[Intro music: "All of Me" by Jon Schmidt]
Hello and welcome back.
I'm Joseph Hoffman, your piano teacher, and today
we're going to be learning
how to find F and G on the piano.
So before this lesson, you should have already done
the musical alphabet
and you should have also learned how to find C, D,
and E on the piano.
So come on over to the piano and first let's review
finding C, D, and E.
I'm going to put my finger on a note, and I'd like
you to say
what note it is.
Here we go.
Go ahead and say the answer out loud.
What note is this?
If you said "D" you're correct.
Remember, the way you can find D is, it's in between
a group of two black keys,
which I call the dog house.
OK, what note is this here?
If you said "C" then you're correct.
The way you know this is C, is because it's the
letter before D.
I pretend that that's a cat that sometimes likes to
tease this dog
that lives in the dog house.
Now tell me what note this is.
Do you remember it?
If you said "E," then you are correct.
Remember that the white notes on the piano just
follow the same order
as the musical alphabet.
So once you know one you can figure out the others.
So what would the letter be after E?
If you said "F"
then you're correct.
And then the letter after that of course,
would be G.
Now I'm going to show you a trick to remember where
F and G are
and then we'll practice finding them on your piano.
So now it's story time again.
Remember how we talked about the dog house, and
Piano Street,
and the boy who was walking home in our last lesson
on C, D, and E?
Well, today I'm going to tell you about Grandma's
house.
You see, on Piano Street, there was also a home
where Grandma lived.
Now would Grandma live in a little old dog house?
I don't think so.
Grandma likes to live in a nice,
big house
which is formed by these three black keys.
Remember, Grandma does not live in the dog house.
She lives in this nice, big three black key house,
and she gets the first bedroom.
And Grandma starts with G.
So, it's easy to find G on your piano,
you just look for a group of three black keys,
and remember that Grandma lives in the first
bedroom.
So here's a G.
Let's go up a little bit higher,
and find another G on the piano.
Here's another G right here,
first bedroom in three black keys.
And let's go a little higher, and you'll find
another G
right here.
Now, on your piano at home, can you find
and play all the Gs?
Whenever you find a G, play it
and say "G".
Did you find all the Gs?
Great job.
Now, let's talk about finding the letter F.
You see, Grandma,
she was a little bit lonely in this house all alone,
and so she got a pet.
And it lived
not inside her house, because she was a little
bit...
well, finicky about animals so she kept it out in
her front yard.
And front yard starts with F, and it so happens that
she had a
pet frog
that she kept in her front yard.
Or maybe it was a
flamingo,
or a ferret...it's up to you and your imagination.
But remember the letter before G is F,
so anytime you have a G for Grandma's house,
in the front yard there will be an F.
So now what I'd like you to do is find some more Fs
on my piano.
Let's come down this time
to this group of three black keys.
Can you point on
your screen
to the note that is F?
Remember, G is here, so F is right here.
Now let's go down to this group of three black keys
down here
here's another Grandma's house.
Can you point to the note that is F?
If you pointed to this one, you're correct.
So
let's put another F
right there.
Now, on your piano at home,
if you can find and play all the Fs
...push pause and try it, and then
press play again when you're ready to continue.
Did you find all the Fs?
Good job.
Well, that's it for today!
Remember that you can download
a fun sheet to practice finding F and G
with some coloring activities from our website
and I hope you'll come again for our next lesson.
[Ending music:"All of Me" by Jon Schmidt]