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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to analyze a piano song in the key of B major with expert instruction from a professional jazz composer in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.

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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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How to Analyze a Piano Song in B Major

RYAN LARSON: So now we're going to take a look at our first passage. And we start right here on one. There's our B, right? The middle line. This is the 1 and you can go through any real book tune and do the same analyzation as long as it is in B major. If it's in a different key, you're going to have to search for that. So, you have 1, here's 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. So, I went through and analyzed this whole tune in like 20 seconds, and all I really did was gauge how far away it was from the starting point, this 1 here. And now, we can play this pattern. 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. And that's our whole passage, our first passage, as it falls in B major.

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