How To Play 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' - Piano Lessons

Piano Lessons.com The #1 Name in Piano Lessons Online Twinkle Twinkle Little Star – Nate Bosch [Demo] [Music Playing] Hi! I’m Nate Bosch of Piano Lessons.com and today we’re going to learn how to play Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. I’m going to use this song as more of an exercise than, you know, teaching a really cool song. We’re going to train our ears a little bit today. I’m just going to pick a note to start the song, we’re going to start on D. So, let’s sing the song together starting from D. [Singing] I went there but let’s, if you sing it, twinkle, twinkle, just the notes going up the scale to that note to see if it matters [Singing] No [Singing] No [Singing] It doesn’t really fit [Singing] There we found it, now that interval right there is a fifth and that’s what you’re hearing [Singing] Now, the melody goes up a little bit and we come back down in steps [Singing] Now, start from the beginning again, now it’s [Singing] Now I played an F there on purpose because we’re starting, we don’t quite know what key we’re in, so but our ear obviously [Demo] You want to hear this note and not this so, our first line [Demo] Now if you listen to that phrase as a whole, your ear sort of gravitates towards this note. Now if we play all the notes in the major scale starting on D we get D, E, F sharp, B, A, E, C sharp and D. So now we kind a know that that is our, our root is D. We’re playing in the key of D, our melody is going to work with in the notes of the scale that we just played. So now we could figure out the rest of the song knowing that the two black keys we’re going to be playing with are the C sharp and the F sharp. So let’s go on [Singing] That same interval we had at the beginning of the song at fifth, so we go up to the A. [Demo] And the melody line goes down [Demo] [Singing] So we’re just going down in steps and in the song repeats that little line again. [Singing] [Demo] And then we go back to the beginning of the song again [Singing] [Demo] So these three parts of the song, let’s play that again, the whole song [Demo] Back to beginning [Demo] So there we have the melody using all of the notes found in the D major scale. Now we want to add let’s say some chord on the left hand, the chord along with this. So we know that our root is D, so we play a D major triad just to start the song up, so we’ve got [Singing] [Demo] Now that note, well that chord that nicely move from the D here in my left hand would be a G chord in the second inversion. Now, that might not just come natural to you if you think on what note would work or what chord would work around that D. Well, there is the E minor chord, it has a B in it. There is the G chord which has the B in it and then there is the B minor chord which has the B in it. So let’s start at the beginning [Demo] Now that’s an E minor chord but now this is where ear comes in because that does not sound quite right. I’ll play it again [Demo] That’s not the song that you remember in your head. Let me try, I’ll show you different one [Demo] See how that sounds a little bit better than using an E minor. The chord works, the better option would be the G and now we’re back down to the D. Now here coming back down [Demo] We can use two chords on the G note here, we can use the G back down to the D. Now on the E, we have some options, we had that E minor again but the five chord that really likes to lead back to the root chord. So the five chord in the key of D is A. In that chord, if you play that chord it wants to lead you back to the root chord. So we’ll do starting from the beginning a G, [Demo] We do the G here [Demo] Back to the D and here’s where the five chord comes in and I’ll play it in the first inversion because that moves easily from a root chord back down to the root. So there’s the first part of the song. Let’s play it again [Demo] Now going on, go back up there [Demo] So that the same chords that we have at the end of our first phrase there. So let’s do that again. The root to the G back to the root, to the A the five chord and does that line again so we can use those chords again [Demo] G to the D and now to the five chord and then we’re at the beginning again. [Demo] And there we have our song, twinkle, twinkle little star. Now the key is just to use your ears to listen to where, what chord would be best to put where. The chord I used were basic triads, there are other four note chords and such that that add notes on top of those basic triads that give you all sorts of options for the chords that you can associate with it but we’ll just keep it simple this time. I’ll play it one last time [Demo] And there you have it, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.