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Summary: Learn some great tips on how to analyze chords of piano melodies in the key of C major with expert instruction from a professional jazz composer in this free video clip on music theory and piano techniques.
Ryan Larson is a young jazz composer whose teaching technique focuses on the basics of music theory in all 12 keys. When applying his 12-key technique to understanding the logic behind...read more
"Now, we we are going to look at our next two measures. Again, we will give you the chord references. A Minor comes out of G Major. If you just search for A Minor it will come out of My First Fake Book for G Major. B 7 comes out of E Major and again if you search for B 7 Fake Book that will come up as well. Then we have C Major which is the key we are in and you can search for My First Fake Book in C Major and you will get that chord as well. Again, a lot of these chords repeat. See A Minor again there and you will play it again here so B Flat again is here and there is D Minor. As we go through our first couple chords we are going to look up some stuff. We are going to use all this useful information. So, you have A minor and our melody line is three, two, three, sharp four, five, seven, six. So, I will play that with those chords. I have learned them from our MY Oh Mine videos. We've got A Minor, again A, again three, two, three, sharp, four, seven, six. It's just that simple."
eHow Article: Analyzing Chords of Piano Melody in C Major