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Learning Fifth & Sixth Measures of a Piano Melody in F Major

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the fifth and sixth measures of a melody 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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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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Learning Fifth & Sixth Measures of a Piano Melody in F Major

RYAN LARSON: So, now we're going to go on to our next couple of measures and these are actually the last couple of chords we're going to learn. We have almost all our chords down, maybe learn one or two more. But we have D minor. And again, we already learnt that over here, D minor. So, we have that. And then we have C minor, F7 and B flat major, and all these chords come out a B flat major. So, if you search for "my first fake book - B flat major", you'll get C minor and F7 as well and it's all the same scale. And then our melody line is rather simple. We have here 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to 6, and 5, 5, to 6, 5, 5. So, we have this nice, simple melody and it repeats itself. And then you'll see how these different chord changes played underneath to give it a different tinge as we go and play the same notes. And again, we're always going to be reading in F major no matter what the chord changes are. That's just how it goes. So, if we look at the keyboard, we have 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5. So with the chords, we have 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5. So, again, 5, 6, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5. Those are our next two measures, very melodic and some nice, simple chords. And again, we've learned pretty much all of the chords we're going to learn in this tune. We're just going to add in a couple more and we'll do that in the next segment in just a minute.

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