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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to identify rhythm and syncopation when playing a piano song in the key of D 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
So now we're going to go through and we're going to play this first passage and you can look at my fingers as I play it. We?ll play it two times. First we'll read the music again. So we have one, five, six, five, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three. One, one, flat three, one, do-dah. Going down to there. So now if we look at my fingers again we have one, six, five, six, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three, one, one, natural three. Notice instead of F sharp I play there, two, one, seven, six, five, three, five, seven, two, one, seven, six, five. So, nice melodic line, but again we're staying within this major scale pattern. We're going to go through and show you how you can read the exact same passage in a different key and it will sound exactly the same.