Piano By Ear for Busy People | Beginner Level

1. Piano By ear for busy people Promo Video: Hi, this is Kingsley and I'm excited to bring you a piano by ear for busy people. I've been performing and teaching the piano for almost 15 years. And in all these years I've come across students who struggled to balance their work, family, and music life. Have you always wanted to learn the piano but can't seem to find the time that this course is specially designed for people like you who wants to learn the piano quickly and efficiently. You learned all you need to know from basic piano concepts and caught, play your favorite songs. No time to help you do this. I've gone through my archives and edited my videos into shot back punching lessons and complimented them with some sessions from popular music you already love. Just like with the skills you learned from this course, you'll be able to pick up some of your favorite songs from online and start playing. They'll after the very first few lessons, don't let your busy schedule hold you back from achieving your piano dreams. Sign up today and start learning to play the piano and parole are seeing your first lesson. 2. Get Familiar with the Keys: Hello and welcome to today's lesson. For this lesson, we'll be taking a look at the keyboard, introducing you to the keys on the keyboard, the names of the various keys, and what we can do with each of the notes on the keyboard. On the keyboard you have, as you can see, you have white keys and black keys, and they all do the same thing. The white keys are called natural keys, and the black keys are enharmonic keys. The whites key that comes before that to black keys is called C. This is C. Okay? So you can find several Cs on the keyboard. If you have a keyboard in front of you, try to locate all the other sees on the keyboard. So e.g. that's a C. And that's a C because it comes before the two black keys. That's another C, lambda one. Let's see, that's a C, C, and this is a C as well, but you don't see the black keys. Okay? So just by knowing this is C, and if we follow alphabetically, we can just, if you know how to say your alphabet from a to G at least, then you'll be able to find out the rest of the the notes on the keyboard. So if this is a C, Then the next one is D. Okay, So alphabetically is gonna be an E and F, a g. And the next thing to notice there's no H on the keyboard. So a to g is where it ends and the moment it gets where G, the next nodes comes back to an a. So that's an a, a, B, and a, C. The two that I like my students to memorize our C and F. So wherever I see the three black keys, I know that the whites key that comes before as an F. That's an F, F, F, F here. That's an F as well. Okay. And that's another F. F was B on the keyboard. So you just need to remember the two that you memorize, C and F. So B is obviously closer, closer to a C. So I look at my C and then I know alphabetically b comes before c, So that's a B. Okay? So these, these are the names of the white keys on the keyboard. You have a, B, C, D, E, F, G, a, B, and back to the ceiling. Okay. Reagan, as long as you know the name of your whites key, it's very easy to name the black key. So notice that these black keys come in-between two whites keys. So every black key has to whites keys surrounding them. Okay? So that's another blocky and it has two white keys. So you can see this white blocky as a child and then the two white keys as the mother and the father. Okay, so that's an easy way of CNS. So if you want to name this black key, you need to ask yourself which to white keys surround the blocking. And here you can see this black is bounded by a C and a T. Okay? Now, since this black key is higher on the keyboard, if you want to move to the right, you're going higher. So that's going higher on the keyboard. When you move to the left, you're going lower. Okay? And it says this blocky is higher than C. There's a movement and music all the sharp. So that's a sharp movement. So if the block is higher than the sea, then you call it a C-sharp. In other words, it's a sharpened sing. This note is called a seizure. But the nice thing about these black keys is that they all have two names. The white keys only have one name, but the enharmonic keys are black keys have two names. So it's either called a C-sharp or if you want to use the D, then it's called a D-flat because it music when you move backwards or down, it's a flat movement. So that's a C sharp or D flat. So you can see on your screen that C-sharp is what is being indicated. You can also call it a D flat, okay? And we can use this for all the other nodes. So just try and find the names of the other keys. This is going to be D-sharp because it's higher, it's in between D and E. So it's either going to be a D-sharp, E-flat. So you can see E-flat on your screen. But you can call it a D-sharp as well. In the same way, this would be an F sharp and a G, or a G-flat. This will be a G sharp or a flat. And that will be an a sharp or B flat. 3. The most important Scale (Major Scale): The major scale is something that we're all very familiar with, which most people saying as Dory me faster than me fast. So if you've heard this before, that's a major scale and that's the fundamental block of most of the music that you hear out there. The C major scale. So this is a scene. And the easiest major scale is when you play from C all the way up to the C and you have it. So that says, it's very important that you also know the surface, the sulfur notations. These are the Dory me facile at IDO. And in other places numbers are used. In that case will be 123,456,711.1. Okay? Two things that we need to land before we jump into the major scales. Movements. So there's something called a tone and a semitone. So a tone on the keyboard is when you move from one node to another node by jumping on OneNote, jumping over. So for a tone movement, e.g. if you are on C and you want to move a tone to the right or upwards. If you move to the left, thus downwards. So if you want to move a turn upwards, you need to jump over at least, you need to jump over one key. In this case, we hope over the C-sharp and then we go to D. So if I move from C to D, That's a tone movement. Okay? So let's try and find other movements. So if I move from a D to an E, I have hopped over the E flat or D sharp. So this is also another tone movements. Second one is a semitone. Semitone movements. You don't hop over any key, you move right to the next key. If you're on C, you need to do a semitone movement. You move to the next key, that's a C-sharp, and that's a semitone movement. Okay? So if I keep moving in semitones is gonna be like this. Okay? Notice that if we use the C major scale as an example, this is me. Now, you see that to the array as a tone movement. And if you move to the mean, doesn't love tone movements, but from the way to the far, there's no key in-between, so that's a semitone or tones. And from the T move into the dough, That's another semitone. So the easy approach that I would advise you to take is to keep in mind two things. That when you move from a me too far, That's a semitone. And when you moved from a T to a dough, that's another semitone. Apart from this, all other movements or tone movements. So if we want to apply this to the F major scale, e.g. so this is F. So I need to start playing from the F and go all the way to F. So that's my, okay. So if I need to move to the ray is a tone. Remember everything is a tone apart from the mean to the fire and t To do so. I do a tone to another tone. Me know, as soon as I get to me, I remember what I was supposed to memorize and me to find the same dose. So for me, I need to move right to the next key, no hopping far then. And so I do continue my toes law and a t and remember the T two dose and other semitone. Very simple, right? So another approach, which is a very common approach in most of the books that you read. What's they use a formula for the major scale known as tone, tone, semitone. Tone, tone, tone, semitone. Okay? So if you want to play a major scale or e.g. be, okay. You start on the first nodes, then you start counting tone, two tones, a semitone, three tones, and then a semi-tone. So he sat on B tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone. Just go around the keyboard. Your homework today is to take the individual keys. You start from the first key. So there are 12 keys on the keyboard. You have 1234567 white keys, and then five black keys. So every homework we'll be doing, we'll be doing it in 12 keys. So that 12 keys and they repeat, okay, So try and play the major scales of all the 12 keys. 4. What is a Chord: So for starters, let's define what a chord is. A chord as to more than one nodes play together on a keyboard. So if I play single nodes, That's not accord. But the moment I add one node to it, it becomes chord. If I make a play, three nodes. Are nodes, five nodes, six nodes, seven nodes. All of them are courts, okay? So, but usually two nodes, somewhat in some circles it's called a partial cord. Though most of the chords that you hear about two loads usually will form something called an interval or a duet. But most harmonies that form of 33 nodes upward. So all the chords we'll be looking at will be three nodes, four nodes, five nodes, and so on. So in accord with three nodes is called a triad, okay? So e.g. if I play tennis together, that's a triad. Any random three notes, it's a triad. Random three nodes, I play it. A try. Okay, so with the knowledge of this, Let's go into the next lessons where we look at types of different chord types and how we build them out of the major scale. I'll see you in the next lesson. 