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Playing Entire Song With Piano Scales in G Flat (Gb)

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Summary: How to play an entire song using piano improvisation in the key of G flat (Gb); learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by expert pianist Ryan Larson.

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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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Playing Entire Song With Piano Scales in G Flat (Gb)

Now we're going to give you some nice simple improve ideas to apply over this entire piece. If you go and search on Expert Village for G flat major scales, you'll have a whole list of different scales and many of them will apply to this including the blues scale, the hexatonic. We're going to take the pentatonic scale right now and I'll show you that real quick. And we're going to just use this one scale to get some nice, simple, melodic ideas under our fingers. This is our pentatonic scale, it's composed of G flat major, 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6, so all of the black notes. Very easy. And I'm just going to play through the piece utilizing this one scale and I'll explain how I'm getting these simple, basic ideas. So, I'll start...and it's really the spacing you use. Notice how I'm not playing all-the-time-melody. We've all heard those musicians that just keep playing notes and notes and it doesn't really work. You hear it doesn't really, it doesn't really class to anything but if you keep it nice and simple, your ear can really grab onto the melody. You want melodies that you can whistle. Maybe keep the same riff going. That's our first tune, utilizing our first four chords and now, as we go over our second tune, we're going to alter some of these chords and get four more chords under our fingers.

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