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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play ninth and tenth 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 12 key technique to ... read more
So now we're going to take a look at our next two measures, and we have some nice melodic movement going here, we have three, two, one, seven, four, three, five, three, five. And here for chords we have B minor, which we learned before, E minor, which comes out of D major, and F sharp half diminished, and if search for "D major, my first fake book" and you look for minor two-fives, that will come up, F sharp half diminished. You can just play an F sharp minor chord as well, it doesn't really matter. And then you have B seven here, which is out of E major, and you can reference that as well. Right now we're just going to play the melody, so we got three, two, one, seven, four, three, five, four, five. So we got... and you're going to hear how that's sustaining, and it leads into the next chord very pleasantly. And we'll go over that in a minute and you'll see how it resolves.