Chords for How to Play Piano Chord Melody. Piano Chord Progressions.

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_ _ _ Hello and welcome to InsidePiano.com My name is Federico D'Antoni
And today's video answers a question posted to our blog by Antonio from Spain
Who wants to know how to use his knowledge of chords to be able to play songs by ear.
Thank you Antonio for reaching out to us.
And greetings to all Spain from Chicago.
Special thanks to Dani Peralta for his generous donation.
Thank you all for your support and I hope you enjoy today's video.
To be able to play a song by ear we need two important pieces of information.
The melody and the bassline.
Which are the outmost lines of the song.
The melody, which is the highest part.
And the bassline, which is the lowest part of the song.
Once we know these two elements, _ _ melody and bassline, we can play the rest of the song from here.
With the melody we'll determine which is the scale of the song.
Let's say the song Yesterday from Leonard [A] McCartney.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ [E] In this [A] case the scale is G major.
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[G] _ _ _ _ _ And the bassline will tell us the chords of the song.
The scale of the song is G major, so the first bass note will be G.
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_ [B] F sharp
_ [E] B E
So now we know the chords are
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G major
_ [F#m] F sharp [B] minor
_ [Em] B7
and E minor _ _
_ [G] Now that we know the chords and the melody, we gotta put them together.
To do that we'll use a technique called chord melody.
There is a misunderstanding of this concept going around the internet that I'd like to clarify.
I've seen a lot of video tutorials teaching chord melody as a two part system.
Part one melody, part two chords.
So they play the melody with the right hand and the chords with the left hand. _ _ _ _
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_ But this is wrong.
You don't play the piano like that.
With the exception if you are playing with a jazz band, improvising with the right hand
and comping with the [A#] left.
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_ [D] _ _ _ [G] But these are rootless chords.
It's an improvisation technique and a different subject.
Chord melody is not a two part system. _ _ _ _
Melody and chords.
Chord melody is a three part system.
Part one is the melody with the right hand.
Part two is the bass with the left hand which tells us the name of the chords we have to play.
And part three is the chord blended between both hands with the rest of our fingers.
Part one, part two, part three.
Now listen carefully to the difference of sound between these two positions.
Between this _ _ _ and this.
_ _ _ _ _ We are using a wider range of notes and we are distributing the voices correctly.
The piano is a representation of the orchestra.
And to play correctly we have to see the piano the way a composer or an arranger does.
Sopranos with the right hand, basses with the left hand, baritones, tenors and altos
in the middle. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Sopranos, basses, baritones, tenors and altos.
This is the right way to see the piano and the right way of distributing the voices.
The formula for voicing chords this way is as follows.
One five one with the left hand or one five three, _ [Gm] one five flat three for the triad [G] chords. _
_ _ One five one, [Gm] one five three, one five flat three. _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] And one five seven, _ _ one five flat seven for the seventh chords.
One five major seven, one five minor [C] seven, one five major seven.
_ This is the formula [G] for the left hand.
_ _ Again, part one, melody, part two, bass with the left, and part three, one five one, then
we complete the chord with the right hand.
_ _ _ _ _ Then once we know the melody and the bass line we can play the whole song.
g major, one five one with the left hand, _ [F#m] _ F sharp minor, one five one with the left hand,
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B major, one five one with the left hand, _ _ _
[Em] E minor, one five one, _ [D] D major, one five one,
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C major 151, _ _ [D] D major 151, _ _ _ [C] G [G] major _ 151, _ _ G again, _ _ _ _ [Em] E minor _ _ 151, _ _ [A] A7 _ _ 157, _ _ _ [C] C major again _ 151 _ _ _ [G] and
G 151 with the left and complete the chord with the right.
Take a look at the full access this position gives us to all the chord extensions.
_ We have access to everything from here. _
_ This way on the other hand, _ _ _ _ _ it's a very close narrow
position. _
_ But from this position we have access to a full range of colors and extensions.
And we have our fingers free to create movement _ _ _ and [C] rhythm, [Dm] _ [G] _ which is what makes the music tick.
This is not something that can be explained quickly in one video.
But since we are in the subject, let's illustrate the concept of the use of chord extensions.
Let's play the verse slowly one more time to see how the extensions sound. _ _ _ _
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[Em] _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
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Now let's play the chorus using the chord extensions. _ _
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