Playing A Composition: Measures 9-10

Video Transcript

"Now we are going to take a closer look at what I just showed you melodically. So start with the same motif 5,7 then the flat 7 and 3 that little chromatic. And then chromatic up, then chromatic up again so you got, so you are starting right here on the B you got C, C sharp, D,B flat, C,B, B flat,A. So that is literally playing every note on the keyboard so a lot of people think when they are site reading that every note is in there literally if you are going to go through and play all the notes this is what it is going to look like. If you look at the keyboard that does not even take up that much space it is just this. So that is just all these notes right here. So it is very important to see how chromaticism works and how can go in and out of the scale and how it is written like that. So don't let things like that confuse you just try to mainly stay in the major scale and look through these accidentals to let you know when to go in and out. Then we go right back to the scale again and we are going to do that in the next segment. So we took it out, made a little bit of a chromatic melody and then we went right back into it. "