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  • You are watching the Piano Guys piano lessons.

  • hi happy holidays merry christmas I'm Scott Houston

  • and I want to teach you to play joy to the world on piano kinda like that right

  • there

  • I but figured out a way then I'm gonna split this tune up into 5 lessons

  • because right now it's about a week before Thanksgiving so we have about

  • five weeks before the Christmas

  • and I'm going to once a week give out a little

  • dose, one little lesson and we got split into five pieces

  • so very simply and the teach you how to play this tune on piano and I promise

  • you'll be able to get this under Hand that I kinda sneaky way to do it it's

  • gonna be a pretty hip version but nice piano chords and the whole bit so

  • I'm really looking for doing this and I think you'll be shocked at how

  • how little and bite size each individual piano lesson is also just to mention this

  • briefly and then not that burning every music is in a great thing to be able to

  • do or don't wanna learn to do

  • but in this environment I want as many people as possible be able to take

  • advantage of these 5 free piano lessons and

  • get this piano tune under hand It's really fun to be able to play a a good holiday to

  • in this time a year

  • so let's dig right in here comes piano lesson number one

  • now here's what we're going to do okay with your right hand

  • you want to put your fingers on these notes

  • my pinky is on a C up at Top here right

  • that I have my index finger on a G and

  • my thumb on s C

  • Now don't tuck your fingers away like I am too I'm just doing it makes it easier

  • to show you and you can see which no timer

  • but when you're really playing the piano you wanna leave your fingers out so there's no

  • reason to

  • give yourself rigor mortis hand by taking your fingers away like I do

  • okay so here we go you just are here

  • and just are working your way down one white piano note at a time so you have

  • you'll notice that my hand is absolutely lock like it's got a cast on it

  • exactly the same shape through the entire

  • thing ok

  • I'lll do that one more time

  • It starts on a C and you just are going down every white piano note Until you

  • get one entire octave lower and you'll be

  • ending up on that piano note so one more time

  • okay that's it for your right hand part now here's where do with your left hand

  • to begin with alright

  • I'm gonna open up this camera-shy just a little bit here

  • pardon me or expand its just a little bit re: now

  • here's what you need to do with your right hand here's the baseline it just

  • goes like this:

  • I'm

  • starting on a C, right then you can always tell a C that's the first white note to

  • the left of two black notes on a keyboard

  • alright so here we go

  • and then you want to reach down one octave

  • right so it is the same G down at the bottom

  • that's it, one more time

  • now what you're probably end up wanting to do is playing that in

  • octaves just to get a deeper sound to you play both go to the same time though

  • sound like this

  • right then

  • now you may want to even go one octave down further because, this will make

  • sense the minute we do it we're going to have a thumb crash where the this hand is coming

  • down here and this thumb is coming up here

  • so here's how all do it alright if you just want to watch or put my hands

  • together

  • so we're going to just what we did before and again I'm playing octaves are

  • and I have one more see played down they're the same time so I'll play

  • right here is where you can have a thurmb crashit's no big deal you can solve

  • it however you want but

  • I'll probably just stay out of the way

  • and then I'll reach down even one octave further

  • right

  • then come back to the sea

  • so here it is this is the whole thing ready for this piano lesson right

  • okay now if you need to watch it over and over your free do it a few times but

  • that's all we're gonna do

  • for this first piano lesson so takes a few days to get underhand great

  • takes a few minutes to get underhand great make sure you're comfortable with

  • it

  • but I'm still gonna make you wait a week until I give the next piano lesson

  • alright get ready we'll come back with a lesson 2 out of 5 total piano lessons!

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