Reading a Fake Book in A Major for Beginners

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Part of the video series: Reading Musical Fake Books in A Major

Summary: Learn how to read and play through a musical fake book in the key of A major in this free music video for jazz musicians on reading a fake book in A major.

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Ryan Larson Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all twelve keys. When applying his twelve-key technique... read more

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Reading a Fake Book in A Major for Beginners

Today we're going to take a look at some simple chord changes in our right hand that we can utilize in A major as we read through simple fake book. Of course, we are not going over melody today just really some simple chords so you can really start getting your chord changes under your fingers and do some accompany mix. We're go over reading actual sheet like reading the melodies and different series or if you want, you can search for classical music and it will show you. I will do it 2 through 12 keys and I will do it in search for Reading Through Classical Music in A major and it will show you how read the melody lines and how to find the actual notes. Again, it all comes together. It's all the same theory. So, you're just really learning how to play the individual notes and learning how to play the lines. And then we're going to take this information and get four basic chords, learn them in our left hand, then run through our first tune and use those four chords and then we're going to modify are A major scale just one note, just one note and get four more different chords and we're going to use that in our second tune which is our bebop blues tune. So, we're going through two tunes today and we'll get a bunch of chords under our fingers. So we're ready to go out and start reading through our real books in A major.

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