How to Play an Advanced Piano Song 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 an advanced song 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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How to Play an Advanced Piano Song in D Major

So now we have the whole tune under our fingers, and we went and referenced those chords and we figured out the melody lines, nice, simple, easy melody line. And we're going to go through and play it a couple of times so you can really enjoy how it sounds at home, even though you've gone through and done all this stuff and got it under your fingers. So we start right here at the top. And at the top. Five, seven, five, six, five, four, three, three, two, three, sharp four, seven, six, five, six, five, five, six, five, five, to three, three, two, one, seven, four, three, five, three, five, four, five, four, five. And we can end on that B seven, and it has this nice, hollow ending, and that completes today's segment in D major.

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