Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged shortcuts, cheats, how to play, piano chords, chord progressions, simplified, shout to the lord, hillsongs on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
This song is in the A key. I have simplified it such that you only need 4 chords on the right hand to play the whole song. This 4 chords are the 3 basic chords of the A key, i.e., A, D and E chords; and the G chord.
There are basically 2 different chord [...]
Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged how to play, piano chords, chord progressions, piano cheats, piano shortcuts, simplified, against all odds, phil collins, westlife on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Let’s start with the video…
The original key is C#. I played it in the key of C in the video, as this is a much easier key to follow for most people.
The intro to this song is made up of 2 chords: IIm7 and V chords.
So in the key of C, [...]
Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged how to play, piano chords, chord progressions, piano cheats, piano shortcuts, tentang kita, julian cely & terry, simplified on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
The song is originally in F#. To make it easier, I have done my illustration in the key of F instead. Please see the video below:
The introduction is not in the video. It’s just the F chord followed by a Bbm chord.
The progression for the verse is played twice. So is [...]
Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged beijing olympic, chord progressions, 王立宏, lee hom, olympics, one world one dream, piano cheats, piano chords, piano shortcuts, 北京奥运 on July 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I have also simplified this as much as possible so that one needs only use some simple chords on the right hand to play this song. Btw, this is one of the theme songs for Beijing Olympics 2008.
Here is the video illustration…
First, let’s go to the verse (which is played twice). The [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged "amazing grace", chord progressions, how to play, piano cheats, piano chords, piano shortcuts on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The following video illustrates how this song can be played with 3 fingers, while one sings along. The whole purpose is to make it easy to play for adult learners especially.
I used only one finger for the bass (left hand), mainly because that way, it’s easier to fit into the camera view. [...]
Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged barry manilow, chord progression, how to play, mandy, piano cheats, piano chords, piano shortcuts on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
I have done this song the “cheat” way — in the C key and using only the 3 basic chords (on the right hand). I hope a beginner, especially an adult beginner, will find this easy to follow.
The progression for the verse goes like this (played twice):
C –> G/C –> F/D –> F/C –> F/Bb [...]
Posted in Pop songs, Songs, tagged chord progression, how to play, marie digby, piano cheats, piano chords, piano rip, piano shortcuts, stupid for you on July 6, 2008 | No Comments »
The 2 different chord progressions in this song are quite obvious. So, without having to say where these 2 are used (you should be able to tell by listening to the song), I will show my video here to illustrate the 2 progressions:
Progression 1 goes like this:
I –> I/7b –> IV –> IVm/M
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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 | No 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 [...]
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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Songs, tagged C6, CM7, engelbert Humperdinck, Fm6, FM7, how to play, last waltz, piano chords, progressions on June 15, 2008 | No 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 [...]
