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How to Analyze Sharps & Flats in B Major

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to analyze sharps and flats on the piano 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 Sharps & Flats in B Major

RYAN LARSON: Now we have our next tune and it's written out just like a tune would be in a real book. We have a melody line here, and we have chord changes up above, and we'll go over the chord changes in the next segment to really explain it but right now, I just want to go through and analyze these lines so you can see how easy it is to analyze something if you compare it to the key it's in. So, we're in B so we have here--B is 1; 7, 6. So, we have a 6 then a natural 7, 1, and then we have that natural 7 again. If a note is sharped or flatted or made natural within a measure, it stays like that till the end of the measure. Then we have 6, 5, 6, 5, 3, then we have 3 up here, 2, 3, sharp, 4, 5 and there's a 7, there's a 6. And we can go through and do rest of the tune but we're going to go a couple of measures at a time and just take it nice and slow but you can see how you can go through any tune in B major, analyze the whole piece melodically, and even play through that whole song melodically very quickly and very simply, and the more you do it, the more practice you get at doing it, it just falls into your fingers like that.

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