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This Version of Mercy Mercy Mercy goes along with a lesson handout that you can get from the fastpianolessons blog on the blog post with this video. The hand out has notation for voicings I'm using in the first version.

There is a part two in this video where I play Mercy Mercy Mercy with a bassline in the left hand and chords and melody combined in the right hand.

The trick to combining the chords and melody in the right hand is to always make the melody note the highest note. Keeping the melody on top helps it ring out. If its in the middle of the chord, it gets hidden and masked.

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This is a quick lesson about how to practice your piano chords!

I quiz you on major and minor chords by saying a chord name and you have 3 seconds to play it. We only go through a few chords in the video, so make sure when you practice piano on your own, you are playing through all 24 major and minor chords.

Make sure to go to the fastpianolessons blog to download the full list of the chords so you can play along!

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This is a really cool trick you won't find in classical music! Jazz, Blues and Country music thrive on these quick grace notes though. It's really pretty easy if you use the right fingering.. so this lesson shouldn't take you longer than 3 or 4 minutes to watch and then practice!

On major chords slide off the flat 3rd.
On minor chords you want to slide off the sharp fourth note.
There isn't much else to add other than that!

Check out the blog for some of the blue scale notation examples.

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KEY POINTS FROM THIS VIDEO:

*KEEP all your thick chords in the middle of the piano.

*As you get lower, you have to space the notes out more.

*Power chords only use the root and 5th of the chord. No middle note, aka the third.

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Learn how to accompany yourself in under 3 minutes. These patterns are REALLY easy. They work the best when you're reading and singing from a Fake book or lead sheet.

Here are the three basic ways I accompany myself on piano when I'm singing.

LRLR or LRR LRR for 3/4 time songs where you count 123 123.
This is good when you want the music to be uplifting or create some rhythms to dance to.

BLLL BLLL good for rock stuff

HOLD for 4 beats - Good for jazz and ballads. or if you are just learning a song and trying to get the hang of playing and singing it.

If you get these basic patterns down, its really easy to add a little variation in the rhythms to create a lot of new vocabulary for your playing.

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This was a paid request! It covers the first 15 seconds of Ray Charles version of Everyday I Have The Blues. Ray Charles plays a really cool piano solo for the first 25 seconds of the recording and then the rest of the band comes in with Ray singing.
The introduction is filled with great blues licks. Learn a few of them and then transpose them to different keys! Take the time to learn one of these licks really well, so it becomes natural.

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This is the second version of Great Balls of Fire Piano lesson. Be sure and check out the other version for a different left hand bass line.

In this video we slowly walk through the chords and the hits of the entire song.
You will learn a boogie woogie variation for the left hand.
*It will not show an ending or a solo... Those topics are covered in other videos on the fastpianolessons blog.

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This version is a little more embellished than a lot of other online lessons for CLOCKS. There are a lot of different things you can do to make it interesting because it is just the same chords over and over again... so that could get kind of boring if you don't change it up!

I think this is in the original key... This is in the key that is comfortable for me to sing in.
So then again its probably not the original key :P

The chords for the
Verse are Ebmin, Bbmin, Abmin

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This lesson quickly shows Thriller in an easier key than the original.
The verse chords are Amin7 to D7.

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Please post a comment and let me know what parts you though needed more explanation, or if you wanted to see some examples of a certain concept!

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This is the third video in the chords 101 series, make sure you watch DAY 1 & DAY 2

There are 12 major chords and 12 minor chords, 24 total.
but the easier way to remember all the chords is these two formulas: 4+3 & 3+4
There are 12 chords starting on the white keys though that are the ones you should learn first. They happen in most fake books and songs more than any other!

The 12 chords to learn first are:
Cmajor & Cminor
Dmajor & Dminor
Emajor & Eminor
Fmajor & Fminor
Gmajor & Gminor
Amajor & Aminor

To find each chord, count up the half steps:
Major Chords = 4half steps + 3half steps
Minor Chords = 3half steps + 4half steps

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This is the second video in the chords 101 series, make sure you watch DAY 1 - Half steps and whole steps.
It covers everything you need to know to build major and minor chords.

There are 12 major chords and 12 minor chords, 24 total.
They all look different, white keys, black keys, etc.
but the easier way to remember all the chords is these two formulas: 4+3 & 3+4

To find each chord, count up the half steps:
Major Chords = 4half steps + 3half steps
Minor Chords = 3half steps + 4half steps

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