1 1 00:00:00,210 --> 00:00:02,610 Chopin Prelude in C minor, Opus 28, Number 20. 2 2 00:00:02,610 --> 00:00:07,400 You may be more familiar with this song from the start 3 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,565 of Could It Be Magic by Barry Manilow. 4 4 00:00:11,140 --> 00:00:13,710 And this is a simplified version of the Chopin piece. 5 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:16,450 And I'm going to simplify it even further. 6 6 00:00:16,450 --> 00:00:19,026 So there's two ways of practicing this song. 7 7 00:00:19,026 --> 00:00:22,531 The first way is to just use your chord knowledge. 8 8 00:00:22,531 --> 00:00:24,772 So the chords written above the music. 9 9 00:00:24,772 --> 00:00:25,816 Just play them. 10 10 00:00:25,816 --> 00:00:27,732 So C minor. 11 11 00:00:27,732 --> 00:00:30,194 F minor. 12 12 00:00:30,194 --> 00:00:32,770 The plain version, so this is F minor in the middle. 13 13 00:00:32,770 --> 00:00:34,570 G backwards. 14 14 00:00:34,570 --> 00:00:37,031 If you can remember. 15 15 00:00:37,031 --> 00:00:38,994 So that's augmented. 16 16 00:00:38,994 --> 00:00:40,293 So that's a sharpened fifth. 17 17 00:00:40,293 --> 00:00:44,973 [SOUND] A-flat backwards. 18 18 00:00:44,973 --> 00:00:46,748 [SOUND] D-flat. 19 19 00:00:46,748 --> 00:00:49,175 [SOUND] E-flat. 20 20 00:00:49,175 --> 00:00:53,575 [SOUND] G. 21 21 00:00:53,575 --> 00:00:55,468 [SOUND] C7. 22 22 00:00:55,468 --> 00:01:00,111 [SOUND] C minor. 23 23 00:01:00,111 --> 00:01:01,515 D7. 24 24 00:01:01,515 --> 00:01:04,197 [SOUND] G backwards. 25 25 00:01:04,197 --> 00:01:06,554 [SOUND] D7. 26 26 00:01:06,554 --> 00:01:10,571 [SOUND] So you can get through it like that. 27 27 00:01:10,571 --> 00:01:14,749 And you can still hear the beautiful movement of the chords. 28 28 00:01:15,890 --> 00:01:18,278 Second way, you can just follow this the way I've written it, 29 29 00:01:18,278 --> 00:01:19,279 the simplified version. 30 30 00:01:19,279 --> 00:01:23,183 And most of the bottom notes will be off your screen, but 31 31 00:01:23,183 --> 00:01:28,265 I'll be playing octaves, so they're very, very deep octaves [NOISE]. 32 32 00:01:28,265 --> 00:01:30,191 And F [NOISE]. 33 33 00:01:30,191 --> 00:01:31,608 There's an F played down there. 34 34 00:01:31,608 --> 00:01:34,379 So I'll take you through some of the chord changes and 35 35 00:01:34,379 --> 00:01:36,728 then you can work through the rest yourself. 36 36 00:01:36,728 --> 00:01:38,644 So C minor. 37 37 00:01:38,644 --> 00:01:44,100 [SOUND] F, way down in the base note. 38 38 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:46,305 So we're F minor seventh. 39 39 00:01:46,305 --> 00:01:49,662 F minor middle for seven. 40 40 00:01:49,662 --> 00:01:53,306 [SOUND] And then G augmented. 41 41 00:01:53,306 --> 00:01:58,250 So there's your G, there's your sharp and fifth. 42 42 00:01:58,250 --> 00:02:04,174 [SOUND] And as you're passing notes down to C minor and 43 43 00:02:04,174 --> 00:02:06,874 you're into A-flat. 44 44 00:02:06,874 --> 00:02:09,951 [SOUND] So that's straightforward, D-flat middle. 45 45 00:02:09,951 --> 00:02:12,610 [SOUND] Very deep base. 46 46 00:02:12,610 --> 00:02:18,054 Up to E-flat, [SOUND] and then A-flat. 47 47 00:02:18,054 --> 00:02:21,270 [SOUND] So that going very deep now. 48 48 00:02:21,270 --> 00:02:27,236 Then you're up to G, [SOUND] C7, 49 49 00:02:27,236 --> 00:02:32,357 [SOUND] then F-minor again. 50 50 00:02:32,357 --> 00:02:36,757 [SOUND] C minor middle. 51 51 00:02:36,757 --> 00:02:43,281 So this is D7 backwards almost. 52 52 00:02:43,281 --> 00:02:49,491 [SOUND] And then this is up to D7. 53 53 00:02:49,491 --> 00:02:50,409 Right down now. 54 54 00:02:50,409 --> 00:02:53,415 [SOUND] G. 55 55 00:02:53,415 --> 00:02:55,075 [SOUND] Okay? 56 56 00:02:55,075 --> 00:02:58,430 Just keep working your way through it slowly. 57 57 00:02:58,430 --> 00:02:59,180 So you can do it one of two ways.