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RYAN LARSON: Now we're going to go through and look at our second tune. And if you take
a look at it right now, you see we're already a little more advanced. This looks more like
a fake book tune, and we have our chords on the top and, again, your left hand will play
the chords and I'll give you references as we go through and play this tune today, how
to figure out these chords if you already have some chords going on. In that way, you
can go through it slowly and you can use the same method when you go through and read it
through your own real book tunes in your own time, but right now we're just going to analyze
the melody. So if this is F, you have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, we got 6, flat 7. So, we're going
out of the scale, we just take our 7 in lower degree. So, this is very easy; that's how
you get the notes in between the scales, 1, flat 7 again. Also, if you notice, flatted
or sharped, it stays flatted or sharped to the end of the measure. Good information to
have; 6, 5, 6, 5, 3, 3, 2, 3, natural 4. So, instead of a B flat, I'm going to play a B
there. There's the natural sign, 5, then we have 7, 6 and we'll go through the whole tune
and analyze it as we play it through, but I just want to really give you an idea of
how you can go through any tune and really get the melody line and then we can apply
some chords and it'll end up sounding like this. And we'll go through and learn this tune a couple
of measures at a time in the next couple of segments.