Posted in 1, Recommendations, tagged awesome, jamie cullum, piano on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t know how many of you know about him.
The first time I saw Jamie Cullum was on TV a few years ago when he was playing before the Queen.
Have taken note of his albums since.
Here are a couple of videos of Jamie Cullum that are really awesome from YouTube. If you appreciate [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged C4, cheat, chord, Csus, G4, Gsus, improvise, piano, sus, Sus4, suspended, suspension, trick on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Note: I have cut-and-pasted the following text from my earlier version of “Suspension (part 1)” post, so that each of my postings will not appear under more than 1 category (Now, “Suspension (part 1)” is under the “Cheat Theories” category, and “Improvising Sus4” is under the “Cheat Tricks” category). At the same time, I have [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, Cheat Tricks, tagged "amazing grace", C4, cheat, chord, G4, improvise, piano, Sus4, suspended, suspension on April 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
There are 2 types of suspended chords I know. There may actually be more but I only know 2 types. Anyway, you won’t want to learn too many chords playing the cheat way.
These 2 types of suspension I know are Sus2 and Sus4. I will come to Sus2 another day, and only [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged as the deer, bass notes, cheat, chord, notation, pattern, piano, play, progression, shortcut on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you can see a pattern in the bass notes, you can then recognize a chord progression (or a pattern of chords) a whole lot easier.
For example, the chords on the right hand in the sample progression in my previous post (“Changing The Bass Notes (part 2)”) may seem rather random, but the bass notes [...]
Posted in Blah x3, Recommendations, tagged connie talbot on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Now, a lot of you have probably heard and seen on TV this 7-year-old last year during her competition on Britains Got Talent (she was only 6 at that time).
I am a little bit slow, I admit, and I only got to know about her from a friend today. And my, oh my, her voice [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged bass notes, chords, piano, tweak, walk-down on April 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In fact, by combining the 3 basic chords on the right hand with different bass notes on the left hand, you can pretty much get all the chords you need for most songs (not all, of course).
Here is a very common ‘chord progression’ (or a pattern of a series of chords) used in many songs [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged piano, chords, cheats, bass notes, tweaks, bass on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a really useful ‘trick’. Well, at least I think so myself.
Most of the time when we play a chord on the right hand, the left hand would accompany that with a bass note (or octave) that corresponds directly to the chord. For example, when you play a C chord with your [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged arise, cheat, chords, how to play, music, on piano, pattern, paul baloche, piano, progression, shortcuts on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Basically there are 2 parts in this song – the verse and the chorus.
For the verse, the chords progress from Chord I to Chord V, then to Chord –I (minus-one), then to Chord IV. After that, simply repeat this chord progression (I, V, -I, IV) until you reach the chorus.
The chorus has a slightly different [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged cheat, chord, inversion, minus-one, piano, theory on April 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I have said before that mine is a not-so-conventional theory. That’s one reason why this site is called Piano Cheats at the first place. You probably have not heard and will not hear of any chord called “minus-one” anywhere else.
What exactly do I mean by a minus-one chord. In my definition, it is a chord [...]
Posted in Blah x3 on April 3, 2008 | No Comments »
This is just a post for the sake of “claiming” my blog on Technorati site. Not quite sure what benefits I will get from doing this yet. After all, I am a new blogger.
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