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...