hello child tellers welcome to the third class of today for piano we'll be doing some cello classes later as well this is variation c from suzuki book one of the theme of uh twinkle twinkle little star okay now then this one is i don't think it is the hardest i think variation b is the hardest myself let me play it through for you

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okay simile at bar three tells us that we have to carry on with this staccato which are the the dots that means treat the notes as if they're hot with a little space in between them you can be a little bit flexible i think about how you play your staccatos because one thing that suzuki may have a habit of doing is making everybody who performs a suzuki track a piece sound exactly the same and i don't know if that's a good thing at all so um i'd recommend that you play these in lots of different ways really quietly uh really fast uh really slow

however you want i mean it's not much variation you can get on a yamaha um we'll be doing we'll be using our uh forever piano tomorrow it's being delivered hopefully i ordered a baby grand piano and it was held up last week ended up in london and then in bath and now it's i think it's in bath again um but it's due for delivery tomorrow and um i'm terribly excited unfortunately you can only get so far on an electric piano there are many many advantages with an electric piano of course the biggest one is you can plug it whack it straight into your computer and um it's perfect for you know logic pro and garageband and all these wonderful things i'm a composer so i use that stuff all the time darlings but you will never get the wonderful wonderful breadth and depth of sounds and variations and wonderment that you will from a an acoustic piano but for our purposes this is absolutely fine and early days you don't need to have you don't need to ask mum and dad for a baby grant yet um maybe when we get to the next book hey um so let's ask livy to play us um livy could you see major arpeggios please you actually if you're if your ear's very good you could play along with libby just on the on the base there nice very nice