– In stead of ‘harmonizing’ with your right hand, just play the single note melody (either with the chords in the left hand, or with just the roots of the chords). – In stead of playing the chords in the left hand, just play the root of each chord. Now, if you want to make it easier, you could: NOTE FOR BEGINNERS / INTERMEDIATES: SIMPLIFICATION. Last but not least, the C chord, is being played with a major-filled, four note voicing both left and right. Take a close look at how I sometimes strike not only the new melody note, but also strike one or two notes of the underlying chord again at the same time. While this chord is the harmony, you can keep the fingers that are not playing the melody on the ‘other’ notes of the chord and either ‘hold’ them (keep ’em pressed down) or just play them every now and then to ‘harmonize’ your melody. So while playing the melody, try striking the whole chord every time a new harmony (chord) has to be played. Because this is the note that ‘stands out’ in our hearing and thus we ‘experience’ this top note as being the melody, it is important to choose your inversion carefully. When using this technique, make sure the melody note is on top of the chord by choosing the right inversion. This technique is very useful for ‘filling up’ your piano part or ‘adding body’. This is done by also playing the ‘other two notes of the chord’ apart from the one that is the melody (melody almost always is a chord note). – ‘Filling the harmony’ or ‘harmonizing’ the melody with the right hand. – Left hand plays chords (three note voicings) Techniques that are used to accompany the melody are: (a more extensive article about this subject next week). This is a very good example of how you can copy certain parts played by other instruments (just like we did with the ‘guitar simulation’ in ‘ I’m yours‘) and ‘translate’ it to the piano, when playing a solo version like this. The intro is a simulation of the synthesizer-string part, that opens the song. Then starting from the top (first the whole thing is played to show the possible end result, the actual tutorial starts at 3:00): Note that the version of this tutorial is quite advanced, but in this lesson I’ll also give you some tips for simplifying the song to your own wants.īecause of the level of difficulty, analyzing and practicing / playing this song will be the complete lesson in itself for this week.ĭon’t forget to start with our regular preparation warmup exercises (scale and inversions) for getting used to the key (F) and the chords. This version (possibly pretty much the closest you can get to the original) of the mighty song ‘Paradise” by Coldplay implies a wide array of different techniques and (theoretic) skills all found in the course.
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