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Improvising Sus2

Sus2 are usually used only on Chord I and Chord IV, so there is no need to learn Sus2 for other chords in a scale.
So if you play in the C scale, all the sus2 chords you need to know are only C2 and F2.
And this is how you can play C2 and F2 with [...]

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Suspension (part 2)

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 [...]

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Red Piano

It has been more than a week since I last blogged!
I have been very busy with work, traveling to Kuala Lumpur (the capital of Malaysia) and Phnom Penh (the capital of Cambodia) in the last 10 days. Will be back to Phnom Penh again tomorrow, and I am now in Seam Reap, the place famous [...]

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Jamie Cullum

I don’t know how many of you know about him.
The first time I saw Jamie Cullum was on TV a few years ago when he was playing before the Queen.
Have taken note of his albums since.
Here are a couple of videos of Jamie Cullum that are really awesome from YouTube. If you appreciate talents, [...]

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Improvising Sus4

Note: I have cut-and-pasted the following text from my earlier version of “Suspension (part 1)” post, so that each of my postings will not appear under more than 1 category (Now, “Suspension (part 1)” is under the “Cheat Theories” category, and “Improvising Sus4” is under the “Cheat Tricks” category). At the same time, I have [...]

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