Welcome back, our next time is going to be main song. And, as always, we're just going to discuss the song before we get too far into it. And there's some different things than we've ever worked on before. So each song that we do, in consequence, should have a building block. That is teaching you some new skill that you haven't learned before. And that's our goal here.

So, some things to look at. And the first thing that we see is these dots. These dots, change the value of the quarter notes that you see. So if you see a dot, let's say that's a whole note, whole notes worth four beats. If I add a.to it I'm gonna say this little because a little bit confusing. If you hear that for the first time, a dot will simply add half The value.

So when I say half the value, half the value of a whole note, if a whole note is four beats, half the value is two. So I add half the value of a whole note to itself. So when I say two itself to four, because this value is four, so if I add at half the value which is two to four, I really add four plus two equals six. So doubted whole note equals six beats. If this was a half note, a half note by itself without the.is two beats. If I add, if I have that dotted half note, that means I add half the value of itself to itself.

So if it's two beats, I divide that by two. I get one so Two plus one equals now three beats. So a dotted half note is three beats. In the case of the notes that we see in the song that are dotted, it's a quarter note. So, a quarter note by itself equals one beat. If I dot that, it means I need to have add one half the value of a quarter note that to itself.

So if it's one, what is one, one half of one is one half. So now a dotted quarter note is one and one half beats. This makes it a little tricky to try to count. But how we're going to do it is if I noted before, if I had a bunch of flagged eighth notes together a B, one and two and three And four, and I want to use that and to my advantage to be able to count here. So it's going to be one and 234. This is common time.

So as a C, C simply means four over four times before four time, which means a quarter note gets the beat, and there's four beats in a measure. This measure line and the beginning of the song indicate that this is a measure. If I count I have to count before. So the way that I'm going to count is one end. This eighth note gets a beat on two. So one, and 23412 and three, four.

So do you see how that works? We're going to continue on to see how this works again, so we have one and 234. So if I was going to audibly Having a rhythm as bom bom Ba ba ba 121212. So one and 2312 and 121 and two, one and 231212. Another way to think of these notes is simply by thinking of it as just a little bit longer than a long note. And remember in in songs past, we used to, we would take the simple approach and say well what were some different notes here and we broke it up into two main notes, short notes, these eighth notes and long notes, these quarter notes.

Well, we also have another note that is a half note Which is two beats. And we can call those really long. So a little bit longer, I'm just going to audibly say long, but I'm going to hold it out a little longer than Long's so long, short, long, long, long, short, short, one, too. long, short, long, long 1212. If I didn't want to use one, two as counting for half notes, I could simply just call them really long, like this. long, short, long, long, long, short, short, really long, long, short, long, long, really long, really long.

And whatever seems the easiest city to actually count it out. To use the short counting method that I've I've used, or whatever you gravitate towards, that's what you should do. So let's just go ahead and play the first line of the song a couple times. I'm going to play it all the way through first. So you have an audible on Audible representation of the of the first line. And then we're just going to repeat through that first line a couple times after that so I play once you join are with me for two times.

All right, nice and slow. Alright, so when I played that version of it a couple times, I decided to use my fourth finger for some of these open notes. That's something that you'll learn later. Just know that if you ever see me playing a four, you can always simply play the open note as you normally would, your open he or I played it for it's happens to be something that I have muscle memory with. So if you again, if you see me playing for us, just simply that open, open note. Okay, now let's move on to that second line.

So we don't have any of these dotted quarter notes any longer. So a lot of these notes that we have are going to be pretty simple for us to be able to count so we have 123412 And 34123412 and three, four. Or if I choose my simplistic method of counting I have long, long, long, long, long, short, short, really long, long, long, long, long, long, short, short really long. Now, some some things that we look at as symmetry and song Sometimes, these notes that you find in the first two measures of the second line are exactly the same notes as the notes that you see in the last two measures of the second line. So just repeats itself. Other things to keep aware of in the sun.

All of the notes that you see in the first line, are exactly the notes that you see in the last line. So they're symmetrical too. So as long as Feel comfortable and I practice the first line enough, I should automatically say, Well, I as long as I know how to play the first line, I can just go ahead and play the second line because I already know how to play the first line. Other things to think about in this song is you'll see that I have less finger numbers. So when you're when you're playing at home, the expectation is instead of you looking at the numbers, so your eyes where they're trained is instead of on these numbers, they should be down by these notes and saying, Okay, what notes are they what finger Am I going to put it on? And the more that your brain figures out which finger it is open to open, three open to open, by using the simple math that we learned earlier on how to figure out what fingers to us.

The better off you're going to be when you're reading music. In the future, so the quicker we can get rid of these finger numbers, and the more you can just see a note quickly in your brain. Do that quick math, just know what it is. Eventually, you're going to memorize the note like, you'll look at this, this note here, say, Oh, it's a three on a, I can see it, I know what it is. And it just takes practice and repetition to get there. So that's the idea behind seeing less of your finger numbers as we go.

So I'm going to play this once all the way through the second line. As soon as that second line is done, you join in and we're going to play two more times to get comfortable with that second line. So there we go. Nice and slow. All right, great work. Now we're gonna play the song all the way through to the end.

I'm going to count out. And so historically that what we've done is I played it through first you could hear this time, I'm going to cut it out. I'm going to one, two, ready to go and then we play. So after that you're going to join in with me, and we're going to play this on all the way through three times in a row. And after that, we'll ready to move on to the next lesson. So here we go.

One, two, ready go. One last Okay, in the next lesson we're gonna discover playing by Bravo, and it's gonna be more in depth, but I'm gonna go ahead and play this song for you one time through using the vibrato so you get a an audible representation of what it might sound like when we apply it to the song. Alright, get ready for vibrato and we'll see you in the next lesson.