Hello and welcome back! I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we are going to be dictating the rhythm of mouse in the house, and we're
going to learn how to add chords in the left hand.
So let's come over to the heartbeat mat to get started.
Ok, here's our heartbeat mat. Let's touch each beat together as we sing it once,
and try notice where are you hearing one slow sound, like ta-ah, or where you
are hearing two quicker sounds like, ti-ti as we sing.
Ready, go. ♫ Mouse mousie in the housie, hurry, hurry do, or the kitty in the housie ♫
♫ will be chasing you ♫
Good job. Now let's just take two beats at a time and try to figure out the
rhythm words. Here at the beginning we have Baah-bah-bah, but can you turn that into
rhythm words for me? Baah-bah-bah. If you said tah ti-ti
you're correct. There's one slower sound, baah, and then two quicker sounds
inside one beat.
♫ mouse mousie ♫ Now how about buh-buh-buh-buh?
What would that be in rhythm words?
The correct answer is ti-ti ti-ti.
So far we have tah ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti. How about these next two beats? baah baah.
What do you hear? If you said tah tah
you're correct. Now what about ♫ hurry, do ♫
The correct answer is ti-ti tah
So here's the rhythm of the first half of mouse in the house. I'll sing the
rhythm words once and you just listen, then I'll give you turn to try it by
yourself.
So here's my turn. Just listen.
♫ Tah ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti tah tah ti-ti tah ♫
Now your turn. Can you point to each beat and sing the rhythm words?
Ready, go.
Good. Ok let's do the second half of Mouse in the House.
Here we have ♫ or the kitty in the housie ♫ If I take out the words it would
sound like this ♫ bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah ♫
What did you notice? That's right, they were all eighth notes.
so we have ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti, and then we have ♫ will be ♫ baah baah.
That would be tah tah, and then ♫ chasing you ♫
bah bah baah, ti-ti tah, and then "run" is the glissando at the end.
Good, now point to each beat and let's sing the rhythm words together.
Ready? All ti-ti's on this row. Ready go.
♫ ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti ti-ti tah tah ti-ti tah ♫ Run!
Good job. From our website if you download the complete materials for Unit 2
you can try drawing this rhythm yourself on your own heartbeat mat. Now let's come
to the piano and learn how to add chords to Mouse in the House.
Ok, to add chords for Mouse in the House,
let's place our left hand in the C major pentascale. Here is middle C, so I'm going
on the C below that, and remember for the chord we're just playing DO and SO
at the same time with finger five and one. We will just drop
and then float up. Remember to play a good chord you think of dropping down and then
float your wrist up after each chord like this.
Each chord will last two beats, like this one two, one two.
Can you try that with me? Say, one two and you play a chord every time we do the
number one. Ready, go. One two, one two, one two, one two.
Good, now let's sing Mouse in the House as we play chords. We don't play a chord
on every word, but we do play a chord on every two beats like this.
♫ Mouse mousie the housie ♫
♫ hurry, hurry do ♫
Now will you try that with me, let's try the whole song and we'll play
a chord together every two beats.
Ready, go. ♫ Mouse mousie in the housie, ♫
♫ hurry, hurry do. Or the kitty ♫
♫ in the housie will be chasing you. ♫
Good job. Now if you want more practice with that just press pause.
Otherwise let's try playing the melody in your right hand while the left hand
plays chords. So let's place the right hand and the left hand in the C major
pentascale. Now when the right hand plays its first note the left hand will play a
chord like this, mouse, and then the right hand continues, mousie, without playing
a chord on mousie because that's beat two while we're still holding the chord.
So again, it will sound like this. ♫ Mouse mousie ♫
Now you try that. Good. Then on the next note, in the, we play another chord.
♫ in the housie ♫
Now you try that.
Good.
and then it continues.
♫ hurry ♫
Your turn.
Good, and then, ♫ hurry, do ♫ Your turn.
Good.
Now press pause and try going through the whole song,
adding chords. When you're ready to try playing it with me
You can press play again.
Ok, here's the whole song of "Mouse in the house"
with chords. You can just watch me or if you're ready you can try playing
along with me.
Ready go. ♫ Mouse, mousie, in the housie ♫
♫ hurry, hurry do. Or the kitty ♫
♫ in the housie ♫
♫ will be chasing you ♫ Run! and then I like to add
SO DO in the left hand that's one, five
♫SO DO♫ You say, run, do a glissando on run, then
♫ SO DO ♫ Great job today doing the rhythmic dictation of "Mouse in the House" and
learning how to add chords in the left hand.
Remember adding chords can be tricky so be patient and persistent. If you
practice it enough times with focus
what feels hard today will eventually feel easy, and you'll say to yourself, I
can't believe this used to be hard. It's like so easy now.
Once you have the chords mastered, and I mean totally mastered,
Here's an extra super challenge for you, and that is to have your hands switch
jobs. So I mean play the chords in the right hand and the melody in the left hand.
That's going to look like this. So same positions as before, but now the right
hand is playing the chords and the left hand plays the melody.
♫ mouse mousie ♫
♫ in the housie ♫
♫ hurry, hurry do ♫
♫ or the kitty in the housie ♫
♫ will be chasing you ♫ Run! Your left hand can glissando down the piano if you want but
please don't try that until you are ready.
It's super tricky. Okay, just remember I warned you. I hope you have lots of fun
practicing. As always, thanks for watching and I'll see you next time.
Today I would like to share the story of Goldilocks and the three frogs.
Once upon a time there was a girl named Goldilocks, me, who was walking through a
musical forest when she came to three notes in the treble staff.
♫ bah bah bah ♫ These notes are much too high she cried. Then she came to three notes down low in
the bass stuff. ♫ bah bah bah ♫
Oh, those notes are much too low, she said. At last she came to three notes and when
she sang them,
♫ bah bah bah ♫ she exclaimed, these notes are just right, and so she used those three
notes to compose a song.
♫ mm-hmm ♫
After so much composing she was tired and fell fast asleep.
Meanwhile the three frogs who lived in the musical forest came to check on
their precious notes. The mommy frog said, someone changed one of my space notes
into a line note.
We should go check on our other notes. Then the daddy frog said, someone's taken
away my ledger lines.
Let's hurry!
Someone's been using my three notes to compose an entire song, and there she is!
Goldilocks woke up and saw the three frogs all staring at her. All she could
think of to say was,
Would you like to hear the song I composed?
Mmm, sure. I suppose. Why of course.
Okay, hit it.
♫ SO MI DO SO SO DO MI SO SO DO DO ♫ Nice tune.
Dance party! ♫ SO MI DO SO SO DO MI SO SO DO DO ♫
You can come and use our notes anytime.
My name's Goldilocks, by the way
Such a nice girl.