Now, you will notice the one that has this natural sign and a flat sign. The top part of it means that this would be the C note, the B note, and the D. This is the center wherein you have one note on end. What they are saying is the top note of the 10th is going to be flatted. (Demonstration) It is centered on C. The top note is here, so that top note is going to be flatted. This is going to be what you are playing. (Demonstration)
As you will notice here in the key signature B, E, and A are all flatted. If C is here and the turn goes down one step, that would be to a B. But if the key signature has a B flat in it, it is going to flat that note automatically. That would make it like this. (Demonstration) They do not want that. Chopin did not want that, so he added a natural sign to the B flat to make this a natural. So instead of this, it is going to be this. (Demonstration)
We have the natural, it brings the B flat down to the natural B, the flat brings the D to a D flat, and then it is going to be on the C.
I think there is another one right here. Can you see that? It is a dot. It is an E turn. (Demonstration) This is going to be on this one. You have to put your thumb here and then play a dot, so you are going to use your second finger on the E flat. (Demonstration) You just have to play all those notes in a span of 1/8 note.
Here, that should be a little trail here. You should be going along and then you would go E, F, E, and then down to the D again. It would just be adding an F and an E between these two notes.
Here, we have another, which are grace notes. I just want you to repeat those notes again, quickly, and then jump up play up there. Can you see all of these? All of these notes going along here, all of these are grace notes because they are small, as you can see. You can bring these out. The way to do this is you can do whatever you want with the tempo. You can slow it down a little bit, especially with here. So, this is going to be a little more rhythmic and then here, it is going to slow down. (Demonstration) I will just hit a tempo, so you can just come back to the normal tempo. (Demonstration)
By the way, if you are on the C series of chord in this piece, I actually have me playing the song. If you look for it in my videos, you should be able to see it.
So here, right under the trail. It is just going over this note, so you can only have it or have the longest note value. (Demonstration) You can probably see where I am going. (Demonstration) You just have to do a little quick-on.
I think that explains everything. This is actually a hard subject to teach because there are different types of trails. There are all these different variations on the turns—you start on the upper note or the bottom note. Usually, those are the general rules. If they are going to throw something different at you, it will be on a lot higher grade or they will explain it to you.
I have not really thought about the next thing that I am going to teach because there is not much that I can think of. So please, if you are watching this and you have been going through all my lessons and say, “Andy, stop and teach me something that I have been wanting you to lay for the entire lesson”, please tell me now, because I need ideas.
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