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Summary: Part 1 - Learn about key signatures for playing jazz guitar with improvisation in this solo guitar lesson on video, with jazz music tips & techniques.

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By Casey Cormier
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Casey Cormier has been playing both the guitar and bass for 10 years, performing in rock and roll clubs along the New Jersey Coast as well as in New York City. He studied jazz at the...read more

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"CASEY CORMIER: Okay. Let's take a look at how to understand key signatures and read them. You know sharps and flats and so far we've just kinda thought of sharps and flats individually but we will see them sometimes at the beginning of a key signature before our time signature. Remember, the time signature will be something like 4/4 something meaning four beats per measure, okay? The key signature comes before this. So, you see one sharp here. Well, the trick to reading sharps is that the further sharp out, say this is F right, every good boy deserves fudge, F sharp plus one half step, one half above F sharp is G, that's our key signature, so this is G. Okay? So if you have 2 sharps, the further sharp out now is C sharp, a half step up from C sharp is D so our key is D major or it could be a relative, this could be the relative minor, remember the relative minor is basically three frets down from where a D would be which would be a B minor. So it could also be B minor. But don't be concerned about that as long as you know its D major, you can find your way. Okay, were here, a higher sharp happens up here where the G would be, G sharp, from there, A major."

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