JINGLE

JINGLES

Hi, I'm Brand Gunnel I'm a music teacher here in Orlando, Florida. I teach piano and guitar. And I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village, to teach you how to play Jingle Bells on your piano. (Plays) OK, now what we're going to do is we're going to tackle this final line. Our final four measures which was the second time we're going to repeat the lyrics "Oh what fun it is to ride a one horse open sleigh". Now remember we're going to go down as the last, the line two kind of rose. This last one is going to end and bring us to a close. Now for this time it's going to be a little different than we played it the first time. You're going to start on your left hand on D and we're going to hold that for four. Then we're going to pop up here to G and hold that for four. Then we're going to hit G again for four, and then we're going to do something a little trickier. We're going to hit one and three, your E and G, at the same time. And it's going to make at the end a chord. It's actually going to make a C chord. All a chord is, is when you have more than one note together. So this is C that's a note. That's a C chord, because we have more than one note going at the same time. OK and that's just going to give us a nicer fuller sound, and with it coming down your listener is going to know the song is complete. OK, so let's start off on your right hand remember it sounded like this (plays line). It's going to start D, G, G, and then E and G together. OK, so let's try them together (Plays line). OK this (Plays chord), that ending, that's actually an inverted C chord. It's a C second inversion, and basically what that means is your chord of C is C, E and G. You can hit C, E and G as long as you hit those three together, that's going to make a C chord. So you have C, E and G, that's a C chord. You can have C, E and G down there and that's still a C chord, because you're still using your notes C, E and G. That's the first inversion, because we've just pulled that G back. But what we have done is we've hit E and G back here and your C up top so you?re finishing with a chord which makes it sound nice and complete."