Sonatina by Clementi, 2nd Movement: B Section: Right Hand

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman, and in this lesson we'll be moving on to the B section of the second movement of Clementi's "Sonatina" number one from his opus 36 let's check out the score to begin our analysis. Here is our page two of the second movement. I'd like to do some chord analysis, so I'll draw some boxes and then I'd like you to figure them out. And then two places I'd like you to figure out an interval from here to here, and then from here to here. So, pause the video. Every time I've drawn a box just look at all those notes together. And figure out what chord it is, and write it in your own music at home, and then we'll look at it together. Okay what did you get for this box? F-sharp, A, and D. That makes a D major chord, and then what about here? We have a G, and don't forget about our key signature. All B's are automatically flat. So this is a G, B flat and D. Now that's not root position I can tell because of this fourth. So, I'm going to put that D on top. That shows me it's A G minor chord. So, we had D major to G minor, then over here what do we have? We have E natural. Why do we need that natural anyway, because you know there's no E-flat, there's no E-flat in the key signature. Well, this is what's called a courtesy accidental. Accidentals are any sharps, flats, or natural signs. They're all called accidentals. I don't know why, maybe because people make a lot of accidents when you're trying to play them. They're accidentals and this one's a courtesy because you had an E-flat way back here. Sometimes in sheet music they'll worry I guess that you might still think it's E-flat even though you know, dear student, that the bar line cancels the flat. So really you don't need that natural but it's there as a courtesy. So here we have E natural, G, C. That's a C major chord, and then here we have F A C, what's that? That's our F major chord, and then what do we have in this box? We have C F A C. Oh that should sound familiar. There's our original theme from the A section. If we put all those notes together, what kind of chord does that make? This fourth tells us we have an inversion. I can put that F on the bottom. That gives me an F major chord. What about here we had D, F, B-flat, D. Now since we have a D here and a D here, we can just cancel one of those, and we've got a fourth here, so let's put this B-flat on the bottom. That's a B-flat major chord. One trick remember, if you have a third and a fourth, the note that's at the top of the fourth is your root. So, I can bring down at the bottom to show me that we have a B-flat major chord there. Let's actually try playing this, because notice the fingering: 1 2 4 5 Okay, so you're going to have to stretch a little bit to make that work. Try that 1 2 4 5. This is why we practice arpeggios, okay-- And let's come down here. What interval from C to F? That's a fifth, and then from F to F, that's an octave. Or an eighth, and then last of all G, B-flat, don't forget the flat sign from our key signature, D. That's a G minor chord. For minor we always follow the capital letter with a lowercase m. So, as we learn to play this if you'll keep these chords in mind, that's going to help you learn it all the faster. Now we notice there were a couple of times that there were B-flats. It's easy to forget about these automatic flats that are generated by our key signature, So, here's a little trick that I like to do sometimes, is I'll go through and circle all of the notes that I need to remember to flat, which in this song, because of our F major key signature, are any notes that are a B. So, I've circled that B. We can circle this B, and here's a whole bunch of B's, right? So that's B-flat, B-flat, B-flat, B-flat. And then another B-flat there. And then another B-flat over here, and so this can save you a lot of hassle later on, like if you forget to flat that you might learn it incorrectly. Another way to catch these kinds of things other than circling them is using your ear. Sometimes you'll hear that it sounds a little off and if something sounds off, double-check your key signature and see if maybe you forgot to put in a B-flat. So, if you'd like to take a moment to go through your sheet music and circle all the B-flats, pause the video to do that. Otherwise, let's keep going and check out the trill. Now you may recall from our previous lesson that when you see tr, that means to play a trill. Basically, you're going to start on the note above whatever you see. This note is an E-flat, and so we're going to start on F, and go back and forth from F to E-flat, F to E-flat. We'll do that two times. F E-flat, F E-flat. Why don't you try that on the piano, your piano, using fingers 3 and 2. Just go back and forth. F E-flat, F E-flat. If you see an E-flat, you're going to do the note above it and the note you see. F E-flat, F E-flat. I'm just going to write E, and then these last two little baby notes D E, which is actually an E flat because it was flatted earlier in the measure, that's called the exit from our trill and that will lead us into this D. So the F E F E D E D, and then it goes into the arpeggio. Like this: Okay, we'll work on that more in a minute but for now just try these six not ...