourth finger on the g

string swap and as you swap strings move your fingers over because you're going to play notes on this string open a first down b c sharp third down and then hit d with your four

come back again your fingers should all be in the right place because you've just played them three on the c sharp b as you're playing the a move your hand across for the g the fourth the f sharp with your third first with the e and the open d okay so

now i recommend you play long bows when you've got time and things aren't pressing that you exaggerate everything and play from the right from the frog all the way really slowly right up to the very very tip and then play the next note it's really good for getting that tone correct making sure that your bow is perpendicular but when you um are pressed for time use the sort of middle section the middle third to play these um and obviously when you get really good you'll be able to pick up a bit of speed but really rushing them is not going to help you know you learn things so now that was a different bow um but that was a separate bone pattern so down up down up down up it was starting down and the other pattern is the slurred so we have a down bow an up bow a down bow an upbow etc we've got to come back down again so you need to practice both ways very important get really good at both of them and be supremely confident in both patterns okay because you don't know what the examiner's going to answer with you but anyway even if you're not doing this in the exam it's it's really just very useful so i'll play um well i'll keep daniel going for a bit um so you can practice without me and then i'll be back shortly with the a minor

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high tide tellers welcome to d major abrsm um scales book i recommend you learn them by memory i think you have to for the exam anyway um i'd like to welcome daniel who's playing uh the d major arpeggio on guitar in the background that's going to help us keep in tune on our cellos so i'll call out the note names and the fingering d open first finger down for the e

third finger down for the f sharp keep all these fingers down as you go fourth finger on the g

string swap and as you swap strings move your fingers over because you're going to play notes on this string open a first down b c sharp third down and then hit d with your four

come back again your fingers should all be in the right place because you've just played them three on the c sharp b as you're playing the a move your hand across for the g the fourth the f sharp with your third first with the e and the open d okay so

now i recommend you play long bows when you've got time and things aren't pressing that you exaggerate everything and play from the right from the frog all the way really slowly right up to the very very tip and then play the next note it's really good for getting that tone correct making sure that your bow is perpendicular but when you um are pressed for time use the sort of middle section the middle third to play these um and obviously when you get really good you'll be able to pick up a bit of speed but really rushing them is not going to help you know you learn things so now that was a different bow um but that was a separate bone pattern so down up down up down up it was starting down and the other pattern is the slurred so we have a down bow an up bow a down bow an upbow etc we've got to come back down again so you need to practice both ways very important get really good at both of them and be supremely confident in both patterns okay because you don't know what the examiner's going to answer with you but anyway even if you're not doing this in the exam it's it's really just very useful so i'll play um well i'll keep daniel going for a bit um so you can practice without me and then i'll be back shortly with the a minor

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hi child hellos welcome to grade one scales and arpeggios um for the abrsm course you don't oh these are not just for people during the exam of course we all need to know our skills and are likely to learn them by memory okay so we're going to do a g major so

get yourself ready i'm going to call out the fingering and the note names so open uh open g

one down for the a three down for the b four down for the c keep all those fingers down while you're doing this don't don't be lifting fingers up make sure you're you're in full position there four on the c open d now lift the fingers move across e with your first f sharp with your third and fourth on the g and then back down again three on the f sharp your fingers should already be there three and then sharp one on the e open d move across to the next string four in the c three on the b one on the a open g okay

okay those are the notes now the pattern the separate bows um that's pretty self-explanatory what i'd um

recommend is that you aim for uh when you're when you're practicing you're learning about a third of the row but start in the middle so don't give you know don't make things difficult around about the middle certainly the middle sort of third the sludge is a little bit harder so we've got to do two notes per bow so coming up the scale

different bow different string

okay so it's quite a lot to sort of think about there um but i i think you can probably figure this out can't you so that's it that's all you've got to do but what i do recommend is that you learn it by heart and that you're nice and steady and you're nice and smooth okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to uh keep the tape on for grayson and i'll turn that up a bit and this is a really good opportunity for you to practice with a backing track it's just so useful

okay guys i hope that was enough um i'm going to do the d major next and then the a minor natural

hi child hellos welcome to grade one scales and arpeggios um for the abrsm course you don't oh these are not just for people during the exam of course we all need to know our skills and are likely to learn them by memory okay so we're going to do a g major so

get yourself ready i'm going to call out the fingering and the note names so open uh open g

