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Summary: Learn tips on how to play rhythms and rests 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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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 twelve-key technique... read more
Today we're going to go over a tune written in E-flat major. And we're going to show you the E-flat major scale. And the beautiful thing about this tune, like many simple piano pieces, it stays entirely in the key of E-flat major and just by learning this one seven-note scale you can go through and figure out all the notes we're going to play today. And then I will show you the appropriate rhythms as we go through so you can go through and find the notes and then play the appropriate rhythms on your own. So this is going to require a lot of work from you. If you wanted to skip through and get the different rhythms, you can skip ahead to each section and just listen to the rhythms. Or you can print out this piece of music. If you click on the link at the top of the screen, this music will come up and you can print it out and you can go through with me today and analyze it. Which is very good, the more you analyze the better you get at it and you really have to do this so you can go and start reading classical music on your own time. And you can go through and figure out the note values and then add in the rhythms and play it along with me as I go through and play. So, it will require some work but it4s very simple and anybody can do it. It4s not a complicated process at all, and we really break it down to the basics so you can go through and start doing this on your own time.