Having Fun With the 1 4 5 Chord Progression 

This 52yo who is playing again after 30 years, thanks you a great deal.Love to see a lesson on blues scales.

Fantastic teacher. Helped me through my boring scales exercises. Maybe one day I will be good enough to share my knowledge as generously as you sir. Thank you.

I really like your explanation. It is at a speed with pictures that is easily understandable. Great video. Thank you.

I teach music at an elementary school this was a great lesson.

I have just discovered Color Piano! I am thrilled to bits and subscribe! Anne

W Ooh.. awesome. You just spruced my up my playing no end. I.e. Thank you, that was a very informative but easy lesson. It has helped my playing but also my understanding of this wonderful instrument. Thanks Man

Love your teaching style, this is a vid that I can revisit leaning all the time. Absolutely great.

Really appreciate you breaking all this down for us. When I was in the Marines during Boot camp... they had this phrase "Breaking it down Barney Style". The idea being, that you wanted to break ideas or concepts or the training down so incrementally and so simply; that ANYONE could understand what was being taught. This got everyone on the same proverbial page; and allowed THEM (those being taught) to continue on to train anyone else just as easily. Later on in life, when I was studying the martial arts, and then even later still, when I attempted to master regular and contact juggling... I learned to appreciate the power of mastering the BASICS. Every subject has basics. The masters are the ones who learn those basics so well; that they their creativity never suffers from an unsound wholistic structure. And SOME masters, get so acquainted with the basics, that they can completely leave that wholistic structure, to go on and a create ANOTHER TOTALLY DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; However, it is the initial understanding of a WHOLE STRUCTURE; that allows them to create a totally different one. And this never happens if you don't spend enough time understanding how the individual parts of that whole structure are related; and how the parts are related to the whole. Anyways, wish I would have watched this video before I asked you a question on the video where you demonstrate how to quickly play the Major scales. I had asked about the different fingers that you were using. I had asked about playing the C,F,G with the 1,3,5 fingers; and all the rest of the 12 chords with the 1,2,3 fingers. You answered this by saying that *BEGINNERS* play the C,F,G with the odd fingers (1,3,5); but you like to play with consecutive fingers (1,2,3); because this allows you to add a 7th with your pinkie. That seems like sound reasoning, no pun intended :) So, I asked myself the question about how you might get into trouble with needing the to put a note or tone in between the first and the third notes of the chord; or between the third and the fifth. But after thinking things through, I realized that that would never be the case; because those are the smallest intervals possible; so there is no situation where you would be adding notes/tones in between those fingers. But then... I thought of something you had taught in either your video or on your website. I forget the terminology; but you had suggested that Jazz or Blues adds some notes or tones in *INTERESTING* places. If I remember this right; and I might not... this had suggested that it was possible to add chords IN BETWEEN the smallest intervals. In THAT case; it seems to me, you would have to switch finger positions (playing the second note and the fifth note with consecutively higher fingers, or the fingers immediately to the right; using the originally intended finger to play that quirky note/tone). Hope I made some sense with this question/comment? I guess the upshot of all this, is that I'm going to switch from playing the C,F, and G chords with the beginner finger position of 1,3,5 - TO the 1,2,3; and practice THAT way from now on. Thanks again for taking the time to think all this out and present it in such a simple and easy way to understand for some of us newbies out here!

Hello sir. I found your lessons on piano are really great. As I am visually impaired, the way you explained each and every step seems very comprehensive and easy to understand. Greetings and sending many thanks to you from Nepal!

Wow, excellent teaching - thank you! Through this teaching video, I just discovered to utilize these progressions into every key in the Maj. & min. Modes in order to teach myself to transpose from key to key -Eureka moment (the third one within two days ! Also I can now more smoothly play chord inversions thanks to your excellent pedagogy Thank you a million times:) See until now every attempt to transpose has been a sorry one or a right out failure with frustration. Now, I can study your method and use it to learn the difficult key signatures and to teach myself how to transpose and to create some base lines and learn each family of chords and inversions. I can not thank you enough for providing me with this methodology. I also have a suspicion it can too be applied toward learning to play by ear and for improvisations! Well, I must get back to your video as I c am not yet through it and I have already learned so much - I can barely wait to see the rest of this video-based I just was compelled to share my quick success and my applications, perhaps it will assist your other listeners as well -thanx! for sharing:)

Luv it! Great video!! Lots of fun! Great teaching!

Thank you.That 4/5 is Inspiring👍

So many different names for the same technique.. your explanation set me on proper course today. Very simple thanks for sharing.

Super video, with a bit of style and a bit of jazz!! Can't actually follow properly as I've only a tiny keyboard but when I get a bigger one I'll take a look at this guys course :) good work!

Great Job...Good Teaching Thank you so much ...Always God Bless all of you !!!

Thanks a lot, sir!

Thanks buddy!

Thank you. Well done.

Good lesson. Thank you.

I am an absolute beginner.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿❤️

Excellent teacher, I've learned a lot

Thank you!!

You are an AWESOME INSTRUCTOR! Thanks for your patient manner in describing the chords!

Very good - thanks.

Bravo 👏

Fun with the I-IV-V chord progression, and you can be like Rossini, repeat yourself endlessly but faster or slower or louder or softer. Or any pop song from the 1950s - 60s.

I was watching Larry Heard and the narrator spoke of him exploring & having fun with the 1 4 5 Progression regards Deep House!

Two thumbs up!

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A lot of famous pop artists made millions of pounds from just those 3 chords...

Way to advanced for beginners.

Maestro: Thank you so much for sharing your genius for teaching a playing - please do you have a pdf that goes with the video. Thank you, r

Hello: Sir do you have a reference musical page(s) with the progression that you are playing - truly a honest get to the point lesson. Thank you, A

Super sir

what kind of piano is this? I'm guessing a Yamaha C6

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If I hear the word "chord" one more time :D

Isn't a A chord a: A, C sharp, E. Then the B chord: B, Eb, F sharp? Unless its A minor or the shape of "C"... C, E, G.

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Great content, presented in a well paced manner.One suggestion, I can't hear everything you say because the piano drowns you out when you play Dom 7thand Maj7 chords. (Don't mean to criticize....just saying)

Thank you so much ……. but why are the keyboards not at the same line - ? For me - at 72 years old it would be more easy to understand - or ….. sorry …. I'm old -

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ODESZA uses 145 progressions

I'd like to see what the 'second' chords look like in actual sheet music. Does it have a 'symbol' written above the staff to recognize it? BTW, you've got a great southern accent. Informative demo. Thank you!

Would you please write or we send me that little riff you play with your left hand. No matter how many times I back up the video and try to catch it, it is just too fast. Thank you.

The leading tone chord is diminished not major or minor

Got lost in the second part. I wish that you could show the notes a lit more slowly. Sorry but too fast for me. :-(

I need to know how can i record my piano to make it digitally as it is on top of the image of this video. It would be so helpful to me, i hope someone can answer me and thank you

what is happening with me that？But want a professinal learner

I am too much of a beginner to get things out of this. You said several times that you were getting ahead of yourself. Maybe structure it to a beginner level and it would be more palatable to more people. BTW I am colour blind and I don't know if you were using different colours on the keys and the writing. I would suggest using Colour Blind Awareness for help as a creator. Yellows and blues are better for most people. 14% of people are afflicted.

Seriously! It is just triads on both hands!

doesnt say its for beginners

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Being a beginner,I do not note some of your way and other guider

Good video but a bit too long .

bored as hell