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Monday, April 28

Black Hawk Waltz by Al Toft Orchestra-- then a piano version.



Let's take a glance at the piano sheet music to start this time. You can pick up a lot of interesting information and intuitive feel for the piano song you're going to play just be LOOKING at the music. LOOK at it. LOOK at the patterns of little black notes. See how they repeat. See how the chords change slightly. Even if you do not play piano, you can see things happening on the music that are interesting in terms of the pattern. LOOK at the chords above the staff. LOOK at the octaves in the bass if you know music. Once you're done examining this, play the first video below-- the orchestra version by Al Toft. Then... after all of that, finally listen to the piano version at the very bottom (scroll down).