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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to read a tune in a different key and play a piano song 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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About the Expert
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
So, now we're going to take a look at E flat major in a different key. So, to do this we're going to show you a different scale pattern and we're going to play this same thing, but in a different scale pattern. So, if you look at my hands. Let's do it in D major. So, we have two sharps. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, one. So, now we can take the same melody and then we just make one here and we have one, five, six, five, six, five, four, three, two, three, four, three, three, one, one, flat three, one, seven, six, five, three, four. Ba da duh doh doh doh. So, it's that exact same melody line, but now we played it in D major. I can do it anywhere. I can do it in G. So, by making it a pattern and really reading it in a pattern it makes life that much simpler and I can apply to any of the major scales that I already know and have under my fingers.