Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Cheat Theories on Mar 21st, 2008
Honestly, you don’t have to know about inversions to play a song. However, being familiar with the different inversions of a chord will be extremely useful for your hand’s movement, from one chord to another.
There are 3 different inversions for a chord. These are called the root position, the 1st inversion and the 2nd inversion.
The [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on Mar 20th, 2008
One thing I didn’t mention on “The 3 Basic Chords” post is that, to play a song using chords, usually the chords are played with the right hand, while the left hand plays the “bass” notes.
A question one may ask is, “then with which hand is the melody played?” There are 2 answers to this [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories on Mar 19th, 2008
This may be surprising to some people, but in fact most songs can be played with just 3 chords! The 3 chords are the I, IV and V chords of any key.
For example, in the key of C, these 3 chords are:
I - C,
IV - F, and
V - G.
If we were in the key of [...]
