I like to teach it like: MAJOR triad: start skip 3 keys play skip 2 keys play which can be truncated to: start, skip 3, skip 2 So minor triad is: start, skip 2, skip 3 and diminished triad is: start, skip 2, skip 2 and AUGMENTED triad is: start, skip 3, skip 3 The transition to official interval names is: the skip 3s are major (bigger) thirds and the skip 2s (smaller) are minor thirds etc.
Omg Ashlee you make it so simple, I think I want to marry you!! I learnt the major 2212221 but never thought to extend that to chords, thank you for your enlightenment and I'm serious about the wanting to marry you lol 😎
One piece I have always loved is Henry Mancini's Shadows of Paris. I have searched in vain for a full piano score but I did find a lead sheet. I have previously fought shy of using lead sheets because I didn't know how to play them but I had no choice on this occasion. Learning this piece, which is in Ab major, I found that the third bar starts with a Db but the chord is C7 which doesn't feature a Db. Looking through many pieces I see that it is fairly common for a chord to be used which doesn't feature the note being played. I would be grateful if anybody could explain why they do this. Thanks
Thanks a lot for coming up with this simple formula to create chords. I play guitar and never thought of this simple way of coming up with chords. You make me want to venture into learning piano now.
The thing is that memorising the chords as you say in root position is good information but the real challenge and method for playing chords in a tune is to be able to quickly play them using inversions of the chords rather than jumping all over the place. This is my challenge to myself but at 74 I have give up numerous times as I find it overwhelming.
There's no remedy or solution , you have to be patient with yourself and resort to trial and error. From my point of view , just be happy with what you know and enjoy yourself. We already have had the following MUSICAL GENIUSES , BEETHOVEN, MOZART, MILES DAVIS , and many others.
Hi Ashlee, this is a pretty informative video. I kill two birds with one stone by watching your video. English is not my mother language (I amSlovak). I practise my listening skills and improve my music theory. And here is the problem: I know that major chord is C,G,... Minor chord is Cmi, Dmi. But what looks like diminished chord or half diminished cord or augmented chord?
Would U have anything on "Chord" Progressions❓I had a class a long time ago which taught how use a "Pivot" chord to modulate to a new key, but no longer have the notes. Thank you.♦️
That's certainly the 'tried and true' classical formula for building chords, but it ain't easy and learning one per week will take forever when you consider there are root, 1st and 2nd inversions to come and you have two hands to train? I like 'all chords with E in the middle' practice, but how about combining with the 'circle' CFBEADGC or reverse CGDAEBFC and doing 7 at a time?
When you learn one person week, do it with the inversions. Sounds like it’ll take forever but I guarantee they learn about a deeper level and much faster than if you try to learn them all at one time (where you won’t retain)
Ashlee, you're on RUclips now?! I guess it's been awhile! Your video just randomly popped up on my RUclips feed. Subscribed, and now I'll have to go back and watch all of your videos. Former student here: Ashlee is an amazing piano teacher and a fabulous player herself! She met me at my skill level (a 40-something music teacher wanting to hone his piano skills) and helped me reach the next level. If she can help me, she can help you too!
So great to see you pop up here! I suppose I started right after you stopped lessons! Thank you for the kind words - you are awesome and I hope to see you pop up around here more!
@@AshleeYoungMusicStudio Yah, a single triad per day; always returning to the previous one(s) learned. Repeat this next week, should become muscle memory. Simply adding new chords as time permits. TYSM !
Never Had A Piano Lesson - Wish I did - "I've written over three hundred songs - Almost got major record deals several times - I still dont know anything about piano methods or reading music, anyways, I enjoyed this lesson - My songs are Bo Johnson - One Man Band - "Thank You
Ashlee has done nothing wrong. Any Teacher will demo using different starting points. My brain prefers those variations from the same "tonic" starting point.
I love how you dot the keys in your tutorial! I've been using physical stickers (micro dots from Office Depot) for years to help kids jam out on the blues scale. I wish I had your film editing skills too this is nicely put together.
Thank you! I can’t totally take credit for this, it is my assistant who does an incredible job editing the videos. But I absolutely love the dots as well, it really does something with the video that I used to think was only possible to do in person :-)
Your communication skills are fantastic, I could listen to you explaining things like forever. Thank you for this tutorial, very clear and well understood.👌
Wow¡ Excellent vídeo¡ Not only by topic (I love formulas and patterns) but your clear explanation. Thanks for help me to love more the piano. Greetings from Colombia.
Glad I am here this morning. Been learning the hard way (multi directions and sources of musical knowledge) . I am seriously beginning to see the Light and project that i can tackle my piano and soon upgrade it. Let's the fun times begin.😊
Well done, Ashlee. Very informative. Now I know the notes in the chords in this passage from "The Swan": G dim, C#m9, Bm, F#7. Now the hard part: Figure out the best ORDER of the notes in the chords to play this particular sequence of those 4 chords AND what fingers to what notes. Seems that music sheet publishers should help us out with that . . .
Have wanted to play piano all my life (like many..). Never had the money for lessons . Now at 73 have decided i might try but about 1min 30 sec in, my eyes start to cross . Think it wasn’t meant to be. Thank you for your video .! 🌹
Outstanding! I'm a long-time (self-taught) guitar player whose pea brain thinks in shapes and templates. This unlocks a lot for me as I start noodling on the piano for the first time. Thank you!
I think that learning Pentatonic Scale it will be easier to find the key of any song, at least I do that on guitar very effectively, piano is the same pattern.
