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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to analyze a piano song in the key of E major in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.

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How to Analyze a Piano Song in E Major

Now we are going to take a look at our first tune and we are going to analyze it. Again, remember we started E started on the bottom line. So we have E and this is 1,2,3,4,5, this is 5. 1,5,6,5,6,5,4,3,2,3,4,3,3,1,1, natural 3,2,1,7,6,5 and natural remember 3 is a G sharp or sharp. So natural means that we just bring it down a notch. So what we are doing is we are really just reading in this pattern. We have. So it is very simple, easy pattern to get down and we are reading inside this major scale. Now let's go over the notes again. Now a lot of the melodies we are going to read you are probably have already heard the tune so the actual note values don't really as much. We still want to get them in there you have quarter notes, each gets a beat. 1,2,3,4, 8th notes get a 2 to a beat 1 and 2 and 3 and. This is a triplet so 3 quarter notes over 2 so if we have 1,2,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1,2,3 so that is advance pattern. But agian you are going to hear it and you just play what you hear. Then we have eighth notes again and here is a 16th note. 4-16 is a quarter right. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4. So as you go through you would character these different basic rhythms. Right now we are really focusing on the actual pitch values so as you go through you can go through and just read this nice simple pattern.

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