Learning the Final Measures of a Piano Melody in D Major

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Part of the video series: How to Play Piano Melodies in D

Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the final 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

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Learning the Final Measures of a Piano Melody in D Major

So now we've played measures nine and ten, and we have this nice five, four, five, four, five, and then five, four, three, two. So it's this nice melody and we keep lingering here. Bam, bam bam, bah bah bah, dum. So we're going to go through and do this melody line with the chords. And we got B seven, and we learned that in our last segment, C major, and we learned that in the beginning, and then B seven again. So you have this nice...and then you're at the top of the tune. So you can hear how this nice melody, how it changes every time as you change the chords even though you're playing the same note. So if play the last four barres here we got... you can really hear how it has a nice diminuendo to it. And you're at the top of the tune, which we'll play through in just a minute.

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