3 Easy R&B Chord Progressions 

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Came for the keys, stayed for the vocals 😤👌🏼

There are too many piano snobs and elitists out there. Thank you for sharing and teaching and making piano fun and accessible to us all.

Very clear C major (whites key) 0:52 C D E F G A B I ii iii iv v vi vii 1:14 first progression IV vi V F Am G 2:30 Inverted chord variation 3:46 second progression IV vi V iii F Am G Em 4:51 A seventh chord (Am7) 7:46 third progression IV V vi vii I F G Am B C 8:40 fourth major seventh F maj 7 9:10 G / B You earned a subscriber Cheers

My guy breaks down the theory to the point of explaining the numbering system/scale degrees/how chord progressions work in general, instead of just assuming that people know their theory (when a lot of people didn't have the privilege to be taught it). You my brother have earned my respect, keep it up 💪🏾

The singing 😂

Bruh yes simplicity at its finest. I loved this video, more please

The vocals make me laugh everytime, such a good video, thank you

Love this mans attitude, he’s good at what he does, he’s helpful, and goofy, keep it up bro👌

Best music teacher I ever had I just learned something in 5 mins

LMFAOOOOO you can tell he has vocals but his singing had me🤣🤣🤣

“I call that the 4-6-5, I might be calling it the wrong thing but I DONT CARE. I’m calling it the 4-6-5” 💀 🙌🙌 love it!

You caught my heart can’t stop listening to you sing and play

You can hear my mans got a good voice but when he’s just fooling around his vocals got me rollin 😂 thanks so much for this Brutha!

Bro. The falsetto is the greatest sound ive ever heard.!!!

the voice is angelic

You should write your own songs bro. Mad talented

You don't know what you just done for me bruh. Thank you!! Please keep em coming

I came here because I wanted to start composing more R&B inspired music and this video helped a lot. I also do believe what you're explaining is the Lydian mode. It is the fourth mode of the major scale. It sounds really nice and uplifting. Thank you for the cool video!

Thanks man I'm disabled ex bassist from the 60s+70s I have Lou Gehrig's disease and miss playing music thanks to you my man I'm back into it .deepest respect to you .George

THIS IS WHAT IVE BEEN LOOKIN FOR. YES!!! PLEASE KEEP MAKING VIDEOS LIKE THIS MY BROTHER

Everytime he said "Key of C" man...... I be getting hungry here...........

this is amazingg!!! ive been playing around with piano for years and years, by learning the chords to songs, but i havent understood any of the music theory behind what im doing. knowing these progressions and how they relate to the key that theyre in by numbers is so frickin transformative. Thank you for sharing (:

“And i remember all the things that I’ve been through🥺” here for it yes 😩👏🏽😂

I've watched 4b rnb chord progression tutorials today and yours was the best. thank you.

I was always afraid to play in any key but Cmaj7 and never thought about moving fingers until i saw this. Been self-training training so hearing the notes makes sense how these tones I now here make sense. R&B is hard enough but thanks for keeping it super simple because in the end, it's basic chords that make the song. Added chords like 9ths and 13ths and all that is only for the snobs who think they way they sound, is just to sound good. . Thanks again man for this, you opened up a new milestone of music for me and I tried this progression in different progressions... smooth!!

And now we feel epic. So simple, easy to learn

Anybody else want him to go off on the first progression after he start freestylin

As someone who was never taught chords this is easy to understand bless thank you

A lot of people do videos to show you how smart THEY are. I can appreciate a video that uses plain language. Good work.

American Got Talent needs you!

Yo u really got me when u would play the progression the second time and sing a different song that just make these progressions so much better u can do more than 1 song on 1 progression

Thanks so much for making this! Love that you sprinkle a bit of theory in there while keeping it clean and simple 💝

This man low key just showed us how to come up with song lyrics!!! 😳

They call him the song bird of our generation.

Vocals on point

3 years later- this was great! Thanks

Bro PLEASE do more of these

The way you explain the mechanics and motives behind these chords is so clear and easy to understand, I think you could easily cater to the producer/beatmaker community by posting up more of these tutorials where you break it down more generally like in this video vs one song. Your insights are truly amazing and easily to master yourself! Please keep it up! Peace from amsterdam!

Don’t sleep he’s beast on guitar just as much as he is on keys. Glad your still playing ✊🏾

The way you mockingly played multiple hit songs with these progressions😂😂

when u started singing with the chords new this was straight thanks dude

Love love love the singing...:))... Thank you for the laughter!! 3'21

Best piano tutorial ever, glad i found someone that i actually wanna watch😂

when you're trying to concentrate on the piano, but the vocals just-

Bro thank you for keeping this simple, the way you broke this down got me playing my first chord progression with the inversions it sounds beautiful. Much love

Yes! I feel the same way. I always watch jazz piano videos and I feel like an idiot because I can’t figure out what they’re talking about. And I have a masters in piano lol! I really liked this video please make more of them. It was really helpful.

