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Summary: Learn how to play an entire song of a fake book melody in the key of G major in this free music video for jazz musicians on fake book melodies in G major.
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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 12 key technique to ... read more
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Questions & AnswersSo now we're going to play through the melody, and I'll play through it the first time so you can hear what it sounds like, and then the second time I'm going to actually call out the melody line as I play it, so we start here. Six, flat seven, one, six, five, six, five, three, three, two, three, four, five, seven, six, five, six, five, five, six, five, five, slide down to three, three, two, one, seven, four, three, five, four, five, four, five, four, five. And it can just kind of hang there on that last chord. And that's our tune for today, and you can go through at home, and get this nice melody down, and start applying some hip chords.
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