Reading Eb Major Scale & Playing in F Major

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RYAN LARSON: Now we want to take the pattern of things just a step further. So now, what we're going to do is we're going to play in the F major scale pattern again. Now, we're going to read it in a different key, so we will read it in the key of D major. So now, D is our 1, so this space is right here. So, we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So, we can analyze it: 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1. This is natural 3, so we got a little change up here: 2 1, 7, 6, 5, and that's just the first couple of measures, so we can go and apply it to our F scale: 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, flat.. All right, flat 3, 2, 1, 7, 6, 5, so this passage actually ends a little bit different, but you can see how I can even read in another key, and by just applying a different pattern it makes everything a lot less confusing. I can just ignore this key signature here and play an F and just assign that as my root. And it makes life that much simpler and it's a breeze. So, you don't have to worry about all these Ds or E flat and A flat. You'll get those as you learn your chords. But the important thing right now is to really get these melody lines and really start seeing how patterns evolve while you read.

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