one down for the a three down for the b four down for the c keep all those fingers down while you're doing this don't don't be lifting fingers up make sure you're you're in full position there four on the c open d now lift the fingers move across e with your first f sharp with your third and fourth on the g and then back down again three on the f sharp your fingers should already be there three and then sharp one on the e open d move across to the next string four in the c three on the b one on the a open g okay

okay those are the notes now the pattern the separate bows um that's pretty self-explanatory what i'd um

recommend is that you aim for uh when you're when you're practicing you're learning about a third of the row but start in the middle so don't give you know don't make things difficult around about the middle certainly the middle sort of third the sludge is a little bit harder so we've got to do two notes per bow so coming up the scale

different bow different string

okay so it's quite a lot to sort of think about there um but i i think you can probably figure this out can't you so that's it that's all you've got to do but what i do recommend is that you learn it by heart and that you're nice and steady and you're nice and smooth okay so what i'm going to do is i'm going to uh keep the tape on for grayson and i'll turn that up a bit and this is a really good opportunity for you to practice with a backing track it's just so useful

okay guys i hope that was enough um i'm going to do the d major next and then the a minor natural

Claudine is on guitar and Sarnia is on piano for this free lesson

hello tail tellers welcome to another wonderful wonderful suzuki free class from the uh tale teller club also if if you just want all the lessons in the classes you can go to my other podcast of course which is the performing arts free school but if if you're happy with this one we've got lots of stories and things like that as well and it's a bit more broad i suppose so we're going to look at the second study for right hand today and it's really exciting because we're doing this thing right where we're going all the way up and all the way back down and it's just it really makes you feel like you've almost done a complete song so it's it's very exciting um everyone's welcome to these classes by the way um they're directed really for children which is why i talk very simply but if you're grown up you are welcome too and you must um just concentrate and don't be distracted by adult things um like you know the laundry and stuff like that so claudine would you play um a c major arpeggio please now the reason i'm asking claudine to play c major is because the piece is in c major and it's really useful for us to hear what c major sounds like as we're playing and we're all about really improving our ears here at telltale club we're doing lots of jazz improv and stuff like that too um but this glass is specifically for the suzuki method actually do you know what is really useful for everybody and what's so great about suzuki method is they tell you the names uh they tell you the fingering so it's quite hard to go wrong and there's also a lot of repeating of the same note so it's really good for adults and children actually um so everybody's welcome so let's have a look now i told you the other day or yeah or earlier today about the big scrolly treble clef which means we're on the right side of the piano from from about middle c we're actually going to start on this seat today you can see it's it's quite a long way from middle c a whole eight notes up um it's common time that's what that c means every always always when you're reading music it's a bit the same bit like uh reading aloud always peruse the sentence ahead of you so that you know what's coming and do not rush this is key to reading music there's no need to rush until the performance and even um seasoned professionals do not practice at full speed until the very end okay so we're gonna keep this nice and slow for now obviously you would want to speed up when you start to get really really good but we're not really good yet so why speed up why rush such a wonderful thing and we're going to be playing these notes the c the d the e the f the g the f e the d the c can you do that let's see the d the either f the g the f e the d the c fabulous and we're going to be using the one two three four five four three two one fingers the one two three four five four three two one fingers nothing too difficult but what's really exciting is we're starting on a c we're going all the way up to the g and we're coming all the way back down to the c and when you come back down to what's called the root note that's the keynote we're in c remember c major we're coming back to the c we kind of know it that it's over we've returned to the beginning we've come full circle and a lot of music does just that it comes full circle and that's how we know it's ended we know we shouldn't do the applause yet so let's pop our thumb on that c

do okay that's all you have to do so slowed it down for you i'm going to turn claudine up and i'm going to run her for another minute or so so that you can practice without me remember keep it slow until you've got it right and then when you've got it right you can speed it up a bit

