hi guys um let's talk about may's song it's another folk song allegro moderato yeah um it's a sort of uh get out clause really from um it's in between really fast and really slow sort of medium an allegro is fast and moderators moderately but it's all relative isn't it um so you'd need to choose your own speed but we'll do it quite slowly so now the biggest thing to remember is when you start we're starting with jambo

but we're starting loud a bit longer on them

nice and loud all the way through now the next line where not as loud as the first line so if you haven't done the first line very loudly how are you going to know what less loud is you will barely be touching the string so be aware and then the next line

now what's going on there well we're a bit quieter than the top line

we've got that holding down the third again

and then we've got this look at that what's that what's that mean that uh sideways sign it looks like a sideways v an arrow head well what it means is that you're getting quieter and quieter okay so really quietly okay as quietly as you as you as you need to be you want to be heard and then back to now

okay and the second time you see there it says second time the second time you play it oh because the repeat at the end means you go back to the game and play again uh you slow it down so you there's a natural slowing and quieting and telling the audience that it's the end of the song that's how they know okay the end of the song is always a time to calm and recompose and especially in a dance piece i would reckon this is quite a festival type dancing um folk song okay and if you just carried on at the same speed and the same volume all the way through people wouldn't know what was going on they they'd be like oh gosh i'm going to pass out a minute because i've been dancing so um so um obsessively you know you've got to give them a rest so they can go and get refreshment and maybe get a volleyball okay so we've already learned the skill for holding down the f sharp and now what we've got to do is hold it down

and make that no quieter and then

hold it down again but still quiet and then

what i do is when i'm practicing i sort of exaggerate things a bit if it's if there's a start the staccato will exaggerate it if there's a really loud uh and are really quite unexaggerated and i do that for a bit until it's in my head that that's what i'm supposed to do and then i start to take it to a level that is more um tolerable for all concerned you to play and for the listener and the dancer in this case um but i i think it does quite well to exaggerate because what what happens is you understand the effect that certain um motions and feelings have on the string and your bow and how to channel it how to channel loud and how to channel quiet uh how to express it okay i think that's it for that bit um we'll be popping up a recording later with uh cuddles or momo um are going to be uh working on these tonight um and maybe actually i might get one done with uh we might get cuddles to do overcome little children in a minute okay um and we'll look at the allegro next um which is also fab fab fab so i hope you enjoyed my suzuki class with you and um i'll see you later