Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
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 [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on Apr 16th, 2008
When you can see a pattern in the bass notes, you can then recognize a chord progression (or a pattern of chords) a whole lot easier.
For example, the chords on the right hand in the sample progression in my previous post (“Changing The Bass Notes (part 2)”) may seem rather random, but the bass notes [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on Apr 12th, 2008
In fact, by combining the 3 basic chords on the right hand with different bass notes on the left hand, you can pretty much get all the chords you need for most songs (not all, of course).
Here is a very common ‘chord progression’ (or a pattern of a series of chords) used in many songs [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on Apr 11th, 2008
This is a really useful ‘trick’. Well, at least I think so myself.
Most of the time when we play a chord on the right hand, the left hand would accompany that with a bass note (or octave) that corresponds directly to the chord. For example, when you play a C chord with your [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Apr 10th, 2008
Basically there are 2 parts in this song – the verse and the chorus.
For the verse, the chords progress from Chord I to Chord V, then to Chord –I (minus-one), then to Chord IV. After that, simply repeat this chord progression (I, V, -I, IV) until you reach the chorus.
The chorus has a slightly different [...]
