welcome to piano video lessons Year one unit two. today's lesson is the last
lesson in unit 2 and it is a finger gym we're going to be learning two pentascales
the G pentascale and the F major pentascale and this is video #32 on YouTube to get the
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So, pentascales! I told you before the Pentascales are the basis of playing
music because when we play we can use
the notes from the scale to create melodies and harmonies all kinds of very
good things so we're gonna be using these great tools as building blocks
for playing more complicated pieces and understanding music better so what we
learned to play this tendency learned that we can walk up and down
25 notes of the pen to scale and played solid triad at the end that uses three
notes so when we're playing these we can use the same pattern and move it to
another key so what I want you to look at right now is the distance between the
notes that were playing some is gonna make a little note here gonna make it
over here on this side so if i start on scene and then go to the next note
is there a plaque in between
yes there is we call that a whole step anytime we go from one key to another
and there's a key in between we call that a whole so we started on CD and
then we went a whole step then we went from GE we went to this next Note II is
there a p.m. between yes there is
that's a whole step so we went home now we went to after he went to a 40 is
there a key in between there now that I can see so that's called a half step
because there's no way to play anything in between so we call that a half step
and then from this last note from this we went to jail and their music in
between here so it's not a whole step for a half-step it's a whole step this
is the pattern for Penta skills the Penta scale pattern is whole whole half
hall and anytime you start on any key on the piano
you can build a pen to scale by using that pattern so now we're gonna go to G
I'm gonna build a pen to scale so what do we need first we need a whole step so
from Chi to go a whole step we need to have a keen between and we do have a
Blackie so the next day we need is a and then we need to go into the whole step
so there's a key in between Great Britain play the next night then be so
we now we need a half-step so let's look here from B to the next key so how does
it work in between there is not so we're good to go we can just play this next
node which is C and then we need a host up to finish so to finish this with a
whole step we need to go from see skip the key and up to D
so there we have it all white keys it just starts on a different note starts
on the note she so I'm going to go ahead and play using the music days he being a
repeat gonna play in this three times with the rank and repeated again
and then we're going to play our broken trying she be a Jay 30 the notes of a
sea trial RCT the notes of a G Triad and Jimmy Dean to see major triad has 320 is
the G major has three why he's there is a G minor were not learning it today but
it sounds like this it's Dillon Gee trial but it's a G minor so here we have
the G major triad so we could now playing the left hand walking up and
down three times once
that's twice really need it and now onto the trial the broken form gene B D G
three
there we haven't let's do both hands
wow it's not that once thought our hard earned that I hope you don't get those
planes the deep end to scale but if you didn't that's okay you've got another
chance to try now
alright so now its independence kill it starts on FB if I just plain white tees
its gonna sound funny there's gonna be a black in this one so let's start off on
a half and use the same pattern that we used before and work out a pen to skip
the first thing we need is a whole step so we need to have a key in between
there's a black key here so the next key we're safe to play oh wait here to play
eg now we need a whole step so from GE there's a black here gonna go to the
next key here at 1-1 so good to go to a from here and now what do we need a
half-step our whole step check when you have stepped ok so no keys in between if
we go from eighty here there's a key in between here and we're not allowed to
have any Q's in between so what are we gonna do I'm going on a
we can play a way up here and now no keys in between that means play this
black he ok so this black key here a little box there that mystery black he
say a black key that we need a whole step what does that mean skip one key so
should I play this note no need to skip this note and place see gene Blackie and
see alright black so what's the black he called his name he believes it's called
being so he can have it I was looking at this key there's two black he's around
that there's one here and there's one here so this is a and these two black
he's can both be named in reference to a one as a flat and one is a sharp now I
look at this note B which would have been the next note after da be there is
only one black he decided and it's going in the left or downward direction so
it's be and the symbol for flat is this a sign so be flat is written like this
be flat so let me just tell you a little bit about these Black Keys because
obviously you're curious now has piqued your interest and you haven't learned
these before you want to know more this is not the official lesson today we will
revisit this at a future time but just so you know
notes that move to the left are going lower and if you have your car had a
flat tire would go up or down but go down so flats go down and if you sat on
a sharp tack would you step up or just a sitting down
on you would get up so sharps up so the symbol for a flat is this and the symbol
for a showing that reminds me up like a game like that he's got a little arrow
at the bottom flat 20 down so flat goes down and a sharp looks like this that
looks really that looks really like sharp you wouldn't sit on something
that's shaped like this so sharp goes up and that to me it looks like it points
up a little bit these alarms are going up so if I'm thinking about a white T
here I could go this way to a flat and I could go this way to a sharp so this
black he just like he has two names I just called it a flat as here's be and I
went this way so I won't be flat they form or if I was thinking about a I
could have called it a sure sign here is a sure or hears be now I'm going to
teach you more about that later that was just a quick interlude into the
explanation of Black Keys and what their names are so here's the pen to scale
babe month they want basically I've seen a lot now notice when I'm playing this
my fingers are placed above the keys I don't have to move to get to this black
Kia my back here and jumping in every time I need a flat I just shifted my
whole hand pattern in a little bit as I can play anywhere on these keys I don't
have to always playing out at the ends here awkward so I'm just gonna move my
whole hand in so I can easily plan as before I began my skirt fingers only
difference is this one when it when it relaxes on to its key it's going to land
a little higher up than the other ones just popping down on top of that black
he there that we have the Triad
C three now done plenty black he is trying out did not that's because the
try and uses 13 15 and we have our blacky on the 4th note in this pentagon
let's start with that piece last thing we noticed that my hand is playing in
the black so I'm not sticking my hand in a note to get to those notes and then
the Triad
he's holding four to three and then let's do it again
both hands in my brief study
listening for Novell and at the same time as each other
be tricky to coordinate
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excellent alright so that's the end of unit to unit three were gonna be
expanding on our coordination skills Arnold be learning to do some
improvising and it's gonna be lots of so join me in less than three less than one
which is video 33 thanks for watching