Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Cheat Theories on May 30th, 2008
There is no such chord as an M Chord. The ‘M’ here actually stands for “the middle note”. And it’s not new. In fact, we have used that before in Chord I, IV and V. Let’s see:
The middle note of a C major chord is the E note, because the E note is the middle [...]
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 [...]
