Learning Seventh & Eighth Measures of a Piano Melody in C Major

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Part of the video series: How to Play Piano Melodies in C

Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play melodies on the piano in the key of C 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 12 key technique to ... read more

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Learning Seventh & Eighth Measures of a Piano Melody in C Major

So now we're going to take a look if we go over again we have F major. And we learned that in the last segment and those two fives. So we have our G here or our five chord and it's going down to a three. And we play that with a B flat major chord which we learned here in our second measure. So now we have a lot of these chords down and we're using the same chords. So, it makes life a little bit easier. So we have F major to B flat major. And it's five to three. And you notice this little squiggly line. That's called a gliss, where you use all the chromatic notes and you slide down. You can do it as fast as you want. Or you can do it... As long as you go from here and slide chromatically down to there it's gold. So we'll play those last four measures. And we'll go over our next four measures in just a minute.

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