These are good ideas. In high school, 40 years ago, I learned these voicings and many more by using your approach and I still remember them so it works. But I would add flash cards into the process. Put each chord name on a flash card. mix them up. Flip them over, and play them without thinking. Each time mix the cards and you will get a new order each time which resembles how you'd sight read them on a chord chart in the real world. Keep each chord type in its own pile. Later make another set, and mix ALL of your chords of different type into a GIANT pile and go through them without hesitation. Flip the card over from the top of the pile revealing the chord, Play it. Next card, flip it over, play it. Once you can do this, you can almost sight read any chord chart.
Me too lol. I started piano like 2-3 months ago now. I’ve got the major scales down and some basic inversions down but that’s about it. Good luck on your journey!!
Really appreciated this video! I'm just starting to learn theory n apply my own Chord progressions in my beats. This practice tip will definitely help me. 🙏🏽
This is a great method man. I get overhwhelmed thinking about all the different jazz chords (maj7, maj7flat9, dominant, and so on) but this really makes you consider the basis of how all of those are even created with just 12 chords as maj 13ths
You are one of the greatest teacher I have ever followed. Meanwhile I am 65 years old. I thank you very much for giving us these wonderful practice approaches. 🙏🙏🙏✨❤️💖
Fantastic technique, thanks so much for sharing! I've been teaching myself piano over the last few years while studying and your videos have been perfect for me and I love playing with voicings to reharmonise some of my favourite pop and rock melodies, I'm now teaching myself the guitar (having previously taught myself the ukulele in a more slap style way) focusing on playing fingerstyle.
I mastered the chromatic playing. Now it’s on to the up,up,down part. It gets easier with repetitive playing. This tutorial helped me play much more confidently with voicing’s.
@3:13 that up, up, down drill is great finger practice, but it in all seriousness makes me feel dizzy to listen to 😆 Thanks for the tips, I'm gonna try these
I can vouch for this method as I already utilize it from practicing from the instructions of my former jazz teacher. It's called learning it Intervallically. He told me one of his favorite musicians, Michael Brecker studied this way.
Check out my 'Chord Of The Month' series, I go into details into all sorts of different voicings, including the one used in this video: ruclips.net/p/PL_yd4ERN4VtveyrDcExO_7cZinFP9cVZX
Great tips. I find my self having great success doing the sameish thing with the circle of 4ths amd 5ths. I start on F and go up the scale on my keys to a C then G exc. The way i change it up is i start on a different inversion of F each time. Being that there are only three inversions i get through every inversion of every major chord in three goes. Next, the minors. After that, the minors under the majors. Following that... well, youll have to pay my internet bill so i can upload it because i just spent all of my time practicing and forgot to go to work... its ok tho because now i can play every chord inversion with its minor companion at any time 👍
5:35 - Where can I find the name for that voicing? Is it maj13? It has 7 and 9 Maybe the way to ask is how to build the name for the voicing. maj9-13+7 ? Since for C the D is at 9, the A(13) is inside at 6 and the B(7) on the outside at 14
it’s Cmaj9(13) or Amin9(11) or G9(11) or D7sus(13) or a billion other names depending on how you think about it but since C is implied to be the root here it would he Cmaj9(13)
@@yes-ut3ro Thanks - I'm still at the level of counting, but working on sight. You may know this RUclips trick: When a clip is paused the period "." key moves a frame forward, and the comma "," key moves a frame back. Usually the space bar pauses, when it doesn't try "k" - 25 frames per second
Great lesson ❤️🙏🏻. Can anyone help me ?. When he was playing chromatic chord progression, how was he quickly able to figure out those new shapes ? . I find it very difficult. Is there any tips for this ?
Well if its chromatic, you move every note a half step up or a half step down. Don't try to go too fast. Make sure you get the hang of it. Visualize the notes you play. After a while you'll be able to remember them by heart. And you'll be able to add speed to it! (It sounds weird to try to teach someone how to practice music when i almost never practice lol.. That's how i learned my maj9, min9 and 13 voicings because i was tired of struggling when i had piano class lol). Anyway, i hope my tips have been useful, have fun practicing it!
@@Olivier81961 Thanks a lot for your help & sharing it in detail 🙏🏻. Very nice informative ❤️👌. Understood it now. Will start practicing now what you said😊
Also, try to familiarise yourself with intervals, i.e. the distance between each of the notes, which form the chords. This will help you greatly in transposing them to each of the other 11 keys…
FWIW that voicing is the relative minor chord first inversion in the LH with a dominant chord second inversion in the right hand. I don't know if this was meant to be, or by accident?
