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Learning the First Two Measures of a Piano Melody in D Major

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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the first two measures of melodies on the piano 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 twelve-key technique... read more

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Learning the First Two Measures of a Piano Melody in D Major

So now we're going to take a look at our first two measures and again, you search for E minor, you'll get an E minor chord for jazz piano in C major, and our melody line here starts on D, so here's D, one, two, three, four, five, six. So we have six, natural seven, one, seven, six, five, six, five, three. And this is an eighth rest here in the beginning, which gets an eighth note, so it's boom, and... and again, a lot of the melodies you're going to reading, you've probably heard of on records, or you should go and buy some records that go with it, and it will really help making your playing a lot more enjoyable. So we'll start here, we have six, so again that's six, if you look at my fingers, natural seven, six, five, six, five, three, and that's your first two measures.

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