How to Write a Fake Book Melody in G Major

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So now we're going to take a look at our G major scale as it's written on paper. And if we look over here, we have our sharp over here, our F sharp, and that's where all your sharps and flats are notated. If you look at other types of sheet music, you will see that sharps and flats are always notated next to the treble clef. And we start here, G is the second line up, and it goes G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, and again you notice that we don't have a sharp here, because it's already notated in the key signature. So what we're doing is basically reading this pattern, one through seven, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And then it starts again here, you have a one again, way up here. If we started right here, there'd be a one, if I had a pencil with lead it in, it would work as well, but right up above the space above the staff, and likewise if we went down this bottom space here would be a seven then this bottom line a six and we could go down too. So we're really reading within a pattern, and if you go back and play your visual scale, and if you play it with this you really see how we're playing in the pattern. And now when you look at the actual sheet music, we can go through and analyze it like, all right, one, five, six, five, six, five, four, three. So we can go through and analyze something very quickly because we're just gaging how far away we're going from this G, we're jumping up five notes, jumping up a note, jumping down a note, going up down, down, down, up, up, up, and you got to just get used to these big jumps more, but especially when they're short passages where it's mostly thirds or seconds, it's really easy to sight read through this, and we're going to go over this in the next couple of clips, so you really get the system down, and under your fingers.

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