How to Read a Tune in a Different Key & Play in C Major

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So now that we have this pattern down, and we've gone through and analyzed it, we can take it and apply it to a different key. So we're going to do this by looking at my hands. So if you look at my hands, we played it in C-major so let's change it up. We'll play it in D-flat major. So we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Now if I play the passage we've got one, five, six, five, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three, one, one, flat-three, two, one, seven, six, five, three, five, seven, two, one, seven, one. And that's your pattern in D-flat major. Or I could play in B-major. One, five, six, five, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three, one, one, three, four, (makes musical sounds). And etc., and etc. And you can play it through in any key, but what we're really trying to do is just really get through to you that you're just reading in pattern. As long as you go through and analyze all your tunes and keep it in the key that you're playing with, it will make reading the melodies that much simpler.

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