Tips on Playing Piano in F Major

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RYAN LARSON: So today we're going over the key of F major on the keyboard and we're focusing mainly on reading melody lines. Again, we're going to play some chords and do some chords on our left hand and I'll give you references on how to go back and find those, but today we're focusing mainly on reading melody lines. We're going to show you first how to read in patterns and to get what is called solfege, or we use the same idea behind solfege as we use and we'll give this technique to you and show you in a couple of different keys so you'll get an idea of how easy it is to read melodies when you take the note values away and just make it a pattern. Then we're going to play through an actual fake book tune and we'll go measure by measure. We'll analyze the melody first and then we'll go measure by measure and I'll explain to you how to go and find the chords in your left hand where you can search on Expert Village to get all that information and we'll play through the tune. And then at the end of the segment, we'll play through the whole tune entirely. So, if you want to skip ahead and hear what it sounds like before you go through and read it, it will be very good and it will help you as you read the line and get the piece under your fingers.

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