the real version but I'm going to make it as

easy as possible. I'm gonna put it in a bunch of short videos so that you can focus on

one section at a time

The part we're learning today sounds like this

And it will repeat

from there. We'll talk about that later. I played it a little fast, I just don't want to

waste your time but

alright so if you will look along I'm gonna put the sheet music

a graphic of the sheet music above the keyboard. I'm also gonna put a link in the

video description

of the sheet music that I'm using if you want to download it, print it, and follow along. Okay?

So the first measure of that little pick up

the first two note are just an E and a D sharp and what I really want to point out is that the

first five notes of the whole song

are E and D sharp. So with your pinky, come up here and grab an E

it's to the right of middle C and with I'm gonna recommend your three finger

grab a D Sharp.

the first five notes are those two notes - one two three four five.

One two three four five. Okay, after that you're gonna come down with your thumb and grab a B.

You know where this is going - the next thing that you are going to do is

you have to see this shape your three fingers are gonna follow-up

And so then you need a

D C A

with your three, two and your one finger.

So if you see these two shapes one lone dude over here

and two over here and that sort of slides down you've got one lone dude over here

two over here, that'll help you remember that little pattern

D sorry E D Sharp

E D Sharp E

B D C A

super slow version so practice that one pattern over and over and over until

you get it

until it's really smooth.

and like sort of second nature okay? Now as soon as you hit that

A with your right hand now look if you look along with the sheet music we're in measure

3 and that's the first note in measure 3 and as soon as I hit that I'm gonna hit an

A with my left hand okay so now you'll see the left hand has like three notes

and I that thing that says "Ped" underneath it we'll talk about that later.

So you've got an A an E and another A

those are the three notes that the left hand plays in measure

3 and then the right-hand follows up right after it

by playing a C an E and an A.

And you'll notice that I'm playing that A on the top here over here with my forefinger and that leaves my pinky open to hit the

next note

in the next measure so it'll probably be helpful to play with this

fingering okay if you're into music theory you might have noticed that

you're basically playing an

A minor chord here yeah you're just playing an A minor chord if that makes sense to you cool

that'll help you otherwise don't worry about it

okay so quick review

we just learned this

alright now the next measure you can move up with your pinky and play a

B here while your right hand jumps down

I mean sorry while your left hand jumps down to an E, and your playing octaves so immediately

you've got a little bit tricky part in left hand - E

E and octave higher, crossover

to a G sharp. Okay?

So that the left is a little tricky in that part

E to an E, switch over to a G sharp and your right hand is gonna continue

playing an E, like an E major chord

E a G sharp

a B

and you'll notice again I'm playing the B with my forefinger because that leaves the pinky open to

get the next note in the

next matter which is C, so let's do a quick review of what we've got so far

We've got this A minor

chord

I'm gonna play a B with my pinky while I jump down with my left hand to Es.

G sharp E

G sharp

B, now when I hit this C in the next measure

okay, now we're looking at measure 5, my left hand is gonna jump down

and play an A. So we're playing like a similar pattern.

But I'm playing A E A again and this time in my right hand

and basically play an E

I'm kinda jumping back into that pattern that you know, and the way I'm doing that is I'm

continuing this

A E A by playing an E with my thumb

and immediately jumping up an octave

and you'll notice that the song begins in that E so want to jump up that are

active

it's like I'm starting over okay

you know that part

you'll notice

I played something a little bit different there the second time so let

me just make sure that I'm really crystal-clear, get you up to the part we

know

and I'll show you that last little bit and a couple details. So you've got

E D sharp E D sharp E

B D C A

A minor chord that your basically playing with your

both hands. Play a B up here, go to Es.

Switch over E G sharp B C

A minor chord that you're outlining.

You jump from E to E

kinda start the pattern over again

A minor chord that you're outlining

to a B here and you can jump down to Es here

now, instead of playing just

instead of playing that up here, what you're gonna do is this

okay so what's going on is you're playing E C

B A, and when you play that A

your gonna play A E and A

in your left hand that's it. The A E and A is a common theme for your left hand to play the one

the five

the one. That's a common thing for your left hand to play for this song so

you'll see that pattern a lot, which is a good thing it'll make it a little easier to learn.

So you'll see that it repeats right at that part that's the section I'm

teaching you right now.

So a couple tips to help you, you'll see that it repeats at the end there -

what I want you to do is to imagine hearing a fourth note

on that last measure that repeated that

measure right before it repeats, instead of hearing Bom Bom Bom and then sort of

guessing when to come in, imagine you're playing a fourth note. Like that one for instance.

and then so it's almost like there's a rest. You can even say "rest".

note note note rest start start start

okay so that by adding a little rest in there

it helps you know when to come in. That's tip number one.

Now tip number two, you'll notice it says "Ped" I mentioned we were going to come back.

Ped and it's got that flower thing to the right. Every time you see Ped and the

flower that means you're gonna push down the

right pedal - the sustain pedal - on your keyboard or your piano

and you notice that lets the notes get kinda like, airier...

they get a little more

ambient sound going on

so you wanna clear each measure in this song you wanna clear each time

you sort of change chords.

So listen to how it sounds, I'll try and exaggerate the pedal. No pedal

and pedal here

you hear how that's like full? Now I'm gonna switch here and clear the pedal

and put it down right again.

You hear that sort of thing? And then you switch again.

So every time you're switching like sections or chords if you think about

it like chords

you're gonna be switching your pedal and clearing it. So

try and pay attention to that in the music mess around and do what sounds right. Usually if you just do what

sounds are you kinda get it

which is the cool thing about the pedal anyway that's the first

tutorial that we're learning the first section of the song. I really hope it helped

you

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