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Summary: How to play the second four measures of a bebop piano improvisation in the key of B; 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 on our next four measures. We start with a familiar chord, our E7 that we just learned. Again, write all this down at home. Then we have F diminished and F diminished is really easy to find, we just play our E7 chord again but we move the E up to F and it will give us a diminished chord. Then we have B7 and then we have our minor 2-5's here, our D sharp half diminished to our G sharp altered. So, relatively a lot of information we've already learned, we just have to find out this easy F diminished here and we'll show you right now. Here's our E7 right, we dropped our 7 down, and then F diminished you just move the E up to F, right? E, F diminished, B major or B7 and you have your D sharp half diminished and your A or G sharp altered and those are your next four bars. Again, E7, F diminished, B major, D sharp, G sharp and then we lay down this nice 2-minor chord, this C sharp minor which we'll go over in our next four measures.