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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to read a tune in a different key and play 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 12 key technique to ... read more
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Questions & AnswersRYAN LARSON: So now the best way to really embed in your brain that we're reading in pattern is to look at the same melody and play it in a different key. So, if we have 1, 5, 6, 5 and et cetera, et cetera, if you look at my hands, let's play this in the key of B major. So, here's my B major scale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1. So now I can plug in the same thing, right: 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. Or I could do it in G major 1 sharp, right: G, A, B, C, D, E, F sharp, G. So I'm taking the same thing and applying it to a different pattern: 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. So you can see how when we're reading through actual tunes, these applies for classical music as well. We're just reading within this pattern and by getting the pattern under your fingers, you don't have to worry about notes as much, and a great thing to do is to go through your Real Book with just one scale and just start sight reading through all these different melodies, and you can do it in the same key and just use these different reference points or you can go and find as many tunes as you can in F major and just try reading through the melody and you'll really get your sight reading skills through the roof.
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