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Measures 11-12 for Playing a Fake Book Melody in G Major

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Summary: Learn about playing measures 11 and 12 of a fake book melody in G major in this free music video for jazz musicians on fake book melodies in G major.

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Measures 11-12 for Playing a Fake Book Melody in G Major

All right, now we're going to take a look at our last two measures here, and we have F seven and if you search for B flat major, F seven will come up, and that's our very last chord. And then we have E seven again, and we have this nice repeating melody line here. Four, five, four, five, four, five, and then you have five, four, three, two. So nice little ending on there, so we got this. Four, five, four, five, four, five, five, four, three, two. So when you play it with the chords it sounds like this... and what's nice about it is you keep going to the same melody line like we did before, but by changing the chords up underneath it, it gives a whole new tinge to all these different chords. And notice here we used E minor, D minor, G seven, they're all pretty close to each other, but this is right next to each other. E and F are a half note apart, so it's a nice little crunch there. And you can really hear that in the melody. You can hear that tension, and then the release. Tension, release. Tension, release. So we have this whole last line we'll listen to now. And then you start at the beginning of the tune. Now we'll play through this entire tune in our last segment and we'll go through it twice, the next time shouting out the melody lines, so this way you can go through and hear what the finished product is after all this work.

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