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How to Improvise with Scales: Gb Major

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Summary: Learn how to improvise with scales in Gb Major for improving your playing and improvisational skills on the piano in this free video clip series.

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By Ryan Larson
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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

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"So now we are going to go through and show you some cool scales for improvising in the key of G flat major. So your got your basic G flat major scale, you got that pattern. Now beboppers will throw some notes in between there to give it a little flavor so you just use them as passing tones which means that you go in and out of the scale essentially. Another cool scale to use is your G flat blue scale which goes. So that is your G flat blues scale and then you can do my favorite the hexitonic which takes you to a G flat triad and a F triad. Triad it right below it and combines them. So those are some basic scales and if you just go through and noodle and use your ear you would find some other hip tones to hit while your improvising over the G flat major scale. "

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