Hello and welcome back.
I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we are learning a holiday song, "Jingle
Bells."
So let's come over to the heartbeat mat to
check out the rhythms.
Here's the rhythm to the first phrase of "Jingle
Bells."
Let's review the names of all these rhythms.
These are two eighth notes which make a sound
like this, TI-TI.
Here's a quarter note which will go TA.
Down here we have something that looks like
two eighth notes, but it's a dotted eighth
note with a sixteenth note.
This extra little beam sticking out turns
this into a sixteenth note, and it sounds
like this, TIM-KI.
So all together, these rhythms will sound
like this.
TI-Ti TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA rest.
Now can you try to say that with me?
Point to each heartbeat and speak the rhythm.
Go.
TI-TI TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA, rest.
Now let's look at the next phrase.
Now in this next phrase can you find a rhythm
we didn't see in the last phrase?
Point to it.
You're probably pointing right here, because
we didn't have this rhythm last time.
This is an eighth note with two sixteenth
notes.
It makes a sound like this.
TI-TIKI.
TI-TIKI.
Now here is what this phrase will sound like.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TA
TA.
Can you speak the rhythm with me and point
to each beat?
Ready, go.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TA
TA.
Good, let's check out the next phrase.
The third phrase is the same as the first,
so let's say it together.
Ready, go.
TI-TI TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA rest.
Now on to phrase four.
Any new rhythms you can see in phrase four?
That's right, down here we have a half note.
The half note takes up two beats, TWO is what
we'll say for the half note.
Let's try to speak the rhythm of the fourth
phrase.
Ready, go.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TWO.
Good, now let's come and take a look at the
sheet music.
Here's the sheet music to "Jingle Bells."
Let's start by taking a look at line one.
Line one begins right here in treble clef
on line one of the staff.
Can you tell me the letter name for this note?
If you said E, you are correct.
Now are these notes stepping, skipping, or
repeating?
That's right, they're repeating.
So we have, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, then what
happens here?
Do we step or skip?
That's right, we skip up.
So if this is E, then this note will be G.
We skip up, and then can you tell me the letter
name for this note?
If you said C, you're correct.
E, G, C, and then what happens with these
two notes?
If you said, stepping up, you're correct.
So we have C, D, E. If you'd like your own
copy of this sheet music you can download
it for free from our website.
Now let's go to the piano and see how to play
this first line.
For "Jingle Bells" we're going to use the
C major pentascale which means your right
hand finger one will come to middle C, and
your other fingers will go up from there.
Now we start with repeats on E. So we'll have
E, E, E, E, E, E, Now your turn to try.
Great.
Now next we have another E and then we skip
up for jingle.
E, G.
Your turn.
Good, and after we do E, G, then it comes
all the way down to C, D, E, and we have three
notes stepping up.
All the way.
Your turn, just try those three notes, all
the way.
Your turn.
Good, now let's put that all together.
We have jingle all the way.
Your turn.
Great, so the whole first phrase will sound
like this.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Press pause and try all of line one by yourself.
Press play when you're ready to go on.
Now we're looking at the second phrase of
"Jingle Bells."
Can you tell me the letter name for this first
note?
If you said F, you're correct.
Remember, this line is the G line because
it goes through the swirl of the treble clef,
but we're a step below the G line, which makes
it an F. Now what are these notes doing?
That's right, they're repeating.
We have F, F, F, F, F, lots of F's in a row,
and then it steps down, to E. On, is to ride
in a one, what are all of these notes doing?
You can see they're all on the same line so
they have to be repeating.
E, E, E, E, E, and then we step down, what's
a step below E?
If you said D, you're correct.
For one horse o- it repeats then steps back
up to E, we're going back and forth, E, D,
D, E, D and what note is this?
Since it's on line two of the treble clef,
it has to be a G.
We have D, G, for open sleigh!
Hey!
Now let's come to the piano and try to play
that.
On line two we're still in the same position,
but this time we're going to start on F.
We have oh, what fun it is, and all of those
are repeats on F, so let's try that once,
ready, try it with me, go.
Oh what fun it is, and on the word to, it
steps down to E. To ride in a one, all of
those are E's.
So now let's try from the beginning of that
line.
Together on F it repeats until we get to the
word to.
Ride, then it steps down to E. Let's try it
together, go.
Oh, what fun it is to ride in a one, that's
all E's and when we get to the word horse,
it steps down again to D, horse open, and
on open it steps back up to E, so let's practice,
one horse open, and the letters are E, D,
D, E, your turn.
Good, and then after that we have, sleigh!
Hey!
D, G.
Your turn.
Good, now let's practice that from one horse
open sleigh.
Remember we have E, D, D, E, and then D, G.
Putting it together it sounds like this.
One horse open sleigh!
Hey!
Your turn.
Good, now the whole second phrase sounds like
this.
Start on F, lots of repeated F's.
It steps down to E and then we have one horse
open sleigh!
Hey!
Let's hear what the whole thing sounds like
together.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh!
Hey!
All right, now press pause and practice all
of line two by yourself.
Press play when you're ready to go on to line
three.
All right, what can you tell me about line
three?
That's right, like we already mentioned, its
the same as line one.
So lets go on and check out line four.
Here's the fourth phrase of "Jingle Bells."
What letter do we start on this time?
That's right, just like line two, we start
on an F, we repeat, then what?
That's right, we step down to E, then what
happens next, after these repeats?
What happens here?
If you said skip up, you're correct, and what
is a skip above E?
If you said G, you're correct.
We have G, repeat, step down to F, and then
what happens here?
Notice how we skip over this line, we go from
F, and that skips down to D, and then we end
on middle C. Now this part's tricky because
we step down, then skip down, then step down.
Let's practice moving our fingers for that
pattern.
So let's practice this phrase.
It's at the very end of "Jingle Bells," we
have one horse open sleigh!
Notice that we step down, then skip down,
then step down.
One horse open sleigh!
Now your turn.
Good, now let's try line four on the piano.
Let's try the end of line four first.
That's the part we just practiced moving our
fingers in the air.
We're going to start with finger five, and
we'll go, one horse, two G's in a row, one
horse, then step down, skip down, step down.
G, G, F, D, C. Your turn.
Good, now let's try it with the lyrics of
the song.
One horse open sleigh.
Your turn.
Good, now listen to what the whole line will
sound like.
We'll start on F again.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a, and then after
in a we skip up to G, one horse open sleigh.
Now listen to what that sounds like without
a pause.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh.
Good, now press pause and practice all of
line four by yourself.
Press play when you're ready to go on.
Good, now we're ready to try all of "Jingle
Bells" together from the beginning of the
song, all the way to the end.
You can listen to me once, or you can try
playing along if you feel ready.
From the very beginning, here we go with "Jingle
Bells."
One, two, ready, go.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh!
Hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh.
Now press pause and practice that on your
own lots of times, and then when you're ready
you can try playing with me doing an accompaniment.
Now you're ready to try playing "Jingle Bells"
along with an accompaniment.
So you'll play the melody that we've been
practicing.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, while you play
that melody, I'm going to play an accompaniment
like this, Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle
all the way.
We'll put it together to make some cool sounding
music.
You're in charge of the melody, I'll do the
accompaniment.
Get your hand in position, from the beginning,
all the way to the end.
One, two, ready, go.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh, hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open
sleigh!
Great job today learning "Jingle Bells."
Remember, from our website you can download
this sheet music for free.
I hope you have a very merry Christmas, thanks
for watching, and I'll see you next time.
Merry Christmas!
And Happy New Year from all of us at Hoffman
Academy.