Hello, it makes sense to me but I have trouble understanding what going up “chromatically” means, like is this in terms with whole steps and half steps?
Are there exercises to get better at this type of parallel motion? I actually have a hard time transposing the voicing up and down like this. I have to do it very slowly, like one hand at a time. Is it just repetition?
It's just a matter of repetition. Try and do it with both hands right from the start, but just take it a slowly as you need to. There's no such thing as practicing too slow!
If I may, I’d suggest you try transposing them blind. It may be counterintuitive, but I think freeing yourself from the need to visually focus on every chromatic step could be the key here. In general, I believe using those visual feedback loops slows us down, and we need to learn to trust the senses of hearing and touch.
I use a tablet, but have never found any links etc left below whatever subject I'm watching/studying! Same goes for the one that I am trying to work out now! Someone told me that Tablets can't let me see the links.
Is it actually correct to call the chord by the name of the note at the bottom? Is C, F, A, D, G, B actually the key of C? Or Is it actually F (inverted) with the , 9, 11 and 13 (inverted) above it?
The presenter has an agreeable manner and is showing us some useful things. The speaking style is a little stilted (such strange stresses on "the/thee") and the split infinitives sound like something off Star Trek, which is strange considering the attractive English accent. Just because jazz started in America, this doesn't mean that British jazz musicians need to change the way they speak. I say all this with friendly, constructive intentions and I look forward to more of these informative videos. And I thought the rinse and repeat bit was hilarious.
You have great way of explaining things. I don't understand your chord naming at 4:12...that's not C flat major etc. My theory stinks but C# major does not have E flat and C natural in it
Well... since beginning he is playing 1 3 13 at left and 9 5 7 at right. To answer your quesiton, he was playing Cmaj13 chord but not the simple triad C major chord.(CEG) E flat and C natural are 9th and 7th key on C major scale. So at this point you have probably realized every keys on the scale can potentially be in the chord while extended. C add2 can be considered as a C9(omit 7).
Coming from bass and guitar, it's so weird I have to memorize and practice every voicing in all keys. It's so much easier just to learn one shape and slide up and down the neck :D
Can you help me out please. I don't understand. You say it's a 13th chord but you don't have the 13th note. The 9th of a C maj 7chord is a D then the 12th is a G. The 13th (6th an octave up) is an A in the C scale. And you aren't playing an A anywhere in your C major 13th chord. So why are you calling it a C major 13? I am a new piano player so I am really trying to understand this. Thank you for all that you do for us!
But how do you remember the voicings forever? I can get any voicing under my fingers easily if I practice it daily ... but if I try to remember it after a one-month-break, it's all gone!
If you forget them a month later, you didn't do the exercise for long enough. You need to spend many hours with each voicing, and after you've taken it though this process you need to spend hours inserting it into progressions and standards. Only then will it be fully internalised and naturally appear in your playing.
It's not gone! It's just not on your mind and you don't know it well enough. What I do is keep a journal of my voicings/licks/progressions. That way I can forget how to play something, then revisit it later. And the second time you learn it, it's easier. Eventually it will become as natural as playing triads.
@@donmowers9175 I agree, you should revisit a concept daily. But sometimes I get excited to learn a new concept or voicing and will forget to play other ones. That's why it's important to keep a log, so you can come back a month later and remind yourself of the voicings that you forgot along the way. But yes work on SOMETHING every day
@@roblopeese2901 The last part of your sentence is the key to remembering all these chords.. I’m writing a jazz book myself and I use triads in my voicings and it makes them so easy to remember!
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I love how you keep it real. There's no secret. One must practice in all 12 keys and get that muscle memory going.
These are good ideas. In high school, 40 years ago, I learned these voicings and many more by using your approach and I still remember them so it works. But I would add flash cards into the process. Put each chord name on a flash card. mix them up. Flip them over, and play them without thinking. Each time mix the cards and you will get a new order each time which resembles how you'd sight read them on a chord chart in the real world. Keep each chord type in its own pile. Later make another set, and mix ALL of your chords of different type into a GIANT pile and go through them without hesitation. Flip the card over from the top of the pile revealing the chord, Play it. Next card, flip it over, play it. Once you can do this, you can almost sight read any chord chart.
Going to walmart rn buying flashcards
Great tip 👍
Really cool idea. Ill try it
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@@DamienMacLean Excuse me ? Am I missing an attempt at humour here ?
