Playing Composed Jazz Chords in B Major

Video Transcript

"So now we're going to go through this whole piece in solo in the key of B major. Now the great thing about B major is it uses all the black keys and not only does it use it but all the color tones are the black keys. So two three five six and seven are all the black keys out of the key of B. So you get the root out of there and the fourth which is an avoid note. So you got this nice scale, it's called a pentatonic scale. So I'm going to go through and solo through this whole sign just using that pentatonic scale. You can do this at home just use the black notes. Try to use them rhythmically. Really when you are soloing it is the rhythm that you put behind the music. You could play a million notes that are all just straight quarter notes and it wouldn't be interesting at all. But, if you play it, it's the rhythm you put behind it, the spaces in between that notes that?s really important. So we are going to go through and just, I'm going to play extra slow over each chord and just really let it go with my left hand. That's over the D major. A little tense. Over the half seven and we're back up to B major. You can just kind of float over it. So go through and you can learn that scale, your pentatonic scale in every key and just start improvising over that, over your melodies. It really works great almost over every chord that you can possibly think of that's related to that scale."