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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to analyze sharps and flats on the piano in the key of D major in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.

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How to Analyze Sharps & Flats in D Major

Now we're going to take a look at our more advanced song and if we take a look at it closely, you see now we have it written out in fake book form where we have our melody line here and our chords up above. And we'll go through measure by measure so we can give the reference for each chord as we go through, and we'll play the melody. But I just want to read through it real quick so you can see how we're just reading in the pattern. So if we start on D down here we have one, two, three, four, five, starts on six, and you have natural seven one, natural seven, six, five. And if you have a natural or a sharp or a flat in the measure, it stays natural or sharp or flat 'til the end of the measure, and then it gets back to normal. So then we have six, five, three, three, two, three, sharp four, five, seven, six, five, six, and etcetera, etcetera. We can play it... six, natural seven, one, six, five, six, five, three, three, two, three, sharp four, five, seven, six. So we can go through and play through a whole melody very easy, and as you go through and look through your fake book tunes at home, you can just go through and start sight reading through a bunch of different melodies, and it'll really help getting, reading through this pattern, and all twelve keys under your fingers, like a breeze.

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