Playing Classical Music Measures 26-28 in D Major

Video Transcript

"So we're on our last system in page two, and we have this low pedal point, which you see goes through the whole thing, this low A here, which is the fifth, which is a common pedal point used quite often. And you notice we keep changing our top note here, it's falling down, so you have this right here is five, four, then it goes five, three, and then five, two. So we're just going to go through and get the chords with this. We have five, four, then right here, this is D, so that's seven, so five, seven, two. Then you have five, three, remember the pedal point changes, then you have five, one, three, then five, two, and you have five, one, four. So Bach's starting to expand the chords as we go into the third page. We're going to go through, look at my hands as we play. Notice I have this pedal point right here, keep that pinky down. So, five, four, six, seven, two, five, three, five, one, three, five, two, and then you have one, two, and four. So we're starting to move down a little bit lower as we go into the third page of Bach Prelude Number One."