I Hear the Mill Wheel: B Section

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph
Hoffman,
and in this lesson we're going to learn
how to play the B section of "I Hear the Mill Wheel".
Let's check out the score to get started.
Alright, let's check out the B section of "I Hear the Mill Wheel" which starts here in measure nine.
Can you tell me the rhythm words for this first measure?
What do we say for this rhythm here?
This is a TI-TI-KI
TI-TI-KI TI-TI Can you say it
with me? Ready, go:
TI-TI-KI TI-TI
And then we have TI-TI TI-TI-KI TA TI-TI-KI TA TA
Ok here's a new symbol.
This symbol here is called a fermata.
The cool thing about a Fermata is it means you can stop and hold extra long on that note.
Pretty much as long as as the performer feels like.
As long as I want?
Uh, yeah that's right Scuba. You can
hold that note pretty much as long as you want.
What if I wanted to hold it for like an hour?
Well, I guess you could do that.
How about a whole week?!
Well if you did that I think the people listening to your song might get bored and walk away.
Oh, got it. Okay!
Well, so I would suggest you just hold it a little extra long. ♫ti-ka ta-ka♫ Take a breath,
and then you can go on.
Now, let's take a look at if the notes
are stepping, skipping, or repeating.
Can you tell me how these first five notes
are moving? Say start, now you go on.
The correct answer is start, repeat, step up,
step up, skip down.
Now let's figure out the solfège. Since we're in the key of E-flat minor,
can you tell me the letter name of this first note?
It's an E-flat!
So that means this would be DO
DO DO RE ME DO Now your turn. Point and sing.
Then we skip back up here. What would the
solfège be for these next three notes?
We were on DO here. So what's this?
The correct answer is ME FA SO. Your turn.
Then notice we have ME FA SO again. ME FA SO then it
steps down to FA.
ME FA SO FA. Your turn.
ME FA SO FA. With the fermata, your turn.
Great, let's try to play it.
Let's get both
of our hands in the E-flat minor pentascale.
DO RE ME FA SO Your turn.
Now let's check out measure nine here,
and let's just start with the right hand.
We have DO DO RE ME DO
Can you figure out how to play that on your own?
It's DO DO RE ME DO Now you try again.
Now let's try that with our left hand.
DO DO RE ME DO Now you try.
Let's try it hands together. DO DO RE ME DO Your turn.
Now in measure 10 can you tell me the
letter name of this first note?
If you said G-flat you're correct. Wiggle your finger that's on G-flat in the E-flat minor pentascale.
If you're wiggling finger 3 you're correct.
So we're here on G-flat, and we have ME FA SO
Three staccatos in a row.
One, two, three. Remember a little lift of the risk
is all it needs to make that a nice light staccato sound.
♫tik, tik, tok,♫ Your turn.
ME FA SO Let's try it one more time, go.
Now let's put that together with measure 9. We have:
♫tik, ti-ka ta-ka, tik, tik, tok♫
Notice the difference between this slur, very legato and
then ♫tik, tik, tok♫
Pause the video and work on that section on your own, then press play to go on.
Now let's look at the next four notes.
We go back to G, and remember because we had a G-flat earlier in the measure it's still a G-flat,
and then what do the notes do? It steps up, steps up, and then steps down to A-flat.
♫ti-ka ta-ka♫
Listen again: ♫ti-ka ta-ka♫
Let's try it with just the right hand.
Your turn.
Now let's try the left hand. ♫ti-ka ta-ka♫ Your turn.
Now let's try it hands together.
Your turn.
Now look at the next pattern.
We have the same four notes again.
G-flat, stepping up, stepping up to B-flat, then stepping back to A-flat
this time with the fermata.
So with that fermata we can hold it a little extra long.
♫ti-ka ta-ka♫
And then we can go on.
Now let's listen to that entire line together. We have:
♫Tik, ti-ka ta-ka, tik, tik, tok, ti-ka ta-ka, ti-ka ta-ka.♫
Pause the video and practice the B section
all of line three on your own, then press play to go on.
When you're practicing line three I think it's really helpful to watch in the score for where the skips are.
Okay, sometimes there's repeats, step up, step up, and then a skip down.
I find that students have the most trouble on this line
when there are these skips. So watch out for the skip. Skip down, skip up,
another skip down, step up, step up, step down,
and then steps for the rest.
Okay, so you just have skips in a couple of places,
but those places are really important to
watch out for. Skip down, skip up,
skip down again, and then the rest is all steps.