Jazz Piano Cafe » discussion http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano Learn, play, and enjoy jazz piano. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:39:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Ear Training Lesson – key of C Major and the Diatonic System http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/ear-training-lesson-key-of-c-major-and-the-diatonic-system http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/ear-training-lesson-key-of-c-major-and-the-diatonic-system#comments Mon, 24 May 2010 21:00:09 +0000 admin http://www.jazzpianocafe.com/piano/?p=646 My friend Marcus Emmanuel Barnes and I created a new musical ear training video as part of the series of lessons we’re making on EarPractice.com.

This week’s video is about the “Diatonic System” in music, which is where you can play a lot of different types of chords and melodies, all within one key. To keep things simple we stick to the key of C Major.

Hope you enjoy it and find the lesson useful.

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Last night I recorded myself performing the jazz standard Giant Steps on the piano. In this video I give a 1 minute introduction to the song and then perform it. If you’re interested in the audio only, you can grab the MP3 from here or use the audio player above.


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I made a recording of it which you can view in the Youtube video player below or view on Youtube directly by clicking here. At the end of the video I pick up the microphone and give a short musical discussion about the melody and chords.

If you’d like a free MP3 of the recording feel free to download it from here.

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