Piano Cheats

Jul 26th, 2008 by admin

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 –> IIm7 –> IV –> V

With a little bit of tweaking, that can be turned into…

I –> IIm7 –> IV2 –> V4
Please see “Suspension (part 2)” for IV2 and “Suspension (part 1)” for V4.

Now, if we were to improvise the IIm7 with a major chord, then we get…

I –> IV2/2 –> IV2 –> V4

Please see “The 3 Minor Chords” post for the improvisation if you don’t already know how.

This song is in the key of E. So the above is translated into…

E –> A2/F# –> A2 –> B4

The chords, E, A2 and B4 have these 2 notes in common: B note and E note. That what makes up our one “chord” in the video (the right hand).

The bridge goes like this…

IIm7 –> I/M –> IV –> V

If you don’t know what “M” is, please refer to “The M Bass” post.

In the E key, that progression is translated into…

F#m7 –> E/G# –> A –> B

Again, with some tweaking, we can turn that into…

A2/F# –> E/G# –> A2 –> B4

That’s all.

on 10 Jan 2009 at 11:18 pm1kk

this is greatt!! thankss aloot!
god bless
on 29 Sep 2009 at 11:51 am2mimi

well sorry but i cant read wat notes your playin i also wanna learn the shortcuts to this song but i cant cause its to hard to read and understand so can u plz email to me wat they are cause i am very confused….
on 30 Sep 2009 at 2:05 pm3admin

Hi mimi, I don’t have any notes that I can email you. All I have are on the post of the song on my blog already, that is, the video and the chords to play. Thank you for visiting the site. I will let you know if I come across the notes somewhere.
on 19 Mar 2010 at 1:02 am4margot Santos

Hlello , Everybody GoodMoring
I need help show me the chords how to play it on the piano pls ?
on 19 Mar 2010 at 10:14 am5admin

Hi, the chords are written there, aren’t they?
As for what notes to play for each chord, you can refer to reference sites on the web. One such site is http://www.zebrakeys.com/resources/reference/virtualpianochords/
I hope this helps.

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