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You already know how amazing the "Interstellar" theme is. There is such a simplicity but yet an
elegance to this theme, every time I'm out and I hear Interstellar being played on a
piano I just can't but help to peek to see who's playing. In this video I want to teach you how to
play this theme, but I want to do something interesting. I want to teach you first the
easy version. I want to explain the structure, the notes, etc. And then using this structure,
we're also going to learn a medium version and also a hard version. [Music]
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Let's start by learning the easy version of Interstellar. So with our right hand,
we're going to put our thumb on the A above C. [Music] And then the next note is going
to be E. And it goes something like this. And you repeat that. [Music] Next one is B and E.
Next is C and E.
And next is D and E. I hope you can see that's a bit of kind of a climb
up from the A to the B, to the C to the D. And it always uh, ends on the E. So...
Next... [Music]
And theb ends on the B. before you kind of restart again
let's now move to the left hand of the easy version this one is Uber
easy okay so with your pinky can you put that on the F underneath middle C
okay just play that note next one is a g foreign [Music] and then just going back
down and that's it just three notes putting them together sounds like this [Music]
really nice job we're going to now move on to the medium version so in this medium level we
need to coordinate our hands a little bit more a lot of piano beginners come to our
Channel and hand coordination is one of their struggles if you want some help you can click
on this video where I give you some exercises on how to coordinate your hands I'm actually
also coming up with a course called the hand coordination bootcamp and this helps piano
beginners who just feel very uncoordinated to help to get them to play some exercises on
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As you can see there, the right hand was exactly the same as the easy version but the left hand is
going to be playing a little bit more notes. So instead of just the F pattern, we're now going to
do this. So F, C and F. Okay, so this is quite a classic left hand pattern for piano players.
Let's try that a few times. And then we're going to move
on to the next pattern. Go into G but move everything up one. But this time,
your index finger, let's move that up even one more. So that's G E and G G-E-G.
In the next pattern, we're going to move to the A minor chord. And this time we're
going to keep our E over there. Keep our index finger on that E and do... Beautiful!
And then we're going to head back to the G. Okay just for the nerds out there, this is an
E minor chord but just with a G bass. So again the whole left hand sounds like this. [Music]
So when you put that together, it sounds like this. [Music]
And you can repeat that as many times as you want. Okay the hard version. [Music] Let's start
with learning the left hand. It's important to get that left hand pattern before we do our right hand
octaves. So in left hand, we're still using those same chords. So we're using that F chord. Okay
this time instead of playing up here, I want you to go down the octave. {Music] Okay, so try that.
It should sound grand and deep. Okay and this time after doing this, I want you to turn your hand
using your 3, go to G, play A, don't play B. Skip that. And go to C. Okay so you're gonna
do that pattern that we learned before, that classic left hand pattern. You're going to turn
around and you're going to do... it's a very kind of watery and atmospheric kind of sound.
Try this.
And using the same pattern, we're going to apply that to the next couple of chords,
too. So just everything plus one. Let's go to G.
So this time again. It's the same pattern - next note, next note, and skip this note.
Okay let's go now to the next chord the A minor chord.
And then going back down to the E minor chord but with a G bass.
Nice job! Now that we've got the left hand, let's look at what's happening in the right
hand. As you can see there, the right hand was actually playing some octaves. [Music]
When you're doing this level, I actually recommend you to not do octaves first. So
let's just say this is level 2.5. Okay medium 0.5. So we're gonna do this. Do the left hand pattern.
[MUSIC] But just keep the right hand as usual.
When you get a little bit more comfortable with that, then try the octaves.
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