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Claudine is on guitar and Sarnia is on piano for this free lesson

hello tail tellers welcome to another wonderful wonderful suzuki free class from the uh tale teller club also if if you just want all the lessons in the classes you can go to my other podcast of course which is the performing arts free school but if if you're happy with this one we've got lots of stories and things like that as well and it's a bit more broad i suppose so we're going to look at the second study for right hand today and it's really exciting because we're doing this thing right where we're going all the way up and all the way back down and it's just it really makes you feel like you've almost done a complete song so it's it's very exciting um everyone's welcome to these classes by the way um they're directed really for children which is why i talk very simply but if you're grown up you are welcome too and you must um just concentrate and don't be distracted by adult things um like you know the laundry and stuff like that so claudine would you play um a c major arpeggio please now the reason i'm asking claudine to play c major is because the piece is in c major and it's really useful for us to hear what c major sounds like as we're playing and we're all about really improving our ears here at telltale club we're doing lots of jazz improv and stuff like that too um but this glass is specifically for the suzuki method actually do you know what is really useful for everybody and what's so great about suzuki method is they tell you the names uh they tell you the fingering so it's quite hard to go wrong and there's also a lot of repeating of the same note so it's really good for adults and children actually um so everybody's welcome so let's have a look now i told you the other day or yeah or earlier today about the big scrolly treble clef which means we're on the right side of the piano from from about middle c we're actually going to start on this seat today you can see it's it's quite a long way from middle c a whole eight notes up um it's common time that's what that c means every always always when you're reading music it's a bit the same bit like uh reading aloud always peruse the sentence ahead of you so that you know what's coming and do not rush this is key to reading music there's no need to rush until the performance and even um seasoned professionals do not practice at full speed until the very end okay so we're gonna keep this nice and slow for now obviously you would want to speed up when you start to get really really good but we're not really good yet so why speed up why rush such a wonderful thing and we're going to be playing these notes the c the d the e the f the g the f e the d the c can you do that let's see the d the either f the g the f e the d the c fabulous and we're going to be using the one two three four five four three two one fingers the one two three four five four three two one fingers nothing too difficult but what's really exciting is we're starting on a c we're going all the way up to the g and we're coming all the way back down to the c and when you come back down to what's called the root note that's the keynote we're in c remember c major we're coming back to the c we kind of know it that it's over we've returned to the beginning we've come full circle and a lot of music does just that it comes full circle and that's how we know it's ended we know we shouldn't do the applause yet so let's pop our thumb on that c

do okay that's all you have to do so slowed it down for you i'm going to turn claudine up and i'm going to run her for another minute or so so that you can practice without me remember keep it slow until you've got it right and then when you've got it right you can speed it up a bit

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The Tale Teller Club free classes run daily and cover a range of musical methods.

hello tail tellers welcome welcome to a beginner's class for piano we're using the suzuki method today and we're going to be looking at the first study for the right hand hopefully you've heard uh the recording of twinkle twinkle little star with all the variations hopefully you kind of know them already before you're even sitting at your piano i'd like to welcome claudine who's uh our backing uh guitarist today playing acoustic guitar uh c major arpeggio we'll be doing lots of c major arpeggios today as well actually because they're so pretty aren't they can really hear how wonderful they sound i do love an arpeggio so this exercise is going to involve quavers and semiquavers so the semiquavers are the ones with two big thick black lines joining them together and the quavers just have the one and the quavers are twice as long as the semiquavers so it would go something like this

okay so that just gives us an idea of the pace and the distance of the notes and and how they are going to be placed on our bar the big squirrely thing at the beginning a rather grand looking thing it's called a treble clef you should practice drawing them they're really good fun you can impress people when you when you draw them i i used to have some earrings with treble clefs on actually i think i might i might get some more because it's such a pretty sign isn't it there's a little knack to drawing them but you can do it in one go with your pen it's really exciting actually to be able to draw that that c thing means common time which means four beats to a bar i can see you're probably thinking well there's more than four beats to a bar well that's because we've got all these half beats and quarter beats and everything's split up and it's all funny but you just have to understand that in the whole bar there are four quarter notes don't worry too much about that at the moment what else do we need to know we're going to be playing the c above middle c which is this one and then we're going to play the d and then the e and then the f and then the g and we're going to be using our first our second our third our fourth and our fifth fingers it's quite good actually because we don't really have to move very far all we've got to do is put fingers up and down and what i do suggest is that you don't fly too high up in the sky after you've played your staccato notes because although staccato means treat the notice if it's a bit hot if you lift it too far up and move your hand out of position you'll find it's shifted and you won't be able to get back down again on target okay so i'm not going to play the repeats because i like to keep these classes quite short but i'm going to play each bar and i'll explain the name of the note and the finger so the first bar c with your thumb

okay the second you'd repeat that there's a repeat at the end that that thing that if you turn your head sideways it looks a bit like a robot face that's a repeat with the two dots but i won't do the repeats so the next bar your second finger on the d

and you'd play that twice

the next bar with your third finger on the e and you play that twice now we're too to play an f with our fourth now fourth fingers are sometimes a bit weak and wishy-washy when you first start playing piano so make sure you give it some just a little bit of extra pressure maybe

bravo and now another finger that's a bit weak sometimes little pinky he needs some exercise on the g

and you'd play that twice too did you notice that after the c and the d and the e

something sounded a bit different with the f well that's because there's no black note in between and we call this a semitone

the distance between notes is a semitone but there's no black note so there's no semitone there so where we've had whole tones for the other notes we've...

