Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged cheat, chords, easy, how to play, illustration, keyboard, love song, on piano, piano, piano rip, sara bareilles, shortcut, video, youtube on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
There are 5 parts in this song.
First, the intro, which is the same as the verse, is made up of the following progression:
IIm –> (I/3) –> (V) –> VIm –> (V/7) –> I –> (VI/M)
The chords in brackets ( ) are transition chords, i.e., they are very short. In this case, they appear [...]
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Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged piano, cheat, bass notes, love song, sara bareilles, C/E, F/A, G/B, D/F#, E/G#, A/C#, how to play, m bass on May 30, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There is no such chord as an M Chord. The ‘M’ here actually stands for “the middle note”. And it’s not new. In fact, we have used that before in Chord I, IV and V. Let’s see:
The middle note of a C major chord is the E note, because the E note is the [...]
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Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged A major, chord, D major, E major, II major, III major, major, piano, VI major on May 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In “The 3 Basic Chords” post, we learned the following 3 chords:
Chord I – i.e., the I major chord
Chord IV – i.e., the IV major chord
Chord V – i.e., the V major chord
Then, in “The 3 Minor Chords”, we learned the following 3 chords:
Chord IIm – i.e., the II minor chord
Chord IIIm – i.e., [...]
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Very often, a certain chord would naturally lead to another chord. You can find this in many songs. I call this ‘Chord Association’, i.e., associating one chord with another. The following are some examples:
· Chord IIIm usually leads to Chord VIm
· Chord VIm usually leads to Chord IIm
· Chord IIm usually leads to Chord [...]
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Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged cheat, chris tomlin, how great is our god, mixing, piano, play, priase, shortcut, superposition, worship on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This song by Chris Tomlin is a good example to illustrate our Chord Mixing trick (See “Chord Mixing (part 1)” and “Chord Mixing (part 2)” posts).
The whole song can be simplified to the following chord pattern:
I –> VIm –> IV –> V
That is, Chord I followed by Chord VIm, followed by Chord IV, and then [...]
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Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged cheat, chord, chris tomlin, how great is our god, illustration, mixing, piano, praise, shortcut, superposition, worship on May 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you remember “the 3 minor chords”, and how we play them by substituting them with the 3 basic chords, and simply combining each of these 3 basic chords with a different bass note, then the summary is as below:
Chord VI m = Chord I (right hand) + Bass 6 (left hand), i.e., the “la” [...]
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This is about playing 2 different chords alternately while playing the same bass note(s). And the technique comes in very handy quite often.
In general, this is how I mix chords…
When the chord you are supposed to play is Chord I, you may mix Chord V to it, i.e.,
Chord I ( + Chord V )
Similarly, you [...]
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Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged C/F, C2, cheat, chord, F2, G/C, improvise, piano, Sus2, suspension on May 7, 2008 | No Comments »
Sus2 are usually used only on Chord I and Chord IV, so there is no need to learn Sus2 for other chords in a scale.
So if you play in the C scale, all the sus2 chords you need to know are only C2 and F2.
And this is how you can play C2 and F2 with [...]
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I have talked about Sus4 and how to improvise it with the 3 basic chords earlier. Sus2 is another form of suspension that can also be improvised with the 3 basic chords.
Let’s take a C chord (C Major chord) as example. A C-Sus2 chord is usually written as C2.
For a C chord, we play the [...]
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I just received this link through a mail. What a revival!
See for yourself…
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