Hello and welcome back.
I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Today we are learning a holiday song, "Jingle
Bells."
So let's come over to the heartbeat mat to
check out the rhythms.
Here's the rhythm to the first phrase of "Jingle
Bells."
Let's review the names of all these rhythms.
These are two eighth notes which make a sound
like this, TI-TI.
Here's a quarter note which will go TA.
Down here we have something that looks like
two eighth notes, but it's a dotted eighth
note with a sixteenth note.
This extra little beam sticking out turns
this into a sixteenth note, and it sounds
like this, TIM-KI.
So all together, these rhythms will sound
like this.
TI-Ti TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA rest.
Now can you try to say that with me?
Point to each heartbeat and speak the rhythm.
Go.
TI-TI TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA, rest.
Now let's look at the next phrase.
Now in this next phrase can you find a rhythm
we didn't see in the last phrase?
Point to it.
You're probably pointing right here, because
we didn't have this rhythm last time.
This is an eighth note with two sixteenth
notes.
It makes a sound like this.
TI-TIKI.
TI-TIKI.
Now here is what this phrase will sound like.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TA
TA.
Can you speak the rhythm with me and point
to each beat?
Ready, go.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TA
TA.
Good, let's check out the next phrase.
The third phrase is the same as the first,
so let's say it together.
Ready, go.
TI-TI TA, TI-TI TA, TI-TI TIM-KI TA rest.
Now on to phrase four.
Any new rhythms you can see in phrase four?
That's right, down here we have a half note.
The half note takes up two beats, TWO is what
we'll say for the half note.
Let's try to speak the rhythm of the fourth
phrase.
Ready, go.
TI-TI TIM-KI TI-TI TI-TIKI TI-TI TI-TI TWO.
Good, now let's come and take a look at the
sheet music.
Here's the sheet music to "Jingle Bells."
Let's start by taking a look at line one.
Line one begins right here in treble clef
on line one of the staff.
Can you tell me the letter name for this note?
If you said E, you are correct.
Now are these notes stepping, skipping, or
repeating?
That's right, they're repeating.
So we have, E, E, E, E, E, E, E, then what
happens here?
Do we step or skip?
That's right, we skip up.
So if this is E, then this note will be G.
We skip up, and then can you tell me the letter
name for this note?
If you said C, you're correct.
E, G, C, and then what happens with these
two notes?
If you said, stepping up, you're correct.
So we have C, D, E. If you'd like your own
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Now let's go to the piano and see how to play
this first line.
For "Jingle Bells" we're going to use the
C major pentascale which means your right
hand finger one will come to middle C, and
your other fingers will go up from there.
Now we start with repeats on E. So we'll have
E, E, E, E, E, E, Now your turn to try.
Great.
Now next we have another E and then we skip
up for jingle.
E, G.
Your turn.
Good, and after we do E, G, then it comes
all the way down to C, D, E, and we have three
notes stepping up.
All the way.
Your turn, just try those three notes, all
the way.
Your turn.
Good, now let's put that all together.
We have jingle all the way.
Your turn.
Great, so the whole first phrase will sound
like this.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the
way.
Press pause and try all of line one by yourself.
Press play when you're ready to go on.
Now we're looking at the second phrase of
"Jingle Bells."
Can you tell me the letter name for this first
note?
If you said F, you're correct.
Remember, this line is the G line because
it goes through the swirl of the treble clef,
but we're a step below the G line, which makes
it an F. Now what are these notes doing?
That's right, they're repeating.
We have F, F, F, F, F, lots of F's in a row,
and then it steps down, to E. On, is to ride
in a one, what are all of these notes doing?
You can see they're all on the same line so
they have to be repeating.
E, E, E, E, E, and then we step down, what's
a step below E?
If you said D, you're correct.
For one horse o- it repeats then steps back
up to E, we're going back and forth, E, D,
D, E, D and what note is this?
Since it's on line two of the treble clef,
it has to be a G.
We have D, G, ...