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Summary: Learn piano D# minor and G#7 2-5s and tritone note substitutions when reading & playing music in this free video on music theory.
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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 twelve-key technique... read more
Now we're going to go over D sharp minor and G sharp seventh which are our hypothetical keys, but it still comes up in real books. You'll see it especially if you're in C sharp major. So, we have C sharp, D sharp, E sharp, F sharp, G sharp, A sharp, B sharp, C sharp. So, it looks like this. Don't really worry about all the sharps. You're just going to over think it. It's going to really hurt your brain. So, if we start on our D sharp. We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So, we got one, three, five, and seven. And you drop the top two down and you have your G sharp seven, right? One, three, five, and seven. And then the bottom two. And you get your D flat major. Two, five, one major. And then for your tritone substitution. Remember, we dropped the top two down a half step and the bottom one down a half step. And you get D seven. Going to your C sharp major. B flat, or C sharp minor, or D sharp minor, D seven, C sharp major. And that's your two fives in G sharp.