Video: How To Compose Music on the Piano

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How the expert pianist came up with the chords and changes in his music composition; learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by an expert jazz pianist.

- Playing A Composition: Measures 7-8
- Playing A Composition: Measures 3-4

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hemborannet Aug 31, 2011
Cool! and I like it. :)

Video Transcript

So now we are going to do a very quick review of the key C. If you look at my fingers here we have your note starts right here on the C 1,2,3,4, 5,6,7,1. So those are the notes that you are going to see on the staff. The notes in between like say if you played this note it would be played with either A flat or G sharp. So when you are reading just remember you are staying in this pattern. So let's focus up here now we are going to start right at the beginning of the song. We start right here right on this note this is a 3 so that is the 3rd note and it is a key of C. So C is written right here right below so that is C, this is D, there is E. So you got 3,2,3,2 and you have the same thing here again 3,2,3,2 and then it goes up to 4. 4,3,4,3 you can see how the pattern goes there and 4,3,4,3 again, again and then you go up here 2,3,2,1 and that is the A section. The first half of the song and it is on the key of C so if you look at my hand now you start right here 3,2,3,2,4,3,4,3, so it is very simple muriatic line. Play it with a root now it is C and then you can go through and play it with your major chords cause if you look up here again you got your 1 major C major, you 2 minor D minor, your 5,7 G7, 2 minor again, 5,7 again, and then you are back at your 1 so you got your 3 basic chords right there in the A section with a nice simple melody. So when you put it together you have this. And that is the A section of Chillen at Home Cooking Chicken with you.

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How To Compose Music on the Piano

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