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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to play the fifth and sixth measures of a melody 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
So we're on our next two measures and we have this very simple, easy melodic line here. We have five, six, five, five, six, five, five, it's very simple right inside the scale we're playing out of and what's interesting is we have these different chords over the same melody and it gives different texture to the same melody line. So we have C minor for a measure, then we have E flat minor, E flat seven. Now these two chords come out of A flat major and if you search for A flat major on Expert Village, B flat minor and E flat seven will come up as your two, five out of E flat major and C minor we already searched for before up here. So we already have that chord down. Moving our fingers. So we can play that now. So again, we have five, six, five, five, six, five, five. So those are our next two measures. Very simple melody and some nice pretty chords.