Did you just buy your first keyboard and have no idea how to get started? Then you’ve come to the right place! In this mini-series I’m going to cover all of the basic concepts and teach you how to jumpstart your piano or keyboard playing career. Emphasis is on practical lessons with real-life applicability, aimed at pop/rock musicians.
In this video we’ll be taking the four chords you learned in the previous lesson and showing you how to play them in interesting ways, from arpeggiating them to playing alternating patterns or even thinking like a guitar player!
Next lesson we’ll add a few more chords and enrich your chord vocabulary further! I plan on releasing a new video about once a month. Video Rating: / 5
As a reminder – The outside 5th is the same for both Major & Minor
Major Middle note (Major 3rd) is 2 Whole Steps From the Root
Minor Middle note (Minor 3rd) is 1 1/2 whole steps from the Root
We need to memorize our fundamental chords we use all the time so we can find them without hesitation. It may take some practice and time but it’s worth it! Make sure to practice these on their own so you don’t trip up over finding these positions when you’re learning actual music.
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CHORDS 🎹
How To find chord inversions INSTANTLY
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Building Chords, Beginner THEORY
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Practise The chords In a key
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Slash Chords
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Tips And More 🎹
5 Must know Chord Rhythm Patterns
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12 Important Things Every Beginner Should Learn
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How To Play Hands Together
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Memory Tips To learn songs Faster
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Hand Placement Tips
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CHORDS & SCALES THEORY 🎹
Half Steps and Whole Steps
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Building chords Made Simple
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Chord Inversions Made Simple
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Minor Scale Theory Made Simple
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Chords of a key Made Simple
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How To Find Other 3 Note Chords Too
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7th Chords Made Simple
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SCALES 🎹
Order To Learn Scales
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Find Any Major Scale Easily
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All 12 Major Scales | Just The Fingerings
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Major Scales Tutorial Playlist
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VIDEO CHAPTERS/TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What we Need to Do
1:19 White Note Major Chords
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2:27 Finding the Middle note (Major 3rd)
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3:28 Black White Black Major Chords
4:04 Odd Shape Major Chords
5:11 Tips on Finding the Outside 5ths
5:47 Changing the Shape to Minor
9:38 Practising
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What’s up my piano friends!! Today’s video we’re going go over 5 things I WISH I’d known when learning piano…
It would’ve saved me YEARS of pain and frustration (I’m not kidding…)
But luckily for you, you can learn from my mistakes and learn right the FIRST time.
Here’s what we’ll cover:
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00:39 How to Learn Songs WAY Faster (WithOUT Sheet Music)
02:38 Easy Way to Master Hands Together Coordination
03:56 The “Play By Ear” Test
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11:13 Solve Weak Pinkie Syndrome Instantly
Make sure you stick around to the end – the LAST part is the most important BY FAR, and also makes the first 4 way easier…
Oh, and btw if you’re a complete beginner, no worries, this tutorial is specifically designed for beginners and intermediate players, and we start slow and take absolute baby steps tot make sure you’ll get it frustration-free. We’ll cover the technique and theory to get you up and running and avoiding all the bad habits.
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In this beginners lesson, I show you how to create your own chord progressions on the piano. This is done using the knowledge that every note from a major scale has a chord built from it. Every major scale has the same sequence of chords built from it.
The sequence is as follows: Major, Minor, Minor, Major, Major, Minor, Diminished.
If we take any random combination of these chords we have a chord progression. There are literally an infinite amount of progression we could come up with.
Use this knowledge to come up with your own progressions. Play around with the rhythm, change the chord inversions and add some passing notes to make it sound more original.
For some common progressions using this same knowledge, check out this video: https://youtu.be/3HdZ3c1ojoI
If you have any questions just leave a comment below!
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So you’ve learned how to play the melody of your favorite song (or maybe you’ve even composed your own melody), but now you need chords to match it. How do you know which chords will fit under your melody notes? Here are FOUR ways!
