 Hi guys welcome back to part 2. This is something which I use a lot primarily because I tend to play a lot of folk music and a lot of Indian music as well like Bollywood songs and other Indian classical songs and also there was a time when I started playing piano where I had absolutely no clue of triads beyond like the white note triads like C major, F major and G major and I'm sure a lot of y'all have gone through the same problem. So I developed this trick I think I really don't know how it happened but it seems to have worked out for me at least during my beginner level days and till then I've never considered or now when I look back I have not I don't consider it as a beginner technique because I still use the technique. So if you're just starting off on the keyboard you can use this to help you play chords a little bit more easily maybe a lot more easily and also if you're playing folk music and if you like a lot of rhythmic stuff in your piano playing this technique is also quite nice. So let's see how it works. So the first thing you need to know is the fifth chord or the power chord is built in a really really ridiculously simple manner it's just one the root then it's fifth and the octave you can even avoid the octave you'll still get the similar sound and a lot of guitar players tend to like to play it in the lower regions. You'll have like that's I guess where the power name comes into play right. However in this lesson I'm not going to focus on playing the chord in this hand it's going to be played in this hand. So if you have a progression D B minor E minor and A major what you could do if you don't know those chords or if you're finding it tough to shift because it's a lot of work and planning if you're new is you could just keep the D fifth name of the scale D major again and the D fifth can either be built as one five one octave D A D or five one five octave which is essentially the same notes jumbled up in another way or in an inversion as some people officially say D A D A D A you can perhaps play it higher if you wish decide where you like it the most based on your singer and the song you're playing and the left hand is not just going to stay D it's going to follow the base notes of the chord progression you guys are playing. So in this case in this entire series I'm choosing the one six two five which is D B E and A. So I'm not going to play chords in the left hand because I feel it creates a very muddy sound in any case so playing single notes perhaps with octaves will be nice so you go you're essentially doing chord roots and you're just holding the fifth chord here either this way or the D A D way or the A D A way which is the inversion another thing you can do to add on to this technique is perhaps instead of playing just the octave you can play a third of each note right if you're a bit doubtful about thirds I would suggest you to watch the previous part where I've talked about third formation that'll help you guys but in any case it's quite easy one two three so with every chord root you add the third B with D key with G so maybe you would want to play it a bit higher because the third start lettering up the sound right or you can go back to octaves and get a more deeper sound and what I like to do with the right hand from time to time is of course play around with this with the shape but don't change the basic notes which are A D A or D A D so if I take A D A you can just add any way your thumb is sort of you know wanting to play this B so you could also play it or maybe you can add this E or you can add an F sharp so you can add notes of the scale you don't want to add that because that's not part of the D scale you can add things like B C sharp E F sharp G anything in the vicinity of the chord that makes it very interesting and a lot more colorful so so you can also build like a mini melody like um basically it's all around the fifth chord but then you add a couple more notes to it so you can find different options here see I'm doing a lot of this D plus E thing with my thumb because you can it's right there so these are some cheat chords which pianists do from time to time and if you're playing a lot of groovy like folk music I think this technique will really help because it keeps the sound very simple the listener doesn't have to hear the chord over and over and over again they are just digesting a very small simple sound which is the fifth against some interesting bass notes so if you want to groove so basically I'm instead of playing like that I'm trying to groove it so you can again apply this to a lot of a lot of pop songs for example again if you take the Beatles let it be which we've been seeing in this series when I find myself in times of trouble mother mary comes to me speaking words of wisdom let it be in my own darkness she is standing right in front of me speaking words of wisdom let it be let it be let it be as you can see the right hand was absolutely the same throughout so if you're just starting off on the piano I think that could be a nice way to play pop songs just find the bass notes or you can google the chords if it's if it says D major you don't have to play the whole triad you can just play a fifth chord of that scale which in the D case is DAD or ADA and in the left hand you just play the chord roots and it's not you might argue that it's sounding simpler because it's simpler to play but the sound is not very simple it's quite a it's quite an exciting sound right that's like a B minor seventh it's like an E minor seventh that's a suspended sound so you are actually building some very exciting chord voicings and some very exciting sounds so it's not really a beginner level technique but if you're unaware of triads just now you could definitely use it if you're a beginner and if you already play the piano and if you've been playing for a few years you can use this technique to also spice up your voicing you can also add notes in between and so on and so forth 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've also notated it using staff notation and stuff like that okay cheers