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hi happy holidays merry christmas I'm Scott Houston
and I want to teach you to play joy to the world on piano kinda like that right
there
I but figured out a way then I'm gonna split this tune up into 5 lessons
because right now it's about a week before Thanksgiving so we have about
five weeks before the Christmas
and I'm going to once a week give out a little
dose, one little lesson and we got split into five pieces
so very simply and the teach you how to play this tune on piano and I promise
you'll be able to get this under Hand that I kinda sneaky way to do it it's
gonna be a pretty hip version but nice piano chords and the whole bit so
I'm really looking for doing this and I think you'll be shocked at how
how little and bite size each individual piano lesson is also just to mention this
briefly and then not that burning every music is in a great thing to be able to
do or don't wanna learn to do
but in this environment I want as many people as possible be able to take
advantage of these 5 free piano lessons and
get this piano tune under hand It's really fun to be able to play a a good holiday to
in this time a year
so let's dig right in here comes piano lesson number one
now here's what we're going to do okay with your right hand
you want to put your fingers on these notes
my pinky is on a C up at Top here right
that I have my index finger on a G and
my thumb on s C
Now don't tuck your fingers away like I am too I'm just doing it makes it easier
to show you and you can see which no timer
but when you're really playing the piano you wanna leave your fingers out so there's no
reason to
give yourself rigor mortis hand by taking your fingers away like I do
okay so here we go you just are here
and just are working your way down one white piano note at a time so you have
you'll notice that my hand is absolutely lock like it's got a cast on it
exactly the same shape through the entire
thing ok
I'lll do that one more time
It starts on a C and you just are going down every white piano note Until you
get one entire octave lower and you'll be
ending up on that piano note so one more time
okay that's it for your right hand part now here's where do with your left hand
to begin with alright
I'm gonna open up this camera-shy just a little bit here
pardon me or expand its just a little bit re: now
here's what you need to do with your right hand here's the baseline it just
goes like this:
I'm
starting on a C, right then you can always tell a C that's the first white note to
the left of two black notes on a keyboard
alright so here we go
and then you want to reach down one octave
right so it is the same G down at the bottom
that's it, one more time
now what you're probably end up wanting to do is playing that in
octaves just to get a deeper sound to you play both go to the same time though
sound like this
right then
now you may want to even go one octave down further because, this will make
sense the minute we do it we're going to have a thumb crash where the this hand is coming
down here and this thumb is coming up here
so here's how all do it alright if you just want to watch or put my hands
together
so we're going to just what we did before and again I'm playing octaves are
and I have one more see played down they're the same time so I'll play
right here is where you can have a thurmb crashit's no big deal you can solve
it however you want but
I'll probably just stay out of the way
and then I'll reach down even one octave further
right
then come back to the sea
so here it is this is the whole thing ready for this piano lesson right
okay now if you need to watch it over and over your free do it a few times but
that's all we're gonna do
for this first piano lesson so takes a few days to get underhand great
takes a few minutes to get underhand great make sure you're comfortable with
it
but I'm still gonna make you wait a week until I give the next piano lesson
alright get ready we'll come back with a lesson 2 out of 5 total piano lessons!