From the course: Piano Lessons: 2 Playing Songs
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"Ode to Joy"
From the course: Piano Lessons: 2 Playing Songs
"Ode to Joy"
(piano music) - This version of Ode to Joy, is perfect if you've never played the piano before. And if you've never played both hands on a piano before, we're gonna get you started right off the bat, playing hands together in this pretty simple arrangement, but it's got its little tricks in there too. So let's start off with the left hand. The left hand's gonna be playing two different chords. And let me show you how these are gonna be played. Look for the two black keys down here. And the key immediately to the left of that is C. Use your pinky, your left pinky to play that C, and then we're gonna build a chord on top of that. Skip this note over here, and then we're gonna skip another note. Play these three together, that is a C Major chord okay? That's the first of two chords, the second chord, we're gonna, the only notes that's gonna be the same, is gonna be this G, we're gonna keep this G here, okay? But then we're gonna switch the bottom two notes, so this one will go down to a…
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