Hi guys welcome to Tune Basics the series that teaches you how to play the basics today we'll be
taking another look at that ever so popular song Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and how to play it on
the fife. Here is a fife. This fife is in the Key of C when holding your fife your left fingers one
two and three are used closest to the embouchure hole and fingers four five six and seven of your
right hand are used for the last four holes finally use your thumb to cover the back hole
hold the fife up to your face so that the embouchure hole is positioned just under the
centre of your bottom lip and the end of the five is pointing to the right hand side of your body
if you have trouble producing a note with your fife don't worry i've included some links in
the description that might help underneath your fife as we've mentioned is the thumb
hole which will be covered by your left thumb when necessary at times you might be required to pinch
the hole like this to produce a higher pitch and sometimes you might need to uncover it completely
let's take a closer look at phrase one keep the thumb hole covered for the entire phrase
and put fingers one to seven on holes one to seven and blow twice
put fingers one to three on holes one to three and blow twice
but fingers one to two on holes one to two and blow twice
and put figures one to three on holes one to three and blow once
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
for phrase two keep the thumb hole covered for the entire phrase
put fingers one to four on holes one to four and blow twice
put fingers one to five on holes one to five and blow twice
put fingers one to six on holes one to six and blow twice
and put fingers one to seven on holes one to seven and blow once
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
for phrase three keep the thumb hole covered for the entire phrase
put fingers one to three on holes one to three and blow twice
put fingers one to four on holes one to four and blow twice
put fingers one to five on holes one to five and blow twice
and put fingers one to six on holes one to six and blow once
and practice this until you end up with something that sounds like this
now phrase four is exactly the same as phrase three
phrase five is exactly the same as phrase one
and phrase six is exactly the same as phrase two
so let's try putting all the phrases together
and there you have it and remember if you're the sort of person who prefers learning the
five using tabs you can check out my tabs page there's a link in the description below also if
you're looking for a song to play on the five that i haven't recorded yet then you can check
out my recorder playlists because the fingering will usually be the same and until next time
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