Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we're learning how to play love somebody with chords in the left hand. So
let's take a look at how these chords are notated on the staff. Since we'll be
playing our chords in the left hand and it will be below middle C, we're using a
bass clef today. Here's our key signature which tells us we'll be in the key of E
major, and let's review this note on the bass staff. Remember if you're on the
line between these two dots, what note would this be? If you said F you're
correct, and because we're in the key of E major it will actually be an F-sharp
automatically because of the key signature, because we'll be using theE
major pentascale. Now what if I go a step below F, now can
you tell me what note this would be? If you said E you're correct and since
we're in the key of E, E is DO for us today.
Now our left hand will be playing chords and if we want to draw a I chord,
remember that a I chord is built on DO MI and SO. It should look like this.
Remember that from DO to MI is a skip up. If it were just a step up, we'd be on
this line. But when we skip up, if we start on a space, then it would go
space skips up to another space, and that gives us DO MI SO all played together
at the same time since they're stacked. When notes are stacked together right in
a line like this that means to play them as a chord all at the same time. Let's
check out how to play this I chord on the piano. If this is middle C here's my
bass F so E would be here and the I chord would look like this. Can you try
playing a I chord on your piano? It will have an E, G-sharp, B
like this. Now let's figure out how to draw a V7 chord. When we want a
V7 chord instead of using DO, DO steps down a half-step to TI
which in this case will be a D-sharp so DO moves down to TI, MI also steps up
to FA and then a step above FA we have SO. Now when two notes are just a step
apart and played in a chord they will still touch kind of like they're kissing.
They can't totally stack but they'll be diagonal from each other and
touching so you can tell to play them together like this. So this is what our
V7 chord will look like let's check out how to play that on the piano.
Now for the V7 chord remember DO moves down a half step to TI
Half-step means the nearest possible note which in this case is this D-sharp.
And MI moves up to FA. So TI FA and SO together make the V7 chord.
So with your left hand you'll use fingers 5, 2 and 1
play backwards. Why don't you try playing a V7 chord with your left hand?
Great, so to review we've got our I chord and the V7 chord.
Now let's hunt for these two chords in the sheet music.
Can you point to all of the I chords on this first line?
If you're pointing here and here you're correct.
Now, if you'd like to download the sheet music from our website
which you can get as part of the complete materials for this unit.
You can try this at home. Take a blue colored pencil or crown or highlighter like I have. We're going to circle all the I chords blue.
That will help us remember where those I chords are. Now let's come down here to
line 2 can you point out all the I chords here. If you're pointing here
you're correct. And again at home you can circle your I chords blue and that's
right there's another one here. You'll notice this one I is a half note
we've got it's empty inside with a stem so that gets two beats. This I chord
will only last one beat because it's a quarter note you also have a I chord
here and here. Super, now what does that leave us with that's right it looks like
everything else is going to be a V chord so let's take another color. I'm going to
use orange, you're welcome to use a different color if you like but I'm
going to circle all of the V7 chords orange
Very good now later on we'll learn why it's called a V7 chord. It's a
pretty complex music theory concept and we'll get to naming the chords
later. For now I chord, V7 chord. Super. Now that we've found the chord
let's try playing them on the piano. So if this is middle C, our left hand will
come to the left of that into the bass clef area and let's find the E major
pentascale. Can we start off just playing each note of the E major pentascale and
name them starting with E? Ready go. E F-sharp G-sharp A B Great now can you play
the I chord? Good and now let's try the V7
chord. So finger five moves to D-sharp. It might feel most comfortable if finger
two is coming up in between the black keys and then back to the I chord. Good
now looking at the music you can see that we play a I chord for two beats
so let's try that and count 1 2 then a V7 chord for two beats
Let's count two beats again 1 2 then we come back to a I chord for two beats
1 2 then a V7 chord for two beats 1 2 Try this with me now we
go to line two and a oI chord for two beats 1 2 then a V7 chord
for two beats 1 2 Now things go a little bit faster here now we just have
one beat per chord we have a I chord, V7 chord, I chord, I chord
Let's try that a couple of times here at the end we've got a I chord, V7,
I, I. Good now what I'd like you to do is
press pause and practice going through all of the chords and count the beat out
loud while you play like this 1 2, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2
1 2, 1 2, 1, 1, 1, 1. I just said 1 on those last ones because they each just get one beat. Now
press pause and practice that on your own then press play when you're ready to
try it with me
All right now I'd like you to play the left hand chords. I'll also play the left
hand chords but I'm going to add in the melody too so we can hear how the chords
will fit with the melody. But if you listen too much to the melody it may
distract you, so I would suggest you really focus on the counting just
think 1 2 while I play the melody and chords. Let's try this together from the
beginning, ready go 1 2, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2,
1 2, 1 2, 1, 1, 1, 1.
Great. If you had any trouble feel free to pause practice some more rewind and
try it again. Practice it as many times as you need to
to feel comfortable and confident. When you feel really confident with the left
hand chords, you can try it hands together which will look just like this.
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Nice work learning the left hand of "Love Somebody" and congratulations on now
knowing how to read sheet music for both hands on the grand staff. Once you feel
confident with the chords then go ahead and start practicing it hands together.
Thanks for watching and happy practicing.
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when scuba glued paper to his eye- Scuba:-mask! Princess:-we thought it would be good to review
some common features of speech Scuba: -called idioms- Princess: and their true meaning. Scuba: Alright
here we go. Idiom number one. Somebody let the cat out of the bag. That means that
someone revealed a secret. (Cat meowing in bag) Chef: Oh let me help you get out of there. Cat: Oh, I'm okay.
My secret is that I really like being in bags. Princess: Idiom number two. It cost an arm and
a leg. That means that it was really expensive. Scuba: Oh I can demonstrate this one
My diving mask was really expensive. It cost me an arm and a leg. Princess: Scuba, you don't
have any arms or legs. Scuba: And now you know why. Princess: Hmm. Scuba: Okay, so that brings us to idiom
number three. Crying crocodile tears. That means to pretend to be upset. (Crocodile crying) No one
ever believes me when I cry, they just say it's crocodile tears.
Nurse: Oh, poor crocodile, are you okay? Crocodile: Yeah don't worry about me I was just faking
it. Nurse: Hmm, well now we've all heard it straight from the horse's mouth. Horse: LAAAA Nope!
Now we have.