5. Building Major Chords: Major chords. What are major chords now? Major chords are the form under the category of triads. Now a triad is a chord with three nodes, okay, So this is, I believe, the simplest form out of which we are going to build on every single other chord. So it's important that you know your major codes so well. Now, two things you need to know very well before you start you get into major course. You need to know the names of your keys and as well, you need to know your major scales, so you need to be able to play a major scale in every single key. So if you don't know this already, gets to the other lessons and practice them. Get to know your major scale and every single key. And let's get started. Now. Major chords, quite fundamental and they sound happy when you hear them the first time. Okay, so we'll look at how they are formed first and then we can proceed afterwards. The first method is the major chord is formed out of the form with a one, the three, and the five of the major scale. Okay, so what am I saying? Let's go, Let's use our most basic major scale, which is a C major scale. Okay? Now this is 12345671 on don't re mi Nieto. This is all the white keys from C to C. Okay? So this is 12345. Now the moment I pick my one, my 3.5, and play them together, that's a C major chord because I've picked the 135 out of the C major scale. Okay, so 135 out of the major scale, you get a C major chord. Okay? Same thing. If you go to the F major scale, 12345. Okay, So the moment I've picked my wine, five. So that's a major chord, F major chord, F major chord, F major chord. As simple as that. Now, this is the most common formula that is used. Okay, So these are two examples I've placed on your screen, the C major chord and then the F sharp major chord, which is 12345. So five, okay? And that's your F major chord. So now one important thing is that I want you to use your first, your thumb, your middle finger, and your fifth finger to play the major chord. So that's gonna be, your fingers are numbered 12345. I want you to use the one, the three, and the five, okay, to play the major chord. And then your left hand. I want you to use your pinky, which is the one. So this is number 12345. I want you to use your pinky one and your index finger. And I want you to play chests, the first and last nodes from the right. So your plane. And that's first and last nodes in your left. Like that. Okay, So your pinky and your index finger to play the one, the one end the file. But that's how I want you to play the major chords from now. So F major chord goes like this. Okay? Now let's look at a second method of building major chords. And this is something which other people use this and they are quite comfortable with. It's called a four-three rule. Okay? So now the fourth rule says that you play a first node, the root node, and then you count four semitones, 12124. And then after that you count three semitones, one-two-three. Ok, So the moment you do that, you can form a major chord. You just need where you're starting from. So let's say you're starting from the key of G, okay, to play a G major chord using the fall three rule, you have 1.3 or four semitones, 1234. And then 123. You have your G major chord. And this can be applied everywhere. D major chord. That's 1234123. Okay, very good. So it's up to you. Just choose which one you're comfortable with. The one I recommend is if you know your major scales very well, then you just pick the 135 out of the major scale. If you don't know them that well yet, you can start using the fourth new rule to figure it out. But in the proceed in the next sessions, I'm going to show you easy and quick ways of identifying all your 12 major chords without any stress at all. So stay tuned and you're going to find out very soon, okay? One thing I like to say that when you play the major chord has this peculiar sound. So if you're just starting out, first of all, the major chord sounds happy. So when you play a major chord, it sounds very happy. Unlike a minor chord, which we'll talk about later. Sounds a bedside. They hear that. But a major chord sounds happy. Okay? So that's the first thing. When you play the notes individually sounds like. Okay, so anyway you play it is going to sell. Use that to figure out if you're playing the correct thing or not. 6. C, F & G Major Chords: Hi, let's talk about first category of major chords. And these are the C, F, and G major chords. The C, F and G major chord have something very nice in common. Okay, So whenever you, if you know your C major chord already, which is very common, you see that it has all whites notes, okay? And we can use this simple approach to figure out a, C, F, and G chord without thinking too much. So it's made up of all white notes. But at the same time, each note is separated by another white notes. So you play one byte, the sea itself, the root node. You skipped one, play the next wide nose, skip one, and play the next white note. Same applies for the f and g. So f has the same. Play one, skip one. They want to skip one. That's your F major chord. And then your G major chord has the same look as well. So you play, this is kept. One in the middle, is skipped one. And you have that. If you had to play, the chords in succession, is going to be the C chord, right? And then your F chord, alright? Then your G chord. Okay? Excellent. So since we know this, you can have a visual look of how these courts are within the next few seconds, and then we can go into the practice session. In this session, I'm going to play it once and I want you to pause the video and then you play it on your own as well. Okay, so let's try our first chord progression. Now, a chord progression is just simply a group of courts that are put together to spell out music. Okay, so that's chord progression. You see on your screen the C, G, F, G, S song out there. It could be hundreds of songs are there with this chord progression, okay, so now I want you to play your C chord. And then I want you to move to the left and play the G down here. And then you play the F. Okay. Then the GI. Back to the scene that I needed to either use a metronome to guide you are counts 1234. And you're going to play the chord on the one. So it's going to sound like this. 1234123 or 12341234. Okay. And I want you to slow it down as much as you can. You can go super slow 1234. So one other thing is, if it's not too easy for you to move through the course, I want you to move after you count the two. So like this, one to move and get ready for and when to move, guarantee and move, and guarantee and playing. Move and guarantee. Okay? So I want you to pause the video and then try this chord progression after that. Play back the video and then let's go to the next chord progression. Excellent. If you've done, you able to do it, if you're able to do with excellent. If not, keep at it. Slowdown, try the right-hand first. After that, you try your left hand and then you put the two together and you'll be able to play this. Let's try our next chord progression with the same records that we know now. So F, C, G, F, and we know they are all white, so I'll give it a try first. And then it's your turn to pause and try it yourself. Okay. So 1,234.1 to be 41, 234-123-4121. More time, I'll play one more time then. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2. So pause the video and try to play this chord progression right-hand first, left-hand next, and then put it together. And then we can go to the next one. Excellent. So let's try our last chord progression for this practice session. So it's almost similar to the first one. So this is CG CF. Okay. So 1,234.12, 34 123-413-4123 or two. They want more time, or two to the C chord. And back to the F. Perfect. Pause the video and try to play this. Now. Take your time getting used to move in within courts, and that's the purpose of this video. And then once you are done and you're able to move freely within these quotes with ease. Move to the next lesson where we learn to play at a, D, E and a major chords. I'll see you in the next one. 7. D, E & A Major Chords: Now let's look at our next set of major chords. These are the D, e and a major chord. So if you know DEA, which is an agency, you should be able to remember this group very easily, the D and a major chords. Okay? Now, how did they look like? This is the D major chord. Okay? And you can see that it has a black nodes in the middle. This is how the E major and a major horse look like as well. So easy formula we are going to use. The C, F, and G were all white, but this D, E, and K have one black in the middle, okay? One black in the middle. Okay? So that's a D major chord image according to start on the E has one block in the middle, and that's here. Okay? And if you can see, it looks somewhat like a triangle. Okay? Now, one tip is that after you play the root nodes, the black in the middle is the second block. So this is the first block after it does the second block, okay? After you have these two as well, the