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  • John Ryan's Polka ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Free Lesson All Welcome

    John Ryan's Polka ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Free Lesson All Welcome
    Aug 11 2021
    hello mini tail tellers welcome welcome to the music room here at royal clarence now today we've been looking at our new choices for the abrsm grade 1 pieces i'm going through the list this week and we'll be covering all of the pieces not just three we're going to cover all of the pieces in the coming weeks okay and then we're going to go on through the other grades as well so all these lessons are free and everybody is welcome that's the first thing to know now this one is a traditional irish dance piece and it's very very different to the other pieces that we've already done today um it's a traditional irish sort of folk song i guess an irish jig called john ryan's polka okay now these exam pieces are all for grade one and they are valid until 2023 which is pretty good isn't it so we've got plenty of time there's no rush but look you can do these pieces even if you're not doing the exam that doesn't matter at all it doesn't matter an iota that so let's have a look at it now the thing with this piece it looks easy but it isn't and it isn't easy because many of us don't have a focus on experience so we're you know we tend to be a little bit locked into certain styles of music many of us aren't familiar with irish music um or folk music and many of us may be you know more uh traditionally biased towards english choral type music or um you know other genres perhaps i think if you've come from suzuki you'll find this piece quite easy except for the string crossings there are some rather tricky string crossings which are really going to throw us a little bit um it's very lively though and there are lots of little motifs which are reminiscent of suzuki so i think you'll be okay let's see what you think i've slowed it down a tad um we'll just play the first two lines today do okay so that's pretty pretty straightforward really but remember the uh you'll have to play it a bit faster than that in the exam so you can catch this music on my facebook page so you can follow my um my annotations because they're very helpful um i can just play by ear as well of course and if you've got the music in front of you then you can annotate yourselves so what have we got we've got a four four it's an f major we've got an f sorry g major it's an f sharp nice and loud nice and lively i'd give it a little uh a little bit of definition i'd define all the notes and i define them because that makes them lively okay now here we've got string crossings galore at bar two so we've got open three string crossing open three string crossing four so suddenly is an awful lot to think about now move all your hands up fingers over um that's a closed hand run easy peasy and then bar four we've got that string crossing again and again and again string crossings everywhere you're really going to have to learn how to do those well smoothly very straight bow i really don't think you should be attempting this without a mirror in front of you okay so you really need especially when we've got we've got here because that's bar uh five six right over the other side okay so if your if your bow is not straight that's not that's going to sound grim isn't it so do you like this piece i think it's fantastic i mean it's really dancey i recommend we'll play it again now at this speed 90 bpm and what i recommend you do is you mime it over and over again and really feel the dance and then visualize the eating cake and dancing and swishy skirts and boys with caps and you know all that sort of thing just uh really visualize this party atmosphere and that's going to help you to play really really well and impress the examiner actually because when you're transferring feeling to um a listener it really makes all the difference all the difference now there's no phrasing in um in my copy but there will be phrasing in the uh abrsm copies i'm sure so when we go over this we'll talk about um how to phrase it according to the official copy that they give us okay so let's play it...
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    7 minutos
  • What Is It All? Campian ABRSM CELLO Free Lesson Grade 1 Free Lessons

