Sonatina in C: First Movement: B Section: Left Hand

Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman and in today's lesson we're going to learn the right-hand part for the B section of Clemente's "Sonatina" in C. The allegro first movement. Let's get started by checking out the score. All right, let's start with just these first two lines. Pause the video if you need some time to print out your own music. Get it ready. Draw a box around these certain chords and then pause the video to identify them. Try and figure out what chord it is, write the name of the chord up above, and then press play we'll look at it together. Okay, what did you get for this chord here in measure sixteen? We have a B, a D, then another B, and then a G. That's a G major chord. Then up here we have a C, an E-flat, another C, then a G. Now remember, whenever you see a fourth you have to remember that's not going to be root position. At least in a basic major or minor try it it will never be root position. So let's take this G and put it on top, and now you can see we've got a C minor chord. Now what about this chord down here? We've got a C, an E, a C, and a G. We see a fourth, so we know we have an inversion we're dealing with. So let's take this G, put it on top, and now if we see third then third, we know we're in root position. So that tells us we're in a C major chord, and then this is the same chord. So another C major chord. Now while we're in the these first two lines, let's do a little interval analysis. What interval do you see between these two notes? If you said an octave you're correct. We go from this high G down to this treble G, back and forth. So we're playing an octave back and forth there. Now what about this harmonic interval? We call it a harmonic interval if they're played at the same time. Can you tell me what interval you see there? That is the interval of a sixth. B on the bottom, G on the top. Now let's finish out with a little more analysis. Okay, four more boxes for you. Pause the video and see if you can identify these, and then press play and we'll look at it together. Okay what did you get here? We've got a middle C, then down a fourth to G, back to middle C, up to E. Is this root position? No, because we've got a fourth let's put the G on top and we can see it's a C major chord. What about here? We've got an E, a C, another E, a G and then a C on top. So once again if I just leave out that C, we can see we've got a C major triad, and we're just playing it as an arpeggio with an extra C on top. So a C major chord or arpeggio. And what did we get here? Eight notes going from C to C. All white keys makes that a C major one octave scale. So a C major scale one octave, and while we're here, what interval do you see here? We've got a D going where? Up an octave to another D. You might remember this pattern from before. And then another scale going up. We're still using a C major scale, but this time going from E to E. And then another octave from F up to high F. And then what chord, what chord do you see here? We've got a G, a C, an E, a G. Well this G is repeated up here so I can leave that off and we can see that's a C major arpeggio. Or you could say it's C major broken chord. Let's try to play this on the piano. So, once again let's use our analysis to help us learn this even faster. We figured out and measure sixteen that we're playing a G major chord. Here's my middle C. On your own piano can you play this as a blocked chord? These are the notes we're going to use now we just have to add the rhythm. TA TI-TI Your turn. Good and then in measure seventeen we get a C minor second inversion chord. G C E-flat. So play that as a block. And then let's turn it into the right rhythm. We have TA TI-TI TA. Your turn. Good let's go back to measure sixteen. We have TA TI-TI TA TA TA TI-TI TA Now your turn. Then we come up the octave to this high G. F D E-flat C, Now, pause the video and work on measure sixteen through nineteen, and notice as you go into measure nineteen we're crossing finger 3 over to this B natural. Alright, so pause the video work on measures sixteen to nineteen, then press play to go on. Also please be sure to notice, as you're learning this, the dynamics. We start piano and then it crescendos a little bit, here's the loudest part then decrescendos again. Okay, try to make this sound like an interesting phrase that's telling a story. Now going on to measure twenty, what interval did we say? Here's an octave right, and it's just going back and forth. Now if your hand is wide enough to reach an octave, you're just going to kind of rock your hand back and forth. Just kind of hold in one position almost like you're turning the doorknob on a door, but it's a pretty subtle motion it's just going to kind of rock back and forth. Now if your hand can't quite reach, you might have to kind of make a little mini rainbow back and forth between those two G's, and you won't be able to make it as legato, but that's okay. If your hand can't quite reach, you still can do it you'll just have to kind of arch your way through, across that gap, but again if you can reach and you'll be able to do it legato and just kind of just rock kind of like you're turning the handle of a door. Pause the video and just work on that m ...