white is the second white. First white, no, second white, yes. Okay, So that's a D major chord and then an E major chord. Second block, second white. It looks like a triangle as well, and the a major chord. Okay, So if I were to play them with both hands, the right, the E and the a. Okay, good. So let's practice a few chord progressions. What we just learned, okay? So if you can pause and try to play these three chords until your hands get used to it. And then after that, you can click Play. And let's try these chord progressions out. Excellent. So our first chord progression and a, E, D and E. Okay? So we're going to start from an a chord. Okay? And then we're moving down to an E, okay? And then the D, and then an E. Okay? So let's put some time into it. So 123, go, 1234, 1234, 1234, 1234. Perfect. So just pause the video, try out with just the right hand. Write for n12 341234. Slow it down and try it out. And then you go with your left hand. 1, 2, 3 4 and 1, 2, 3 4 and 1, 2, 3 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4. And then you play them together. Okay, So pause the video, try to complete this task, and then click Play, and let's proceed to the next practice progression. Very good. Now the next practice, procreation as a da, ga. Now since you already know your G major chord, which was in the first group of all whites nodes. We can mixing a G major chord in here, right? So DAG, okay, So a D to an a. And then let's put time into it to go. 1, 2, 3 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1. Now these costs may sound boring, but you can do a lot with it after you learn a bit more. So just the same chord progressions or by same chord progression D. Right? So I'll say let a few things. The same chord progression may not be that simple. You can play it with a lot of code embellishments. Okay, very good. Pause the video and try to complete this task. Play this chord progression fluidly. Then let's proceed to the next chord progression for our practice session. Okay? Now our last chord progression is a, G, d, c, D. Okay? We know our G and C are all white. D has one black in the middle. So let's try this out. First chord, 234-23-4234. So we can take it up. 234.123. Play with me. 234.1, 234. Okay. Pause the video once again. Try to complete this whole progression. Take your time, go through all these three chord progressions. And once you're done, head on to the next lesson where we take a look at our next set of major chords. 8. Db, Eb & Ab Major Chords: Hi, So in the previous lesson, we looked at a, D, E and a major course. Now in this lesson we'll be looking at the D-flat, E-flat, and A-flat major chords, Let's get into it. Now. These three major chords behave in a, in a reverse direction as a da. Now, the DEA had one black in the middle, but this time around the D-flat, E-flat, and A-flat have one white in the middle. Okay? So this is a D-flat. Alright, so D and D flat, and has one white in the middle. So that's how the D-flat chord looks like. Black starts, a black, black nodes end and a white node in the middle. Okay? Of course now, it's very important to stress that these are easy methods of finding our courts. These are not rules written down anyway, it's just an easier approach to finding the courts, as we've already gone through the proper theoretical procedure of constructing these scores. These are just an easy guide for you. Okay, so one points in the middle and you can see that it looks like a triangle. Once again, it looks like an inverted triangle that has a D-flat, E-flat, similar. Right? And then the A-Flat one bytes in a minute was always test with you. Make sure it sounds right. Now, a little tip for the D flat and a flat solve my students get confused with which of these two bytes nodes they should play. I told them play the one closest that has, that comes right before the black nodes. Okay? So the one that is closest, okay, That's fine. Okay. So D-flat, E-flat. A flat. Okay. So just have a look at these courts. Pause the video, try and hands around them, make sure you know them. And then afterwards, we are moving right into the practice session. Okay? Now first chord progression for this practice session is an a flat major chord, E flat major chord. Animals were D flat major chord and an E-flat. And you might see a chord progression like this on a core chat or at least sheet, right? So same thing. Okay, so E-flat, A-flat, E flat, D flat, E-flat. So I'll start first chord. 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4. And 1, 2, 3. Play one more time. 23.423. 423.4. Okay. Good. Now you see what I'm doing. I'm playing a grace notes in the middle. I'm just flipping up from the second to the third. Okay. So if you know this, you can do with me. Otherwise, just play the usual one. And then later on you pick these things up as we go. Okay? So 1, 2, 3 4, 1 2 3 4, 2 3 4, 2 3 4. Okay, pause the video and complete this task, and then we go to the next chord progression. Now, last chord progression for this practice session. S, a D E-flat, A-flat, E-flat, G-flat. Okay, so I'll play it once and then you try it yourself. And D flat, a flat, and then E flat, a flat, D flat, a flat, and E flat. And D flat. 234. Very good. Practice these chord progressions. Take your time, make sure you can find them easily. Now, I can't stress it enough that major chords are very critical because every other core type we will learn in this course is dependent on the major chord. We're going to build everything from the major chord. Major course should be at your fingertips. So take enough time to go through them one after the other. Make sure you have all the major chords right at your fingertips. And once you are done, move into the next lesson, and let's move on to the next set of major chords. 9. B & Bb Major Chords: Hi, In this lesson we'll be looking at the B and the B flat major chords. Now these two major chords behave somewhat similar, but not quite. Let's look at how they look like. Now the B major chord, this is the G major chord. And the easy formula or approach that I use is that the B, S black, white, black, black. Okay? The B as a white notes and the two other nodes are blocked. Okay? And one thing is, you know, is that's the chord. The nodes are evenly spaced. So to play this will be a bit not to even so that's why you should naturally play this, this one here. And again, it sounds like. So that's our validation. And the B flat is a reverse. Be flux is a black notes. But the other two are white. Black, white, white's. Okay. So easy. Very good. So as I said, they are somehow evenly spaced. So you can see the two chords clearly shown on your screen. Take your time, play around with them a little bit, and let's go into the practice session quickly. Okay, good. Now, our first chord progression for the practice session is an E-flat to a B flat, to a flats. B-flat, E-flat chord, which we know already. A B-flat, which we just went through. What, a flux. We know that already and back to a B-flat. Okay, so let's play it on time. So 1 and 2 and 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3 and 4 to the B-flat. Apply one more time, go. And 2, 3, 4, 2, 3, 4, 2, 3 4, and 1, 2, 3, 4. Okay? Pause the video. Go through this chord progression countless times. Make sure your fingers have them really solidly down. And then after that, click Play, and let's move on to the next chord progression for our practice session. Well done and completed that task. Our last chord progression as an ABAB. Okay, so you know your E major chord already has one block in the middle. So e and b is the y, blah, blah. Right? And now a is similar to the high. And then about 12. Okay. Play with two hands. 234-23-4234. So now you can play this chord progression with all the 4.1 234. Okay? I like to keep my left hand down. While I move. I play the right and up and down. I can play with any rhythm or you can play just twice. 1 234-124-1234 and 1, 2, 3, 4. I can play just 1. 234-123-1234 comes down to the rhythm, right? You choose whatever you want. Okay? Pause the video, try to go through this practice session and make sure that you have all the codes down your fingertips. Then move to the next lesson where we learn the last major chord and put all our 12 major course together. I'm excited we're going through this together. I'll see you in the next lesson. 10. F# Major Chord: Let's take a look at our last major chord. This is the F sharp major chord. The F sharp major chord is quite simple. The formula is that it is all black. Okay? So we've gone through all our 12 major chords. Try to memorize them. C, F, and G are all white. D, E and a have one black in the middle. And the D flat, E flat, a flat, which are the flats of the DNA, has, have one white in the middle. Your B, it's a wide nodes, so it's black, white, white. And your B flat as a black node, has black, white, white. The B is white, so it's white, black, black, K. And then your last major chord, the 12th one, the F sharp, which is all black. Okay, good. So now this is the F sharp, and then all black. Now, if you add $0.02, you're playing with the 13.5, use it and naturally it's fall on that. If you play like this, your fingers will not be evenly spaced once again. So that's your f sharp cord. And then if you add the left-hand to it, that's F sharp. F sharp, Very nice. And if you already, we can just use the F sharp in to just two simple chord progressions. And it will be a wrap for major chords. Okay, so the first chord progression, our practice session, It's an F sharp to a C sharp, B anesthesia. Okay, So F sharp then to the C sharp, which is the same as the D-flat, okay, and the beam. And to back to the C-sharp. Let's add our left hand. So 1, 2, 3 and 4. