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Summary: The E minor scale and how to use it to improvise on piano in D flat (Db); learn this and more in this free online piano lesson taught by expert pianist Ryan Larson.
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
"Now we are going to go over our E flat minor chord which comes out of D flat major. Again we use that same scale. So if you look at my hands we have this D flat major scale. So if we have D flat, E flat is right above it right D flat, E flat. So now we start on E flat and build our 3rd. So we are skipping this note and this note, this note and this note. This creates a minor black chord so here is our major black chord right so if we slide this whole pattern up a notch and stay on the same scale we have a E flat minor black chord. You can hear how they sound different E flat minor, D flat major right. You can hear how you are going between 2 chords. When you are doing strides for the minor instead of going to 1 to 5 you are going to go 2 to 5. So 2,5,2,5 so that is our 2nd chord our E flat minor black chord. "