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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the scale on the piano in the key of Db (D flat) 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
The first thing we have to learn to play a D flat major is the D flat major scale. Very simple stuff here. You can reference D flat major on Expert Village and a bunch of scales would come up. Or just that scale would come up so you can learn it. But we are going to play here D flat, E flat, F, G flat, A flat, B flat, C, D flat. So when you are looking at a musical staff, you are pretty much just reading out of this pattern. So we number 1-7, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. When you have a sharper flat, you are taking a note. Say we have a A natural, we are playing this we are bringing it up instead of E flat, we are playing a E. If we had a you are not really going to have any sharps in D flat major because it is all flats, you would have naturals and maybe a double flat if you have E flat, double flat you would have this note right here where you break down 2 notes. But basically we are redesign this pattern, it would show you how it looks on the music in the just a second. But basically we have 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and it is just that easy.