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4. And 1, 2, 3, 1 more time. 12323123. Okay. Excellent. Pause the video and try to play this chord progression with your own written. Have fun with it. When I show you are playing the right courts. And once you're done, click Play. And let's move on to the next chord progression. Last chord progression. That's less than S, a, B, F sharp, E, and F sharp chord progression. Okay, So be 2 341-234-1234 bytes, one F-sharp. Let me start. Add my right-hand 1, 2, and 3, and 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3. For what? To play it one more time playing with me to stay together. 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4, and back to them. Okay, Excellent work. So now that by completing this, you've been able to play all your major chords, go back through all the chord progressions with lengthen the entire session. And try, try your best to complete all the chord progressions for the major chords. And by doing this, you are just ready to get into the next session where we talk about minor chords are seeing the next one. 11. Let's Move to the Minor Chords: Hi and welcome. Now in this section we'll be looking at our second quartile, which is minor chords. Now, minor chords are formed basically by changing just a single node out of the major chord. So if you haven't perfected or mastered your major chords, I suggest you keep going through the major course until you have them down. And then once you are done, we can get right into the minor chords. Now let's have a look at how to build minor chords. Now. Remember that the major chord had a formula of 135, which meant that you had to take the one, the three, and the five out of the major scale, okay, to form a major chord. Now, the minor chord has a formula of one flat, 3.5 flats. Three means that you'd have to flatten the third node. And by flooding the third nodes, this means that you reduce the third node by a semitone. If it was a sharp three, you'd have to increase it by a semitone. But if it's a fluffy, you reduce it by a semitone. So this ten nodes, I need to reduce it by a semitone by taking it to the left, okay? The chord that, the major chord, C major like that. But now this has to come here, and then it forms a C minor chord. Okay? Excellent. So if we do this though, this means that we don't have any other formula for the minor chords. All we need to do is as long as you know the major, the correspondent major chord, you can easily alter the third to get your minor chord, the F major chord, it's like that. Reduce the fed by semitone like that. Then G major chord. We use a third by a semitone in that order. Okay, so, yeah, I've dropped all the minor chords on your screen. Let's, let's go through them together. So as I said, C major chord reduce the third. That's your minor. F major. Reduce the third. Okay, next one is a sharp major, or a minor, or a B-flat. So that's this one. That's the major, but that's the minor. Okay? And then, uh, D-sharp, or an E-flat, E-flat major, E-flat minor. Then the next one is a G-sharp. That's a major, that's a minor. Now I'm going to play the minor chords directly, okay? That a C-sharp minor. The major, you just dropped that by semitone to get your minor. Next one is F sharp minor. Okay? And then it moves on to a B minor. And then it moves what? E minor. Okay. And then an a minor, and then a D minor to a G minor. And then it comes back to a C minor. Now I'm using a particular chord sequence, which is called the cycle of fourths, fifths. Now, I'm not going to explain this into detail, but this is the cycle, okay? Now, it's called a cycle of fifths because you move e.g. if you start from the top, you see the C over there. So you start, you play a chord on the C. And then if you move clockwise, it move in the right direction. From C are going to go to a G. And C to a G is a fifth, because G is a fifth of C, right? 12345. And then the next one is a D, because D is the fifth of g12 345. Okay? So if you keep moving in the right, you're moving in fifths. But I like to move in the counter clockwise or anticlockwise direction. And this is, this will be the cycle of fourths, okay? So the anticlockwise direction from C, you're moved to F. And F is the force of sigma two. And then from F you move to B flat 12. Okay? So the practice challenge here is that you're going to go through the cycle of fifths. Cycle affords, and count 1234. Each time we are going to play your minor chord, you can start with your major chord. So each new coordinate plane, you can just print out this cycle and use it as a guide. And I like to use this a lot because then I'm not playing chords from C to C sharp and the quota just close to each other, but this is quite spaced out, a bit random. Okay, So let's start. I'll start with a C. So it's written there, but I don't practice them minor chords. So I'm going to use my knuckles throughout. Okay, So 1234 and C to F four and F minor 234, an E-flat minor. For an E-flat minor. Three for the next one is a flat minor, 34, and then flat minor three for a G-flat minor, which is that F sharp minor, and then a minor to an E minor. And then I move on to the a minor. And then a D minor to a G minor. And then see my, okay. It might not, it might not sound musical, but this is a practice cycle, so I want you to pause the video. You don't need to count 1234, but practice your major and minor chords just one core type at the time. Practice them through the cycle of fourths in the anticlockwise direction. And if you're ready, you can just put on a metronome to give you a specified counts. Maybe 50 BPM, 55, 60, dependent on what you are comfortable with. And then try to practice your chords within the cycle. Once you're done, head on to the next session, next topic, where we will go through a number of practice session chord progression. I'll see you in the next one. 12. Practice with major and minor Chords: Hi. We'll be going through a few chord progressions where we'll mix up major and minor chords just to practice a little bit. Okay, so let's look at our first progression. First chord progression is an E minor to C and then an a minor and a D. Okay? So I've made the minor chords red so that you see that it's not your regular major. You need to drop the middle finger to get your minor chord. Okay? So our first chord is E minor chord. That's me. That was a major, that's a minor. And then a C. Okay. Then A-Minor. Okay. So if I take it with my left hand and using the count 1234. Okay. One more time. I just wanted to play like that to get the timing. But if if planar like this is difficult, just leave it and play just once, like 1,234.3. Okay? Excellent. So I want you to pause the video and try to play this chord progression a number of times. And afterwards Let's move to the next chord progression. Now our next chord progression is a D minor, B-flat, G minor. And see, okay, so you don't have to, it shouldn't be that you've practiced this chord progression before. The moment you see it on a chord chart or a lead sheet, you should be able to play it as long as you know the counts. So a D minor, okay, to a B flat major, and then a G minor to C major. Let's try it with both hands and columns. 1.2 and 3412344. Count one more time. Okay, have fun with the light. That same chord progression. We're going to get a lot more into that. And then G minor. Yes. Okay, Excellent. Pause the video and try to complete this chord progression. Let's move on to the next chord progression. Okay, so our next chord progression is a C minor, A-flat major, F minor, and B flat major, okay? So C minor, A-flat major. Then an F minor, B flat major can be good. Go together, one to go, 123 412-342-3421. More time play together and let's pray together. Then after that, you continue afterwards, okay, 343423. Go. So pause the video and then play along, play this chord progression countless times. Make sure you're good with it. And let's try our next and last chord progression for this practice session. So our last chord progression sounds similar to all these chord progressions are actually the same type of chord progression, but they are in different keys. So you realize that every time we play, the sounds somewhat the same, even though we are using different sets of chords. Okay? So in the number system, this would be a 64 to five chord progression. Okay, So if you know that it's a 64 to five chord progression in the different, in different keys. Okay? So B-flat minor minor is a six. So this is, it played in the key of C sharp, D flat, F sharp, B flat minor, E-flat. If you know this, that's perfect. If not, just follow, the courts, will be playing so fastq or D flat. B flat minor to F sharp. Major. E-flat is a minor. Okay? So, and then an a flat major, 1234. Let's go. So B-flat, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 2. And for one more time, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3 and 4. Okay? So try and play the chord progressions that we've studied. Try and play them in every single key. All the four types that we learned. And play around with them, make sure that you, your fingers are very used to some of these courts. And once you're done, head on to the next session, and then I'll see you there. 