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Improvising Ballad Style, practice
progression number one in A minor.
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What you're going to do is use
the technique you've learned so far for
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your ballad style,
with an A minor progression.
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So let's find the first chord.
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So there's an A, below middle C,
go one octave again to the left,
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that's your starting point [SOUND] And
do a basic ballad style left hand.
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So, first, fifth, first, okay.
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Root, fifth, first,
second, third, back down.
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And you're moving up the piano to D,
same shape.
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First, fifth, first.
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Back to the A.
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You're coming up to B diminished,
so everything's just moved up once,
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the same shape, first,
fifth, first, second, third.
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And you're going down to the E nine.
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And the difference here, there'll be
two black notes on the right hand but
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the E in the left stays the same.
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Remember first and
fifth are the same color.
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So, white, white, back to the first.
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Okay, so I'll do that again.
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Up to the F just to bring up one.
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G.
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Back to the A.
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Down to the F.
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To the A.
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Now it changes to this two bars where
there's two chords in each bar.
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So you're going to cut
the rhythm sort of in half.
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So you're only going
to go up B diminished.
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I'm only going to play the second, and
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then immediately change to the E,
with a G sharp.
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Then F
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Okay, try that again.
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Back to the A.
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Let's try it all together.
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