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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the scale on the piano in the key of Eb (E 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 12 key technique to ... read more
Now we're going to show you the E flat major scale, and I'll tell you all the notes in the scale, but, what we're really focusing on in is the pattern and we're not really concentrating on E flat, F, and G, and all those individual notes because it really confuses a lot of things, and we want to make it so it's easy for you to read in all twelve keys. And we'll show you how you can take this pattern and run it through any key, and it will come out the same, and it's very quick. So, here's your E flat major scale. E flat, F, G, A flat, B flat, C, D, E flat. But for our purposes, we're going to number it. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And what this does is make it very easy so when you're reading a line, you can start from E flat and count up, and the lines in the spaces on the staff all represent, line, space, line, space, line, space, so you can go....five, five, six, five, four, three, three, three, three, three, five, one, two, three, two, four, sharp four, five, sharp five, seven, two, three, one. And you can read really simply by pattern, and we'll really get this more embedded into your brain so you understand exactly what we're doing as we go through our lesson plan today.