13. Reading Song Sheets: Hi. In this lesson we'll be looking at how to read song sheets. Now. Sheets are very important for us as singers and songwriters because you want to be able to go online and pull up your favorite songs and start playing them. Alright, so let's look at some of the things that go into reading from song sheets. Okay, So the way the songs, these sheets are structured, requires that you at least know how the song sounds like. You can't be completely alien to the song. So you need to be a little familiar with the song. The difference between that **** in the classical, Oh, **** music written on the grand staff is that those ones come with counts. But this one, you need to know at least how the courts flow. And then somehow the song flows, right? You see an example that I'll put up right now. So happy birthday, Happy birthday to you. We all know how to say this, because I know how to sing happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, dear Kingsley, happy birthday to you. I know how the song is moving. So I can go online and type happy birthday song sheet and something like this pops up. Now if you look at the song sheet right there, you see that the C chord, F fully three chords and the song C, G and F. C, G and F. Alright, so we see that there are only three chords in there. So now let's, let's, let's check this out. If you look on there, you see that the C code is written on top of the B. The G chord is on top of the Zhou. So happy birth. So happy day to day to day. Happy. Day two. You see how it goes so that the song sheets are written such that you have the cord coming right on top, off the top of the word or the lyric, that part of the larynx. So this guides you to know where to place the cards. Sometimes there might not be very accurate and where's blended. But because you have a feel for how the song flows is very easy to figure out how to move with this. Alright, great. So let's take out another example. The first known well, still same PLC. So the first know well, the angels, they say, right, What's this 13 Porsche person feels? I'm saying, Hey, okay. So we see a couple of coarser than the sea. Coal comes on the first. No. No. Well, see that? The email that comes at the end of the Noel know where the shadows day, seeing worst rosters for the day. Okay, so let me try to try to play this with both hands. So the chimps was to pour. Stay. Alright, so you get the idea, you, by just knowing how the song flows and how to move within the squad. The song sheets will be very useful for you who wants to be able to play from the right. So it's, it's very simple to play from some sheets. And I'll encourage all of you to just pick up some sheets from online songs you already know. And hopefully you find some of them in simple keys, which are in the key of C. If you like, you can type your song title and write songs sheets key C. And you see some of these nice simple song sheets coming up which you can always try to get down. Alright, so try a couple of songs online and let me know how that goes. I'll see you in the next lesson. 14. Reading Chord Charts : So now that we know about song sheets, let's take a look at chord charts. Alright. Core charts are a bit similar to the song sheets, but they can come in two different forms. One type is something called a lead sheet. Okay, So how is it structured? One thing about the niches that were the lead sheet, you'd have the melody written in the staff, the treble clef. And you'd have caught written on top of that. This, this, the top part you see this is like half of what you usually see on the ground stuff. So the treble clef and the bass clef, what you see on the sheets, I usually just the treble clef and you see a melody written in there. So this is in the key of G. And you see a melody like, let's, let's, let's, let's ignore the melody there. But these lists lead sheet right here is giving you an idea of the exact location where you put the courts. So it's 34 times signature for this example, because there's 1231231. So the G chord comes on the one half, p123. Just ignore the D7 and play regular D chord. Happy. So happy to have, happy, so happy birthday to you. Happy, bad. To write. Plays a G, Happy birthday, happy to have paper to write. So this gives you a clear indication of where it's located. So if you read accounts like 123123, so even if you didn't, you're not familiar with the song, will be quite easy to just get this and count and move along. So this is an example of that. Now, poplar called chats, which we may get online sometimes will look something like this. Now, in this one, you'd need to pretty much know the song. So this once again, you need to know the song and this also gives an idea of the count. Gives an idea of the account is in a treble clef. So it gives you the key, it's played in the time signature. And you see these trucks there tells you 12341234. So you can see that the G chord comes on two counts. D chord comes on to towns. A cord comes on two counts, and then a B minor, right? So clearly this song is the key of this is muscle. So this gives guess. I just don't want to confuse you with the keys here, but let's just follow the course that are being written there. Okay? So if you play the G chord song, as we say in the key of D, alright? But the key signature written then, just ignore that. 11 flat is not the key signature for the DRI. That'll be two sharps. Okay? So if we try that, It's gonna go G to D, two, a to B minor. Okay, so let's try that. So it's like 1212122. If I play through the whole thing to to to to G, to B minor, to G, a, B minor, G to a. Two. By just, I know the song writes, It goes like the last time. Oh my so worship saying like for the whole name. Alright, so you see that the core chats, knowing how the song flows, it's easy to just go out there. Pick, pick. Go online, Google. Your favorite songs, get there called chats. Play with them. Make sure that you know, of course, the enter key or comfortable in starts with a key of C or edit key you're comfortable with. And play your favorite songs with their core chats. Trust me, this is how you want to grow by playing songs and learn how to play songs using all the tools, tips, and tricks that we discussed in this course. Alright, thank you for joining me in this lesson. I'll see you in the next one. 15. Slash Chords: Hello everyone and welcome to today's lesson. In this lesson, we'll be taking a quick look at slash chords. Now the moment you hear slush course, the first thing that might come to mind is, are these courts that have been slashed? No, it's much simpler than you think. So. Sometimes in music when you're trying to read chord chats or someone writes a sequence, of course for you to play around with. You might encounter chords that look like a letter, a slash OS slanted, slanted letter. So that's what a slash and then another meter. So basically the moment you see that the kind of information you can get from that first, the first letter that is shown as the chord that you're supposed to play. And the letter on the right after the slash S, the base, not all the left-hand nodes. So an easy way for you to remember is think of it as it's been inverted. Okay, So if you see e.g. SRC slash ie, think of it, that is ten the other way around. So the one on the left, you actually going to play it on your right. So it's going to be a C major chord. So the one on the left is a chord and the one that the right as a note is a bass notes. So it may be a single notes or you could double that up. Okay, so it's a C chord and the bass note, the E, you play on your left. Okay? So the moment you play that, you see a C slash e. So the C code will then eBay's not. Okay. If you wanted to sound a little heavier, you can easily make that an octave, right? Whenever you play a note here. Two nodes, same notes. Eighth apart, 121-234-5678. Okay? That's an E octane. So you can just lay a C chord and then the E on the right. Okay, So that's a C slash. Okay, very good. So let's try another slash for e.g. say you see an f slash, a slash chord. Very simple, right? You have an F chord without a acid-base, not an F chord with an a as a base. So that's an F chord without a has a base. That's a right. Very good. Now, what are the slash course not the purpose of slash chords is to pretty much make calls that would have more complex names. Simple. Okay? So they have some courts and right now we add beginner level for trying to land these costs might be very difficult. E.g. if, if say I play a simple slash chord like a C major chord, C slash t, right? That's a C major chord over the d. Okay? So this is a very simple code. If you look at it as a C triad Major columnar right, over a database. But from your screen you can see the very complicated, well, somewhat intermediate level code naming. So this is a DNI sus4. But in order to make this simple for everyone to be able to read on the core track, it'll be written as a C slash d. And that's why you can see on the bottom muscle or the alternative name, slash chords are very, very good and they are able to simplify course as much as possible for anyone who is trying to get into playing the piano, to play them very easily. So that's a very important and something that you should be able to master handling. Okay, we'll take a few others flashcards. So can you try and play a G slash B? G slash B. So once again, that's a G chord with a bean based nodes. Okay? So a G major chord, that's a G Major chord with a B based on right. You can either choose to play it with one finger, like a doublet and write G slash B. We'll try one last symbol slash chord. And I'll be, let's try a d slash, F sharp, okay? So once again, a D major chord, and then F sharp pain is not. Okay. So that's a D major chord with that F sub d slash F sharp. 