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Summary: How to play I major chords for jazz piano in the key of E major; learn this and more in this free online video jazz piano lesson taught by expert jazz 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
"So we are going to look more into that E major. Let's get that pattern in there. Move the root up this 2nd and the root up the 3rd, the 4th, the 5th sus. So those are the basic run through the basic chords. You have a 6 minor 2 which is the basis compositionally for writing minor chords which we will go over in the next segment. "