This blog is a record of teaching myself the piano. It is not intended to teach others how to play, but perhaps others who are learning might be share ideas and thoughts about learning the piano, and perhaps even provide some useful criticism.
In this lesson I use both hands to play Jingle Bells. Keep in mind however, that the goal isn't just to learn to play Jingle Bells, or any particular song. Rather, it is learning how intervals, harmonic and melodic (playing the notes of an interval simultaneously vs. one after the other) are applied to build songs. In Jingle Bells, the left hand plays the Harmonic intervals (chords), and the right hand plays the melodic intervals (notes one after another that makes up the melody). The exercise from the book I'm using instructs the student to say the interval as it is played, which I do. I think. The intervals are based on C, that is, the forth is C and a fourth above C, which is F, and the fifth is C and a fifths above C, which is G. This video is over 10 minutes long and may or may not be instructive. The hope is to get familiar with the feel of 4th and 5th intervals, and to play Jingle Bells. We'll see.
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