Mercy Mercy Mercy Piano Lesson - Rootless Left Hand Voicings - Sus Chords

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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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• blues
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[shinbikyle777]

great song! btw what is the little riff at the end?

[chrismarx85]

Oh!

Thats the most common blues lick around!

(in Bb)

I use it all the time, so I made a blog post specifically about it!

[danielguy321]

`hu sings this again its great

[chrismarx85]

Who sings this?

[Kurtz1974]

My girl friend's name is Mercy! She likes this song very much

[chrismarx85]

Oh Mercy!

[maxmproject]

man this is simply amazing. thanks. would be great, if you could make a midi for us piano noobs :)

[SFuNk24]

aww many we wanted to hear your shredding solo!!!

[alexpui82]

Nice and simple - just the way I like it :)

[Geenyuschic90]

IS there anyway you could transcribe the second part of the video? I tried to get a feel for most of it but your hands are moving so fast? or is there a way to slow down the video?

[budnewlin]

I found that a quick Bb on the lower octave between the Bb-D-Eb-F lick and the Bb chord adds a bit of power to the song.

I do thank you for this video Sir. It has helped me out alot.

[JamikKim27]

"If you find a chord you like, pause it and steal it!" ;-)

I suck at reading music, maybe I should learn? I like to play by ear, but I can only do simple stuff at the moment. This will be helpful though, thanks!

[MrRugburn325]

this songs awesome!

[strawberriesdude7]

ahahha aw sweet!! youre good!

[matrox]

I just checked out your site but I am looking for a site that will teach songs by request. Lets say I wanted to learn a song such as "Cool Jerk" I want a video such the one above to lay it out for me as I make the request. Now that I would pay for if the instructions are nice and clear.

[matrox]

Thanks dude, I should be able to pick that up in a few days.