    What Is It All? Campian ABRSM CELLO Free Lesson Grade 1 Free Lessons
    Aug 11 2021
    What Is It All? Campian ABRSM CELLO Free Lesson Grade 1 Free Lessons hello today tellers welcome to the second lesson today actually for the abrsm grade one cello choices okay so we're going to i'm going to give lessons on all of the pieces anyway so you can pick and choose and see which one you prefer do you know what sometimes i think it's a good idea not just to listen to them all but to actually play at least the first sort of line but you can play all the way through and just think to yourself am i going to be able to really enjoy this piece of music is it me does it reflect me as an artist as a as a musician now we've just played the um the arbo and that's uh completely different to this piece it's still in first position of course and we have a couple of slurs um or string no i don't think there were any slurs in the other one are string crossings um and there are string crossings here too our string crossings here are very slurry the whole thing is legato that means really smooth like water like wind and water gentle wind and water you know there is nothing aggressive about this piece um it is it does start quite loudly though um but it's not aggressive i i think when you're playing as i always recommend that you mime the piece as we play it through we're going to play we're just going to play the first two lines and i i always think miming's a really good way of understanding how you need to play it because then you can hear the musician you see and and the piano and you can sort of think to yourself oh that i see i've got to be really slurry for want of a better word i mean slurry kind of works doesn't it for us um it's not particularly slow um thomas campion uh is the composer we've got a legato we've got an f sharp that's okay we've been doing a lot of f sharps in our classes we're all in first position and we've really not got too much to worry about in these first two lines the biggest thing is just getting that legato right and the contrast between the mf meta forte on the the first four bars and then um and the next uh five six seven eight are all piano so quiet so that contrast is going to get you brownie points well more than brownie points exam points okay so let's let's just play it i've sewed it down a bit let's play it and mimet just mime it if you can so okay so it's lovely isn't it it's very pretty um it's a little bit faster than that we'll do that in a minute um so i recommend you mom if you want to see my annotated score you'll need to pop along to my facebook page with tail teller kids has a facebook page and you can even get catch up with all our stories there as well actually but you can catch up with all the sheet music and what i'll do is i'll make an album especially for all the grade one piano and then uh or the grade one cello because we do uh at telltale club we do piano as well and we do jazz too actually so um i will get try and write all the instructions out so you don't even have to listen to these podcasts you're more than welcome to pop along to my facebook page our facebook page and tell tell the kids and just see what you know what the score is literally okay so let's have a little look let's find that uh that g is starting um in g mate well i'm pretty sure it doesn't change but i can't see the full score um so where i mean this the annoying thing actually about um working on a computer a laptop is that you can't usually see the full score and certainly because i wear glasses if i put a school to a page i can't see it so i always recommend that you that you buy the um the abrsm sheet music and have that in front of you the paper copy and you know you'll probably be using that in the exam so let's find that g and then there's a string crossing and a lovely i mean i'd say down with the g and then up with the b and the a now how do you make that smooth well you no pressure on these notes we want uh very different to the last piece where we were sort of pushing in and it was a...
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    12 minutos
  • Arbeau ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Free Lesson

    Arbeau ABRSM Grade 1 Cello Free Lesson
    Aug 11 2021
    Free daily lessons with the Tale Teller AKA Sarnia de la Maré FRSA. hello mini tail tellers welcome to a free class for the grade one abrsm we're going to do the arbo today um or a bit of it we don't need to do all of them all in one day if this is your chosen piece bravo if not you can have a listen you can sight read it you could see if you like it if you're undecided about which piece to choose then then you're in the right place now i would say this piece is for anyone who really enjoys the bass uh the c and the d on their cello playing these bass notes takes a a different technique to playing the higher notes you need to be slower you need to have really good contact otherwise you can sound muddy and dull so in that respect it makes it difficult but in another respect it's quite easy because these strings are right next to your ear then near your heart and for some people that makes it very exciting also if you really like jazz and improv and blues these strings will put you in good stead so you if especially if you you know if you like a sort of choppy feel so i'm going to recommend that you choose these if that's your bag okay um if you prefer something uh a little bit more flowy and orchestral um rather than basically we have a base in the orchestra as well and but it tends to be the the rhythm of the string section do you see so um this is for the cello exam piece uh for the abrsm grade one and it's um from 2020 to 2023 so we've got a bit of time now if you've got an exam coming up these classes will help you a bit but i'm starting from scratch so this is a beginner's really a beginner's class okay and we're going to use the piano accompaniment to help us but i'm also going to help you with fingering and things like that now look if you want the score you're going to have to um my my version of the score that is um you're going to have to pop along to my facebook page the tail teller kids facebook page or to our instagram um i don't really use instagram so much i prefer the facebook page and you'll be able to see my annotations okay so i'll write everything in there we're not going to do too much it doesn't do to do too much in one sitting okay you need to split these sections up so we're just going to go to bar nine before that key change now what key is it in it's in c major okay we so we start on a c that's nice isn't it an open c lovely open c but it's quite loud so um well look listen let's play our section through a bit slower than we're going to play it through for the examination now there's a couple of repeated sections so although it sounds like it's going everywhere it's actually not let's listen okay so um the the instruction at the top of the page is boisterous because i've slowed that down a bit it doesn't sound so boisterous but also what does boisterous mean means a bit uh i'd say energetic so really um i mean you wouldn't want to play it that aggressively for your exam but it's a good idea to sort of practice that the difference because and it's also uh moderately loud that's a comparative thing um later on in the piece it gets it gets quicker um i can't see the score actually ahead of me to see if it gets quieter so i i better look hang on so yeah sorry i have to when you're on a computer it's it's difficult isn't it because you have to keep scrolling up and down bar 15 you'll see a crescendo so you need to save yourself so although you can be fairly loud you need to be even louder later on i'm going to talk to you later on when we get to bar 17 especially but above 15 to 17 really really loud part we'll talk about how to increase your volume okay but for today let's just look at this section we're looking at okay so let's look at well bar one is an intro so we've got a count of four and um let's see what the pianist is doing let me move that let's have a listen okay that's wrong let's try again so one two three and four and that's what the piano is doing okay so that's our sort of...
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    20 minutos
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 5 The Show Public Domain Free Kids Books

