Piano Cheats

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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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