The Bear by Vladimir Rebikov: Core Classics, Grades 2-3, p.4

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:01]If I play an F, >> [music] >> it sounds fine. It's a single note, and we might start to hear that as our as our keynote, our home note note.

[00:00:13]Perhaps we're in F major or F minor.

[00:00:16]But if I play an F followed by >> [music] >> that B natural is really really jarring.

[00:00:26]It sounds quite crunchy and distressing.

[00:00:31]That interval that would be a perfect fourth.

[00:00:37]That's a bigger fourth. That's an augmented fourth.

[00:00:44]And that's how our piece starts.

[00:00:47]>> [music] >> What's going to happen?

[00:00:52]Ooh.

[00:00:54]Our melody is very simple. Let me play it an octave higher.

[00:00:58]>> [music] [music] >> What scale is that? It sounds quite unusual, doesn't it? And it's a piece that's in three sections, I think. We have our first eight bars with our melody.

[00:01:13]Then we have then in the middle of the same melody but shifted up a bit and in parallel thirds.

[00:01:20]>> [music] >> Again, what scale is that?

[00:01:27]And then at the end, we have exactly the same, really identical to what we played at the beginning.

[00:01:33]The bear.

[00:01:36]Our metronome mark in the book, by the way, is 80 bpm.

[00:01:42]>> [music] [music] >> I think it could work a bit slower than that, too.

[00:01:59]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> With that getting quieter at the end, do we assume that our bear has wandered off into the woods and there has been no disaster?

[00:02:46]I notice there's no rit either at the end, just strict time, I think.

[00:02:51]Thank you for being with me as we looked at that piece. If you'd like to stay and listen to some more pieces from the same book, this playlist could be for you next. Take care. Bye-bye for now.