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

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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...