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Summary: How to play the third set of four measures of a bebop piano improvisation in 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
Now we're going to go over our last four measures here. So we have our A flat minor, D flat seven. Those are the first two chords we learned, right. Our two and our five, seven. And then we have our three, six, two, five turnaround. B flat half diminished, E flat seven altered, A flat minor, D flat seven. So we're going to play that right now. So we've got A flat minor, D flat seven, B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat. Again, we can do a walking bass line down here, right. Let's put the chords in this inversion. Then we land right on our G flat seven right at the top of the tune. So that's our bee-bop blues. Again, you want to write all these chords down. There's not too many bee-bop blues in G flat major, but it's good to have it down in all twelve keys to get these basic chords under your fingers and we're going to utilize them in so many different songs. And there's so many different songs that utilizes all these basic, simple chords. So you want to make sure you go through and really have them under your fingers so you're ready to go out and start playing through your real book tunes at home.