16. We are the World - Verse: In this lesson, we'll be learning a very simple song. We are the world. I'll take this song in the key of C. I think the original keys E, but we'll take it to the QC for now. So looking at the, He'll see by just looking at this, the first thing I want you to do is to look at the course that are playing up in this song sheets. You see that the C code in there. You'll see that the F chord is in. The G chord is a minor, and then E minor, D minor. And then there's a G chord. That's a special call that the G sus4. And all I want you to do is take the middle finger, the three, and move it up a step. And by that you form the G sus4. So we play that fast. Okay? So I mean, I just threw a challenge to you by just looking at this song sheet. I want you to pause the video, try and see if you can play the chords of the song. And if, once you're done with that, Let's give it a go together. Alright, so let's look at the first core. So the core counts on there. So I'm not really sure how this assignment, but there comes a time when we meet a certain price. So there comes a time when we read a sentence. Right? So that's the first till you see that when we heat a setting called That's how the cord goes. Like it's more of a feeling. I don't want you to bore you too much with how to count them and so on. But it's more about feeling. So there comes a time when we, when the world on the world as an F chord, when the world must come, must come, come. Does a G chord together as one? So like that, right? Let's take the first two lines one more time. There comes a time when we, when the world must come together as bright. But next line, on the people a minor, there are people die. Less. Time to letter. And tonight, the grade as gave tough. Right? So let's take the next two lines, three lines together. There are people, a minor. I want you to pause the video whenever you pick, gets to a point and then try and practice it. Okay. So there are people dying in mind that a right to life, MCC D minor grade, the grade is gave tough. But there you go. Then a few, with a few chords, you've been able to play this whole thing together so that when we play the whole, so the whole virus without singing, right? 17. We are the World - Chorus: Now that you have a firm grip on the vest, let's take a look at the chorus or we are the world. Alright, still same chords we're using here. We see the F chord in there. You see that G coordinate, right? You see the C code in them. Alright? Always good to go through to make sure you know all the courts easily before we tried to do anything else. Then there's an a minor. Then there's an E minor. Alright? There's a D minor. And then there's this chord, which is a slash chord, right? So the f slash G means it's an F chord played on the right. But the bass notes or the left hand as a G. Right? So you can hi there like that. Okay, and then back to C. Let's take this all together. So we are the world. We are the church. They see that the G chord comes before the, We are the children. And if you do the song, you have a fair idea of how it feels, right? So we are, we are, we are the ones. Make it bright eyed day. So last time we can write that as a choice, we make. We save in D minor. And it's true. I compare that day. It's true. Make a bad day for you and me. Write that D minor, make a better day. F over G chord. They were you when you play the F chord and then you put a gene. But you can add that to it as well, right? They can better day for you and me. So this is a very short, the course is very easy. So we are the, we add, We are the C, f, B are the ones to make it brighter day. Make it last. I can write that as a choice. A minor, E minor, D minor, make a better day. You and me, right? I'm going to play with the multiple counsel. When you're playing, make sure you use it that metronome. It's always good to use your timing. Start with 50. Progress from there, right? I'm going to start one more, So we are the right. Let's go to a minor. Swimming in saving lives. It is true. It's true. Make a bad day. You just keep playing that. Let me know how it goes and I'll see you in the next lesson. 18. Heal the World - Verse: Hi. In this lesson we'll be looking at another classic song, heal the world. And this song is going to be in the key of a. So if you are ready, let's get right into it. We'll start with the vest. And if you've not heard this song before, biome is such it up on YouTube. And take a listen before we started dive right into it. This is a very simple song with a few chords. We'll take a look at the course data within the song, very much. So the first chord is a major. If you're playing a song in the key of a major and you are sure that you're going to an, a major chord, most likely, right? So that's your first chord. And then you have the second chord, the minor. So that's a D major doesn't mean mine, right? So basically a major, the B minor, you need to practice these before you even start playing the song. And then a C minus C sharp minor, sorry. Alright, that's what's dominates most of the song. And then there's an e. What I like you to play with this E chord. I want you to play the D minor over the, okay? Though, it's going to go, your right hand is good to go for the various, mostly like a B minor, C-sharp minor. B minor, just like going into 123 to one, right? So the virus goes like this in your heart. And I know that that are at that data, that data there. So we get to that puzzle. Let's add our left hand to it so that pattern to add it. So I left hand on that. You can keep playing the left-hand as a C-sharp. Be more. Instead of going the last chord, you go to the E, but you still keep the same color. You're right, It forms are called chordal seventh SAS to, I don't want to bore you with that level of theory, but Jesse, that you're playing the same D minor chord on the right, but rather on an e, right? So let's take that again. Alright. Alright. Then unless it's over the IV instead. Alright. Then then that's a polygon. There were stick and I'm on the last but one line. There are ways to get there, so there are sticky. If you are in now. A new cord, as Kami has, a D chord, has come in. The key of a. This D chord is called a four chord. So a is the one chord, the minor is a two Chord. C-sharp Minor is a three chord. D is a four chord, is the five chord. F-sharp minor is this x squared, right? So it goes there. Why is taken? If you care enough, right? So let's take it up on it. So there are, sorry, there are ways to get, if you care enough, back to the C sharp minor, make embedding, space, making man, right? So just keep practicing this and once you get the hang of it, join me in the next lesson as we take the chorus of the song, I'll see you there. 19. Heal the World - Chorus: Alright guys, so let's take a look at the chorus for you. The world, right, in the key of a. So for the chorus, I mean, similar calls we've used. Think the only new code that will becoming in here will be the F sharp minor chord, and that's the F sharp major. That's your F sharp minor. Alright, so let's, let's take a look at the courses. So either one, make it a better place, B minor, you and for me and the enzyme but today, alright, and then there are people, so the core comes there. There's an E chord, and then it goes straight to the F sharp minor, right? So for, for, for, for you, for you and for me as the human race, if it counts as 12341. So you play that G chord on the fourth count and then it moves to the one she abandoned, raise their people die. Right? So let's take a look. So there are people in C-sharp minor that a D minor make up for you and for me. So once again, E chord here. I'm keeping my D minor on by rights over the night. Let's take that part one more time. Whereas the sorry, but to the E, and then F sharp minor, C-sharp minor, D, back to the C-sharp minor. Minor. All right, when you're practicing this, because it's good to practice them slowly. So here, make it a B minor, right? 31 thing, one thing. I talk about what you want to move in this course, if you are a very useful that you want to play, like to pray, May kid. And I'm using my sustain pedal here, down here, which you can't see. But that's what's actually helping. The same status here that so let's take a look. So making boy went from me and the blend is slow people down. If you can. Make a man. And right. Excellent. So this is a simple song. A few chords don't be bothered with records. All it takes us started looking at the song, looking at the court's practicing the individual cost before you start to take it again. But it's important to listen to the song, to have a good feel of how the song goes. Alright, so, yes, practice and let me know how it goes. And I'll see you in the next session. 