Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Jul 26th, 2008
Have you ever played a song, a complete song, without having to change chord? Here is your chance… I call this video illustration the “lazy” version!
For those who are interested to know how the one “chord” on the right hand came about, please read on.
The progressions for the verse and chorus are the same, i.e.,
I [...]
等 — 陈百强
I have simplified the playing of this song so that you only need to use 3 fingers to play it. In fact, in this case, it is even not necessary to learn what chords to play or what the word “chord” means! The notes to play are quite clearly shown on the video. [...]
It should be quite simple to just follow the video above. However, if you want to know more about the chords and chord progressions, please read on.
The verse may be divided into 2 parts as below:
(1) I –> IV/1 –> I –> I/M –> IV –> V4 –> V –>
(2) IV/M –> IV –> I/M [...]
Let’s start with the video illustration….
I did not include the intro to the song in this video, but if you are interested, the progression for the intro goes like this…
I –> IV –> I –> III4 –> III
The song is in the key of E. The above is translated therefore as:
E –> A –> E [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Jul 23rd, 2008
Before I go into a lengthy explanation of how I play this song, let’s watch the video illustration…
There are 2 parts in the verse. The 1st progression goes like this:
I –> V/7 –> VIm –> VIm/5 –> IV –> V –> I
Can you see the pattern in the bass? The bass simply walks down the [...]
