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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play ninth and tenth measures of 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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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 go over our next two measures and we have a couple of new chords the last time we look up some chords. So, we have D minor, which we learnt and G minor which was the first chord we learnt. So, that leaves us with A half diminished. And if you search for "my first fake book in F major," A half diminished is explained as a minor 2, 5. And if you look for minor 2 5, A half diminished will come up. And D7 is out of G major. So, if you search for "my first fake book in G" or if you just search for 'D7 piano," this chord will come up. And that's our last chord--two chords. So, now, we have this melody here: 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, and it keeps going. So, we have this repeated melody again with different chords and you'll hear how that sounds as well. We'll use that same motif down here. So, we'll play this melody line now. So, we got 3, 2, 1, 7, 4, 3, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5. So, now, we'll do it with the chords. So, I know it's a simple motif, very melodic. And we'll go over our next two measures in just a minute.