Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Church songs, Songs on May 11th, 2008
This song by Chris Tomlin is a good example to illustrate our Chord Mixing trick (See “Chord Mixing (part 1)” and “Chord Mixing (part 2)” posts).
The whole song can be simplified to the following chord pattern:
I –> VIm –> IV –> V
That is, Chord I followed by Chord VIm, followed by Chord IV, and then [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on May 11th, 2008
If you remember “the 3 minor chords”, and how we play them by substituting them with the 3 basic chords, and simply combining each of these 3 basic chords with a different bass note, then the summary is as below:
Chord VI m = Chord I (right hand) + Bass 6 (left hand), i.e., the “la” [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on May 11th, 2008
This is about playing 2 different chords alternately while playing the same bass note(s). And the technique comes in very handy quite often.
In general, this is how I mix chords…
When the chord you are supposed to play is Chord I, you may mix Chord V to it, i.e.,
Chord I ( + Chord V )
Similarly, you [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks on May 7th, 2008
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 [...]
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 [...]
