Name: Finding C, D & E on the Piano - Piano Lesson 4 - Hoffman Academy
Uploaded: 2019-08-23T01:18:53.000Z
Duration: 10 min 33 s
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Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.

Future simple

Today we are going to learn how to find C D and E on the piano.

To-infinitive

To make it a little more interesting, I've made up a story to share.

So let's come over to the piano for the story of Piano Street.

Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived on Piano Street.

He was walking up the street home from school one day,

and on Piano Street there was a dog house. These two black keys right here

make a dog house, so guess who lived in the dog house?

And it so happens that the white key in between any two black keys on Piano Street

Now, this was one of those mean dogs, the kind you want to stay away from

and the boy did not want to mess with that dog. So he thought to himself:

He remembered that he had a bone in his lunchbox leftover from his lunch that day.

threw the bone into the doghouse, and the mean dog ran inside

and he was able to run by as fast as he could.

there was another doghouse. Do you see these two black keys here?

These two black keys make another dog house.

So, the boy started to feel nervous when out came

one of those big furry slobbery dogs who just like to lick you all over.

It was so nice and tame it came out and licked him on the nose, and then the boy kept on going.

Now, can you find any other dog houses on Piano Street?

can you point to the two black keys that we haven't found yet?

So, the white key in between these two black keys is also called D.

because all you have to do is look for white key in between a group of two black keys.

We don't want the groups of three black keys, only the groups of two.

Now, on your own piano at home, can you find and play all of your D's?

Find a D, play it and say D until you've found every single one. So pause the video,

and find and play all the D's on your own piano, then press play when you're ready to continue.

Great job. Now let's keep going with our story.

These dogs are going to go to sleep and their dog houses.

the boy was walking home again and the mean dog comes out

The boy was in trouble because he didn't have a bone that day.

He had had peanut butter and jelly for lunch.

Well, just then out of the tree came a cat, and this C is for cat.

It was a sneaky Siamese cat who loved to tease that dog, because the dog, as mean as he was,

he went whimpering back inside his doghouse.

And he gave the cat a pat on the head and the kitty purred against his leg,

Well, it so happens in music that wherever there is a D,

the letter before it just like the musical alphabet has to be C.

So, guess what letter belongs right here before this D.

In front of every dog house D, there will always be a C on your piano.

So the easiest way to find a C is to simply look where D is and

look for the note right before it on the left.

Now, I'd like you to press pause again and go and find and play all the C's on your piano.

Whenever you find one, press it and say C

So press pause to try that, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Great job finding all the C's. Now we're going to put all the animals back to sleep again.

the mean dog came out and he was feeling a bit upset

because he had been tricked twice now: once by the bone, and once by the cat.

And he was not going to let that boy get by again.

to help with my story, can you think of the letter that comes after D. What is it?

Well, it so happened at the zoo that day.

That the zookeeper forgot to lock the fence on the place where the elephants stay,

and so boom boom boom out of nowhere came an elephant, a giant elephant that came and

that dog took one look at that elephant and went whimpering back into his doghouse.

But hey, it was an elephant from the zoo so it was actually quite tame.

The boy gave him a pat on the side and kept on walking.

Well can you guess where another E is going to be?

Just like the musical alphabet after C D comes E.

So whenever you want to find an E on your piano, just look for a D and find the next key

Now press pause one more time, go to your piano and find and play all the E's.

And then press play again when you're ready to continue.

Great job finding all the E's on your piano.

to see if you remember everything we've learned so far about Piano Street.

I've invited my friend Monkey to come help with this game.

Monkey's going to play either a C a D or an E, and I'd like you to say out loud which key he's playing.

You can just tell because it's the note right before the D in the doghouse.

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Finding C, D & E on the Piano - Piano Lesson 4 - Hoffman Academy

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