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G Flat Major for Piano Scales in G Flat (Gb)

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Summary: The G flat major and how to use it to improvise on piano in the key of G flat (Gb); learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by expert pianist Ryan Larson.

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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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on 10/18/2008 All of Ryan's lessons are organized by category in all twelve keys at his home page Ryan-Larson

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"Now we're going to go and introduce G flat major and get our first chord down. All the tunes we're going to be playing through today are in G flat major and you know you're in G flat major when you have six flats and it'll be notated on your sheet music. Right now we're going to show you the G flat major scale. You start right here on the group of three. So we have G flat, A flat, B flat, B, D flat, E flat, and F. So you have all the black notes and the white notes above and below the group of three. To get our first chord what we do is to we number the scale one through seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We're going to play what's called the black chord where you play one, three, five, and seven. That's our first chord, G flat major. You can move the seven down to the six too it sounds nice too. I'm just moving around in my right hand up and down that scale. So that's your first chord G flat seven. You can do a little walking base line too if you break it up. That's our first chord, G flat major."

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