Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged chord progressions, cry by rihanna, how to play, piano cheats, piano chords, piano rip, piano shortcuts on June 29, 2008 | 9 Comments »
There are 3 parts in this song… the verse, chorus and the bridge.
The intro is just the first 2 lines of the verse. It goes like this:
Cm –> Ab/C –> Bb/C
These are the notes on the left and right hands:
Chord
Left hand notes
Right hand notes
Cm
C –> G
C –> G –> Eb –> D
Ab/C and Bb/C
C –> [...]
Posted in Blah x3, tagged around the world, matt harding, travel the world, traveling, video, well-traveled, where the hell is matt on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about being well traveled? Man! I totally am envious of this guy!!!
Video 1 – Where The Hell Is Matt (2008)?
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Video 3 – Where the hell is Matt?
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Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged cheats, chord progression, 爱与希望, 琴谱, how to play, JJ, love & hope, piano, piano chords, shortcuts, 林俊杰 on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I promised to do a video illustration of Chord Association. Here is one with a very common progression. This is a song by J.J. Lim called Love & Hope.
The intro, verse, and chorus all use the same chord progression in this song. The progression is as follow:
I –> V/7 –> VIm –> IIIm –> IV [...]
Posted in Evergreen, Songs, tagged how to play, last waltz, engelbert Humperdinck, piano chords, progressions, FM7, C6, CM7, Fm6 on June 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am posting this video to show a reader-friend (who is now learning this song) how I would play the song my “cheat” way.
I have chosen to begin from the middle section of the song (i.e., not from the beginning), as that’s where you can hear the verse, chorus and the bridge one after another.
The [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged cheats, chords, how to play, keyboard, on piano, shortcuts, U.R.Y. by Hillsong on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is how you can play U.R.Y. using 3 fingers – 1 on your left hand, 2 on your right hand. And you need literally only 2 ‘chords’ on your right hand.
There are two parts in this song: the verse and the chorus. Duh.
The progression for the verse actually goes like this (if [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged A/C#, A4, Asus4, cheat, chords, D/F#, D4, Dsus4, E/G#, E4, Esus4, how to play, piano, progression, shortcut, Sus4, suspension on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Remember Sus4? Check out my previous posts on ‘Suspension (part 2)’ and ‘Improvising Sus4’ if necessary. Now, Sus4 is often applied to the II, III and VI major chords, particularly in the ‘Chord Association’ context. Let’s use the following notation for the Sus4 of these 3 chords:
· Let the Sus4 of the II major chord [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged cheat, how to play, II major, III major, keyboard, piano, progression, shortcut, Sus4, suspension, VI major on June 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Let’s recap the chords in ‘Chord Association (part 1)’ post:
· Chord IIIm usually leads to Chord VIm
· Chord VIm usually leads to Chord IIm
· Chord IIm usually leads to Chord V
· Chord V usually leads to Chord I
· Chord I usually leads to Chord IV
The following are often associated with one another in the same [...]
