Basic Scales of Piano Improvisation in C

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So today we're going to go over the basics for your left hand playing through fake book. So you can go through and read all these different chords that come up. We're going to go over reading the actually melody lines in another segment. Right now we're very focusing on the chords and seeing how we can instruct our own chords and figure out the harmony and the melodic ideas behind it and how chords move through a piece. So by doing this, we're going to take two simple pieces and run them through all twelve keys and we'll have all these different chords that will come out of a couple of different scales. We're going to learn our C major scale today, and we'll get three chords out of that, or four chords out of that. And then we're going to transposed it and make it a C7 and a C minor, and we'll go through a blues and apply those two new scales. So by learning three simple scales, we can learn all these different chords and get all these different ideas behind how to construct chords and put them together, and play melodically, and how to accompany ourselves as we go through and read through chord changes out of a real book.

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