21. Theory Bite - Chord Inversions: Hi. In this lesson we'll be looking at something very, very important in playing the piano. And this is, these are called inversions. I'm pretty sure you've heard about them before. But in this lesson we're going to demystify what chord inversions or make it easy for you to start applying them in your sum. Let's get right to it. So chord inversions, we need to let us know what they are before we start to even apply them. It's just taken a chord and flipping it, right. Let's see how they are formed. Now. Let's say you have a C chord, write a simple C code. Now, if I take the bottom note and take it up here, if I take this bottom node and take it up here, what I've done is I've just inverted or flipped the chord so such that the bottom is no longer the roots. In this case, if you play this chord, played it this way is called a root position. So this thump on the C, The C is the root of the chord. That's why it's called the C chord. And if I take the route up, then the cord is no long as still a C chord. C, still a C chord. But it's looking different because it has been inverted. So it's a C chord but inverted no longer than root position. Alright? In the same way, if I take this one here again and flip it one more time, There's still a sequence because the main components of the code has not changed. You have the C, the E, and the G That hasn't changed at all, right, so remains exactly the same. No matter how I play it, the so-called secret. Let's do a little experiment. If I keep my left hand here on the roots, you see that even if I change the code written on your screen, still says it's a C chord. All right? So this is how called inversion is formed. So this first one plate here, which we've already always been playing is called a root position. And the moment I take the lowest note up, it's called the first inversion of the C chord. Alright, if I do it one more time, It's called second inversion of the sequence. Now if I do one more time, you realize that it comes back to the root position, right? Same here. So that means that C has the root position and then two inversions, first inversion and second inversion. Alright? So there you go. The C, the root position, CEG, first inversion, second inversion, right there. Okay? So while a quick tip, I want to point out is that if the number of inversions, of inversions of that can be formed out of a chord is equal to n minus one m bit tricky there. But what I'm trying to say is the number of nodes that are in the chord. So e.g. the C chord has three nodes. All triangles have three nodes. So if it has three nodes, that it has three minus one inversion. So that means it has two inversions. So that's why the C chord has root position and two inversions. And the moment you try to form a third inversion, it comes back to the root position. So now if we're, if we're experiments with a chord that has four nodes, you see that I call that has four nodes, will have three inversions. So let's try an example like a C dominant seven chord. If you don't know this going, that's fine. We are using this for academic purposes only. So the C dominant seven, C7 chord is formed line that you have this one to that, okay? If this has four nodes, so according to our theory, it should have three inversions. So this is the root position. First inversion will be formed if I take the lowest notes up here. So this is still, still, let's see, C7 chord. So let me start here as the root position. Then. You can do this with me. First inversion, second inversion, third inversion. So according to our theory, has four notes, so it has been nice to have three inversions. Let's see if we can find a fourth inversion. The moment we tried to make a 40 version out of it, it goes back to the root position. So this is what we are talking about. A chord with four notes has three inversions, accord with three nodes, has two inversions, and so on. Alright, so let's, let's, let's try and invert some more colors. Let's take a simple chord like the F, F major chord, F AC. Okay? So let's, let's invert it. So that's the root position. First inversion, second inversion, and then back to reposition. Alright, let's try on escorted deed MAY Jacquard, right? So that's root position. First inversion. Second inversion. Batteries position. Now when it comes to the inversions, I don't restrict you to using the thumb, the middle finger, the pinky. I don't restrict you to that. So in inversion, you can just use anything else that's feel comfortable. I usually would use like them. 12.5, right? In this case, 12.4 feels comfortable for my thing as right, and back to root position. Okay, let's try an invert an, a minor chord, right? So a major minor, a minor chord, that's root position. First inversion, second inversion. Back to root position. The C7 chord, which we already inverted. Early on. Pickup some courts. You already use, try to invert these courts and play around with them. Take the chord, you play the root position, first inversion, second inversion, and so on. And so that when we start to use inversions, misled you invert chords to sound mice. You can follow us as we go along. Thank you for joining me in this lesson. I'll see you in the next one. 22. All Of Me (John Legend) - Verse: Hi. In this lesson we'll be looking at another popular song, all of me by John Legend, novel original key for the song is G-sharp. But as beginners, I want us to take it down to G. So that of course, are much easier to navigate through because G scale has more white keys, right? So if you excited to get into this lesson, let's get right to it. Now. Let's look at the course for the virus. Alright. Starts with an E minor chord. That there's an E minor chord that doesn't see and there's a G. And then this goes on repeatedly for a long time. Alright. So let's start with this. I would suggest that we use called inversions because the South a lot better. Alright, So when you play the D and the E chord, for the C chord, we're going to take this little finger up. It gets to the C chord. Just learned them the way they are. Then we move along. Alright, so D minor, E minor, this, it gets into the GI, drop that down and talk this down as a G chord that we could use a root position D, right? The intro of the song, actually the various sounds, something like alright, so sounds like I'm slowing it down. All right. The original key, G-sharp, it wouldn't be. So if you're interested in linens and orange Nike, you just got to pay it from there. All right. Let's take it into here. That'll give you alright. So so satellite faultline, Mr. Ray Rice. Then it goes to the right. So it's the whole verse pretty much goes the same. Well, I don't know how to sing it. Well, that well, but the whole it just keeps going. I just keep going. I'm going to the last line. G, a minor, right? Alright, so that's where it goes to. It goes to a pre-chorus. Alright, so just keep practicing this pattern. Once you already good with it. Everything similar chord progression until the A-Minor has Bartleby. I had sound. So if it gets to this point, Yes. When you're good with it, join me in the next lesson as we take the pre-chorus. Alright. 23. All Of Me (John Legend) - Chorus: Look at that pre-chorus of the song. So very simple chord progression, a minor. My hands. Read it. Right breast and we'll go a minor, G, D, back to the a minor. Subtle pattern there, right. I'm not getting so much into the parties just to be able to get you playing the song in a very fast, quick, and easy way, right? So beyond my hair. Braided fun reading, Right? That's pretty much the whole core at the pre-chorus, the first part on pre-chorus actually. And then we go, we move into the chorus, pre-chorus, chorus because it's quite short and then that comes in. It goes to cost me bonds. You love your knowledge, your Alejo. G, The me. So the courts are quite straightforward because all loves E minor, a minor, G, C, and then D. I'm not going to bother you with inversions anymore. I just prefer for that chorus part, right? Gay gave you, owe to me. I gave to you right? Now we move to the next part. So I gave you all to hear that. Right? Then. Then when it plays, this part's done. You just go, go right into the very popular because I gave you, owe me. So he said a chord progression, E minus C, G, D. So ago I gave you that data. Keeping come back to you. A lot more dramatic, right? Yeah, I think that's, that's pretty straightforward. It's a very straightforward song, which if you pick it up, you should be able to play it very easily. Alright? Just keep practicing the song in this key. Take your time, take the calls one after the other. And once you are good with it, jumping to the next session. And let's take a look at another song. I'll see you there. 24. 1-2-3-2 RH Pattern: Hi, So in this section we'll be talking about patterns. Now if you want to make your sound a bit more interesting, you want to try and explore our patterns. Increasing intro and outro, printing the entire song structure. Many songs have been done with patterns. Alright, so let's get right into it as we explore some patterns that you can add to your fingertips to make your sound amazing. Let's get right into it. So I'll bring up the keyboard here and we start expiring patents right away. The first pattern type now like to talk about is what I call the one-two-three to pattern. The 1232 patterns, or pattern is, well, first of all, let's choose our chord progression, which is simple chord progression, which we are, we've all grown to love. In this course. 