From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces

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B Section: m. 5-8

B Section: m. 5-8

From the course: Piano Lessons: 3 Sight Reading & Classical Pieces

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B Section: m. 5-8

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- Now we're going to work on a section of the piece where the right hand is gonna be doing two things at the same time, we've seen this before in other songs. This is gonna be a little different in that we're changing where the melody is. Now it's gonna be where it normally is on the top. So here's what's gonna happen, let me explain, let me play the melody for you really quickly. The melody is just one note. (piano music) Played in rhythm. While it's playing that melody note, it's gonna be playing an accompanying figure underneath it at the same time. All right? So, just take your time, let's pull this apart. Ready, we're gonna play this together. So now your pinky is the melody note, so you wanna hold on to that pinky while you play these three notes underneath it, okay? Now, the right hand, the pinky has an interesting rhythm, it has a dotted eighth to a 16th note. I don't wanna get too technical, too complicated, with how this will work, let's just simply put it this way. Two…

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