5 Simple Ways to Make Your Chords Colourful without Extensions
Introducing 5 techniques to add colour and make simple triads (Major & Minor) more beautiful using simple but effective Piano Voicing techniques. Also, learn tips and tricks to make each voicing stand out using 5 popular songs. The 5 methods are Fifth Chords, Add Chords, Slash Chords, Spread Voicing, Quartal & Quintal voicing. 🏫 Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ➡️ https://forms.gle/fsbhFKSgJbZ5xZEr8 00:00 - Performance 01:41 - Colourful chords without Extensions 03:00 - Out of the Box Theory 03:41 - The styles of music we’ll use through the lesson 04:15 - D Major - Essential Theory 04:58 - The Static Fifth Chord 05:46 - Advantages of Fifth Chords 06:20 - Open Chords for Stringed Instruments 06:57 - Amazing Grace 07:37 - Everglow - Coldplay 07:56 - You Raise me up 08:25 - I’ll Fly Away 08:43 - Adding Perfect 5ths to the Left Hand 09:51 - Adding the 3rd 11:02 - The Banjo & Guitar ecosystem 12:08 - 2nd Method - Add Chords 13:17 - Arpeggiating the Add Chords 13:59 - Adding the 4 16:28 - Method 3 - Slash Chords 19:05 - Amazing Grace with Slash Chords 21:49 - Slash Chords in the Real World 23:37 - Method 4 - Open Voiced or Spread Voicing 25:06 - Spread Chord with some songs 27:52 - The “Textbook” Method 28:53 - Quartal & Quintal Chords 33:04 - In a Nutshell ============================= 📹 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/ #PianoVoicings #PianoChords #SlashChords
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