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Summary: Learn about playing through measures 5-8 in a bebop fake book in this free music video for jazz musicians on reading a fake book in A major.
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Now we're going to go over our next four measures and these chords are going to look a little more familiar. So, we have our D-7 again, for a measure, then D sharp diminish and I'll go over that, it's really easy. We just take our D-7 chord and play the exact same four notes, except we raise the D to a D-sharp, we change that one note. Then we have an, A-7 chord and then we have our minor two 5's. C-sharp minor to F-sharp sharp, seventh altered. So, we're going to look at those chords right now. We have our D-7 chord, right here and it goes to our D-sharp diminish, so we take this D and just raise it up to there and you could hear how it has that new sound to it. D to D-sharp diminish and then we have our, A-7 chord and then our C, half diminished, to our F-altered, which leads into our B-minor, which we'll go over in a minute but we'll do those chords again. You have D-7, D-sharp diminish, A-7, C-sharp, F-7 altered and you land on that B-minor, which brings us into our last four bars, which we'll go over in just a minute.