Hi, welcome back to Week Five of flute lessons in the music for this week, we're going to learn the bass notes that make up the B section of our song. They all come from the G major scale, we're just going to play them in a different order. This is a very common thing used in popular song, we're going to stay inside the key we're in we're just going to play the harmony in a different order. So the notes are G, D, E, and C. I'm going to play it so you can hear all of the notes in the B section. In the bass part, take up four beats just like in the A section. But in this week's practice video, we're going to start working on dividing up the bar into different groups of notes.

So what that means is, some of the time we're going to be holding a note for all four beats in the bar. Sometimes we're gonna be playing two half notes, which means we have to play two beats of the note and then we have to play two more beats of the note so it takes up the right amount of space. If you're unfamiliar with some of this basic math that goes along with note subdivisions, check out the rhythm pre course video, it's going to explain this with a lot of animation and make it really clear, you're going to work on playing notes as whole notes, which means they take up four beats, half notes, which means two beats and then two beats to fill up the bar and quarter notes, which means we play the note four times in the bar. You're also going to get to work on playing this along with the track.

A little note about breathing because you can't breathe for an unlimited amount of time. So if you need to take a breath, take it wherever you need to, and then try and start the next note at the beginning of the next bar. One last thing, the flute is probably the quietest instrument in the orchestra, mostly because a lot of your air is just blowing right over the top of the mouthpiece. So you're going to have to get used to having a lot of power and playing as loud as you can most of the time. Whereas if you play a different instrument in this program, we're in a band, like the drums, for example. The challenge is learning how to play quieter so that you're not drowning out the other instruments around you.

So try and keep that in mind that the breathing exercises and whenever you're practicing something played at full volume, so you develop the strength and the endurance to be able to play the instrument as loud as you can. Alright, great work, and I'll see you in the practice video.