[Music]
Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we are learning how to play a new song called mouse in the house. For this song
I'm on my digital piano again so we can play it in a rock style.
Here goes.
Mouse, mousie in the housie, hurry, hurry do
Or the kitty in the housie will be chasing you.
First let's figure out the solfège of this song. For "Mouse in the House"
we'll only be using DO, MI, and SO, three notes all a step apart.
Let's practice singing that together with hand signs. Try it with me.
DO MI SO. Good, now let's come back down.
SO MI DO. That's called skipping down. Now try this one.
DO SO. Your turn.
Good, now this one, SO DO. You try. Super. Now for mouse in the house, I'll sing the
first three notes and you try and tell me what they are in solfège.
Here goes. Bah-bah-bah. what would that be in solfège?
Can you say it? Listen again.
Bah-bah-bah. If you said
SO MI DO, you're correct. Let's come over to the grand staff and try drawing those
notes. Here we are on the grand staff. The first three notes of mouse in the house
are SO MI DO,
and since we're going to be in the C major pentascale we'll put SO on G, and
you'll remember that G is on this line that goes through the middle of the
treble clef swirl.
We have SO, MI is a skip down, and then we need to skip down again so we'll need a
ledger line here on DO. Together that makes SO MI DO, three notes skipping down.
Can you point with me and sing the solfège? Ready, go.
SO MI DO.
Good, now the next part of "Mouse in the House" goes
Bah-bah-bah-bah, what would that be in solfège? the correct answer is SO SO MI DO, almost
the same pattern, but this time SO repeats. We have SO, repeat, skip down, skip down, or
SO SO MI DO.
Now can you point with me and let's sing the solfège of the whole thing so far?
Ready, go, SO MI DO
SO SO MI DO. Good, now let's figure out the next part of "Mouse in the House."
The next part of "Mouse in the House" goes bah-bah. What would that be in solfège?
The correct answer is SO DO.
So I draw it like this,
SO DO. Now remember in music we have two kinds of languages. We're learning the
solfège language, also we learned letter names.
If you forgot the letter name of this note, we know it's SO DO, but in letter names
this would be G C, because here we're on the G line and then we come down to middle C.
And what comes next? We have bah-bah-bah, three repeating notes, so we'd sing
DO DO DO, or if we are doing letters we could say C C C.
Like this.
Now can you point and sing the solfège with me? Ready, go.
SO DO DO DO DO
Now let's sing the letter names. Ready, go G C C C C.
Great job. Time to practice moving our fingers now.
Ok let's hold up your right hand with me and we're going to start with a skipping
down pattern SO MI DO.
Let's try it together, ready, go.
SO MI DO. Good. The next part goes SO SO MI DO. Your turn.
Good, then we have SO DO, your turn, then
DO DO DO. Your turn. Good.
Next we have SO SO MI DO.
Your turn. Then another SO SO MI DO. Your turn.
Good. Next,
SO DO, your turn, then
DO DO DO. Great job.
Now let's come to the piano and give it a try. For "Mouse in the House" let's use
the C major pentascale, although later on you could try transposing this to the D
major pentascale. Remember we only need DO, MI,
and SO for this song, these three notes, using figure five, three, and one. I'll play a pattern
then you play it back.
SO MI DO, your turn.
Good. SO SO MI DO, your turn.
Good.
SO DO, your turn.
DO DO DO, your turn. As you're playing make sure you have great piano posture with
curved fingers,
especially on your pinky, finger five. Make sure it's playing on its tip, not flat.
Let's try the next part with lyrics this time. For the kitty.
Your turn. In the housie.
Your turn. My turn again. Will be. Your turn.
Chasing you. Your turn.
Then on the word run we're going to do something called a glissando, which
sounds like this. Run!
We turn our hand upside down and using our fingernails
we glide up the keys to make it sound like the mouse running away from the cat.
Every pianist does a glissando differently, but I like to turn my hand
at an angle like this, because this part of your finger sometimes is a little bit
sensitive and it could hurt, and so you want to try to tip your hand so only
your fingernails touch, and do it a little bit gently but quickly, and then
it doesn't really hurt you because only your fingernails are touching the keys.
Now I'd like you to press pause and practice "Mouse in the House" from the
beginning all the way to the end with the glissando on your own. Press play
when you're ready to hear me show you how to do it with our rock accompaniment.
So from our website if you purchase the complete materials for Unit 2 you'll be
able to play "Mouse in the House" with this fun rock accompaniment.
I'm going to show you what that will sound like. Remember, with the backing
tracks that you can get with the complete materials you'll hear some
clicks in "Mouse in the House," four clicks tell you that it's time to start, so you
hear click click click click and then on the next beat you start playing.
So let me demonstrate what that would sound like. If you want you could try it
along with me or just listen,
but remember wait for the four clicks and then begin.
Here goes.
Great job learning "Mouse in the House" today. On your own
I'd like you to practice "Mouse in the House" every day.
Try it in both your right hand and left hand,
also try transposing it to the D Major pentascale. From our website you can
download the complete materials for Unit 2 to get the sheet music for this song,
plus you can get the rock accompaniment to play along with. Thanks for watching
and I'll see you next time.
Ok let's just get one thing straight here, I am a mouse not a mousy.
Just one syllable please.
And I live in a house, a home, casa, not a housie. Yeah.
My little sister she has a little roomy in her housie but not me.
And last thing I am NOT going to go running away from any cat because I
stand my ground.
I am not afraid of any... MAH! Oh, T Rexy
It's you. Please don't sneak up on me like that.
Sorry I was just coming by to say that your mommy was calling and she says it's
time to go back to your housie for nappy nap time.
Nappy nap time! Oh goody I love my nappy nap time.
Thanks T Rexy. Kissy. Mwah. Time to go back to my housie. Bye!
Happy nap time.
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