Basic Intervals for Jazz Piano Lin D Minor

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Alright now I'm going to show you how to do some basic sheet music reading in the key of D major. Now if you go get a fake book or a real book like Deals Ultimate fake book or you analogy. Everything is going to be written pretty much in treble cleft, you are going to see some chord changes up here and basic melody notes like you see here. So how do you know if it is the key of D it has 2 sharps. It has a F sharp and a C sharp and you would see that so if you see 2 sharps you know D major. Then your basic scale starts on D and you have D,E,F sharp which is noted here, C,A,B, and C sharp. Now the whole point of noting these here is so when you go through and read all the notes on the staff are pretty much notes in the scale so that way the notes in between like the C and the F are not even on the scale it has to be noted with either a natural sign, a flat sign or a sharp sign. So if you go through you have your basic, you have your 1,2,3,4,5,6, and 7 degrees of the scale and if you make these a root this is the root for your major, this is the root for your minor, the 5 is the root for your 5,7 chord and the 6 is the root for your 6 minor chord. Very important.

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