How to Analyze a Piano Song in C Major

Video Transcript

"So now that we have this pattern down and we know how to find our numbers, we're going to go through our first tune. So we have C right here, right? I drew a little arrow down to it, see, so we can count them. One, two, three, four, five. Okay, five. One, five, six, five, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three, one, one-flat, three, two, one, seven, six, five, four, six, one, three, one, seven, one. So you have this next melodic line, and you can see how easily we already read through it. And we're going to take this and run it through some different keys to even more alliterate how easy it is and that we're just reading in a pattern. But again, I want to go over the note values. Even though a lot of the tunes you're going to be playing you've probably already heard because they're jazz tunes and you're more likely to look up the tunes you know. But just so you know the different note values, these are quarter notes, each get a beat. One, two, three, four. Eighth notes, two to a beat. One and two and. This is a triplet, one, this is three quarter notes to two beats. So you have one, two, three and a, three and a, one and a, two and a. And then you have sixteenth notes. One e and a, two e and a, three e and a. And there's rests and other things in there, but what we're mainly worrying about right now is finding the actual note values. "