WEBVTT 00:00.560 --> 00:04.654 Hey, it's Michael here from Unmute presents the podcast for all things technology, and. 00:04.662 --> 00:10.854 I'm a huge fan. I love your live calls, your in depth episodes, and your quick tips on Sundays. 00:10.942 --> 00:14.422 Thanks. That means a lot. Do you want to tell our listeners how they can join us? 00:14.486 --> 00:23.950 Of course. Just go to ACB community and find out how to join. Or you can subscribe to Unmute presence on your favorite podcast app. It's that easy. 00:24.070 --> 00:28.330 Awesome. Unmute presents the podcast for tech lovers like you and me. 00:35.040 --> 01:35.226 Hello, everyone, and I'm Lucy. And welcome to another episode of All Things Lady a for the Unmute Presents podcast series. So this time we will be talking about how you can learn to play an instrument using your lady a device. And these are fun skills, but they are also a little bit educational. I will demonstrate piano and guitar, and these are really just the basics on how to play these things. You won't become a maestro like Liberace or any guitar player like Eric Clapton. Just saying. Okay, so let's give this a shot. Amazon open piano teacher, you've disabled piano. 01:35.258 --> 01:38.370 Teacher in the past. Do you want to enable it again? 01:38.530 --> 01:39.310 Yes. 01:39.930 --> 02:07.872 Okay, here's piano teacher. Welcome to piano teacher, your tool for learning how to play the piano. If you're just getting started, say teach lesson and I will share with you how to correctly play the musical scale. If you would rather learn note recognition, say beginner note drill. If you want to learn how to play a song, say teach me how to play Mary had a little lamb. For a full list of features with this skill, please say help. 02:08.016 --> 02:08.700 Help. 02:09.680 --> 02:47.170 Piano teacher is an learning tool using the Alexa to instruct how to play the piano. If you're just getting started, there are a couple of different ways to learn. If you would like to work on note recognition, say beginner note drill and I will explain the musical scale, and then you can try out notes that help teach note recognition. I also have lessons I can give. Say teach lessons, and I will get you started on how to properly play the musical scale. If I'm going too fast during the piano instructions, just say slow down and I will adjust my speed. Once you're ready to learn a song, I can teach you how to play different ones. Please say, list available songs and I will walk you what is available. 02:49.870 --> 02:51.690 Beginner note recognition. 02:54.560 --> 02:56.660 Okay, say the next note. 02:58.240 --> 02:58.980 C. 03:01.560 --> 03:03.688 F. Okay, say the next note. 03:03.784 --> 03:04.420 F. 03:07.440 --> 03:09.500 Okay, say the next note. 03:10.040 --> 03:10.780 B. 03:13.560 --> 03:15.620 Okay, say the next note. 03:16.160 --> 03:17.700 Can you play the scale? 03:18.490 --> 04:52.030 All musical scales contain eight notes and are represented by the letters a through g. The first scale you will learn is called c major. It is the first one to learn as it only uses the white keys. First, let's check hand position. Your thumb should be on the middle c key. To check. Let's go ahead and play that key now. Next, let's check that the pinky finger of your right hand should be on the g key. Go ahead and play that now. Now if you want to play just one more key up the scale, you can stretch your pinky finger and play it. It's the a key and let's try it now. To move further up the scale, we will want to reposition your entire hand rather than continuing to stretch that pinky finger. So we will need to work on hand position. To be specific, after you play the e key with your middle finger, move your thumb to play the f key. This is called a crossover and is a common hand movement when playing the piano. Now let's go ahead and give it a try. Just playing the first four keys starting with your thumb on middle c. Then play the d key using your index finger followed by the e key with your middle finger. Finally, move your thumb under the middle finger and play the f key. Let's try it now. Now this time use this same move starting with your thumb on middle c and play the entire scale, crossing your thumb over for the f key. 05:01.730 --> 05:05.026 Amazon list of songs here are the. 05:05.058 --> 05:36.500 Songs currently available in the piano teacher skill. Twinkle, twinkle little star happy birthday, jingle bells, joy to the world go tell it on the mountain fur elise by Ludwig van Beethoven ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven the Star Spangled Banner minuet in g by Johann Sebastian Bach Old Macdonalds farm auld lang syne Mary had a little lamb take me out to the ball game London bridge is falling down three blind mice if youre ready to learn a song, please say something like teach me twinkle, twinkle little. 