Showing posts with label chord theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chord theory. Show all posts

Know Your Chord Vocabulary

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        Photo Credit: FreeDigital Photos I wrote an article awhile back called, "How To Play The Piano Without Music." Lo...

How to Add Tritones

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So, we've been looking at reharmonization for awhile. Let's continue. Because the tritone occurs only in the dominant chord ...

Learn Altering Chords

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Image via Wikipedia  Learning Altered Chords The main purpose of altering chords is to increase the effectiveness in a progression. A...

How To Play Common Progressions In Gospel Music

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Image via Wikipedia There's common progressions in gospel music that correspond with the numeric scale/ chord degrees. For example: 7_...

Finding Thirteenth Chords On The Keyboard

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Image via Wikipedia Of all the common chords, thirteenths are the biggest - and the hardest to visualize on the keyboard . Any given type of...

How To Play a Blues Scale

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Image via Wikipedia Surfing around the web this week, I was thinking a lot about blues scales and I found an interesting article that talke...

Common Chord Progressions

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Chord progressions are just a way to get the harmony to support the melody. In any key, if your melody sticks to the key you are in then the...

Learn Chord Theory

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There are courses aimed at teaching you everything you need to know to play chords by ear. From major, minor, diminished, and augmented to m...

2-5-1 Progression

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If you listen to music, you've definitely heard a "2-5-1" progression. They are found in just about any type of music --- reg...

Getting Started with 2- 5- 1 Chord Progression

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If you listen to music, you've definitely heard a "2-5-1" progression. They are found in just about any type of music --- reg...

== SUSPENDED CHORDS ==

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Suspended chords leave you hanging in mid air. They create suspense or anticipation. They sound and feel as though they should be resolved. ...