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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play a written Eb (E flat) scale in the piano 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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Questions & AnswersNow we're going to show you your written E flat major scale. If we look at this piece of paper here, we wrote it out. E flat major has three flats here. That's how you know you're an E flat; remember you've got E flat, A flat and B flat. We start on E and each line and space again represents a line or a note in the scale. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Then we're at E flat again. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then we can kind of get high up there. But again to really illiterate how we're reading in pattern, if we look at E major down here, notice we have four sharps now. So we're reading a completely different pattern and it starts on E, but we saw the same notes written, right? Here's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And it?s exactly the same thing up here. So all we've done, is we switched the pattern. So I really want to illiterate how important it is to have the scale under your fingers and to understand that we're just reading inside a pattern. Its all patterns. Everything.
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