Minuet in G Major: B Section: Right Hand

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman,
and today we're going to learn the right hand part for the B section of "Minuet in G Major" by Christian Petzold.
Let's get started by checking out the score.
Let's think about the form of "Minuet in G Major" for a minute.
In the previous lessons we've learned the A section, which we've seen repeats. So I'm going to mark A
with a simplified repeat sign.
And then we've got this B section, which we're going to start working on today.
You'll see this forward-facing repeat sign, which you always ignore when you first go by it,
and then when we get down to here this repeat sign teleports us back,
and we play the B section again.
So we also have a B section that repeats.
This is called binary form, an A section that repeats, then a B section that repeats.
All right, so let's check out the B section. Today we're working on the right hand part.
So here our first note, can you tell me the letter name for this note?
If you said B, you're correct. You can just use the top line of treble staff which is flag F.
Then we have one ledger line up
plus a step above that brings us to high treble B.
Now let's do a little more interval practice. I'm going to draw
lines between some notes, and
I'd like you to figure out
the intervals between these notes.
Okay, pause the video and wherever I've drawn a little yellow line,
figure out the interval. You can go ahead and write it in your own music, and then press play we'll look at the correct answer.
All right, here are all the intervals. We have a B to a G which is a third. Another B to G.
A to D, which is a fifth,
F-sharp to D which is a third,
G to E is a third, G to D is a fourth,
and C-sharp to A is a third.
One of the reasons I wanted to go through this is there are so many thirds it's
easy to get mixed up when there's something other than a third like this fifth,
or this fourth. So be especially careful on those two intervals when you go to learn this.
And that's exactly what we're going to do now.
I'd like you to pause the video and try and learn these notes.
Be careful of the rhythms.
Be careful of the notes, be careful of the fingerings.
There's one place right here where you'll be on a finger 1 for the D, and then finger 3 will cross over to the C-sharp
which will bring you into a kind of A major pentascale position for this last measure.
Pause to learn those four measures on your own, then press play and we'll look at it together.
Here's measures seventeen through twenty right hand alone. My finger 5 is starting on this high B. Again, because this is the end of a phrase I like to float my wrist up a little bit as I play that last note to make it more gentle,
and I think of decrescendoing a little bit on those last few notes to finish out that phrase beautifully.
Now if that matches what you played, great job.
If some things didn't quite sound the way that you played, then pause and work it out.
And then you can continue when you're ready.
Now let's look ahead to measure twenty-one.
Here we have some eighth notes stepping up. So notice
we're going to start on finger 1 and then we need finger 1 to come under to D to be able to make it all the way up that scale.
Now pause the video and try measures twenty-one starting finger 1 on A, practice measures twenty-one and twenty-two, then press play to go on.
Now let's look at measure twenty-three, where I'd like to add some articulations.
This sticky staccato that we talked about last time,
and you can put them over or under the note it doesn't matter.
And that will just make it sound a little more interesting right there.
Remember it's not
a super sharp or quick staccato.
It's kind of a
fat or sticky staccato.
Now I'd like you to pause the video and practice from measure twenty-one to the end of this line
right hand part
being careful of the fingerings, notes, and rhythms.
Press pause to practice this line, and then press play and we'll look at it together.
Now let's put all of these measures together. Starting in measure twenty-one, we get this:
Now if that matched what you played, great job.
If you need a little extra time to practice and figure it out, that's fine too.
When you're ready, let's go on and check out line three.
Now here what do you see in the dynamics?
If you'll remember back in measure twenty-four we have a decrescendo marking,
then here in measure twenty-five we see a mezzo piano.
So we're going to get a little more gentle here.
Notice the fingering. We have a 5, down to a 1.
That makes sense because this is the interval of the fifth,
but then we have to step down to F-sharp. Finger 2 is going to have to cross over to help us with that.
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