Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Cheat Theories on Mar 31st, 2010
First of all, thanks to ‘pianolover’ for his/her comment on “The Minus-One Chord” post. The following is my reply to his/her question about when to use that chord. I hope it can be useful for everyone…
“I often use Minus-1 in place of 7th chord, in transition from Chord I to Chord IV.
For example, in the [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on May 30th, 2008
There is no such chord as an M Chord. The ‘M’ here actually stands for “the middle note”. And it’s not new. In fact, we have used that before in Chord I, IV and V. Let’s see:
The middle note of a C major chord is the E note, because the E note is the middle [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on May 29th, 2008
In “The 3 Basic Chords” post, we learned the following 3 chords:
Chord I – i.e., the I major chord
Chord IV – i.e., the IV major chord
Chord V – i.e., the V major chord
Then, in “The 3 Minor Chords”, we learned the following 3 chords:
Chord IIm – i.e., the II minor chord
Chord IIIm – i.e., the [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on May 7th, 2008
I have talked about Sus4 and how to improvise it with the 3 basic chords earlier. Sus2 is another form of suspension that can also be improvised with the 3 basic chords.
Let’s take a C chord (C Major chord) as example. A C-Sus2 chord is usually written as C2.
For a C chord, we play the [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on Apr 19th, 2008
There are 2 types of suspended chords I know. There may actually be more but I only know 2 types. Anyway, you won’t want to learn too many chords playing the cheat way.
These 2 types of suspension I know are Sus2 and Sus4. I will come to Sus2 another day, and only [...]
