Back To Basics Piano Lesson 11

1. Introduction: Welcome back! It's primopiano4u, the faceless wonder whose hands will teach beginners Back to Basics Piano Lessons, the ultimate brain training to improving your ability to focus for prolonged periods of time while doing something fun, like making music on the piano. As a piano teacher for over 10 years, coaching students to top marks on RCM piano exams, I'm sharing my ultimate brain training secrets with you. The goal of this lesson is to further your ultimate brain training by adding to the C Major chord knowledge you've already learned in lesson 1 to 10. For example, the C Major solid chord and the C Major broken chord. In this lesson, Back To Basics Piano Lesson 11, you will master the piano concept of the D Major chord in solid form and broken form and apply it to the song, This Old Man. Your class project is to add the D Major chord in solid form and broken form to your musical note flashcards so that you can create and compose a song with a D Major chord. So let's get started. This Old Man. Now I'm going to play this song, calling out every time the D Major solid chord appears, so that you'll know that that's where it is. 2. The D Major Chord Structure: The D Major chord. The D major chord is made up of three notes. And these are D, F Sharp, and A. And you can play these three notes in any order, like this, root position. First inversion. Second inversion. 3. The D Major Triad Solid: The D Major solid triad. Just listen while I play this once for you. Now let's learn the D Major solid triad, right hand only. Keeping in mind that since we learned the D chord, which consists of the notes D F# and A, these notes repeat themselves in different positions throughout the solid triad, but they're played all together like this. So let's begin. The D Major solid triad. Right hand begins with thumb on D, 3 on F sharp, 5 on A, root position. First inversion, 1 on F#, 2 on A, and 5 on D. second inversion, 1 on A, 3 on D, and 5 on F sharp. And back to root position, 1 on D, 3 on F sharp, 5 on A. Now let's go to the descending direction. Second inversion, 5 on F sharp, 3 on D, and 1 on A. First inversion, 5 on D, 2 on A, 1 on F sharp. And now back to the root position, 5 on A, 3 on F# and 1 on D. So your right hand solid triad of D Major should sound like this. The D Major triad solid, left hand only. Just listen while I play this once for you. 5 on D, 3 on F#, 1 on A, root position. First inversion, 5 on F#, 3 on A, and 1 on D. Second inversion, 5 on A, 2 on D and 1 on F#. Root position, 5 on D, 3 on F sharp, and 1 on A. Descending. Second inversion, 1 on F#, 2 on D, and 5 on A. First inversion, 1 on D, 3 on A, and 5 on F# root position, 1 on A, 3 on F#, 5 on D. Now I'd like you to practice the D Major triad in solid form, hands separately, and then hands together. 4. The D Major Triad Broken: The D Major triad broken. Now that you've learned the D Major triad in solid form, Let's learn it in broken. Just listen while I play this once for you. So remember from the solid form, the fingering and the notes are exactly the same. It's just that the notes are played separately. Let's begin learning the D Major triad, right hand only. Thumb on D, 3 on F#, 5 on A, root position. First inversion, 1 on F#, 2 on A, 5 on D second inversion. 1 on A, 3 on D, 5 on F#, and back to root position. 1 on D, 3 on F sharp, 5 on A. Now descending, 5 on A, 3 on F# and 1 on D. Second inversion, 5 on F#, 3 on D, and 1 on A. First inversion. 5 on D, 2 on A and 1 on F#. Root position, 5 on A, 3 on F#, and 1 on D. Now that you know the notes and the fingering, let's play the D major triad in broken form, smoothly, making sure that the notes are nice and even like this. The D Major triad broken form, left hand, root position 5 on D, 3 on F#, 1 on A. First inversion, 5 on F#, 3 on A and 1 on D, second inversion, 5 on A, 2 on D, 1 on F#, Root position 5 on D, 3 on F# and 1 on A. And now descending, it's the exact same fingering, except we're going to go down. 1 on A 3 on F#, 5 on D. Second inversion, 1 on F#, 2 on D, and 5 on A. First inversion, 1 on D, 3 on A. 5 on F# Root position, 1 on A, 3 on F# and 5 on D. So again, the left hand triad of D Major should sound like this. Now I'd like you to practice the D Major triad in broken form hands separately, and then hands together. 5. This Old Man: This Old Man. Now that you've learned the concept of the D Major chord, Let's apply this concept to the popular song, This Old Man. In this rendition of this old man in the Piano Adventures Book by Nancy and Randall Faber. You'll find that the D chord is found in the left hand in bars 1 and 2. And it's played with the fingers, 135, which is the root position in solid form like this. You'll notice that you can find it again in Bars 9 and 10, again in solid form. But this time it's found in the right hand with the fingers, 1 on D, 3 on F sharp, and 5 on A, played in solid format like this. And the last time you'll find it is in the very last bar. Again, that's bar 16. Just listen while I play this once for you. Now going to play this song calling out every time the D Major solid chord appears. For reference, the D Major solid chord appears in bars 1 and 2 in the left hand. And then it appears in Bars 9, 10, and 16 in the right hand. So just listen every time I call it D major chord, then you'll know that's where it is. 6. Class Project - D Major Chord Flashcard Song: Class project. In this class project, you will add the D major chord to your musical note. Flashcards, mix them up and play a D Major flashcards song. Here's mine. When you're finished, share your pictures of your completed D Major chord flashcard song and post a video. 7. Conclusion: Congratulations! You've now mastered playing the D Major chord in specially selected songs. 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