The Tale Teller Club free classes run daily and cover a range of musical methods.

hello tail tellers welcome welcome to a beginner's class for piano we're using the suzuki method today and we're going to be looking at the first study for the right hand hopefully you've heard uh the recording of twinkle twinkle little star with all the variations hopefully you kind of know them already before you're even sitting at your piano i'd like to welcome claudine who's uh our backing uh guitarist today playing acoustic guitar uh c major arpeggio we'll be doing lots of c major arpeggios today as well actually because they're so pretty aren't they can really hear how wonderful they sound i do love an arpeggio so this exercise is going to involve quavers and semiquavers so the semiquavers are the ones with two big thick black lines joining them together and the quavers just have the one and the quavers are twice as long as the semiquavers so it would go something like this

okay so that just gives us an idea of the pace and the distance of the notes and and how they are going to be placed on our bar the big squirrely thing at the beginning a rather grand looking thing it's called a treble clef you should practice drawing them they're really good fun you can impress people when you when you draw them i i used to have some earrings with treble clefs on actually i think i might i might get some more because it's such a pretty sign isn't it there's a little knack to drawing them but you can do it in one go with your pen it's really exciting actually to be able to draw that that c thing means common time which means four beats to a bar i can see you're probably thinking well there's more than four beats to a bar well that's because we've got all these half beats and quarter beats and everything's split up and it's all funny but you just have to understand that in the whole bar there are four quarter notes don't worry too much about that at the moment what else do we need to know we're going to be playing the c above middle c which is this one and then we're going to play the d and then the e and then the f and then the g and we're going to be using our first our second our third our fourth and our fifth fingers it's quite good actually because we don't really have to move very far all we've got to do is put fingers up and down and what i do suggest is that you don't fly too high up in the sky after you've played your staccato notes because although staccato means treat the notice if it's a bit hot if you lift it too far up and move your hand out of position you'll find it's shifted and you won't be able to get back down again on target okay so i'm not going to play the repeats because i like to keep these classes quite short but i'm going to play each bar and i'll explain the name of the note and the finger so the first bar c with your thumb

okay the second you'd repeat that there's a repeat at the end that that thing that if you turn your head sideways it looks a bit like a robot face that's a repeat with the two dots but i won't do the repeats so the next bar your second finger on the d

and you'd play that twice

the next bar with your third finger on the e and you play that twice now we're too to play an f with our fourth now fourth fingers are sometimes a bit weak and wishy-washy when you first start playing piano so make sure you give it some just a little bit of extra pressure maybe

bravo and now another finger that's a bit weak sometimes little pinky he needs some exercise on the g

and you'd play that twice too did you notice that after the c and the d and the e

something sounded a bit different with the f well that's because there's no black note in between and we call this a semitone

the distance between notes is a semitone but there's no black note so there's no semitone there so where we've had whole tones for the other notes we've...

hello everybody welcome to uh improv class for my really jazz students claire's with me today playing synthesizer as you can hear in the background and today we're going to talk about a really really common um chord progression is actually more common in rock and pop music um so if you if you learn this and classical in fact if you learn this chord progression you'll find it that you can improvise with all sorts of tracks you can just kind of play along and feel your way around and remember learning these progressions is is more about ear than looking at music okay so today we're going to play the one five six four chord progression i'm going to explain to you what it is how to do it with the left hand we'll do the right hand another day so what does 1564 refer to the first note of the scale the fifth note of the scale the sixth note of the scale and the fourth okay so if you've got your c scale here

each note is represented by a number the first note is a c the fifth note is a g the sixth is an a and the fourth is an f okay so how do we do this progression we start off with a triad the c triad c major triad

