How to Play the Second & Third Measures of Jingle Bells

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Hi I'm Brand Gunnell, 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. K now for our next chunk, for our next four a four measures the "Oh what fun it is to ride a one horse open sleigh" it's going to be a little different. We're going to start out here on "F" ok? But we're still in "C" position with our thumb on "C" and our pinky on "G". So each finger has its own key so we're set. So I want to start here, again in four four time, so it's one, two, three, four k? "Oh what fun it" and that's just four "F's" in a row, each getting one beat so one, two, three, four. K so for our next chunk we're going to start off on this "F" again and then after we hit this "F" one time we're going to hit "E" three times to finish off measure number six. So this is "Is to ride a" so "Is to ride a" ok? Just like that again in your four so "Oh what fun it is to ride a" is going to be, k? Now for our next one number seven I'm going to drop even lower. We're going to take that "E" and we're going to drop down to "D" twice and then pop back up to "E". That's going to be four notes one beat each, quarter notes, here we go. And that corresponds with the lyrics "One horse open" so "One horse open" and then for the last a measure on this line, measure number eight, I'm going to have two half notes. So that means each note is going to get two counts and we're going to drop down to "D" again and then we're going to pop up to "G" ok? so just so it sounds, you can make sense of it, we're going to play it along with seven measure seven leading into eight. So it starts with "One horse" one, two, one, two ok? And that corresponds with "Sleigh" and you're just going to hold those two notes for two each. So let's try that entire a next line "Oh what fun it is to ride a one horse open sleigh" that's measures five through eight.

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