they're gonna be looking at piano concerto number 21 by Mozart the second
movement andante. You can watch this first part here on YouTube and if you'd
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the whole thing i should also say that this is a slightly simplified version of
the original the original is a piano solo with orchestral accompaniment and
some of the things have been simplified for the sake of being able to play it
obviously for amateurs and novices alike but if you haven't heard the piece i
highly recommend you have a listen first so you can see what the final product
does look like
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play it for you right now
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yeah
this is where we're going to stop
let's begin with the left hand first for two and one
the first thing to take into consideration is that the notes F a and
C are replete with in the first four bars of the of the Peace the ones we're
going to be looking at today in the left hand we have fanc we have fanc fanc so
it's it's everywhere
that's the first thing to note it will help with memorizing the left that
begins with this pattern there in triplets three one two three
now what a triplet is his notes three equally spaced notes in the space of a
beat
so if my beat is this we're going to get one two three four
and that's that one thing to note is that the left hands fourth finger the
one that's alone before these to come in
it's on beats one
and three only one two three
for and this just keeps repeating it kind of hurt Gertie it's a kind of music
box that just keeps on going and that's it for the left hand right hand over
this is what we're going to get again F a and C
these are the plucks these are the Plex in the basenotes of the orchestra
one two three
one
three
for
notice that we have
f on beat 1 and B 2 cm b3 and b4 is empty of the right hand
12
three
for
23
for
next bar three this is where they can tabulate some voice comes in
the first thing we're going to want to do here is eliminated the fast notes
so we have a slow fast slow fast slow get rid of those fast notes and what
you're going to be left with is this
23
for
very straightforward very straightforward
that's the skeleton of the melody once you have that down with 2 4 & 5 will add
the quick ones these quick notes are kind of like a pick up to the note that
follows
and one and one like that
now where exactly to place it in the left hand you have one two three one two
three you're going to want to let the the second group of three finish before
you start the fast Note one two three one two three bom bom two three one two
three bomba
so make sure that the fast one only comes in after you've played all three
in the left one two three one two three pop okay and that's that
when you put it together
so this is where it gets tricky four three two one
b-flat a GF these are for notes equally spaced within the space of one beat beat
for
however the left hand has three notes equally spaced within that same fourth
beat
so what you have is three against 4 which is a very tricky rhythm to get
your head around because they start together and then afterwards it seems to
just kind of randomly fall in between each other
that's what it sounds like when you put them together a little bit strange isn't
it
now the way to go about learning this is as a rhythm
essentially what you're asking your brain to do is to play the right hand
perfectly equally and the left at perfectly equally with very different
rhythms
there's nothing that the left hand can latch onto and vice versa to help itself
out because they're totally independent these rhythms are totally independent
from one another very difficult to do this
so what you can do is as an exercise learn the coordinated four against three
as a rhythm in and of itself and the rhythm is this
pump pump pump pump pump pump pump pump if I slow this down
we're going to get together right left right left right together right left
right left right
take your time and really try to replicate exactly what i just did you
can do it on piano
you can do it on your side you know tapping on your thighs that's fine too
but you want what you want to definitely have is a is a kind of comfort in doing
this even though it sounds strange if you only listen to my right hand or only
listen to my left hand it's obvious that each of these is equal
left hand to you
I kind of switch them there but so it's together right left right left right
together right left right left brake take a few days to get your head around
this rhythm and when you feel comfortable either tapping it on playing
it on single notes as I just did you can start to put it together slowly in the
way that it's written together right left right left right
yeah
and you can do it as slow as you need together
right left
right left right
together right left right left right and then speed it up together right left
right left right together right left right left right together right left
right left right and that's that
let me know if you have more questions about this and i'll be happy to try and
facilitate this even more
let me know how we're doing if you'd like to do any other pieces and i'll see
you guys in the next video take care