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 | No 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 [...]
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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 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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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