Chords for Jeff Stice - Piano Lesson On Passing Chords

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_ Hi, I'm Jeff Stice and I play piano for Perfect Heart.
And for my portion of the video, what I want to show you is
something I like to call passing chords.
Now the song we're going to use is Someone to Care.
And what we'll do is I'm going to play it through the way
that you would normally play it, and then I'm going to show you
by adding this particular chord, or passing chord,
as we're going to call it, how much more tasteful it is.
Here's the way it would be before the chord.
_ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [C] _
[F] _ _ _ When I went from that chord, [C] C to F, I walked up.
_ [Dm] You [C] know, it seems like everybody does that.
_ What we're going to do is we're going to add, it's a real pretty chord,
and it would sound like this if we added it.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] See how much more prettier that is?
Rather than the conventional walking up, [Dm] _ _ [C] _
we're going to do this.
_ [Gm] _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ [Fm] _ So [Gb] anytime _ you want to go from a I chord to a IV chord,
if you're familiar with the number system, or in this situation,
from C to F, this neat little chord is very tasteful.
The members of that chord are this right here.
The left hand, we're going to do a rolling [C] tenth.
_ [G] _
_ [Bb] The right hand, we're going to put our thumb on B flat, D, [A] and A.
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Then we're going to change our right hand to a B flat augmented. _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] Then resolve it to the F. _
_ _ _ _ Now, this can be used in any song, like I said,
when going from C to F, or from a I chord to a IV chord.
Now, another chord that I like to use occasionally,
when going from a I chord to a II chord, or in this instance, from C [G] to D,
_ is this right here.
_ Same song, only a little bit further down into the song.
I'm going to use the passing chord that we've already learned,
plus I'm going to add this new one to it, okay?
So here's someone to care, using the new chord going from I to II.
_ [C] _ _ _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
[C] _ Right here it is, right here.
_ [Ab] _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ Okay, what I did is I'm taking the I chord, or in this case, a C chord,
and I'm augmenting [E] that chord.
_ And I'm making a major seventh out of it as well,
so I call it an augmented major seventh. _
_ _ [B] C augmented major seventh. _ _ _
Okay, with a D in the left hand, go ahead and go to that II chord,
or in this case, the D chord, okay?
_ [D] _
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[F] Again, you can use that with any song.
In the key of C, I simply augmented the chord,
and I added the major seventh to it.
That's the way it is in any key.
If you're in G, key of G, and you want to go from G to A,
simply augment the G chord and add a major seventh, okay?
Go ahead and go to the II with your left hand.
[B] _ _ _ [A] _ _ It sounds very [N] nice.
And work on that.
It adds a lot of tastefulness to your playing, and _ _ _ thanks. _ _ _ _
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I was just really looking forward to singing that night and getting to play.
And Rex said, well, I think we're going to turn this piano playlist.
And anybody that had seen me with Rex knows when he said that,
I'd go, you know, I'd step into my little thing like this.
Well, the bench was like this far from the stand, and it was about this far.
And I got into my little thing, and just as I leaned back, the whole thing went.
I went over backwards, and my feet was in the air,
and I come up, and everybody was just dying laughing.
And so what did I do?
I acted like it was part of my routine. _
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