(jazz piano music)
- Hey everyone and welcome to the eighth and final video
of Music Theory for the Dropouts.
My name is Cassi Falk and today we're going to apply
everything we just talked about in the previous videos
to tackling a new piece of music.
The music we are going to learn today
is a song called "Bee Keeping".
So we're going to take all our major and minor
key relationships, learning to read chords,
different notes on the staff and rhythms
and apply it all to this music.
So let's start off with the first thing, our key signature.
Just after the treble clef and the bass clef
at the beginning we have our little F sharp,
which represents that we are in the key of G.
So we are using all the notes from the G scale.
(piano scale)
Our key signature at the beginning has the little F sharp,
which applies to all the F's in the song.
So whenever we see an F in the treble clef or the bass clef
we know that it's going to be played as an F sharp
because it belongs to the family, or key of G.
The next thing we'll look at is our time signature of 4/4.
So remember, this tells us, for the top number
how many beats are in every measure
and the bottom four is what kind or quarter.
So this tells us we have four
quarter notes in every measure.
So let's take a look at, now, reading some of the notes.
The first note that we have, is one of the guide notes
that we talked about, which was G,
on the line between the swirl of the treble clef.
And we can see from here that all the notes
are just going in seconds, or steps up.
(piano scale)
And from our C we go from a space to space,
so we know we have to skip a white key.
(piano plays)
The next note we're going to reach up a little bit
to the note just above the top line.
So we have a G, and remember our F sharp ...
(piano music)
To here.
Now with also reading intervals
and finding our guide notes in music
it's great to find patterns because it shortens
the length and the amount of music that we have to learn.
If we look at that first line of the right hand,
we can see that it's exactly the same
in the next line for the right hand.
So that's nice and easy.
Now for the left hand, let's go through that.
So we start off with a G, because we know the spaces are
All Cows Eat Grass.
We go to our guide note C.
We reach down ...
And look at the next one,
we have three notes stacked up nicely all in the spaces.
So we know we're playing some type of chord.
And if you look at the capital G,
just above that measure there,
it's saying that we're playing a G chord.
So rmemeber that capital G represents our chord of G major.
(G chord)
So now lets look at the rhythm.
The rhythm in that first line is very straight forward.
If we played it with counting it would sound like this ...
One, two, three, four.
So that rhythm is pretty straight forward.
All the notes are lining up on the beat.
Now if we move to measure 28
this is where the eighth notes come in.
And if you remember with the rhythm and the counting
rather than counting just the one, two, three, four,
we're going to add the word "and" in between
to represent that the eighth notes are coming
in between the beats.
The first measure here, 28, would be ...
One and two and three and four and ...
Now lets take that same rhythm pattern
and notice we're doing the same thing
but just starting on E for measure 29.
Our hand can just move up.
One and two and three and four and
one and two and three and four and
one and two and three and four and.
So you can see that learning Music Theory
isn't dry and boring but it actually
is applicable and helps us learn our music a lot quicker.
Thank you guys so much for joining me
for these eight videos.
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(piano music)