How Do You Read & Play Sheet Music?
“Now we are going to run through with some chords and do some improvising, so I’m just going to play basic black chords. Black chords is when you play 1,3,5, and 7 in a chord and it could be any chord and here is 1,3,5, and F. I can play here and here, here, here just as long as you have those basic chords in there. I’m just going to improvise with my right hand playing in the key of F major. You see how cool the major sounds over these A7s because these are not in the F major scale so it gives you this nice little clash. Now this E flat minor and that A flat 7. I’m not going to play a F major over because that is out of the D flat major scale and that is really going to clash so that is the only place where you are really going not going to play F major through the whole song. So notice I do F major, G,C, and that I use a lot of black notes because it is in D flat major. Then I’m right back in F major again. Now most of the songs that you are going to be reading through, you are going
