Tips on Playing Piano in D Major

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Today we're going to really focus on reading melody lines out of fake books and really getting these tunes under our fingers. We're going to show you how to do it very easily. We're not really going to concentrate on learning the notes but rather learning the scale and learning how to read in pattern. This really makes everything a lot easier and it really helps you to latch on the the basic ideas of the concepts that come out of reading in pattern. It makes it so you can read something in D major or E flat major or A flat major just like that. It really gets the thinking process 'is that D or is that an E flat? Where's F sharp?'. It really makes everything a lot simpler. We're really taking an old fashion technique which is called Soulfesh. We're applying it to modern techniques for sight reading and it makes life a lot easier. Again, we're not going to go over chords. We'll give you reference how to find the chords that we use today so you can go through and play those chords as well along with what we're playing. But, we're really trying to focus on just getting our melody's down and our set reading up in the key of D major.

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