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What’s up my piano friends! Today we’re going to go over the 6 BEST chord progressions for piano beginners. Trust me, this is the easiest tutorial out there. If you can follow simple instructions on a cheat sheet you can learn this stuff no problem. Here are the 6 progressions (named for the emotion they give off):
TOP 6 CHORD PROGRESSIONS:
1. The “Catchy”
2. The “Emotional”
3. The “Road Trip”
4. The “Evil”
5. The “Somber”
6. The “Sinister”
Oh, and what’s even better, is we use a concept called Chord Stacking to make this EVEN easier! So basically once you learn the first chord progression, we simply “stack” the chords in different orders and transpositions to create the other 5 with zero extra effort on your part.
Sounds too good to be true, but trust me, you’ll see what I mean in the video 🙂
Oh, and MAKE SURE YOU STICK AROUND TO THE END!! We’ll be covering the top 3 “Money Patterns” you can use to really bring these chord progressions to life. I use these ALL the freakin time lol and they work wonders.
And lastly, I’d love to hear from you. Leave a comment and let me know what you thought of the video, if it helped you or if you got stuck somewhere. And make sure you download the cheat sheet it’ll make the whole process 10X easier:
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I’m finally breaking down some easy to learn R&B chord progressions. These progressions are great for music producers and anyone trying to get better at playing R&B music. Let me know if you all want more content like this. Thanks for watching!
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If you’re playing or writing a song, how do you know what chords will fit together in a chord progression to sound good?
If I’m playing C-G-Am-F, can I play a D Major chord?
It turns out there are actually some really useful ways to know what chords will work together. It’s not a strict rule, but more of a starting point.
They’re called Diatonic Chords.
Now I have a confession to make. I’ve been playing the piano since I was nine-years-old. But I only learned about diatonic chords THIS YEAR!
I figured if I didn’t know what they were for so long, then chances are other people might not either.
It turns out diatonic chords is just a fancy name for something SUPER SIMPLE! But it’s really useful for understanding different keys and how to play chords and songs in those keys.
Put simply, diatonic chords are all the chords that naturally occur inside a certain key. They only use the notes found within that key (or scale).
Let’s take C Major as an example. C Major has only white keys. So every chord you play in the key of C will have only white keys. A C will be C-E-G – easy right? Then up a note will be D-F-A, making it a D minor. So D minor is a diatonic chord of C. You can then work your way up the scale, still only playing white notes.
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What are diatonic chords? – 0:48
How is this useful? – 2:15
Try it in another key – 2:36
Practice tips – 3:48
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It’s time to make things fancy! Piano chord inversions and left hand patterns are awesome ways to sound pretty darn good at the piano, but there’s even more you can do to really make things sound awesome! This lesson teaches you how to make your chords fancy using techniques like trills, sus chords, passing notes, broken chords and more!
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Showing how you can use a really simple formula (MATH) to make absolutely EVERY major or minor piano chord and play a version of any song (in record time!)
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Building major and minor triads is so much fun once you understand the formula to create them on your own!
I use triads all the time to make beautiful harmony when I play some of my favorite songs.
Triads also make everything you play a sound so much cooler!
Here’s a breakdown of this lesson:
– Root Position Chords – 0:31
– Major Chord – 1:50
– Minor Chord – 2:02
– A fun exercise to try – 2:59
– Moving chords around – 3:38
– Final thoughts – 4:19
Moving your triads around the keyboard and changing them to major or minor gives you so many options for what to play.
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In this beginner lesson, we look at a very common chord progression which uses four chords. These 4 chords are used in hundreds of songs!
In the key of C the chords are as follows: C, G, Am, F
Practice playing around with these chords to get them under your fingers. You should use different inversions and voicings around the piano.
Once you are comfortable with the chords, you can add some timing and rhythm. Start by playing each chord and count 4 beats for each one. Then you can begin adding in different patterns such as split chords and arpeggios.
Once you can do all of this, you can either sing the melody of songs over the top or work the melody out by ear, and play it in your right hand whilst playing the chords in your left.
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