05:36.540 --> 05:40.360 Star teach me twinkle, twinkle, little star. 05:41.140 --> 05:48.916 Okay, let's get started on learning how to play twinkle, twinkle, little star. The first part starts with the following series of notes. 05:48.948 --> 05:53.040 C c g a a a g. 05:58.020 --> 06:01.614 Your turn. And remember it goes circumental c g. 06:01.742 --> 06:04.010 G A A G. 06:11.870 --> 06:16.998 Now let's move on to the next part. The notes are f f e e. 06:17.094 --> 06:19.010 D d c. 06:23.910 --> 06:28.430 Your turn and remember it goes f f e e d. 06:28.550 --> 06:29.810 D c. 06:37.630 --> 06:46.262 Now let's move on to the next part. For this section, you will need to repeat it twice. The notes are g g f f. 06:46.366 --> 06:48.050 E e d. 06:56.830 --> 07:01.774 Your turn and remember, it goes g g f f e. 07:01.862 --> 07:03.050 E d. 07:12.870 --> 07:21.230 You're doing great for the next two sections, we are just replaying the opening. The notes are c c g A. 07:21.310 --> 07:22.590 A G. 07:27.570 --> 07:31.310 Your turn. And remember it goes c c g. 07:31.850 --> 07:33.670 A A G. 07:41.650 --> 07:45.354 Almost done. Let's finish by playing f f e. 07:45.442 --> 07:47.870 E d c. 07:52.710 --> 07:56.214 Your turn. And remember, it goes f f e. 07:56.302 --> 07:58.810 E d C. 08:06.710 --> 08:16.290 Well done. You have played Twinkle, twinkle, little star. If you would like to try practicing the song without instructions, please say duet for twinkle, twinkle, little star. 08:17.530 --> 08:19.830 Duet for twinkle, twinkle, little star. 08:20.850 --> 08:59.590 Okay, I'm ready for a duet playing Twinkle, twinkle, little star. That was great. Thank you for playing along. When you are ready for another song, just ask for it. 09:01.330 --> 10:05.670 Amazon exit piano teacher okay, so I'm not sure if she actually exited that skill or not, but that's, like I said, very, very basic and elementary. And you can learn other scales by, you know, asking in different keys. And obviously this one, you just use the white keys on the piano. So like, if you were to ask for a D scale, you would use one, one of the black keys, the f sharp and the c sharp too. Sorry. Yeah, I only had eleven years of piano lessons. Hey, what can I say? Okay, so yeah, that's kind of fun. If you have a keyboard or a piano, you can play around with that. So just so you know, you have to disable one instrument skill before you can open another one. So Amazon disable piano teacher which skill. 10:05.710 --> 10:11.690 Do you want to disable piano teacher okay, I've disabled it. 10:13.840 --> 10:18.024 Amazon open guitar teacher you've disabled guitar. 10:18.072 --> 10:21.088 Teacher in the past. Do you want to enable it again? 10:21.224 --> 10:21.940 Yes. 10:22.640 --> 11:03.520 Okay, here's guitar teacher. Welcome to guitar teacher, your tool for learning how to play the guitar. To get started, you can say teach notes, teach chords, play guitar or tune guitar. If you want more detailed instructions, say help tune guitar. Now tuning string one. Please say repeat string or next string. 11:03.900 --> 11:05.000 Next string. 11:05.760 --> 11:25.160 Now tuning string two. Please say repeat string or next string. 11:25.320 --> 11:26.380 Next string. 11:27.040 --> 11:46.516 Now tuning string three. Please say repeat string or next string. 11:46.708 --> 11:47.760 Next string. 11:48.420 --> 12:08.010 Now tuning string four. Please say repeat string or next string. 12:08.390 --> 12:09.490 Next string. 12:10.030 --> 12:30.472 Guitar teacher can help you learn individual notes on the guitar. What you just heard was the note e. It's the native note on the first string of the guitar. If we start by focusing on the notes for the first string, it's the best place to start learning how the scan tune guitar. Now tuning string one. 12:30.536 --> 12:36.416 Finish that Amazon next string guitar teacher. 