Been playing piano longer than I want to admit, but have been stuck in a "pop" environment of 1, 4, 5 chord progressions ad-nausea.... this is a nice set of progressions to add to my repetoire. Thank you! Easy to follow along. Appreciate it.

Thank you so much bro, please keep doing videos like this

I need these. Please keep them coming

Thank you for the simplicity 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Yes, 1st inversion is awesome

I LOVED this video!!! I've been waiting on a video like this. And the singing really helped me put the chords into context. Please do more and thank you for sharing your God given talent. It was right on time!!

I have never laughed at an instructional video 🤣

Great teacher ..... No nice smooth voice. Wow..thanks. More please.

3:38 “I might be calling it the wrong thing, but u don’t care” 😂

Best r&b piano vid i have seen, well done bro!! ❤️

Officially my favorite piano instructor. Mans can sing too

Mannn this video thought me how to play I’m thankful 🙏🏾 great video I keep coming right back yo it 🫡

Bruh instantly loved this tutorial because of the lil baby one being first. Thanks for making this relatable lol

Your videos are very informative 👌🏿 👏🏿 🤟🏿, and exciting 😅😅 at the same time.

Honestly the singing helped. It gave examples on how these chords can be used on spot, and thats great. I found this video very informative. Subbed.

This was helpful for understanding . You are a good teacher

I love you man. I just found you and I love you! Thank you so much for this!

Did this and played around with some passing chords and made a bunch of different songs.

Awesome tutorial but your voice is just amazing. Congratulations for that voice

Great info bro !!!!!! The delivery was was on point!!!!

Very informative thx 🙏🏽

Better than those singer try to make tutorial look complicated. This tutorial is all we need, i need moreeee

You explain things well! Thanks.

😂😂😂 the singing! and singing the wrong lyrics made me laugh, and thanks for the lesson✨❤️

NOW I FINALLY UNDERSTAND PROGRESSION AND INVERSIONS!!! THANK YOU

This changed my music IQ forever bro. Your Legendary

Thank you!! Simple! Lol! Keep singing 🎶 ♥

Better then some of the stuff people try to teach on RU-vid

I'm impressed, you make it easy!

Bro I’m in a process of writing music I definitely will use some of these progressions

Brilliant Sir!!!!!!! Thanks. More please

I love you already. I am a beginner and you broke this down so well for a sister. Peace and Love 🙏❤

This was really really helpful!! Thanks for keeping it understandable.

You make the best RU-vid videos.Appreciate you!

your singing actually makes this video so lit 😅❤️

Best video I’ve seen in 2019

This is so helpful. You always inspire to make new beats!

Thank you for keeping things simple. These chords do make it easy to sing.

love the tutorial, especially the singing bits lol. thanks for these chords only thing is the third progression had me a lil confused when you mentioned the "seven chord" kept saying IVmaj7-V-vi-seven chord-I and when you say "seven chord" i think of vii^o which would be bdf but you playing the V so i ended up writing this in my notes IVmaj7-V-vi-V(with third in bass)-I could be just me misinterpreting what you meant but i'll leave this just in case anyone else is confused like me

I would also love to see you try out ‘music theory aid’ audio plugin scaler and the standalone ‘every possible scale mapped to the white keys’ midi processing app - autotonic. Having a experienced piano player use those ‘noob’ tools would be invaluable on RU-vid, there’s not many, if not none who did that. Please consider this :)

Brilliant thanks for sharing

Always looking forward to your videos😭😭❤

Nice! Thanks Fam, and God Bless.

THANKYOU FOR THIS , OPENED MY MIND

This was the best video I came across to!!

Aye bruh you cold with it I appreciate everything you taught me bruh you make being self taught a lot easier keep it up!

Greatnest always manifest in simplicity !

This really helped. ❤️

I dont know how i ended here but...i liked ver very much your vid. WON a new subscriber...BLESS Bro 🙏🏾!!!

Thank you my brother I like it when you keep it simple i will keep watching your videos and god bless you amen

Bro..thank you for this.. im so thankful ive found this video.. thank you very much! I wish more of this!

Very Simple and Easily understood. Simplicity is Genius expressing beautifully thank you

Wow this was so helpful mostly because I play by ear and this was exactly what I needed thank you! I subscribed 🙏🏽🖤🎹