Hi, there welcome to another one of my easy to play lessons, if you have never been over to my website yet, I hope you come over, it is www.mrmusiccanada.com.
Today I am going to show you nice fun song, it is from the Phantom of the Opera and it is called the “Music of the Night,” it is a great song to play if you can get down nice and deep on your key board or your piano. And we got some strings at going there, it is another fun song and it is actually easy too so let me go through it and the first part and then I will break it down and show you how we do it okay.
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We will go over the right hand first, I am just going to start off with the E note here okay. And the first part we actually got it twice, so it is pretty easy and it goes like this. Let us go through it again, start with the E note down to the G, up to the D and we are going to do that twice. And the next part is you go up one to the F or to the A here, up to the C, that is—do it twice-too. And the last time and then, getting back on your C again. So this goes with the whole right hand section, so you can hear that you have an E here, down to your G. That is two, now go up to your C, go to it twice then we will move into the next section, this is the last section, and the ending, okay, so there is your right hand.
So, I will add some left hand to that, rather than playing just straight chords you can do your C chord this way you want. Now you are playing by ears, so do whatever sound best to you or whatever is the easiest too. There is your F, there is your G, so if you want to play chords that way that is great and this lesson I am going to teach you how to do it this way though. Put a C, I hope your fingers can stretch a bit, we are going to need both C’s and the G in the middle. That is going to be your C and we are not going to play them all together, we are going to do the individual notes.
When we get up to the F, just remember both F’s and C in the middle, okay, that is the only three we are going to use for the F. And for the G move everything up one, grab both G’s and we are going to use the D in the middle. So that is the way we are going to play it for this part. Like I said if you want to use your straight chords, it sounds great too.
So let us go through the first part, we will start with the C chord and we are going to go up to the G, and note that the left hand and right hand are playing the same note, so whichever hand you are playing then. And then we are going to go down to the F, up to the G, so we get the C, G, to the F and back to the G again, we will go through it twice, so let us do it again, up to a G, down to the F and up to a G, okay so that is the first part.
Okay moving out to the last section, we are going to start on an F around the A up here, then down to your C, back up to your F, back to your C again. So we will do that twice and then the next section, we will go to your F again, now at this point here we are just going to play a single note your B flat down to your F. I am just playing single note too, you will get how it sound there, then back to your C. Do those again, your B flat, F, and back to your C. Okay and then the last verse, your F and up to your G and then back to your C, moving the hand there.
Okay, so hold the section there, so it is F and down to your C, F, back to your C, F chord, strike your single note, F, and you can see I was up to three chords, does not matter, the single note will get you there too. So get your C, F, up to your G, back to your C, okay so let us do and review the whole thing. So let us do or review that whole section, I would not talk through it let us just do it nice and slow though.
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Okay that is the end of the part one, good luck with it.
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