A lesson for beginners on any instrument.

hi tail tellers welcome to our first preliminary class for twinkle twinkle little star now this kind of works for the cello school and the piano school so either instrument um can listen to this class and we're going to be playing momo and the space um flies version in a bit and i know you're probably waiting to hear that but what i want you to do today is if you can read music have the read the music in front of you and point to the notes as momo sings the words okay and just follow it with your fingers and if you've got a teacher there or somebody who's perhaps better at reading music they can show you how to do it okay and the other thing i want you to do i want you to play it more than once i want you to play it as many times as you really well not as you want five times there we go homework play it five times so the first time just listen to it and enjoy it the second time i want you to dance to it okay i want you to understand where it's going is it going higher or lower is it going around in a circle does it make you feel like going around in a circle does it make you feel like jumping like a punk rocker up and down all of these things i want you to make up a dance it doesn't have to stay the same every time you play it i just want you to feel the movement okay move your arms in the air wave your hands around while momo sings okay then i want you to clap can you do that it's quite interesting isn't it you'll find you're clapping to a rhythm and then i want you to mime an instrument so if you're a cellist you could mime the cello to it if you're a pianist you could mime the piano and then when you've done all of those things i want you to think about how you would play it and i want you to imagine that you're singing it or playing it or dancing to it in front of an audience this is your special performance now if you're really shy and you would hate to perform this performance is a performance to yourself in the mirror mirrors are very important to musicians mirrors do a couple of things they help you imagine that somebody's watching which makes you more comfortable when people are watching because you've even got to be comfortable with your teacher okay and sometimes people get very shy even in front of their teachers is it quite difficult if you can only play on your own it's going to be much more fun if you learn to be able to play with somebody else in the room okay so a mirror helps you imagine that there's somebody else there the other thing a mirror does is it makes sure that your posture is correct okay so if you're a pianist you need to have a straight back well actually all instrument instrumentalists have to have a straight back it's very very important um but also if you're a string player it helps make sure that your um your bow is straight okay so i recommend that you have a mirror in front of you now there are several classes available today for um twinkle twinkle little star for piano and cello so if you just when you're searching through um just pop in twinkle twinkle uh into the search menu and if you hopefully you've got the app there's lots of apps there's a spreaker app an itunes app um a spotify app you can get me on alexa all of these places so you just need to look up tail telekids or telltale club and then look up when you've got there look up twinkle twinkle twinkle twinkle little star or suzuki okay or actually probably momo and the space flies so i'm going to leave you now with momo and you know if you don't want to do any of that it doesn't matter you can just listen because momo's fabulous we absolutely love momo so um i'll be back soon with our first class which isn't a twinkle twinkle we're going to move to one of the other tunes because we've already done all the twinkle twinkles that we can do okay so just sit back and enjoy and then try and do those things that i suggested you do

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