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You may be familiar with my free piano course right here on YouTube. If you're not, you should know that this playlist is the perfect way to begin your piano journey for free. One of the most important aspects of learning the piano or anything new is consistent practice, review, and reinforcement. So, with that in mind, I'm offering bonus lessons after each lesson in this free piano course playlist. In these videos, I'm going to give you two more pieces to practice along with some no pressure quizzes to help you continue to learn and improve even more. If you haven't watched the regular lesson one, you can still benefit from this bonus lesson as a beginner. However, if I say anything today that confuses you, make sure to go back and watch that core lesson one. In that chord lesson one, we learned about correct piano posture and handshaped position, finger numbers, high and low on the piano, and the note names. [Music] And we also learned how to play Happy Birthday. Today, we're going to quickly review everything that we covered and learn two brand new pieces. Finger numbers 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5. Thumbs are always one. note names. They come from the musical alphabet starting with A. And then as you go higher, you just go through the alphabet. A B C D E F G. And then what happens after G? Go back to A. And it just continues all the way up. It's good practice to try to say and play the note names backwards as well. So G, F, E, D, C, B, A. The piano, if you have a full 88 keyboard, it starts with A and it ends with C. And we'll learn about what the black key names are later. Like I said in the chord lesson one, it's essential that you memorize these seven note names and be able to find them on the piano very quickly. When you begin to learn how to read music, knowing your note names on the piano will make your life so much easier. Now, the key is to not associate the note names with a starting point. For example, lots lots of beginning students can only find a G if they first start on a C and then take the time to count up. So, how can you memorize these notes? By using the black keys as your guide. because every white key note on the piano maintains the same position throughout the whole keyboard by the black keys. So a C is always to the left of the two black keys. F is always to the left of the three black keys. So this is what you hold on to when memorizing where the notes are on the piano. You can study by making some simple flash cards. You could write three A's, three B's, three C's, and so on all the way up to G. fold them and then put them in a hat. Then pick a card and look at the letter name and play that note on the piano as quickly as you can. This is level one. Level two of this drill is to write several random notes on a flash card in a row like A C G B F E D A C. Make up any combination that you want and play each of those combos on the piano. [Music] Let's do a short quiz to test your ability to recall note names and your finger numbers. Okay, the review part is done. Let's get into some new pieces. We haven't talked about note values yet. That's okay. Note values is just how long you hold each note. I'll demonstrate the note names, the finger numbers, all that. And I just want you to listen to determine the rhythm and the pulse. The first piece is a Russian folk song that I'll teach you completely by wrote, which means all you have to do is copy me. There are two levels of this piece. Level one is playing one note at a time. And then in level two, we'll add some harmonic jabs. [Music] Start. Start with your hands in this position with thumbs sharing middle C and it's called middle C position. Now they don't need to be right next to each other side by side. You can stagger them or you may decide to kind of hover a thumb above the other. Just stay relaxed. Don't tense it into a certain position. If you're on a full keyboard, middle C is going to be the fourth C from the bottom. 1 2 3 4 middle C. All the fingers are going to be placed on white keys except for your left hand finger four. Bring it up a little bit to that black key. All the notes in your hand position are in this piece. Most of the notes are only held for one count. So quite short except for the last two notes. Those are held for two counts. So one count is just and the very last two notes are held 1 2 1 2. This piece feels very marchlike and rhythmic. So we'll make sure that the pulse is steady. When we're in performance mode, we want to make sure that the tempo stays the same tempo throughout. Okay, so this is level one. Just one note at a time. Here's our starting position. Again, you're going to play five A's in a row. So 1 2 3 4 5. And the fifth A is going to be the strongest. Get louder so that the fifth A is the loudest. 1 2 3 4 5 or you could count in groups of four. 1 2 3 4 1. Now let's take it from that fifth A. From here, you're going to go up to middle C and then step down to B and A and G sharp. So that fifth A again. Now, middle C, B, A, G sharp. Let's put that together. Five A's, skip up to middle C, and then go back down. So, 1 2 3 4 5 C B A G sharp or that black key. Now, once you get to the black key, you're going to play that for five times. Or again, you can count in groups of four. 1 2 3 4 1. So five A's up to C, back down all the way to Gsharp. Five Gsharps. Now, it's kind of the same pattern because we're going to skip a note again and go up to B and then just step down to G# sharp again. But we're not going to end here. We're going to go back to A. All right. So, five G sharps or that black key. 1 2 3 4 5. Skip up to B. Step down and back to A. Let's do all of that. So A's 1 2 3 4 5 C B A five G sharps 2 3 4 5 up to B A G sharp and A again. Now the next part is a repeat of the very beginning. So we have five A's and then up to C and back down to G sharp. 