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Hello, and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we're going to be learning a song
about something delicious.
Some that I like: "Chocolate".
Will you sing "Chocolate" with me
and touch the beat on your legs like this?
Let me give us a starting note. Here we go.
Yum yum yum yum yum! Chocolate I have some!
That it! That's the whole song.
But if we wanted to make it longer,
we could think of other things that we like.
Like: Yum yum yum yum yum! Strawberries I have some!
Why don't you think of something that you like?
I'll sing yum yum yum yum yum,
and then you sing whatever it is you like.
Here we go. Yum yum yum yum yum! Your turn.
Oh, sounds delicious. Yeah, let's do one more.
"Chocolate" one more time because I love chocolate.
Yum yum yum yum yum! Chocolate I have some!
Super job.
Now, let's listen to the notes,
and I want you to help me figure out
how the notes are moving.
Tell me if you hear them moving up or down.
I'm going to sing the song without words this time.
[Singing]
Could you tell which way the notes were moving?
Were they moving up or down?
Listen to it one more time.
[Singing]
That's right, the notes are stepping up in that pattern.
What about the next part of the song?
[Singing]
Which way are the notes moving
in the second part of the song?
Listen one more time.
[Singing]
That's right, the notes are moving down.
Now, will you move your hand with me in the air
to show how the notes are moving
and sing "Chocolate" with me?
Yum yum yum yum yum! Chocolate I have some!
We call this pattern stepping up and stepping down.
Let's look at a picture of what those notes look like
and then we'll try playing it on the piano.
So come on down to the floor with me.
We'll look at what the notes look like.
This is a picture of a staff.
It's five lines that we use to draw notes.
"Chocolate" would look like this if I were
to draw it on the staff.
Yum yum yum yum yum!
Now, will you point to each note on your screen
and sing that with me?
Yum yum yum yum yum!
Great work. Here's another way we could say that.
Start, step up, step up, step up, step up.
Now, do you notice that some of these notes have
lines going through the middle of them like this note.
We call that a line note.
Can you find another line note and point to it?
If you're pointing to this one, that's right.
There's a line note here and a line note here.
Now, in between we have notes with no line between them.
But it has a line going over the top of it,
or like this one has a line underneath it
and a line right above it.
We call these space notes because they are sitting
comfortably in the spaces between the two lines
or just snuggled up underneath a line.
Okay, here's the first space note.
Can you point to the next space note?
If you are pointing to this one, you are correct.
Where is the next space note?
If you are pointing to this one, you are correct.
Now, let's point to each note and
say whether it is a line or a space.
Space, line, space, line, space.
And that makes the first half of "Chocolate".
Let's try drawing the second half of "Chocolate" now.
Chocolate I have some!
Now the notes are stepping down.
Space, line, space, line, space.
Alright, it's time to learn how to play
this song on the piano now.
First, let's hold up your right hand in the air
and learn how to move our fingers.
I'll do it once, and then you can do it with me.
This song will go like this: Start, step up, step up,
step up, step up. Now try it with me.
Start, step up, step up, step up, step up.
Now let's try it with the real words.
Yum yum yum yum yum!
Now the next part will start with our pinkie and step down.
Here we go. Chocolate I have some!
Now try it with me. Start, step down, step down,
step down, step down. Good job.
Let's try the whole song with regular words.
Yum yum yum yum yum! Chocolate I have some! Super.
Now, make sure you're sitting with great piano posture
with the bench not too close which would put
your arm squished up against your body,
but sitting with the bench far enough away that
your arms are comfortably out in front.
And then put your thumb, which in piano we call
finger one. So put your finger one on C.
And then finger two will go on D
and then finger three on E F and G
for fingers four and five, like this.
And now we'll try to play "Chocolate".
Here we go. Yum yum yum yum yum!
Chocolate I have some!
Let's try it one more time now.
Yum yum yum yum yum! Chocolate I have some!
Great work! Now you know how to play "Chocolate"!
When you get that good in your right hand,
go ahead and try it in your left hand.
Then you can even try that hands together.
Sing along while you play, and have lot's of fun.
Thanks for coming to this lesson, see you next time.