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Jurassic Park Main Theme (Intermediate)

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    SelahGChance

    Can u make a easy veirson plssssss Mr Hoffman

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi Selah! Thanks for the recommendation for an easy version of the “Jurassic Park” theme. We’ll add it to our list, but be aware that we have lots of music and requests to get to first, so stay tuned. 🙂

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    Hannah13

    Hey Mr hoffamn it’s me again! tonight we are doing a piano concert! (every now and then we organise one for our family members) and I’m playing This song!! I’m a little bit nervous because I’m still mastering it -i mean can play it fine when no one is there but as soon as some one is watching I forget parts and make mistakes lol. Not always but some times! Does anyone else find this?? Anyway I’ll also play in the hall of the mountain king, tocata in d, and this. And a duet, la cinquantaine with my little brother! Super excited anyway I just thought I’d randomly share this. 😁

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi Hannah! That’s totally okay to perform music you are still working on. I do it all the time! It helps you to keep molding the music and to make it even better the next time. I hope you have a great time and remember to just have fun!

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    Lydia

    can you slow down teaching it and go step by step please? im having trouble following along.

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi Lydia, if you’re having trouble, feel free to pause the video to practice or rewatch any section. Don’t worry! With consistent practice, rewatching the videos, and taking your time, it will get a lot easier ! 🙂

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    Hannah13

    Also a carol of the bells an advanced version would be really cool!!

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      Hoffman Academy

      I’ll pass this suggestion along. Thanks for suggesting it, Hannah. 🙂

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    Hannah13

    Hi Mr hoffamn I wanted to ask you…when I looked at the sheet music I could only get a sample other wise id have to pay for the full thing! I find this out ragious as my parents paid alot for premium i would expect to at least be able to get the sheet music included! Is this how it is supposed to be or am I looking in the wrong place🤔🙏? Kind regards Hannah😇😉 🇦🇺

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi! Unfortunately, we don’t own the rights to this music, so we can’t offer it for free. Through Premium, we do offer lots of free sheet music. Someday, we hope to be able to include this in that free category.

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    Esther10

    Thank you for making this video I have nearly mastered it! I appreciate all the time you and your film crew have put into hoffman academy! The Lord has blessed me and my 4 siblings through hoffman academy! (we all do your lessons I am in stage12!) If you have ANY spare time in between all your requested songs can you please make a elementary ” blessed assurance ” song it’s one of my favourites! God bless Hannah from Australia 🇦🇺

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi Hannah! Thanks so much for your lovely comment. I am so happy that you are enjoying our materials and we are very happy to have you learn with us! I will add “Blessed Assurance” to our future video list, but we do have a lot of music and requests to get to first, so stay tuned! 🙂

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      Hoffman Academy

      Hi Finley! Thanks for your request. We will add your song to our list, but we have lots of videos to make so we may not get to your request for a long time. In the meantime, stay tuned and enjoy the lessons!

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    Finley

    Hey Mr Hoffman can you please make an easier version

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    Amalia

    Where can we find the sheet music for Jurassic Park Main Theme? Thank you!

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    Amalia

    Where can we find the sheet music for this song: Jurassic Park Theme? Thank you!

Hello and welcome back to Hoffman Academy. I'm Alex.
Today we're going to learn an intermediate arrangement of the theme from Jurassic Park by John Williams arranged by Mona Rejino.
This arrangement comes from sheetmusicdirect.com, and you can get it at the link below this video.
Sheet music direct is a great place to go for arrangements of many of your favorite songs. So when you have the sheet music and you're ready to go, I'll meet you over at the piano.
All right, so because this piece is a little more advanced than we're used to doing,
I'm going to go a lot quicker and just get a lot of the major issues looked at, and so
I probably won't be asking you to pause the video as much. So feel free please to pause the video and practice anything that we cover
cover as much as you need to.
As always, we're going to start with looking at the key signature, the time signature, and the tempo.
The tempo is really slow. Quarter note equals 54,
and that's going to make our quarter notes feel almost like half notes and our eighth notes feel almost like quarter notes,
and so all these sixteenth notes they're going to almost feel like our usual eighth notes.
And we have two flats in the key signature. So B-flats and E-flats. So we're in the key of B-flat major.
And we're in 4/4. So if I count this, it's going to be again really slow like 1-& 2-& 3, like that
That's kind of how fast the regular tempo goes.
Okay, so this first chord, also this arrangement has a great finger numbers, so we're going to watch all these pretty carefully.
So 1 and 3 on each hand works really good for this first chord.
That way I can get down here to this lower E-flat here. Switching to finger 2
because I have this higher E-flat coming up,
and then finger 2 down here
because I have this low F down here.
So great fingers. Let's do that one more time. Here's from the beginning, & 2 3-& 4
& 4
& 4 Now here,
5 and 2
works great going into this chord. This is a 6/4 measure by the way.
& 2-& 3-& 4-& 5-& 6, now this rhythm looks weird here you have to watch out. There's starting on this beat 3, there's a quarter note F down here, and then another quarter note,
and then when this comes in it's an eighth note.
So counting that again that's & 2-& 3-& 4-& 5-& 6
And there's a big crescendo there, and then we have a rest
1-& 2
E-flat major chord here.
Goes up to the G in the left hand. Watch out for that.
I'm going to use my 2nd finger here and the 5 and the 1.
I'll pause there for a second. You'll see in this arrangement there's also a lot of these big groups of dotted eighth note, sixteenth note, dotted eighth note, sixteenth note like in this measure eight we're doing.
It's kind of like two TIM-KI's but they're all beamed in one group, so you have to think of those as still just 2 beats.
TIM-KI TIM-KI TA
Let's go on. Measure nine, or pick up to measure nine starting with my 2nd finger on this F because I have this low B-flat coming up.
Keep those eighth notes going down here.
& 4
Good. I'm going to pause on that real quick. This is a little tricky, this 5th finger to 4th finger, to this chord here. So if that's a little tricky you'll definitely want to pause that
because what's going to be tricky is going
smoothly.
I imagine some of you are going to be tempted to make it a separate thing, but if you can
you'll want to make that a really smooth transition.
If it's still tricky, try curling your fingers a little bit.
So flat fingers are going to make that really difficult.
See that?
So those curved fingers are going to help there.
Okay, now we made it to measure twelve. Now here in measure twelve
I'm going to show you a really cool strategy for practicing that I like to use a lot.
And so I'm actually going to get into the sheet music and starting at measure nineteen we're going to work
backwards from measure nineteen back to this spot at measure twelve.
All right, we're going to work backwards from measure nineteen right here,
and this is a lot like if you notice measure eight back on the first page, and what I'm going to use are these sticky notes.
And I do this as a way to stop myself. I notice sometimes I and my students get tempted to keep on going
and when we're getting excited about learning, but we're going to stop right there,
and I'm going to use another sticky note to decide where I'm going to start and I can start on as little a piece of music as I want.
Or even bigger, and I'm going to start here just to remind myself how this section goes, and this reminds me that's all that I'm working on.
So this again sounds like this:
So I worked on that back in measure eight. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my starting sticky note
back here. Now I can do th ...