Autumn Moon: B Section

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman, and in this lesson we're going to learn the B section of "Autumn Moon." Let's get started by checking out the score. The B section begins here in measure eleven, so let's check out the right hand part. We begin with a half note, which usually looks pretty easy if we're thinking of rhythms, but remember that we're counting subdivided sixteenth notes, so one way to make sure you don't rush that half note, which is a very common mistake when we get, we've had all these sixteenth notes so we get used to playing fast, then sometimes it's hard to slow down for slower notes like this half note. One way to keep that from happening is to continue to count in your mind or out loud at first when you're practicing 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a That will keep you from rushing that half note, and then here in beat 3 you'll notice we get a poly-rhythm. Poly-rhythms are when you have two rhythms happening at the same time, and in the right hand your thumb or finger one is playing that G on the bottom while your finger five is playing that E, which is just a dotted quarter note. 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a See while your finger 1 is holding that G, your top fingers are playing a totally different rhythm 4-e-&-a. And then here on beat 1 the same thing. We have another poly-rhythm. Your finger 1 is playing the G again while your upper fingers are playing 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a, and notice this & is actually going to need that G, so you will have to let go of your thumb to make way for this upper voice. It's almost like we have two voices happening at the same time played all by the right hand. So you'll have 1-e-&-a 2-e, you've gotta let go of that G to make way for that top voice. 2-e-&-a, and then 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a. Remember not to rush the half note. Let's try tapping the rhythm while we count the beat. And tap the top voice. So you're going to ignore this bottom stem down rhythm. So looking at the top notes, let's count the rhythm. I'll count 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, and then we'll start. So count out loud with me while we tap. 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a. Now on your own, can you pause the video and try tapping and counting out loud measures 13 and 14? If it helps you to write the counts in the music, go for it. Or if you'd like to imagine it in your mind, whatever works best for you. Pause, practice this rhythm, and then press play and we'll try it together. Okay let's start right here counting the beat out loud. I will start with 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a to get us ready, and then we'll start on 1. Here we go. 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, Let's try to play it. All right, let's do the right hand part here in measure eleven. Fingers 1 and 2 are on G and B. And that gets our finger 5 ready for this next chord which will have an E. 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a Notice that we have on this chord, the next note says a 5, and you might be wondering, well that's a bad fingering because it breaks the legato, but remember we're going to add damper pedal. So it won't matter since the pedal will be down it creates a legato for us so it makes a little bit easier on the fingering to do it that way. Okay, pause the video and work on measures 11 and 12 right hand alone, then press play to go on. Now, can you figure out the left hand on your own? Look at measures 11 and 12. What's the first chord here in measure 11? Play it. If you're playing this, you're correct. Now, can you figure out the next three chords? On your own, pause to work out the left hand part, and then see if you can play it hands together, measures 11 and 12 only. Pause to work on that, and then press play to go on. Okay, your left hand should have been this E and G. It's a fifth, and then C and E, and then G and D, and then D and D. Now, if your hands are too small to reach an octave, I would just leave off the top note and play that. Okay, but if your hands can reach a full octave, great, and if they don't, don't worry. Your hands will grow and you'll get that. So now together we get 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a. Pause if you need more work on that, otherwise let's go on and look at measures 13 and 14. I'd like to challenge you to figure this out on your own, but let's do one or two things together. What's this first interval in the right hand? We start on a G, and where do we land? If you said an octave all the way up to G, you're correct. That's an octave. Very exciting interval, and then also notice the left hand comes up to treble clef land here. So even though it looks like that chord is going down because of that treble staff clef, our left hand has to come up here now we're on middle C E G. Now, I'd like you to figure out the rest. Pause the video and work on measures 13 and 14, and then press play to go on. Okay, should have gotten this. 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3-e-&-a 4-e-&-a, 1-e-&-a 2-e-&-a 3. Notice the left hand ...