1 2 3 4 5 C B A G sharp. Now, this is the trickiest part. Once we land on the G sharp or that black key, we skip up to B. And finally, our right hand has a job. Finger three on E. Gsharp B E Gsharp. So we start that on G sharp, skip up to B, skip up to E, and return to G sharp. And then we end on [Music] A. And that's it. So let's do the entire thing. Five A's, skip up to C, step down to G sharp, where we have five Gsharps, skip up to B, step down to G sharp, and end back at A where you'll repeat those five A's, skip up to C again, go down, step down all the way to G sharp. And then you have that skippity skip part where it's G sharp B E back to G sharp and you end on the A. Now remember I said the last two notes are held for two counts. And those are the two A's. 1 [Music] 2. Are you ready to learn level two? Finally, the right hand is going to have something to do in level two. We're gonna have two different jabs. The first jab is going to be C, middle C, and E together. That's the first jab. Listen to make sure that the notes are sounding at the same time, so they sound like one unit. And we don't want this kind of effect. The second jab is very similar. D and E. So two notes right next to each other. Kind of dissonant, right? So first jab C and E. Second jab D and E. When we have the A's in the left hand, give it that first jab. Just on the first note of those five A's. Okay. When we get to the Gsharps, those five in a row, the first G sharp is going to get that second jab. Now, what do you think is going to happen when we return to the A? Jab number one. What do you think on this G sharp? Jab number two. So here the right hand has a jab and then that E. So So you got to be ready for it's two different roles. Right hand has two rules. The jab and this one little melody note. No jab. Save the jab for the final. [Music] One last really quick note. We're not going to dive too deep into technique today, but I do want you to notice something. When I play all of these repeated notes, I'm not playing with a stiff wrist. I'm not playing It looks very weird, right? You can tell something is off. My wrist is very flexible. It's almost like I have a screw, a hinge point here at my wrist that I use a lot. I play and my wrist lifts a little bit. This hinge motion is what helps us eventually play quite quickly. The second piece is also a Russian tune that I've arranged to make it just a little bit simpler for you. [Music] The Russian folk song was marchlike and strong. This piece is very gentle in lyrical. So complete opposites. We want to aim for very smooth touch. Again, most of the notes are played for one count each, but when a note is supposed to be held for two counts, I marked that with a circle around that note name in the free PDF. The notes are also arranged from lowest to highest, left to right. The lower the note is on the piano, so to the left, the lower on the page it'll be. The hand position is included, but feel free to experiment and maybe go higher on the piano to get a more delicate sound. Here's our position. Three is going to start on A. And then finger two in the right hand is going to start on E above that. Those are going to be all the notes in this piece. A E D F E held for two D C B D C 2 B A 2. Okay, so I'm going to demonstrate that one more time. Every time I get to a held note, notice that it's the exact length of two of the shorter notes. 1 2 1 2 And eventually you can go just a little faster just as long as it maintains that very lyrical calm feeling. 1 2 1 2 1 2. Now, here's the good news. There are two lines and each line is the same. So, if you've learned line one that we just did, you already know the entire piece. Here's line two. Did you notice how I ended quietly? Oftent times at the ends of pieces, it makes sense to kind of wind it down, especially when it's a quieter piece like this. So, at the very end, get softer here. and it sounds like it's an ending. Whereas the Russian folk song was very bouncy. This one I'm connecting all of the notes so it sounds like one long connected line. Like all the notes are connected with a string. If I didn't connect it, it would sound like this. it changes it, right? So, after you play a note, don't let go of that note until you play the next. That's how you get a legato line. Okay, that does it for your bonus lesson one. Look for more bonus lessons that go specifically with this free piano course series in the very near future. If you're ready to go deeper into your piano learning and want even more pieces, technique, exercises, theory, accountability, and more, go to my website and check out the membership right there. It's the perfect resource for the absolute beginner to early intermediate player. Now, if you have any questions about this video, make sure to comment below. And otherwise, I'll see you next week. Happy practicing. ...
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