How to Read a Musical Fake Book in The Key of E - Steps for writing a jazz song in e major

Now we're going to take a look at E section. Remember I said we ended on this E seven which is the one seven which is a transitional chord so we've gotten out of the key of E major right now. E seven actually comes out of A major which to no surprise is our next chord. We have A major and then it goes D major and then to G major and then to C major. What this is doing is changing the whole tonality of the chord so you have new one chord, new one chord, new one chord, and new one chord. You notice that we are still are reading in A major so all the notes are still going to be read and played out of the A major scale. If we look at the notes that we're playing here, we're out of the E major scale, my apologies, so you got E, F sharp, G sharp, A, B, you got a C sharp here so that's our six and this is an F sharp which is our two. Then we have this little sharp five here, that's called an accent note which goes right into this. If you look at the keyboard here we have A major, one two, three, four, five, six and two, or E major, one two three, four, five, six, and two. We have six and two in E major and then you have the sharp five which is a C right here. You just kind of hit it with your thumb as an accent into it. The last two notes, we're just going from this, the C sharp and the F sharp, down to C and F to B and E which is a nice little karmata chro, bum bum bum bum da bum, and then it goes right back into the second half of the melody. Nice simple bridge with a right hand motif which is held through all these nice major chords and then you go right back into the two minor and the key red. It's a nice little example how to take it out, but still keep it in.