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Summary: Learn some great tips on playing a fake book in A major from our expert in this free music video for jazz musicians on reading a fake book in A major.

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Tips on Playing a Fake Book Song in A Major

So now we're going to play through the first tune, and I'm just going to play some nice simple chords in my left hand, and we're going to cross reference this with another lesson I did, which is playing through the different scales. If you search for A major scales, a whole list of different scales you can utilize for this whole song will come up and you can learn any of those scales, the bebop, the blues, hexatonic, but right now we're just going to concentrate on the pentatonic, which is a five note scale which is derived out of the A major scale. And we're just going to use the simple five note scale to start our improvisation journeys just right now. So if we take a look at the keyboard, we start here in A major, and the pentatonic is one, two, three, five, six. And this scale is used everywhere. Like you might hear it as... it's that Kung Fu fighting riff.

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