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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 twelve-key technique... read more
RYAN LARSON: So now we're going to take in our next two measures. And we have here, we landed on our 5, remember, with the B flat major. And you have this C minor, F7, this 2, 5 out of B flat major. And then we have E flat major and we learnt that chord over here. So, we already got both of these chords down, B flat major, E flat major. And we're sliding from our 5 down to our 3. And you notice the little squiggly line there, that's a gliss, which means you play all the notes in between, so it looks like this on the keyboard. So, if I was glissing down, you'd hear a B, so you just move down slowly. So it's nice, simple stuff. So, as we play with our chords, we have this. You hear how nice that sounds, so we'll play that whole line for you now. This kinda leaves you hanging there. And we'll go over our next four measures in the next two minutes.