    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 5 The Show Public Domain Free Kids Books
    Aug 11 2021
    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 5 The Show Public Domain Free Kids Books
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    38 minutos
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 4 Fall of the Idol Public Domain Free Kids Books

    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 4 Fall of the Idol Public Domain Free Kids Books
    Aug 11 2021
    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 4 Fall of the Idol Public Domain Free Kids Books
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    27 minutos
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 3 William Below Stairs Public Domain Free Kids Books

    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 3 William Below Stairs Public Domain Free Kids Books
    Aug 11 2021
    justwilliam_03_crompton_64kbJust William by Richmal Crompton CH 3 William Below Stairs Public Domain Free Kids Books
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    27 minutos
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 2 William The Intruder Public Domain Free Kids Books

    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 2 William The Intruder Public Domain Free Kids Books
    Aug 11 2021
    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 2 William The Intruder Public Domain Free Kids Books
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    39 minutos
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 1 William Goes to the Pictures Public Domain Free Kids Books

    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 1 William Goes to the Pictures Public Domain Free Kids Books
    Aug 11 2021
    Just William by Richmal Crompton CH 1 William Goes to the Pictures Public Domain Free Kids Books. chapter 1 of just william 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 david wales just william by rickmill crompton chapter one william goes to the pictures it all began with william's aunt who was in a good temper that morning and gave him a shilling for posting a letter for her and carrying her parcels from the grocers buy some sweets or go to the pictures she said carelessly as she gave it to him william walked slowly down the road gazing thoughtfully at the coin after deep calculations based on the fact that a shilling is the equivalent of two six-pence's he came to the conclusion that both luxuries could be indulged in in the matter of sweets william frankly upheld the superiority of quantity over quality moreover he knew every sweet shop within a two miles radius of his home whose proprietor added an extra suite after the scale had descended and he patronized these shops exclusively with solemn face and eager eye he always watched the process of weighing and stingy shops were known and banned by him he wandered now to his favorite confectioner and stood outside the window for five minutes torn between the rival attractions of gooseberry eyes and marble balls both were sold at four ounces for two pence william never purchased more expensive luxuries at last his frowning brow relaxed and he entered the shop sixpence worth of gooseberry eyes he said with a slightly self-conscious heir the extent of his purchases rarely exceeded a penny hello said the shopkeeper an amused surprise got her bit of money this morning explained william carelessly with the heir of a roster he watched the weighing of the emerald green dainties with silent intensity saw with satisfaction the extra one added after the scale had fallen received the precious paper bag and putting two sweets into his mouth walked out of the shop sucking slowly he walked down the road towards the picture palace william was not in the habit of frequenting picture palaces he had only been there once before in his life it was a thrilling program first came the story of desperate crooks who on coming out of any building glanced cautiously up and down the street in huddled crouching attitudes then crept ostentatiously on their way in a manner guaranteed to attract attention and suspicion at any place and time the plot was involved they were pursued by police they left on to a moving train and then for no accountable reason leapt from that onto a moving motor car and from that they plunged into a moving river it was thrilling and william thrilled sitting quite motionless he watched with wide fascinated eyes though his jaws never ceased their rotatory movement and every now and then his hand would go mechanically to the paper bag on his knees and convey a gooseberry eye to his mouth the next play was a simple country love story in which figured a simple country maiden wooed by the squire who was marked out as the villain by his mustachioes after many adventures the simple country maiden was won by a simple country son of the soil in picturesque rustic attire whose emotions were faithfully portrayed by gestures that must have required much gymnastic skill the villain was finally shown languishing in a prison cell still indulging in frequent eyebrow play next came another love story this time of a noble-hearted couple consumed with mutual passion and kept apart not only by a series of misunderstandings possible only in a picture play but also by maidenly pride and reserve on the part of the heroine and manly pride and reserve on the part of the hero that forced them to hide their ardor beneath a cold and haughty exterior the heroine's brother moved through the story like a good fairy tender and protective towards his orphan sister and ultimately explained to each the...
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    31 minutos