(Piano playing)
Hello everyone and welcome to piano lesson number 30.
So, 30—it actually kind of flown by. Anyway, I just came from the Music Festival. I was watching one of my students play. She played actually quite well. Jessica did all her pieces just the way we want to have her and everything went really good. The examiner was really cool, his name is Arnie. Actually, he is not the examiner he is actually the judicator, but he is really hilariously cool.
Okay, I want you to play loud and then he is like I am going to walk out of this church and let us see if I can still hear you when I am outside the doorstep. So, he like actually walks out and then he could not get back in because he locked himself out. So, it was just like, I couldn’t get on. It’s like people planned that and students laughed. It is hilarious.
I am playing later tonight actually. This might be one of my last times—I don’t know. Anyway, I was already dressed up nice and everything, so I was like well might as well just do lots of nuisance like I really have too much to do today. Today is one my day off and days off actually.
So, let us do another lesson and this lesson is going to be—it is not going to be too long. It will be on how to roll a chord and there are two types of different rolled chords. So, the very first one is, it is kind of like a roll for an effect. Now, if you watch my last piece it is called “How-to-do”, if you have notice there is this one spot where I’m doing this (Demonstration). Now listen to it (Demonstration). So, if you notice, these are rolled chord in every bar (Demonstration). Anyway, it is just rolling the chord. Now, let me show you what it looks like on music so that you know what it looks like and you will know when you need to roll a chord or not.
Okay, let us listen nice and close here. All right, so the first thing we need to do—here is sheet music. Now, if you see this sign right here, let us get behind the camera so I can see if this is actually on the screen. Okay, you see this, this little squiggly line thing right here that means you are going to roll the chord. So, you are going to go (Demonstration) you just play it all in a row. So whenever you see a squiggly line thing like that you are going to be rolling the chord and it always means that you are going to be rolling up never down always up, so you always go from the bottom top. So, that is what a rolled chord articulation actually looks like.
Now, there are two reasons you might want to play a rolled chord. The first reason would be, is in effect. So when we do a rolled chord it gives you different effect. Now, here I will play, it looks out rolling chord (Demonstration). Here it sound like something is lacking (Demonstration). So, there is that and then now we go back to the rolled (Demonstration). So, it gives it that kind of classy cosmopolitan kind of appeal to it. So, that is the effect that they wanted or the guy that wrote this Simon Biber when he was doing this piece. You can find it in a lot of active pieces actually gather bronze pieces of there. Where is it? Right here.
So, we’ve got little rolled chords in the bottom like this (Demonstration). Do you hear that? So, you got nice little (Demonstration). Now, this piece is the reason why I brought this one out is because it actually serves a purpose. So, the first reason is more on effect—to have an effect with a rolled chord. There are also like some pieces where he has some rolled chords (Demonstration). He is trying to accent the dominant sound resolving back to the time.
Now here in this piece, he is actually using the both from the same at one tones and this brown piece here he is using this on script (Demonstration). I can’t play right now, it is too early in the morning it is only nine.
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