Whoooaaa
1) way way way above my current skill level.
2) soundss absolutely gorgeously beautiful.
Me too lol. I started piano like 2-3 months ago now. I’ve got the major scales down and some basic inversions down but that’s about it. Good luck on your journey!!
I like the down down up, or back back up pattern. It reminds me of my overall progression playing the piano
This is hilarious!
A very demure sense of humour! (Sorry! Couldn't resist 😂)
Really appreciated this video! I'm just starting to learn theory n apply my own Chord progressions in my beats. This practice tip will definitely help me. 🙏🏽
This exercise is awesome for producers who just want to get nice chords under their fingers! Happy practicing 🙂
@@Piano_Pig Word! Thanks bro 💪🏽🙏🏽
This video is super helpful. Finding solid chord exercises is hard enough, and you've provided 5 amazing ones in one short video!
This. Was. EPIC teaching.
Best teacher on RUclips. Thank you 🙏🏾 my music is always growing as a result of your videos
Thanks man! I appreciate that 🙏🙏
Hola mrs. Muy educativo los vocing jazz Carlos muchas gracias chile fantastic😊
This is golden. Exactly what I need.
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Wooo! Great to have you on for another year 👍
This is a great method man. I get overhwhelmed thinking about all the different jazz chords (maj7, maj7flat9, dominant, and so on) but this really makes you consider the basis of how all of those are even created with just 12 chords as maj 13ths
You are one of the greatest teacher I have ever followed. Meanwhile I am 65 years old.
I thank you very much for giving us these wonderful practice approaches.
🙏🙏🙏✨❤️💖
Learned from this lesson. Thank you
You are amazing man! We have to sit many hours on the stool to study your lessons.Thanks! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
You are the man sirrrr
absolutely the best piano practice tips i’ve ever seen. thanks
You're welcome!
Fantastic technique, thanks so much for sharing! I've been teaching myself piano over the last few years while studying and your videos have been perfect for me and I love playing with voicings to reharmonise some of my favourite pop and rock melodies, I'm now teaching myself the guitar (having previously taught myself the ukulele in a more slap style way) focusing on playing fingerstyle.
Great. Look forward to working on this in the course.
This is good progress
Love it 😌
I mastered the chromatic playing. Now it’s on to the up,up,down part. It gets easier with repetitive playing. This tutorial helped me play much more confidently with voicing’s.
You are wonderfully generous!
Thank you for this!
You're welcome!
Thanks for sharing, Simon. This is pure gold!
No worries man!
your videos are so helpful man
That's good to hear 🙏
Absolute gold Simon
Thanks heaps
Great ideas! Thanx!
You have been such an inspiración simon thank you so so so much ❤🎉
Top tier piano instructor on RUclips 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
Thanks man!
Really beautiful chords. I going to try this exercise next time I play.
You have absolutely turned me into a grateful old man. Thank you very much!
That's what I like to hear! 😃
love this ! Thank You 😊
Great stuff!
Thank you, very helpful. I'll start practicing with this
getting back into EDM production and found your channel and need to vastly improve my keyboard skills...subbed!
Great ideas, thank you! ❤
Wow, this will take some time getting smooth! Thanks, love it!
This exercise is definitely worth putting in the work!
I really like your approach, Simon. Always interesting. Thanks!🙏🇬🇧🌞🖖🙏
That's great to hear! 🙏
@3:13 that up, up, down drill is great finger practice, but it in all seriousness makes me feel dizzy to listen to 😆 Thanks for the tips, I'm gonna try these
great stuff as always
Good information
What?!? Omg simple and beautiful ✋🤙❤
You explain so well, it is easy to follow your instruction. Thank you!
That's the goal! Glad you found it useful 🙏🏻
All of your Teaching are Valuable; I just need to practice more. Thanks again Mr. Simon. Thumbs Up !!! 100%
Thanks Tracy! Yes, you're right. Being a good player just requires lots of practice and patience. No secrets. You got this 💪
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Wow!!!! Nice. A most excellent video. I will be practising just that. Thanks very much PP!
No worries bro! Glad you found it useful 🎹🐷
Amazing thank you 💯✅️👌❤
You're welcome 😊
Super helpful man 🙏🏻 Could you do a tutorial on how to make 70’s style Soul chord progressions?
Listen and play along with your favorite soul songs.
Thanks for a great video.
Gota go and practice some chords !!!
