Now, in this clip, we're going to cover steps. This is very important. You know, I've said that a million times today, but it is very important. Now, as you can imagine, when you're walking, you're going to take steps, and that's the approach that we're going to take to this. You use what you know in life, and you apply it here. Things that you see, hear, touch, anything. Use your senses, and that's how I learned, especially with playing by ear, and not having formal teaching, so we're going to take steps. From one key to the very next, is a step. Whether you're going from here to here, and there's steps all over the place here, so now, I'm going to show the difference between what's called a whole step, and a half step. From one key to the very next, is a half step. When you skip a key, it's called a whole step, because you're taking these two halves, and making a whole. This is your starting position. Taking two halves, and making a whole. That's a whole step, so from one key to the very next, is a half step, one key to the very next, so and even when you're going from this key, let's see, and this is what, E. From E to F, is a half step. When you skip a key, like the black keys here. You're going to go from F to G, and that is a whole step, because you're taking the key that's in the middle, and you're skipping over it. Now, don't get it confused, between just the black and the white. When you're going to step from this white key here. You can also step only over on E. You're going to skip over it, F, and go to F sharp. It's the half step up there, so we're going to call it a sharp, so that's a whole step, because you skipped the one that's in the middle, so once again,we have two types of steps that we're going to cover today, a half step and a whole step. Half step, is when you move from one note to the very next one. It's the very one that's right next to it, whether you're going down or coming up.You're going down, or going up, that's a half step. When you skip one, whether it be a black or a white key, that's called a whole step.
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