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Identifying Rhythm & Syncopation in Piano Song in F Major

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to identify rhythm and syncopation when playing a piano song 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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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

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Identifying Rhythm & Syncopation in Piano Song in F Major

RYAN LARSON: So, now we're going to take another visual look at that scale one more time. So, we went 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1 and et cetera, et cetera. Well, what you really gotta look at is the actual beats. So, we have quarter notes here and there are 4 quarter notes in a measure, right, 1, 5, 6, 5. And you have 8th notes here, 2 notes, 1--or 2 8th notes to a beat: 1, and 2, and 3, and 4, and et cetera. This is what's notated as a triplet. So, we have 3 beats where 2 beats would be. So, there'd be 2 quarter notes but we're fitting 3 in there, so it sounds like this. If you have a one, two, it's 1 and a 2 and a one-two-three, one-two-three. So you can hear the 3 over 2. But again, all these rhythms, you don't have to worry about it too much because if you're reading through fake book tunes, you probably know a lot of the jazz melodies that you're approaching and once you can find the right pitches, you can just put in what you already know and you'll get those rhythms and you'll understand how to use the rest and the rhythms just by using your ear and that's the best way to end this type of music.

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