Jazz Piano Lessons in The Key of G Major - Basic intervals for jazz piano in g major

Alright now we are going to do some basic sight reading of the key of C. Here we have a score. There are a lot of notes written here but we want to concentrate with this one line and here we've got some violin 2 part. Now you notice that you have this F sharp in there. That is right in the beginning and it is in the beginning of every staff. That is to let you know you are in the key of G and that every time you play this line right here, it is the sharp note. Your root G starts on the second line right here. Or it could be read on the very top of the staff. See up here, you've got the oboe part. Right there is a G so you've got 1, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and then you are back at the root here. So each line and space on the staff represents a note in the scale. So when you add sharps and flats, all you are doing is taking a note in between the scale and a sharp goes up that note and flat goes down to the note. So the easiest way to read instead of just trying to think G, D, D, B, B, try to read the pattern here. You are jumping down a 4th. You are skipping two lines so 1, 2, 3, 4 and here you are jumping down a 3rd skipping a line so you get used to reading in a pattern and it makes life a whole lot easier and the only way to get good at set reading is just keep doing it. So get one of those real books and start reading to the melody and keep going with it. The more you do it, the better you get.