5 Fancy Piano Chord Hacks to Transform a Simple Triad
Make plain major and minor chords sound far more beautiful and exciting with 5 fancy chord-playing styles on the piano. Jason Zac from Nathaniel School of Music teaches 5 fancy chord-playing styles that spice up simple triads and make them sound far more interesting — useful across country, pop, gospel, rock and folk. Each technique takes a plain triad or a long-held chord and embellishes it, covering grace notes, hammer-ons, rich voicings with clusters and spread inversions, and Plagal passing chords. By the end you'll have a toolkit of flamenco chords, double grace notes, spread and fifth-voiced pop chords, clusters and more to bring your harmony to life. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 ============================= 📹 Our Video Courses (Everything for Life Bundle) ➡️ https://learn-music.nathanielschool.com/ 🎹 Piano Courses & Private Lessons ➡️ https://piano.nathanielschool.com ============================= ▶️ Related Lessons & Playlists 🎵 Music Theory lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/PianoTheory 🎹 All our lessons on Chord Inversions (Playlist) ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrNNL05e9FT9ygtrGwGFmfyvMyGWH52EC 👂 Ear Training lessons ➡️ https://geni.us/EarTraining ============================= 🎓 Learn Music with Nathaniel School of Music & Jason Zac ➡️ https://nathanielschool.com 📚 All our YouTube lessons (1000+) by skill level, topic & genre ➡️ https://learning-portal.nathanielschool.com ============================= 💰 Donate on PayPal ➡️ https://geni.us/DonatePayPal 📸 Instagram ➡️ https://instagram.com/jasonzac 📞 Call +91 98454 65411 · 💬 WhatsApp chat +91 77604 56847 📧 Customised & Private Classes ➡️ music@nathanielschool.com 🎧 Listen to Jason Zac Music ➡️ https://riffs.jasonzacmusic.com/ #PianoChords #ChordVoicings #PianoLesson Chapters 00:00 Five ways to embellish simple piano triads 04:06 Guitar-like rolled chord attacks 04:57 Land the final note on the beat 06:18 Practise with the right hand 06:57 Bring in the left hand 08:10 Country-style hammer-on approach 10:19 Apply the grace note to different inversions 12:24 Keep the melody above the chord 13:38 D major, A major and G major phrase 15:13 Double grace-note approach 18:20 Combine the embellishment techniques 18:39 Pop-style spread voicings 21:22 Right-hand fifth chord over changing bass 22:45 Cluster chords with extra second or fourth 24:23 Plagal passing chords over a held bass 27:48 Minor-plagal colour 28:43 Recap the five approaches
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