64159. Keep choosing the same chord progression so that we can easily move along. I don't want to be introducing new chord progressions that you have to have some kind of learning curve to get used to it. And then we, before you move on, so we choose this chord progression, you get used to it and then we used to explain most of the stuff we're doing. Okay, Now, once you use a one-two-three to pattern, now what I have done here is I see this chord progression. The notes in the chord has three, it has three nodes. So these are triads. So I'm seeing them as 123. I'm not seeing them like 135 of the chord and so on. Just see the notes as they lie down. The one is the lowest note, the two is the middle node, and the three is the top. Because if I change the color to that, this would be one. This would be three, even though they are 3A5 and one in accordance on That's not what I'm talking about. 1232 here means the lowest middle. So in this instance, it wants to play one to 32 is going to move 123123. Okay? So what this means is that if I were to play a chord progression, 123, okay, for the play. But the pattern is really sound like you play it twice. 123-22-3232, right? Accord just changed. But a partner stays the same. Let me slow down for you. So the next goal, try and play along. Next card, storage. Now, let's live their left hand in there slowly then we speed it up. Usually sounds a lot better when you spit it out. Let's try so. Alright, so let's speed it up. My tip is always used quite inversions this out a little backyard. If I can play this in root position. Like this, doesn't sound as good as you hear that Assad Islam moving very much around the same place, It's more cohesive. Alright, so try this 1232 parts and when you get used to wait, then move on to the next lesson. Let's take a look at another pattern, right? See you there. 25. 3-1-2-1 RH Pattern: Hi. Now let's look at another popular pattern in music, right, on piano music. This I call the three one-to-one pattern. Okay, So how, how do we go about this? Just like we did for the the 1232 parts, and this is going to be 3121. So let's choose a chord progression. We're going to do the one, the one in the key of C. I'm starting with the C code, which is why I'm choosing this inversion of the sequence, does a one. So this is 123. So I'm going to play, if I'm played 312 and patterns going to play more like top, bottom, middle, bottom, right. So start practicing like this until you get used to it. Okay, so now that we have the pattern, now let's try with our production. This is going to be this one chord. And this is the two chord, D minor, E minor, F major. We take it down here like that. Okay, If you'd like, you could do. But I think it's better to me because I'm trying to mimic certain sound. This was what was used in, this pattern was used in Halo, right? By B and C and that's, it starts ticking together unless yeah, this has been assigned. Right? So let's take the first chord. If we use that 32. So let's call it, let's call it sculpted the f. Alright, so let's make it faster. Okay? Now let's take the left hand together with its alright, so now for those who wants to know how to be able to play the actual intro of BRC saw halo, this exact thing was done in the key of a, right? So it was a startswith somewhere here. So it starts with this a chord. Then it moves to the D minor chord. And then it comes to this A-Minor chord, sorry, F sharp minor chord, and then the D major chord. Okay? So if you're not almost done with this, just skip right to the next lesson. But if you want to learn this in the original alkene, we can try that. So that's the egg code goes. Okay, So it goes sunlight. So Reiser has some lines in there. Alright, so that's how you use some of these patterns to make your sound interesting. Then this pattern can be applied to any chord progression at all, one by six. So all you have to do is to take the chord progression, decide. You're going to use the spots and practice a little bit and move it around. And you can start to sing along with it, to perform with it on the fly. Alright, thank you for joining me in this lesson. I'll see you in the next one. 26. Someone Like You - Verse: Hi, there. In this lesson we'll be looking at another popular song, someone like U by Dell. The song is in the key of a. Alright, so excited to get to it. Let's start with a song. Alright, so key of a. And now we're going to lighten something patterns. Alright? So this uses a pattern I will call 1232. So it plays the first node, second node, third node, and then comes back to the second node right? Here. We're going to use this over the entire chord progression. Alright? So this verse, well, most of the salt, the various goals like an egg. That's your first score, right? The a chord. And then now you have a C-sharp minor chord. So that's a C-sharp, right? But we have the over the, over the G base, G-sharp. On my screen you see a flat by G sharp and a flatter, the same thing. Alright, so what we'll do is we're gonna take this G-sharp at the top and keep it in the bottom. So if the base right, so you're right on, corporate is going to be like this. A major chord and then the C-sharp minor chord. And then, well, it's supposed to be an F sharp minor chord organ just going to play the F sharp, F sharp, the fifth, and the octave, right? That's how it was played in the song itself, right? Alright, though. And then we come to the D major chord. Alright, so if you look, look on that song sheet, you see that the first two lines are repeated several times. So you're going to use the pattern plates, then place a full speed anyhow, sounds like write that as soon as I hit. Okay, so you're going to practice this to nascar. Nascar. That's good. Right? So it goes like I said, till now. If you know that song, I mean, don't mind how I'm singing it, but it goes something like that. You get, you get the idea. So yeah, you play that through the whole thing. You see that it repeats itself. And then it goes down to, yeah, similar chord progression until we get into the pre-chorus. Alright, so I want you to practice this various, several times. Take, take your time. Go. We add our left hand. They just keep. This will take a little bit of practice to master and perfect. And you know that by just knowing a few chords you put up together at these patterns and so on and you're playing, apply hits, and it's that easy. Alright, so once you're ready and you feel comfortable with a vast, let's get right into the chorus. 27. Someone Like You - Chorus: Now let's take a look at the chorus for someone like you. Before that there's a pre-chorus which will take before we enter the course. So it's the same pattern, but the chord changes slightly. So there's an E chord which is introduced that, yes, a regular E major chord right? Now, what did you just play with this inversion of the E chord? The first inversion. Take them. Button notes, take it up. And then over there you can play with your family or indexing and then the pinky, right? So it goes the ad that you're going to play the E and then the F sharp minor like that. And then F sharp minor, and then same D major we're using, right? And then this repeats again. So F sharp, D, E, F sharp and D just a single notes difference. The sun is down here. So again, back to that yet. All right, So let's take it together with enough time. Slowly. It goes a bit faster so I want to write. And then when it comes to that, the last lecture, last line, F sharp minor. And D. When it goes to the Edison over, plays a sharp mind and then we'll move into the chorus. So the course is very similar to the intro where you play the, right. By this time, it's not playing that C-sharp minor of a flatter G-sharp going into the econ, a five chord, right? So how, how is this being used? So you've just got to play. Instead of playing. You're going to play, which is that eversion of the riser, that bag. So the way I'm using the F sharp minor, just go like that. You can choose to use the proper F-sharp minor causal one, the a, E, and then F sharp minor, right? I thought I'd never thought I'd find someone like you won. It's a bit difficult to sing and play this at the same time, I need to practice a bit because I don't really, I'm not really converse out and lyrics of the song, but they get the whole field. Let me play it displayed without saying it. Keeps girls on and on and on. And that's pretty much the whole song because it goes, never thought, I'd never thought I'd find someone like, I wish nothing but it's always good to play the chords with a song before he started playing that pattern. I wish nothing but don't flowing again name. Remember you saying sometimes, sometimes, sometimes the last write. So just take this and by playing this, you're pretty much on your way to play in this whole song. Practice it over and over again. It's a very simple but beautiful song to play with. That's your fingers are going to get used to these kind of patterns. Let me know how it goes. I'll see you in the next lesson.