Learning Ninth & Tenth Measures of a Piano Melody in B Major

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Part of the video series: How to Play Piano Melodies in B

Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play ninth and tenth measures of melodies 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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Learning Ninth & Tenth Measures of a Piano Melody in B Major

RYAN LARSON: Now, we're on our next two measures and we have this cool melody going on here. And we have--we've already seen this G sharp chord. We've seen--this was our first chord, our C sharp minor, right? Which is actually D flat minor and you can search for that as well, D sharp--flat minor. It comes out of B major. And then you have this D sharp half-diminished. And if you search for B major in my first fake book, your minor 2, 5, you get this. And it's notated that as a circle with a slash to it. That's half-diminished. D sharp half-diminished. And then you have G sharp 7 which comes out of B major if you search for B major, G sharp 7--oh, no, that comes out of D flat major, I'm sorry, and this is really A flat 7. And it's one of those enharmonic equivalence again. Sorry about that. You'll see that a lot in fake book tunes so I don't want you to get confused. So, if you can't find it on Expert Village, it's there, you just have to find it. It's enharmonic equivalent. So, we got this melody line going here, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5. So, we got that right here, 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 3, 5, 3, 5. So, when you put that with the chords, you get this. Again. We'll go over our last two measures in just a minute.

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