and now we just move two fingers down for an inverted g major g major chord and when you look at an inverted chord you can see that there are there's a wider gap between your thumb well it doesn't matter what finger is but there's a wider gap and then a third but when it's a triad the it's evenly spaced an inverted chord is not evenly spaced in your fingers okay so let's just gain the major triad in c and then the g inverted chord

now we're going to move to our sixth we'll rather move our hand right up to a c g e up up the other end or the other towards the other side towards the right we can just move a couple of notes down so we're moving two fingers down one note and our thumb down two we've got an an a triad there it's actually an a minor triad okay

so let's do this the c the g the a and again the c the g the a we haven't moved very much have we we're now going to do the fourth which is an f chord f in the root but we're inverting it so all we're moving now is this e one along to the f and we're playing the other notes as we did on the a triad so we've got the a triad and we move one finger to that f do that again a c e up and one finger to the left uh to the right sorry

back towards the left for the a chord and to the right for the f and that's an inverted chord and you can see when you look at it we're no longer even that's how we know it's inverted so should we do this again the c the g the a and the f

the c the g the a the f

the c the g the a the f

so i hope you followed that i won't talk too much more because i like to keep these classes under five minutes if i possibly can we're going to have some great fun with this this was just an introduction what i'd like you to do now is practice your transitions with a metronome you could do things like this

and so on and so on you could do things like this

you see whatever you want and then do it really slowly and really steadily and when you are really not thinking about it it's all coming it's just really really fluid that's when you can start to make stuff up but also you should be able to actually pop on a pop record and really hear where you can fit these various chords because your ear will become increasingly well adjusted and you'll be able to really work out um what they're doing and it's wonderful right that's the end of this class i went home for six minutes so um i'm doing lots of other stuff today i'm doing um a classical training from the abrsm and uh some suzuki also so something for everyone so i'll catch you later

hello everybody welcome to uh improv class for my really jazz students claire's with me today playing synthesizer as you can hear in the background and today we're going to talk about a really really common um chord progression is actually more common in rock and pop music um so if you if you learn this and classical in fact if you learn this chord progression you'll find it that you can improvise with all sorts of tracks you can just kind of play along and feel your way around and remember learning these progressions is is more about ear than looking at music okay so today we're going to play the one five six four chord progression i'm going to explain to you what it is how to do it with the left hand we'll do the right hand another day so what does 1564 refer to the first note of the scale the fifth note of the scale the sixth note of the scale and the fourth okay so if you've got your c scale here

each note is represented by a number the first note is a c the fifth note is a g the sixth is an a and the fourth is an f okay so how do we do this progression we start off with a triad the c triad c major triad

and now we just move two fingers down for an inverted g major g major chord and when you look at an inverted chord you can see that there are there's a wider gap between your thumb well it doesn't matter what finger is but there's a wider gap and then a third but when it's a triad the it's evenly spaced an inverted chord is not evenly spaced in your fingers okay so let's just gain the major triad in c and then the g inverted chord

now we're going to move to our sixth we'll rather move our hand right up to a c g e up up the other end or the other towards the other side towards the right we can just move a couple of notes down so we're moving two fingers down one note and our thumb down two we've got an an a triad there it's actually an a minor triad okay

so let's do this the c the g the a and again the c the g the a we haven't moved very much have we we're now going to do the fourth which is an f chord f in the root but we're inverting it so all we're moving now is this e one along to the f and we're playing the other notes as we did on the a triad so we've got the a triad and we move one finger to that f do that again a c e up and one finger to the left uh to the right sorry

back towards the left for the a chord and to the right for the f and that's an inverted chord and you can see when you look at it we're no longer even that's how we know it's inverted so should we do this again the c the g the a and the f

the c the g the a the f

the c the g the a the f

so i hope you followed that i won't talk too much more because i like to keep these classes under five minutes if i possibly can we're going to have some great fun with this this was just an introduction what i'd like you to do now is practice your transitions with a metronome you could do things like this

and so on and so on you could do things like this

you see whatever you want and then do it really slowly and really steadily and when you are really not thinking about it it's all coming it's just really really fluid that's when you can start to make stuff up but also you should be able to actually pop on a pop record and really hear where you can fit these various chords because your ear will become increasingly well adjusted and you'll be able to really work out um what they're doing and it's wonderful right that's the end of this class i went home for six minutes so um i'm doing lots of other stuff today i'm doing um a classical training from the abrsm and uh some suzuki also so something for everyone so i'll catch you later