Learning the First Two Measures of a Piano Melody in Eb (E Flat)

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Part of the video series: Playing Piano Melodies in Eb (E Flat)

Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the first two measures of melodies 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

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Learning the First Two Measures of a Piano Melody in Eb (E Flat)

So now we're going to go over our first two measures. And again, to give the reference for the chords we have F minor, and that comes out of E flat major. If you search for E flat major F minor will come up. Or if you just search for F minor piano and that will come up as well and D flat major, you can search for that. Those are our first two chords and then our melody line again here is six, flat seven, one, flat seven, six, five, six, five, three. So if we play that with the chords we have one. So nice beautiful melody line. It really falls under our chords that I'm playing. Again I'm playing a very slow Silargo tune. Nice and slow or a ballad. And again, six, flat seven, one, flat seven, six, five, six, five, three. Those are our first two measures

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