A piano tutorial on Janis Joplin's "I Love to See the Temple" from A Sunday Afternoon. Learn pedal placement on downbeats, how to handle triplet 16th and 32nd note runs smoothly, and fingering choices that keep rapid passages clean.
All right, next song here from this new piano book, A Sunday Afternoon, is I'd Love to See the Temple. And this one's pretty straightforward. There's— it's pretty sure it's only 2 pages. It's soft and slow and meant to just be enjoyed, right? Just kind of don't rush through it, enjoy the notes. There's a couple, you know, triplet 16ths here and little things that might wake you up a little bit as you do them. But anyway, I hope you enjoy this beautiful song by Janis Joplin, and here's an arrangement of her song. So now we're going to go more quickly, it says here. But, um, at verse 17, I was talking about this with— in the other, the last video I did, Come Thou Fount, um, talking about when to release the pedal and how to transition between different sections. And it's all stylistic, everyone's able to do their own thing, but if you're wanting to play it like I do and try to get the sound that I do, what I'm doing is I'm almost always putting that pedal right on the downbeat of a new section, right? And, and, and so I don't do it before— let me, let me play this part right here. So it's— so I'll do a little bit of that. I have a couple choices here. I could clear, right? So I can clear it there. I could not clear, and that just gets muddy. I don't recommend that one. Or I can clear right there, right on the C, right on that downbeat. So in this case, I like queering on that C. I like the third option there. I think that's the best. It kind of is surprising how clean and clear it is. The pedal can muddy things up, and it's very easy, especially as a beginner, to just say, I just want to just always keep it on. And you know, That's just part of being a pianist, is trying to learn how to do that. It hides mistakes for sure. It's easier if you kind of just gloss over it, but try to get it exact, right? Anyway, let's keep going. Um, Hey, we're gonna talk about that. That section just for a second. It looks complicated in there, but it's not. These 16ths, these triplet 16ths, and then some 16ths into 8— or, uh, sorry, 32nds. Maybe they're triplet 32nds. Yeah, 8, 16, 32nd. Yeah, they're triplet 32nds. I'm sorry, I've been saying that wrong. But you just have to get that to where it's very smooth, right? I recommend hitting that with your 4. Start with the 4 and then bouncing down there, right? So pretty simple, short. If you're looking for a quick, easy musical number or just a nice song to play, there it is. I'd love to see the temple.
