Welcome back to week four of flute lessons in the musical. This week, we're going to work on a few new things to add some new track that you can roll along. We're going to be working a little more on the G major scale both an ascending which means going up and descending, which means coming down. Now getting used to the fingering going in one direction in the other direction is a little bit different. So it's important to work on going in both directions. I want to talk for a moment about articulation, which is how we use our tongue and our breath to start and stop notes.
Think for a second about a tap like in your bathroom or your kitchen. So you can turn the water on and off which completely stops the flow. Or you can leave the water on and run your hand underneath to stop the flow. For a little tiny bit of time, using your tongue to do long tonguing, which is like the DA DA DA sound is like running your hand underneath the water. And using the top sound, or stopping the breath completely is like turning the tap all the way on or off. For now, I want you to try and use the DOS sound to try and break up the notes.
This is sort of what it sounds like. And the toss sound is more totally stopping the sound in between. You're also going to work on learning the bass notes that make up the harmony underneath the A section. those notes are E, which you can play up the octave like where we're used to playing it. Or you can use the same fingering and take off the E flat key and get a low E which sounds like this. The second bass note is G, which I recommend using the low G. The next bass note is C. And the final one is D. So those notes again are E, G, C, and D. Now, they're always going to take up one bar each, so they'll always get accounted for.
Later on in the program, we're going to play them more than once inside each bar, but for now, they're going to be whole notes. And again, if you don't know what a whole note and half notes and quarter notes mean, you can go back to the pre course information and there's a video that talks about rhythm, about how what quarter notes, whole notes and half notes are. And finally, we're going to get started on one of my favorite things about music which is improvising. Now the beginning baby steps and improvising is just a simply make your own choice about what notes you're going to play where instead of me telling you now play g now play, I want you along with the track to freely just move from note to note in the scale, you can play them sometimes in order, you can randomly start on a G and play a C and then play an A, I'm just going to give you an example of this is this is improvising.
I'm just randomly picking notes. And at the beginning, just like when you learn to speak a new language, it can feel a little bit like you don't have a lot to say or you have trouble forming the thoughts that you want to express. But just remember, it took time for you to learn how to communicate in English or whatever other languages you can speak. And music is a language so the way you get better at it is by actually speaking it. So try not to censor yourself or have too much judgment about what comes out. Just trying to the Exercise.
All right, excellent work and I'll see in the practice video