Hey, guys. This is Piano Lesson number 3. Okay, so I just recorded last but then I do not know, I thought like making another one beautiful kind of meeting new group right now, okay.
So, today we are going to learning about Triads and do not get too scared about those they are not really like complicated which I am saying on you. And now, I want you to do another scale. I am feeling in a festive mood because it is now I am crazy, I tied myself place out. I was up in DC, Canada, so, we have got tons of snow coming around right now. Probably like almost half foot in the past night and it is snowing up tight right now. I hope you can see like there.
Alright so, the piece we are going to run today because I am in a festive mood is “Jingle Bells” and I have past in jingle balls and it is kind of cold because you guys have a few weeks to practice and then maybe you can play with some family or something. Sit down at the piano and play some Jingle bells for people, okay. Anyway, so let us get into it man.
You know, I should really get a someone to hold the camera for me but whatever. Okay, so freezing today, we are going to stay with Triads and that they are not really that hard. We are going to work with C Major to start off but that can be move on to every pretty much every other scale, okay. So, this is pretty basic, this is the first, we are going to learn solid Triads, in order Triad is basically a chord. So, it is one note.
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Accompanied by two other notes that go in a harmony with that note to make it ton filled out.
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Okay, this is C, E, and G, okay. So, how are you going to find this is, you pretty much cannot play the C then you can skip one note and then you are going to skip now the note and finally, E, G. but later on, when you starting maybe you are so up here. You are going to be like, Oh my god, how I am going to find that. So, for now I am going to teach you to count up, some many times.
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So, you are going to start here and then, you are kind of count 1 semi tone, 2 semi tone, 3 semi tone , 4 semi tone, and then, 1 semi tone, 2 semi tone, 3 semi tone.
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So, 4 semi tones up and then 3 semi tones up, so you can find that anywhere in the piano like right here for instance. So, 1 semi tone, 2 semi tone, 3 semi tone, 4 semi tone, and then 1, 2, 3,
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Did not that sound nice, okay. So, you can find that anywhere. So, it is 4 semi tones, the second note, and 3 semi tones to the next round. Okay, so yes, this is getting kind of imperative now. Just playing those chord over and over, over, over again., just like a break of neck of something, okay. So, we are getting some variety in here and these are called Inversions. So, all of inversion, if you are playing this chord and then you are going to take this note and swing it all the way over, something like this.
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Now, this note comes over here, but you are still playing these two, so now that is how they are all the same note. You have the C, E, and the G; a C, E, and a G.
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So, all that happens this is not coming over here. So, it is kind of like, I do not know, building blocks in taking the, like a Xanga block. You know what, if you guys ever played Xanga. It is like taking the bottom block out and then putting on the top or something. So, here we go.
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Okay, guess with the next one what is going to be. You are just going to check this and sweep it over here, so this is going here and like that. And from here you just going to take this and super back up here, okay. So, now probably the best fingers here are 1, 3, 5 to the right and 1, 5, 3, 1. So, they are the same fingers but they are merge because they hand to merge, right. Your thumbs starts in the middle, okay.
So, when you go to play the left hand chords which you will be doing a lot of, I guess later. It is just backward I guess, okay. Anyway, I will start, here is this. This is called the root position because it is pretty much where you start.
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This is called first inversion because it is the first inversion you do.
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This, that is the second inversion
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and this is root. Again, and then, you go back down.
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Good. Okay, so now for your finger in. So, is going to 1, 3, 5, and then, 1, 3, 5, and then 1 3 5, and 1, 3, 5. So, it always the same except from right here. Now, you can tell this because think about like these two notes are down here and this one is up her, so these two are closer. So, you put this down and put this up, so its, 1, 3, 5; 1, 2, 5; 1, 3, 5; 1, 3, 5; and 1 2 5, and 1 3 5 again.
So, when I mean back chords, okay, so watch up
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And 1 3 5 now, in the right hand it would be at 1, 2, 5 but we are going to 1, 3, 5, right now. Now, 1, 2, 5 and 1, 3, 5; 1, 2 5; 1, 3, 5, and back 1, 3, 5 again. So, this is still root. This is still the first inversion because it is they exact same pattern as the notes up here. It is history laughing lost time. So, incase you are wondering this is still first inversion. This is the second inversion and then you are back to root, okay. So, that is chords, that is what you call a solid Triad. Now, broken triad is.
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