Pull it back down to the left and push back down, and it gets really nice. One more time. Damper pedal down (Demonstration). Change the pedal, and now it is gone. We can pull that off as long as we are pushing the damper pedal.
I think I am going to do this so you can see my foot at the same time. That could probably help. Hopefully, you can see that. (Demonstration) Then, I change to the left. Now, I am holding it down, and then I can let go.
We successfully changed the harmony. (Demonstration) Now, if we want to change it again, we pull down the next harmony and then let it go. Now we changed it if you let go of that harmony. (Demonstration) You can change again and go to this one. (Demonstration) That is the very first one—noise, play the chord, change the pedal for how many times you want to. You just saw me come all the way up, so I do not want any questions, “But you went all the way up there”. Well, I just made a lot of mistakes there.
I was getting energetic. (Demonstration) I will probably go through the same thing again, but then you will have to rewind it. That was the first one. That one is for beginners. You can do that with just a pedal and a keyboard. Make noise and practice playing that C chord. When I say C chord, I mean it as C, E, and G. So, play the C chord and then change. You will be changing after you play that chord.
The other one is taken from this book here. It is called Piano Pentagon: Your Practical Approach. It is basically an approach to teach teachers how to teach. It is a pretty big book. It is written by an amazing guy. His name is Edward Parker. He is based in Vancouver. He is old now, he has some kids. One of his kids has gone to Julliard. He is an amazing teacher, really well-known and respected to throughout all DC, probably the whole country—maybe even North America.
So, I have actually never met him, but I want to meet him one day. It would be interesting. I read his books and I heard good things about him, actually.
What I am trying to get to is, this is the guy, Edward Parker, and in his book, he talks about a whole lot of exercise. I do not remember exactly where it was in this book, but I do have a written note.
Here it is right here. You can see the man right in here. See how I have written out one and two, three, four. The reason there is an “and” there is because on the one, we are going to play and chord and we are going to hold it. On the end, we are going to change the pedal and we will keep going up.
I want you to look at this closely. I will go really slowly. I will play a C chord and I will move up the scale. I am just going to play three chords and then just move in every single one of those up one note. (Demonstration)
That is what I am doing and the reason of that is because every chord will sound different than the other because of the different harmonies that are played there.
What we are going to do because we are always changing, we will have to change the pedal every time we do that. So, this is why it is helpful. We will hold the pedal down and play the C chord. Now, we will count (Demonstration) and then on the one, we will change to the next chord, and then when we say “and”, we will change the pedal. The pedal changes on one. (Demonstration)
Now, if I did not change the pedal on the “and”, it will sound like this. (Demonstration)
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