It's all about that practice! You don't actually need to know much to be a good player, you just need to put in the time 🎹🐷
Thanks for you sir
I can vouch for this method as I already utilize it from practicing from the instructions of my former jazz teacher. It's called learning it Intervallically. He told me one of his favorite musicians, Michael Brecker studied this way.
Fantastic, thanks a lot 🙏👏👏
Very helpful video 🎹
Thank you so much Sir☺☺🙏🏼🙏🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🎵🎶🎼🎹🎹
Interesting video. I’ll have to learn Step 1 hands separately first. 😉😎
This was sooooo helpful. Thank you! 😊🙏🏾🔥
You're welcome!
wow man!! real piano hack❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏👌👌
What a great video
very useful video thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you :3
Very good pretty helpful
Thank you it's amazing
You're welcome! 🙂
great channel and thank you, would be nice though if you said why you selected these 6 notes to form your CM7 for the beginners.
Check out my 'Chord Of The Month' series, I go into details into all sorts of different voicings, including the one used in this video: ruclips.net/p/PL_yd4ERN4VtveyrDcExO_7cZinFP9cVZX
Thanks a lot! :)
yep. it works
"Chord of the month" - lovely concept
Nice tip for an playing exercise using the circle of 5ths thanks 👍🏽👍🏼
You're welcome!
Now I very much regret not paying that one dollar when you did the christmas time-offer:) Thank you for this great lesson, will definetly apply this!
*Yooooooo Simon! hope you’re doing great dude! I have a question: how would I voice a simple slash chord in the LEFT hand? Ex: F/G*
Great tips. I find my self having great success doing the sameish thing with the circle of 4ths amd 5ths. I start on F and go up the scale on my keys to a C then G exc. The way i change it up is i start on a different inversion of F each time. Being that there are only three inversions i get through every inversion of every major chord in three goes. Next, the minors. After that, the minors under the majors. Following that... well, youll have to pay my internet bill so i can upload it because i just spent all of my time practicing and forgot to go to work... its ok tho because now i can play every chord inversion with its minor companion at any time 👍
Sounds like good priorities, in the big picture
Holy s*** taking a chord and going chromatically anywhere is the same chord but in a different key... What a revelation!!
Wow.
5:35 - Where can I find the name for that voicing? Is it maj13? It has 7 and 9
Maybe the way to ask is how to build the name for the voicing.
maj9-13+7 ? Since for C the D is at 9, the A(13) is inside at 6 and the B(7) on the outside at 14
it’s Cmaj9(13) or Amin9(11) or G9(11) or D7sus(13) or a billion other names depending on how you think about it but since C is implied to be the root here it would he Cmaj9(13)
@@yes-ut3ro Thanks - I'm still at the level of counting, but working on sight.
You may know this RUclips trick: When a clip is paused the period "." key moves a frame forward, and the comma "," key moves a frame back. Usually the space bar pauses, when it doesn't try "k" - 25 frames per second
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Great lesson ❤️🙏🏻. Can anyone help me ?. When he was playing chromatic chord progression, how was he quickly able to figure out those new shapes ? . I find it very difficult. Is there any tips for this ?
Well if its chromatic, you move every note a half step up or a half step down. Don't try to go too fast. Make sure you get the hang of it. Visualize the notes you play. After a while you'll be able to remember them by heart. And you'll be able to add speed to it! (It sounds weird to try to teach someone how to practice music when i almost never practice lol.. That's how i learned my maj9, min9 and 13 voicings because i was tired of struggling when i had piano class lol). Anyway, i hope my tips have been useful, have fun practicing it!
@@Olivier81961 Thanks a lot for your help & sharing it in detail 🙏🏻. Very nice informative ❤️👌. Understood it now. Will start practicing now what you said😊
Also, try to familiarise yourself with intervals, i.e. the distance between each of the notes, which form the chords. This will help you greatly in transposing them to each of the other 11 keys…
Thanks for this really useful vid! How wd you describe the right hand notes? Is it 2,13,7 or 9,13,7? Thanks
Should be 9,13,7.
I’m just trying to figure this out. Help me understand why it isn’t 9,5,7.
FWIW that voicing is the relative minor chord first inversion in the LH with a dominant chord second inversion in the right hand. I don't know if this was meant to be, or by accident?
Hello, it makes sense to me but I have trouble understanding what going up “chromatically” means, like is this in terms with whole steps and half steps?
Are there exercises to get better at this type of parallel motion? I actually have a hard time transposing the voicing up and down like this. I have to do it very slowly, like one hand at a time. Is it just repetition?
It's just a matter of repetition. Try and do it with both hands right from the start, but just take it a slowly as you need to. There's no such thing as practicing too slow!