12:36.448 --> 13:50.880 Can help you learn individual notes on the guitar. What you just heard was the note e. It's the native note on the first string of the guitar. If we start by focusing on the notes for the first string. It's the best place to start learning how the scale works. The fretboard is the part of the guitar that the strings run along and allow for placement of your fingers to press down on the strings. The top of the fretboard is called the nut. Using your index finger, press on the first string between the nut and the first fret. Then play the string. It should sound like this. That sound is one note higher than the e and is called FDE. Now let's move your index finger up one more fret and play the string again. That is the next key on the scale and is called f hash. We can think of sharp as a half key, meaning that the sounds is halfway between f and g. Now, you're probably noticing the pattern, but let's keep going. Go up one more fret and play the string again. This note is g and is one step above f hash. So the first lesson is that for each fret we move our finger on, it plays a higher note. If you're ready for the next step in learning notes, say next. 13:52.780 --> 13:55.680 Amazon what songs can I learn? 13:56.340 --> 14:04.252 Guitar teacher can help you learn individual notes on the guitar. What? You just heard the note e. Give. 14:04.276 --> 14:05.640 Me a list of songs. 14:06.180 --> 14:15.830 I'm sorry you didn't provide a chord. If you'd like to try again, please say the name of a musical chord. Now. For example, say, teach me how to play c major. 14:17.290 --> 14:19.190 Teach me how to play e major. 14:20.210 --> 15:07.890 Okay, let's get started on how to play the chord e major. Here are the finger positions. Your index finger will be on string three pressing down on fret one. Your middle finger will be on string five pressing down on fret two. Finally, your ring finger will be on string four pressing down on fret two. Now go ahead and play the chord e major one more time. If you're ready for another chord to learn, please ask for it now. For example, say, teach me how to play d major. 15:09.070 --> 15:10.970 Teach me how to play d major. 15:12.190 --> 15:59.550 Okay, let's get started on how to play the chord d major. Here are the finger positions. Your index finger will be on string three pressing down on fret two. Your middle finger will be on string one pressing down on fret two. Finally, your ring finger will be on string two pressing down on fret three. Now go ahead and play the chord d major one more time. If you're ready for another chord to learn, please ask for it now. For example, say, teach me how to play a minor. 15:59.970 --> 16:01.950 Teach me how to play a minor. 16:02.930 --> 16:38.000 Okay, let's get started on how to play the chord a minor. Here are the finger positions. Your index finger will be on string two, pressing down on fret one. Your middle finger will be on string four, pressing down on fret two. Finally, your ring finger will be on string three, pressing down on fret two. Now go ahead and play the chord a minor one more time. 16:41.700 --> 18:37.770 Little bit easier to use and maybe you could learn more, I think. But I'll just say this. When I tune my guitar, I start at the other end. Now, it didn't allow us to tune all six strings of the guitar. And I don't know why that was, but I tried twice to get it to do it and it would not. So just saying that I start at the other end of my guitar, I think that's easier. But I'm sure there are varying opinions on that, right? So that's the only two instruments that I could find that you can learn on your lady a device. I tried a couple of other ones. I tried violin and flute, things like that. And she didn't know what I was talking about. So that may be the only two instruments that you can learn how to play using your lady a device. Alright, so that is it for today. And I hope you got something out of those fun skills and you can figure out how to use them. I don't know yet what I'll be doing for next time, but I'm sure I will think of something. In the meantime, if you have any feedback for me and have any suggestions of what you might want to know or what you might want to do or learn about using your lady a device, send an email to feedback unmute show, and Michael or Marty will be sure that I receive it. All right? So until next time, everybody have fun with your lady a devices. Bye for now.