Joy Part 1

In this lesson, Charlie will introduce the first part of a classical piece by Beethoven called Joy.

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This is a classical piece by Ludwig van Beethoven. It's a little melody called Joy, and I will break it up into different sections, and then we'll put all those sections together.

Ok, so starting off bar one with pretty much a C chord. Having said that, I'm only playing the notes C, and I'm playing an open G, so this finger here on E is not really doing much at all. So, I'm playing a C, open G, and I'm playing an E, an open E on the top of the chord. So, I'm getting the notes C, open G and my high E...

My first finger then goes down to play the F note ... and my forth finger is going to grab the G on top ...

Taking a look at the right hand, thumb is playing the C bass, first finger is playing the G and my third finger is playing the E on top of the chord ... I use my second finger here to play the F note ... and my third finger to play the G note ...

Moving into the second bar, I'm playing the B note with my second finger of my left hand, I'm playing an open D, and I'm playing a G with my forth finger ... B, open G and D on top of the chord ... followed by an F, I'm grabbing that with my first finger ... then I'm playing a G on the bass, open D and an open E ... G on the bass, open D and an open E top string ... followed by forth finger grabbing that D note on my B string third fret ...

Ok, so I'm moving into B with my thumb, on my right hand. I'm playing the open D with my first finger and I'm playing the G note on top of the chord here with my third finger ... first finger grabs the F note...

I go into the second triad where I use my thumb on the G, my first finger to play the open D and again my third finger to play the high E ... and second finger the D note ...

So, playing through bars one and two ...

Once again, slowly ...

Ok, that completes bars one and two. Bar three, I now go back to my C chord. Only this time I'm playing the notes C, E and C on the octave. C with my third finger, E with my second, C with my first...

On my right hand, thumb, first and second on the C octave. Thumb, first finger and second on the C octave ....

After the C triad here, I'm playing the notes D with my forth finger and open E ...

Thumb, first on the E, and I'm playing the high E again with my third finger. Thumb, first, third ... just grabbing the D with my second and the E with my third...

And the forth bar, the final bar in the first section, I'm going to be playing C, G and E, which is C with my third finger, G open, and my E note open, so I'm pretty much getting ... those three notes, followed by B, open G and E. B, open G forth string, and little finger down here on the D. Those two triads are ...

Looking at the right hand, we've got the notes, C, open G and E with my third finger... Going to my B bass with my thumb again, first finger plays the open G and second finger will play the high D ...

So taking a look at our first four bars...

Everything is exactly the same in bars five to eight. The only thing that changes in bar eight are the two triads. So I'll show you those two triads and I'll then play from bars to one right through to bar eight.

Ok, bar 8, our first triad is a B followed by an F and then D on top of the chord ... and then go back to our C shape which is C and E note, and of course the C on the top of the chord ... so I get that shape first triad into my C triad.

Thumb, first, second ... and thumb, first and third ...

So, let's play through the first two phrases, bars one to eight ...

 

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