Chords for Country & Western Style - (Right Hand Piano Riff).WMV

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Right now friends, it's time to don the old cowboy hat,
because we're going to take you through some country [G] and western piano.
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[C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
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[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ OK friends, come on into close-up and I'll show you what notes I'm [F] playing.
And if you [G] turn to exercise one in your booklet, you'll find a little four-bar phrase for the right hand,
but it's based on the chords of C, F, G7 and C.
I've taken just a couple of notes from each chord,
and popped them into the right hand to be played with the piano on the top keyboard.
I'm going to be demonstrating on the lower keyboard,
so you can see exactly what fingers I'm using and what notes I'm playing.
I'm going to cheat just to start with, to show you the notes.
Exercise one, E and G.
_ _ [Am] Count it through, A and C.
One, two, three, [G] four.
One, two, three, [C] four.
One, two, three, four.
OK, so to _ _ [G] turn that little [Am] phrase, it's not really a tune, it's just [Bm] a phrase.
To turn that into country and [C] western music, for a start,
[D] I want you to flick the bottom note a semitone below.
So instead of playing [E] straight onto the E, we're going to play the D sharp,
and flick onto the E.
And then eventually we'll be flicking onto the A, [B] and the B,
and [G] then we'll have to use two and three [E] to flick onto the B and C at the top. _ _
_ With those little flicking notes, _ bring the top note in at the same [Eb] time.
So don't go like that, [G] and then the two.
Bring the top note in at the same time as you hit the note that you're going to flick. _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [Bm] It's like slapping the keys. _ _
[B] _ _ [E] Practice it using the right fingers, perhaps,
using two and three on [G] the two notes at the bottom.
Here we go.
Two, three.
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[C] _ _ [G] OK, work on that, exercise two, and then you'll be ready to go on to exercise three,
where we're going to play [Eb] not just one flicked note at the bottom,
we're going to flick [G] two notes, a tone and a [D] semitone below the main bottom note. _ _ _
_ _ [Eb] D, D sharp, onto E.
[G] Like that.
As if you're once again slapping the keys,
and once again you're going to bring the top note in
_ _ _ _ at the same time as you bring the bottom three notes in.
_ [C] And then finished off, that's it.
And it's not written in, but finish off at the top, [D] onto A and C.
Right, try that with the pedals, exercise three.
Same pedal as chord symbol.
Two, three, four.
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_ [G] _ _ [C] _ C.
Work on that and you'll be ready for exercise four.
Exercise four is a little sort of amalgamation of [E] those
put in with a couple of extra notes to give you a fancy country and western ending. _ _ _ _ _ _
Three, four.
[C] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
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_ _ [C] Two, three, four.
Let's have that one more time, exercise four.
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