How to Play the Final Measure of Jingle Bells

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Hi, I'm Brian Gunnell. I'm a music teacher, here in Orlando, Florida. I teach piano and guitar. I'm here today on behalf of Expert Village, to teach you how to play Jingle Bells on your piano. To finish this off; to correspond with the second time we sing though oh, what fun it is to ride a one horse open sleigh, even though it repeats your second line, just like the third repeated the first, lyrically it's the same, but musically it's going to be a little bit different there at the end. We're going to put our hand back in C position; it shouldn't have moved, and we're going to start here with four, which is your F. That's four quarter notes; four F's. So far that's the same as measure five. You'll find that the next measure is going to be the same, as well. We're going to hit F once, and E three times, so let's start with the oh, what fun it is. Now this is where we're going to switch it up a little bit. Remember, the first time through the one horse open sleigh sounded like this, but if you notice; at the end it kind of went up a little bit. To close off the chorus we need it to come down again. So, what we're going to do is start here on G; your number five; and we're going to hit that twice, and then we're going to hit F once, and then D once. Those are four quarter notes; one beat apiece, so, one horse open... See how it's going down again? We need to just close this off completely, so for our final measure; measure sixteen; we're just going to hit C note; your middle C for a count of four. That's going to be a whole note. To make some sense out of it, we're going to start from one horse open sleigh; two, three, four. Let's try that entire last line by itself; the oh what fun it is to ride a one horse open sleigh.

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