Welcome to LearnColorPiano.com on RU-vid. My name is Greg Lee and I want to share with you a creative and fun approach to piano and keyboard playing that will have you hooked for life. If you're like me and took piano lessons as a child, you spent a few years playing baby pieces and nursery rhymes. Then you got really bored waiting on your piano instructor to teach a real way to play real music. You know, the stuff you heard on the radio. The songs that moved you.
Unfortunately, you gave up piano lessons before that ever happened. The truth is, it was never going to happen. Traditional piano lessons have always been oriented towards classical repertoire. You don't learn to play anything unless it's a written piece of music and there's really no room for interpretation or improvisation. Learning to play an instrument should be a fun and growing experience. If it isn't, you'll lose interest fast. Visit www.learncolorpiano.com for more details.
I've watched many videos about the circle of fifths. Happy to say that I fully understand it, finally. That being said, this guy is not a good teacher. His intentions are good but his execution is poor. If you're a total beginner, I'd avoid this video if you want to learn about the circle of fifths.
WHAT? Only 17.4 thousand subs? You deserve 17, 4 million at least! After many other tutorials that I checked I finally found you: explaining so intelligently, clearly and finally also telling some facts that nobody else didn't. Subscribed immediately.
Wondering if you can answer this question- on the first harmonization, I’m wondering what would be the reasoning for choosing the chords over the melody? Say you were the first person to invent the Happy Birthday melody and you were harmonizing this song for the first time, how would you choose the chords? Sometimes the melody note falls on the 5th of the chord, sometimes the root, sometimes the third. Sometimes the melody note won’t be one of the chord notes at all, but can have a 9th relationship to the chord , or can form a seventh chord if it (the melody note)were the root. How does one intuitively choose the correct chord?
Hi norakat, Good question. At the most basic level, harmonizing any melody is going to derive from the primary chords. (the I IV and V chords of the key you're playing in) You'll find that these 3 chords contain every note of the key (combined of course) you're playing in. This is what allows you to use one or more of them to harmonize a song. Beyond these primary chords, you can use extended chords to harmonize the melody notes as long as the melody notes fits in the chords you're using.
@@LearnColorPiano Can I ask one more - In the first harmonization example, you played a G chord 2nd inversion again (the third chord @ 2:05) when the melody hits an A note (which is the 6th note in the scale). The A note is not even part of the G chord, nor has any third interval relationship to it, so how do you know intuitively that it will work? It seems to harmonize well, and the flow of the chords make sense going back between 1 and 5 but the harmonic relationship between A and the G chord is not obvious.
New subscriber here. Wow! You're great!! I just stumbled on your video about inversion and it was easy to follow. Thank you ao much. I really need someone to explain piano things in a simplest way. Hehe. So thankful I found your videos. God bless you.
Here's another "teacher" talking advanced beginner (2-hands independent) to people who don't know what a chord is, barely know what a major scale is, and don't have the faintest idea about the use of numbers. That's just for starters. Attempt to "teach" at this level where people have not the slightest bit of music theory in their minds. Disgusting. And RU-vid is chockful of this type of "teaching". There should be a special area set aside for this type of teaching. Call it "Musical Tidbits." Of course it could be laid out in pattern form (the whole of piano education) so people coming to piano could see exactly the level they were interested in and not get themselves in over their heads, or not waste time.
I totally disagree with teachers who teach way above the heads of their students. This guy talks to people who actually don't know their scales, don't know names of any chords, etc. In short, people who have no foundation. So typical of people who want to teach intermediates or advanced, and have no patience for true beginners. So many Internet piano teachers fit this pattern. Sad! This guy is teaching the basics of composition to people who don't know the first thing about music theory.
Absolutely. The minor keys work the same way. And let me add, even though diatonic tones are the the ones you stick to, you're free to play thirds that may not be in the key that may fit a chord that you're playing that's not necessarily in the key.
Sir: I understand from your wonderful video that C - G - C - F - G - F - G -C Is it also correct from your notes that the first Primarcy Chord can be F (F instead of the C) - G - C and can F - C(the C instead of the G)????? Again many thanks.
Basic notes on which the seven notes are harmonised. This is what i was serching for in different means. Thank you sir. I found the basic knowledge i was lacking in this lesson. Once more thank you sir.
Cb, B#, E#, Fb do not physically exist. Trying to add those in there is like saying I can make a left on a red light because it's more convenient. Nevermind the confusion and fender benders that will be caused from breaking the rule.
@@Archangel_Michaels simplicity sounds like a refusal to accept the rule as written. Changing the rules of operation creates confusion for the beginners.
