Ease comes in many forms. Personally I like the ones that sound good best, but that's just me ๐ . Sometimes the difficulty lays in finding that which is in the end turns out to be easy. Strip the whole shebang down to what's actually essential. Effective. And sometimes that leaves you with just 4 different notes for an entire verse.
Their (changing) mutual harmonic relationship is what is important though. That is what counts. That is what's valuable. Keeping that in mind, thisย weeks tutorial, however easy it may be, teaches us many chord-skill refining lessons actually, amongst which:ย
- Effective voicing; stripping down and how playing lesser notes (e.g. NOT all the notes of the chord) can sound great.
- Building up; both by adding (back) more notes of the chord and voicing / inverting 'em different higher up the keyboard.
- Substituting a chord for another (or adding in an extra one) to dramatize / deepen / ease the sound and feel (or just to add some nice variation).
- How to play a right hand melody, and some options to accompany it with the left.
Have fun! Cheers, Coen.
All skills, tricks, tips, techniques and knowledge from this- and all other lessons @ thisย website are taken and can be learnt from my book / course โHack the Pianoโ โ The unconventional shortcut method to truly understand music and the piano.
Really good, please can you add Holding onto Heaven and Let It Go For Tonight by Foxes.
Thanks ๐
Thanks Sally! My list of 'to make' songs is REALLY long, but I'll see what I can do!
Cheers, Coen.