Hi everyone! I'm Jazer! In today's lesson, we are going to learn how to create your own beautiful
chord progression. I'm going to teach you how to play four chords and then you can mix and
match them in any way you want to create your own progression. Now make sure you watch to the end of
this video because I'm gonna show you my personal favorite combination. Before we get into the chord
progressions make sure you LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to this channel for more piano tutorials just like
this one. So we are learning four chords today. Let's get into it. We first need the C chord.
Okay so your pinky on the C, your index finger on the G, and then your thumb on the C. Okay
so that's your C chord and then using the same thing, this same position let's move down to A.
This is your A minor chord. Okay next chord is a G. Let's move down one step.
And then the last one is an F. So moving down another step.
Okay there you go. So those four chords if you learn C, A minor, G.
Those are the four chords we need today. Now with just these four chords you can create a kabillion
songs with them. I'm going to put on the screen now what are some of the combinations you can use.
So C chord if we think about C as number 1. Okay so 1 -1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 1
because it's the same note. So 1 C is the one chord. A is number 6,
1 - 2 - 3 or 5 - 6. Right is the sixth chord five for G and four for F so the,
the progression we just learned there was you can say it as 1 - 6 - 5 and 4. So 1- 6 - 5 - 4.
Okay so many of you might be wondering 'Oh okay, that's nice. What about the right hand ?' Right
hand, you can just play the third and the fifth on top like this. So for example...
Okay and you can do a kabillion different combinations right? You can do things like uh,
or you can do...
No they're all beautiful. If you just mix and match these four chords, you can create some
really amazing sounding progressions. Let's look at a few popular ones that we hear.
So a really popular one that is always on the radio, and in different songs
and even in piano music is the 6 - 4 -1 - 5 - 6 - 1 - 5. Okay so this, this...
Okay so if I, if I were to play in other keys now. Okay so for example, it's made popular
by things like okay so that's not in C major but it's still the same kind of concept in the
key of A major. It's that 6 - 4 -1 - 5 sound okay. Or what about things like let's say um
all right, 'All of Me by John Legend. Again this is not in C major, it's an A flat major.
but this six four one five sound is very very effective
so let's learn the six four one five now in our original
c major the chords that you learned today so it starts on a f c g six four one five and again
right hand you can just do like i was teaching you before the three and the fifth third and the fifth
okay and you can even maybe start to experiment with creating your own melodies
i actually have a video on how to improvise on these chords so make sure you click
on the card above if you want to check that out so for example you can do things like repeated notes
or you can do like a sequential pattern
let's look at some other famous ones 1645 made quite famous by
okay one six four five very very powerful another combination you can do is one
five six four this has got to be the most popular one
okay so
so many songs use the one five six four so go and experiment with this one
let's look at a couple of others one four six five
very nice
all right okay another one you can do is six four one five
all right time to reveal my personal favorite combination of these four chords so my personal
favorite combination is a four one five six four one five six now if you are a
subscriber or you've watched some of the videos on this channel and you've watched to the end
you'll realize that the outro music is actually this combination it's the four one five six so
okay okay i was doing lots of things there with my
left hand but if i just break it down into a simpler form
now there you go with just four chords you can create so many different chord progressions
and have so much fun with it now part of why i love music is improvising sometimes i'll just
whip out some chords and just see where it takes me i don't really have a structured way of doing
it i just use my gut and i just play something and see what see if something sounds good it's
very unstructured i just play some chords i play some random melodies in my right hand and i see
where it takes me and often you know i come up with some pretty interesting stuff and if i do i
write them down because i can use that as compositions one day so use these four chords
to mix and match them and experiment with them on the piano hope you enjoyed this tutorial let me
know in the comments what chord progressions you are using and i'll catch you in the next video
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