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RYAN LARSON: So now we're going to give you a visual of the scale, and we start by looking
along the piano, and we start here, A major. We have A, B, C sharp, D, E, F sharp, D sharp,
A. And there's three sharps; I apologize, I said four before. You have C sharp, F sharp,
and G sharp. A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A, and we number the scale from one to seven. 1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7. And the actual notes on the staff are just those notes and you don't notate
the Fs, the sharps, the flats, or anything. You just read this pattern, so I can read
3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3. And I'm just reading in this
pattern, so if I want to play in B flat major I can go 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 1, 2, 3,
4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 3, 2, 4, 1. So by reading in pattern and getting this pattern under
our fingers, it makes our job as sight reading through different tunes a whole lot easier,
and we'll show you how to do this a couple of steps more, which is making this simple
process under your fingers.