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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the final measures of melodies on the piano in the key of Gb (G flat) 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 twelve-key technique... read more
And now we're going to go over our last two measures, and if we look at the chords we have two familiar chords. E major, and then E flat seven, and our melody is very simple as well. We have four, five, four, five, continuing with this motif we had here right, four, five, four, five, four, five. And again you'll hear how these different chords make the melody have a different unique sound to it. And then our last couple of phrases here is five, four, three, two. And actually this should just be a regular half note. Again dotted notes get its value plus a half of its value, and this has three beats but we only have - these equal a beat each, so, this would be a five beat measure. So this is a typo, this should be a half note and then four quarter eighth notes. So we have five, five, four, three, two, and it brings to the top of the tune. And we'll play that last line so you can hear the whole thing. Four, five, four, five, five, four, three, two, and then you're at the top of the tune. So we'll go through and play the whole tune through now, with the melody line. And I'll play it for you the first time so you can hear it, and then I'll say the actual notes that I'm playing in the melody, as we go through it the second time.