Basic Piano Scales in G for Beginners

Series Summary

The piano has been a very important instrument in the development of western music of almost every genre. Its popularity with composers rests in the fact that the tones made by its keys offer an easy means of expressing a complex melodic and harmonic relationship of notes. Each year, many people young and old alike take up piano, and many of those will seek out an instructor to tutor them in their playing ability. These people are joining a grand tradition with an illustrious history, spanning much of classical and jazz music.

In this free video series you'll learn how to play improvisational piano in the key of G major. Expert Ryan Larson shows you the major scale, harmonic minor scale, and 7th scale on the piano. He'll take you through a song measure by measure, reading the sheet music, and showing you some great improv bebop and blues progressions.

Video Transcript

"So today we are going to show you how to create some simple basic chords to play through a real book tune. Again we are not going over melody lines today we are going to do that in another segment. We are just really focusing on our left hand and get us some simple basic chords under our fingers. Then we are going to take these chords and apply them and get some simple basic lines going as well. Then we will go through and use these chords in 2 different tunes. A standard type tune and a bebop blues which would run us through a couple more chords. So we are going to learn 4 simple chords that all come right out of our G major scale. Then we are going to take these chords and alter them just a little bit and start playing our 2nd tune which is more a little bit more advance. Our bebop blues. Then we would really see how chords are constructed and how to go through and figure out all these different chords on your own. We are really going to utilize this information a lot in our playing and again after you have these chords under your fingers you can go in reference from melodic readings you have classical. I do a classical segment reading through all 12 keys which really shows you to find the notes on the scales. I'm also doing a segment just on fake book melodies that would also show you how to really navigate your way through these simple melody lines that you see in your everyday reading of fake books."