How to Identify Notes When Playing a Piano Song in A Major

Video Transcript

"RYAN LARSON: All right. So, we're going to take a look at this passage again. And we're going to zoom here and play the actual notes. We got 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. So, it's all over the place. So, if you look at the keyboard as we play it, we're just staying in this pattern again. 1, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 3, 5, 7, 2, 5, 1. So, a very simple, easy thing to do, and again we're just playing within this pattern, and I can't stress that simple idea as much as possible, just reading this nice, simple pattern, and the better you have this pattern under your finger, the better off you're going to be when you're approaching reading a sign in the key of A major."