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

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So, now we are going to take a look at this pattern and play it in a different key. And then we really embed on how just reading a pattern here. We don't really have to focus on the different notes we are playing, whether it is "D", or "E", or "G", as long as we know where our "1" is, and we can find the rest of the notes, it makes life that much easier. So know I am going to show you a different pattern on my fingers. Let's do D flat major. So, this is D flat major [play piano] D, E flat, F, G flat, A flat, B. So, 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,7. And you can search for that as well on Expert Village, it will come up. Now, we are going to play through. 1,5, 6,5,6,5,4,3,2,3,4,3,3,1,1,flat 3.[play piano] So, that is exactly what we played before. And I can do the same thing in any scale. I can do it in E major, [play piano] and you see how it sounds exactly the same except now I am in a different key. So, it really shows you that we just are reading a pattern and we can apply this pattern over any scale, and it work like magic.

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