@@Piano_Pig Oh man... it is really hard, especially with a six note voicing. But I'll keep trying
If I may, I’d suggest you try transposing them blind. It may be counterintuitive, but I think freeing yourself from the need to visually focus on every chromatic step could be the key here.
In general, I believe using those visual feedback loops slows us down, and we need to learn to trust the senses of hearing and touch.
Delicious!
I use a tablet, but have never found any links etc left below whatever subject I'm watching/studying! Same goes for the one that I am trying to work out now! Someone told me that Tablets can't let me see the links.
Ooooooof, hitting the paywall is rough just when it's getting interesting, what are the other steps!? guess I'm signing up, you got me🤷♂️
2:56 here comes the shark! lol
Why does the cM7 have a D in it? I'm new to this so I don't know what's going on. CM has c-e-g-b the 13 would be A🤔
4:44 sounded like Giant Steps 👍🏻
Is it actually correct to call the chord by the name of the note at the bottom? Is C, F, A, D, G, B actually the key of C? Or Is it actually F (inverted) with the , 9, 11 and 13 (inverted) above it?
No, the chord is not based on the bottem note. But the distance relationship between them.
For exam, E G C Is a C major chord(C/E), not an E chord.
why am i watching this? i dont even own a piano..
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Time to master step 1: for me, approx. 1 year of practice.
See you in 2023.
So, how did the year go? Almost 2024
@@Zenas101 Nothing to be proud of :) But thanks for reminding me. Now I'll try it again.
Massive
The presenter has an agreeable manner and is showing us some useful things. The speaking style is a little stilted (such strange stresses on "the/thee") and the split infinitives sound like something off Star Trek, which is strange considering the attractive English accent. Just because jazz started in America, this doesn't mean that British jazz musicians need to change the way they speak. I say all this with friendly, constructive intentions and I look forward to more of these informative videos. And I thought the rinse and repeat bit was hilarious.
Why does the circle of fourths sound so much nicer than fifths?
Because it resolves to a 5th below each time you go round.
You have great way of explaining things. I don't understand your chord naming at 4:12...that's not C flat major etc. My theory stinks but C# major does not have E flat and C natural in it
Well... since beginning he is playing
1 3 13 at left and 9 5 7 at right.
To answer your quesiton, he was playing Cmaj13 chord but not the simple triad C major chord.(CEG)
E flat and C natural are 9th and 7th key on C major scale.
So at this point you have probably realized every keys on the scale can potentially be in the chord while extended.
C add2 can be considered as a C9(omit 7).
Coming from bass and guitar, it's so weird I have to memorize and practice every voicing in all keys. It's so much easier just to learn one shape and slide up and down the neck :D
Yes it's a whole lot easier on guitar that's for sure!
Same here haha
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Can you help me out please. I don't understand. You say it's a 13th chord but you don't have the 13th note. The 9th of a C maj 7chord is a D then the 12th is a G. The 13th (6th an octave up) is an A in the C scale. And you aren't playing an A anywhere in your C major 13th chord. So why are you calling it a C major 13? I am a new piano player so I am really trying to understand this. Thank you for all that you do for us!
He’s playing an A 3rd from the bottom. C-E-A-D-G-B
@@oscarallen8484 ah! Thank you. That makes sense now. And it would probably sound odd if the A was voiced with the higher notes of the 12 and 14.
But how do you remember the voicings forever? I can get any voicing under my fingers easily if I practice it daily ... but if I try to remember it after a one-month-break, it's all gone!
If you forget them a month later, you didn't do the exercise for long enough. You need to spend many hours with each voicing, and after you've taken it though this process you need to spend hours inserting it into progressions and standards. Only then will it be fully internalised and naturally appear in your playing.
It's not gone! It's just not on your mind and you don't know it well enough. What I do is keep a journal of my voicings/licks/progressions. That way I can forget how to play something, then revisit it later. And the second time you learn it, it's easier. Eventually it will become as natural as playing triads.
Don’t take a one month break practice every day even if it’s only 15 minutes
@@donmowers9175 I agree, you should revisit a concept daily. But sometimes I get excited to learn a new concept or voicing and will forget to play other ones. That's why it's important to keep a log, so you can come back a month later and remind yourself of the voicings that you forgot along the way. But yes work on SOMETHING every day
@@roblopeese2901 The last part of your sentence is the key to remembering all these chords..
I’m writing a jazz book myself and I use triads in my voicings and it makes them so easy to remember!
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