Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we are learning the B section of "Ode to Joy"
so let's come and take a look at the sheet music to get started.
Let's take a look at line three which starts right here.
What note is the melody playing? Can you tell me the letter name?
If you said E you're correct.
Now I'd like you to tell me the steps, skips and repeats
from here and stop here before this bar line.
Ready go.
If you said start, repeat, step up, skip down,
step up, step up, step up, step down, skip down, you are correct.
Now I'm going to circle the skip downs because
we haven't had any skips so far in this song
I don't want us to forget those.
In your own music at home please circle those skip downs.
Alright now which finger is playing E?
Finger one, two, three, four or five?
If you said finger two you are correct.
Remember in the D major pentascale, finger one is D and finger two is on E.
So let's draw a finger two. That number two will remind us to use finger two
at the beginning of this line.
Now another thing to remember is we have this rhythm of TI-TI
so remember to play the correct rhythm here.
We'll have TA TA TA TA TA TI-TI TA TA.
Press pause and see if you can figure out how to play those two measures
and then I'll show you how to play them in just a moment.
Here are the first two measures of line three.
If that sounded like what you played, you're ready to go on to the rest of line three.
Let's look at these last two measures of line three.
Let's say the steps, skips, repeats together.
Ready go. Start, step up, step up,
step down, step down, step down, step up,
and then wow, have you ever seen one of these before?
I think we saw it once in "March".
Do you remember what it is?
That's right, it's a half rest.
It means two beats of rest because we have one, two
and then three four, while the right hand is resting the left hand
is taking over the melody here.
Tell me the letter name of this note, and remember you are in bass clef.
If you said A, you are correct.
So we need to play A with the left hand
and if we're in the D major pentascale will it be finger five, four, three, two or one
that's on A?
If you said finger one, you're correct.
So let's draw a one underneath that to remind us.
Now what's tricky about this part is you'll notice here and here
the notes are almost exactly the same.
Which of these five notes is different from this measure?
Can you point to it?
If you're pointing here, you're correct.
You'll be used to skipping down at the end of the measure
but this time you have to resist that urge to skip and just step down.
So I'm going to draw a star over that note to remind me to look out and be
extra careful on that note.
Remember it's just a step down.
Let me show you how to play these notes on the piano
since we're going to be using the left hand, and then I'll let you try.
For the last two measures of line three our left hand is also going to be in the
D major pentascale.
Finger one needs to be ready to play A at the end of the line.
Here's what it's going to sound like.
When I teach this to students, the trickiest part is always remembering
to step down instead of skipping down right here.
Right there remember to step this time
and then down to A in the left hand.
Here it is one more time.
Step down, step down, step up, down to A.
Great. Now press pause and try that on your own.
First practice just the last two measures, then try all of line three together.
Press play when you're ready to hear me show you all of line three.
Here's all of line three together.
Now press pause if you need more practice on that,
otherwise let's go on to look at line four.
Alright we're all the way down to line four.
Tell me what you notice about these notes.
Do they seem familiar to you?
They should. If you look carefully you'll notice that
they are the exact same as line two.
I know that because right here it's stepping down across the bar line
just like we already played on line two.
So that's the good news, you already know line four
because we practiced it.
So now you're ready to try the whole piece.
Why don't you press pause and practice all the lines together,
and then when you're ready to hear me play the whole thing for you, press play again.
Here's what the whole piece will sound like.
Great job learning "Ode to Joy" by Beethoven today.
Remember to practice it every day.
Also remember you can download the sheet music from our website.
Thanks for watching, and I'll see you next time.