Major Scale for Piano Improvisation in D

Video Transcript

"So the first chord we're going to look at is our D major chord. We're going to introduce our D major scale which we utilize throughout this entire series so if you look at my hands, nice and simple. D major has two sharps starting on D. D, E, F sharp, G, A, B, C sharp, D. So if you go through and really get this under your fingers. The names are again D, E, F sharp, G, A, B, C sharp, D. You want to number the scale one through seven. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. When we get our D major scale we build up what we call thirds or to make a black chord, so if you look at scales go one to two that's called a second, one to three is a third, and this is the fourth the fifth etc. So if we go up in thirds we skip a note each time. Skip this we have that, skip this we have that and this. So there is your D seven scale and again it's one, three, five, seven and we skipped two, four, and six. We're on three, five, seven. That's your D major black chord and we use this same method for getting all our different chords which we derive out of this one major scale. That's D flat major."