11 ways to leave your level: Part 3

- Number nine: work up one of your favorite rock songs…by the Beatles or Black Sabbath or The Cars…or whomever, Elvis Costello, and try to play the syllables…and just see what you come up with.…I've worked up a number of Beatles songs…and I try to play them in the original keys…in which they were written.…Some are easier than others.…But here's a little bit of "Ticket to Ride."…("Ticket to Ride" by The Beatles)…♫ Yeah…You get the idea, there's just a little bit of it.…

So, it's really a lot of fun to work up these tunes…and figure out how they did them, or working up...…("If I Fell" by The Beatles)…That goes on, "If I Fell".…So when you work this up you'll find tunes…that you've loved for years,…you really get inside how they play them…and how they compose them.…

For instance, that song "If I Fell",…that I just played, they start in E flat minor,…and then they go to a D chord,…then D flat,…D flat minor, repeat,…to E minor,…to A7,…and then you're in a D chord, but it starts...…There, and they somehow come around to ending up in D.…