Hello and welcome to piano lesson number 18.
Okay, so today is 07/07/07. What are you doing today on this apparently lucky day? I would actually like to go to New York City and like check it all the – and meet with all the YouTube reasons and stuff like that but obviously I am not loaded enough to travel all the way New York. As I am sure a lot of other people are on the same boat.
Anyway, in this lesson I am going to be talking about learning a new song. I got this idea from someone on YouTube named GetMeThere and then with a 1 at the end. So, cut it to you. So, I thought this is a good video to make because I have done a lot of teaching on different theories and terms and techniques and stuff like that but I have not explained from start to finish what it takes to learn a song and I am sure that is why most of you watching this to learn how to play a song because no one is going to be like, “Hey man! Look, look at my technique is, are you not impressed? Oh yeah!”
You do not get often play a C Major scale in front of like a couple people and expect applause, really. Unless, if you teach him how to play a C Major scale and again. So, I wrote this down actually. I should probably look at it. Okay, so this stage is a learning the song, it is not just simple, okay here is the sheet music play all the notes and then you know the song. You guys do stages on acts two there is different type, like different exercises you can use to different stages of learning the song that will help you learn it faster and more securely and you’ll be able to perform it better as well. So, I am go through those.
The stages to learning a song at first are obviously, there should be extremely obvious but I am going to say it anyway. You need to learn the note. So you got to learn first. So, in order to that, you have to sit beside someone that knows how to play this song and it will be like, “Okay what key do I press that? Okay, and then, the other one okay”, and then try to remember it that way. Or you can teach yourself to read Jimmy’s—I Got Lesson on the reading sheet music or maybe you are just born able to read sheet music. Maybe, I was not. Okay, so you got your sheet music that is what I am going to say when we are going to learn it from cheat music.
Get your sheet music and before you even start playing, do not just even open the book and be like, “Okay, first note (Demonstration).” Not like that, not a good idea. First thing you want to do, look closely like take it right to your face and dissect the entire thing. Start from the beginning and go all the way down to the bend of the song. So, first look at maybe the right hand, all the notes, see all the rhythms going, check out the phrases so like all these lines going on here. Did I ever? I can’t even remember if I ever taught about phrases. No I should have.
Anyway, so you all want to look over at the time signature, the key signature. So, what sharps and flats are going to be through the key and the piece, so as to tell you what key it sound. Look at the like time signature if it is a 2/4? Is it a 3/4? Or is it 4/4? Is it like a Saraband, an Arobas, a Sonata, Nocturne? What kind of piece is it? So if you are playing one type of piece and it is like, “Dude I’m in a nocturne” and you are like, what is a nocturne? You should probably go in the Internet, online Google or like Wikipedia nocturne. That will give you an idea of what you need to do for that kind of a piece, because nocturnes are night pieces. They are kind of like soft, romantic. Now, they can be quick but they are not very really harsh and they are not really big. They might have one little flashy passage go through but it is not going to be like a huge marginal.
Anyway different topic, so you are going to see what type of piece are those and then you are going to try and bring all out together, understand what you are going to be trying to learn and if you can get a recording of it first that is even better. So, you can get to understand how it is going to sound.
Then once you have done all that, then you need to—you guys do the sheet music and find out all the passages. Then if you see any rhythms that you do not think you really know how to play, like say it’s got like a half note and then its has like two quarter notes and then the next bar its got like a triplet quarter note was like some 16th notes in there and then a random—
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