 Hi guys welcome back to part 3 of this series and this is another way to colour up a triad and the good thing about this part is if you already know the triads it's going to be very easy for you to do what we are going to discuss right now it's just something which we call I guess the music fraternity as fat chords spelt as P-H-A-T for some strange reason anyway but the chords are definitely going to sound a lot thicker the same triads you play by adding some notes are going to make it sound very very thick and very very exciting and colourful so let's see how I am building these fat sounds so this is your D major which you can either play in this inversion or this inversion and this inversion so when you play a chord which has one three and five you are not playing the two not playing the four not playing the six and not playing the seventh in that scale so for every note for every three notes you play you are not playing four notes this series is about trying to play those or squeeze in those extra notes you don't want to play all that's going to sound really funny yeah quite like that but anyway you may not want to play all you won't have enough fingers in the first place so what we try to do is take the same triad D and add a couple of notes so for example I want to add the E that's quite a nice D major sound another thing you may want to do is add the B they want to add both right and in some cases your fingers may be very close to those notes you can just slide your thumb which I am doing here and you get a second interval which just makes it a bit thicker play the four add the four which is G or you can remove the three and play the two and the four I don't think you'd want to have all five it won't sound so good right maybe this shape or that shape or maybe this shape I think I'm going with this for now so D major with the two and then if you do B minor the same idea you can come down to B minor add the two you can also say add nine add it like that but I think the fatness comes when you clutter up your intervals when you don't spread them out too much when you gang the notes together so try to squeeze that interval inside inside the triad this is the normal triad squeeze it in or add the four I think two and four are very useful for causing that fatness and it won't really change the quality of the chord a minor will still feel minor and a major will still feel major and then your E minor you could play maybe like this Z minor is adding you can even add the minor seventh that's also a nice note here and there or you can add this one the fourth which I am playing like this with the thumb technique Z minor or like that the minor seventh D and then the A and play a sus four add the two like that which is the three the four and the five so in in simple words you you just play your same chords this sounds quite simple right it's like a sound you would have heard maybe you studied this when you when you were a beginner now you can add the the fat sound by adding the two the four or maybe even the flat seven whenever it works D major B minor E minor A you can also spread that by playing it with the pedal right you can also arpeggiate it you also have some quite a few notes to to to jam on this was all the notes of the chord so either play them scatter them out stuff like that where you can just run down and so on and so forth so by playing it at different octaves it just makes it very ballad like and it fills up those spaces where the singer is probably taking a breath or the singers finish the line and you are doing some color there either by playing it higher as a block shape where you play together or you can play it as an arpeggio as I've showed you and this requires some knowledge of the sustain pedal I think the sustain pedal as more harmonic content already to the sound that's what happens on a real piano acoustically so it's important to also know the sustain pedal if you want some tips on that we've done a lesson on the sustain pedal which you'll find in the description so so do check that out so this is about fat chords where you add the two the four or the flat seven to just make the chord a lot more fatter right so if you found that lesson useful we urge you to subscribe to our YouTube channel and also share it around with your friends and if you want to study further there is some study material available in the descriptions so click on the link and head over to a to the study material where you'll get some notation you'll get the chords written out in a chord chart and a few more things like the summary for the lesson cheers right so that's about power chords and how you can use the fifth chords in your songs and don't forget to check out our learning material at the link provided you can go through all the slides which I've been talking about all the chords we also notated it using staff notation and stuff like that okay cheers