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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play melodies on the piano in the key of F major with expert instruction from a professional jazz composer in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.
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About the Expert
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
RYAN LARSON: Now, we're going to look at the F major scale and we're going to do a visual feel of it first, and we start on F. If you look right here, we have F major. That's F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E. And the B flat is notated in the staff and we'll show you that when we look at the rhythm but if you look at my hands, you have F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E, F. So, you have 1 flat, the B flat. And again, that's written at the beginning of the staff if we look at the paper here. You have the B flat in the beginning. And we're reading basically in this pattern, so we're going to number it from 1 through 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And we end up at one again. And by doing this and reading it in pattern, it really helps for you to get the scale under your fingers and it helps you to see how--when you're reading actual lines on sheet music, you're just moving around the scale. And then there are accidentals that are put in there when you go in and out of the scale, and we'll go over all that in just a minute.