Hi guys! My name is Jazer. I play the piano and in this tutorial I'm going to teach you
what are some left-hand chord patterns you can do. Let's say,
let's say you already know how to play a right-hand melody. So, for example...
Okay um... if you know what this song is I'm not gonna tell you what it is. Let me know
in the comments if you know what you're hearing right now. So I'm gonna use this song as a basis
for the rest of this tutorial. So let's say you you figured this out because you read the sheet
music or maybe you used your ears to figure this out. And you want to add in some left-hand chord
patterns. Well, what can you do right so for this video to make sense, you obviously need to
have some basic understanding of chords. So you want to find out what the chords
are. You can either ask Mr. Google or you can figure out by ear as well. So i'll tell you
what the chords are in this video. It'll be the C, it'll be the G, it'll be the A minor
and F. Okay so, so you can do... you can do a really basic you know, melody. Plus
these left hand chords. Just the straight triads, like that...
Sounds good, very nice. It can be very beautiful. In this video I want to show you 7 other ways to
play left hand chords. I've built them up in levels. So we're going to start with Level 1
and finish at Level 7. Now Level 1 is just playing the root note of the chords. So you can just play.
Okay, so I was just playing the bass note. So the C, the G, the A of the A minor, and then the
F. Now Level 2 is where you play the root plus the fifth. Okay, so you do something like this.
Quite nice. Okay now Level 3 is where you do the root, the feet and the
root at the top. Here so I've listed this down as the 1,
5 and then 8. So you think about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. That's why this is called the 1 - 5 - 8.
Very nice. There's sort of a sense of movement when you play this one, Level 3 sense of kind of
moving. And then speaking of movement, we're gonna go on to Level 4 which is. you're gonna do...
So I just call this the 1 - 5 - 8 - 5. Okay, this has even more of a sense of that movement.
Okay now moving on to Level 5. Now Level 5 is the 1 - 5 - 5 and 10.
This might be a bit of a stretch for you if you have really small hands but it's, it's
so 1 - 5 - 10 - 5 - 1. So you need to do a bit of a wrist rotation here. Okay so...
Very beautiful. Okay, all right moving on. Let's go on to Level 6 now. Level
6 is the 1 - 5 and then the 8 plus the 10. So you gotta play that together, all right?
Okay last but not least, we're gonna move on to Level 7. Level 7 is the 1 - 5 - 8 -9 -10.
Okay so you're going to do it like this 1 - 5 - 8 and then using your index finger go to the next
one and then your thumb with the last one. Really nice sounding one. Let's have a listen to this...
so...
And there you go. Those are 7 Levels of playing left-hand chords. There are actually so many
other ways to play the left-hand chords. So if you want more tutorials on left-hand chords
let me know in the comments. Let me know also in the comments which of these ways
of playing left-hand chords was your favorite, which ones sounded the most beautiful to you.
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