I have a laminated chord chart booklet I purchased from a music store. I can write down the formulas and use the chord chart as a visual, Thank you for this tutorial. 😊
Thanks. This was a lot info for my beginner brain. I'll come back as I get better. I'm still not certain why composers use all these chords, especially adding more notes to a 3-note chord. Is it to get the exact sound and exact coloration they want in their piece?
‼️ Grab your FREE PDFs here Major Scale Fingering Freebie: www.ashleejyoung.com/majorscales Inversions freebie: www.ashleejyoung.com/inversions ‼️ The secret sauce behind beautiful and accurate piano playing that no one’s talking about? ✅ Sight reading. Want to learn how it helps and how to practice it correctly? 🚨 👉🏼Get access to a FREE class where you’ll learn that plus more HERE: www.ashleejyoung.com/speedreader
remembering what chords are in a composition definitely helps me memorize attempting to play jazz you will find chords can be functional or non-functional, there is blues in jazz and blues is a series of non-functional dominant chords in a 1 4 5 pattern theory for me is a way to explain intervals and patterns, what chords are related that might come next, and what my options are as an improviser or when trying to write new music I am a permanent student of jazz improvisation, sometimes I take the chords you show me and try to make it swing, I think a good improviser is playing chords over chords which is a concept known as superimposing, that and are well familiar with the concept of voice leading or connecting one chord to another I'm curious about the idea of using counterpoint and a moving independent second voice when I improvise as I have always been attracted to bach and high speed polyphony I recommend playing bach every day and the jazz piano book by mark levine
Thanks! This is a really cool video! I think at this stage I know all the chords from the theory, rather how to read the chords quickly from the music sheet, and thus practice, which is super important for sight reading... if you have any suggestions on how to train sightreading chords, I am interested. Thank you for your hard work on this channel!! :D
As a self-taught “pianist”, this is going to send me SAILING!! Thank you
Woohoo!!
🤯.... seriously thank you! I've watched many many many videos touching on chords and nobody broke it down so simply as this!
I like to teach it like:
MAJOR triad: start
skip 3 keys
play
skip 2 keys
play
which can be truncated to: start, skip 3, skip 2
So minor triad is: start, skip 2, skip 3
and diminished triad is: start, skip 2, skip 2
and AUGMENTED triad is: start, skip 3, skip 3
The transition to official interval names is: the skip 3s are major (bigger) thirds
and the skip 2s (smaller) are minor thirds
etc.
As a Classical Trained guitarist and with a Music Theory back ground it has made me to understand piano somewhat easily! Ive Always loved the Piano!
Woohooo! This is great news!
Omg Ashlee you make it so simple, I think I want to marry you!! I learnt the major 2212221 but never thought to extend that to chords, thank you for your enlightenment and I'm serious about the wanting to marry you lol 😎
One piece I have always loved is Henry Mancini's Shadows of Paris. I have searched in vain for a full piano score but I did find a lead sheet. I have previously fought shy of using lead sheets because I didn't know how to play them but I had no choice on this occasion.
Learning this piece, which is in Ab major, I found that the third bar starts with a Db but the chord is C7 which doesn't feature a Db.
Looking through many pieces I see that it is fairly common for a chord to be used which doesn't feature the note being played. I would be grateful if anybody could explain why they do this.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for coming up with this simple formula to create chords. I play guitar and never thought of this simple way of coming up with chords. You make me want to venture into learning piano now.
you make me wanna learn ....i might buy a keyboard ....bit old tho
Love this. Super helpful for a novice. I can't see the link for the PDF; apologies if I've missed it.
The thing is that memorising the chords as you say in root position is good information but the real challenge and method for playing chords in a tune is to be able to quickly play them using inversions of the chords rather than jumping all over the place. This is my challenge to myself but at 74 I have give up numerous times as I find it overwhelming.
I have one for that too!
ruclips.net/video/onDl9euLfsk/видео.htmlsi=mae2UCXTItyNJfti
Practice SLOWLY! Slow practice is the “fast” path to playing finally at tempo.
There's no remedy or solution , you have to be patient with yourself and resort to trial and error. From my point of view , just be happy with what you know and enjoy yourself. We already have had the following MUSICAL GENIUSES , BEETHOVEN, MOZART, MILES DAVIS , and many others.
Best ever post, tutored very nicely, Thank you
Please keep going it will come, inversions are not an instant learn. But take time.
Hi Ashlee, this is a pretty informative video. I kill two birds with one stone by watching your video. English is not my mother language (I amSlovak). I practise my listening skills and improve my music theory. And here is the problem: I know that major chord is C,G,... Minor chord is Cmi, Dmi.
But what looks like diminished chord or half diminished cord or augmented chord?
I love it!! Aug is C+ and diminished is c*
Would U have anything on "Chord" Progressions❓I had a class a long time ago which taught how use a "Pivot" chord to modulate to a new key, but no longer have the notes. Thank you.♦️
Just today I released a video on a chord progression!
That's certainly the 'tried and true' classical formula for building chords, but it ain't easy and learning one per week will take forever when you consider there are root, 1st and 2nd inversions to come and you have two hands to train? I like 'all chords with E in the middle' practice, but how about combining with the 'circle' CFBEADGC or reverse CGDAEBFC and doing 7 at a time?
When you learn one person week, do it with the inversions. Sounds like it’ll take forever but I guarantee they learn about a deeper level and much faster than if you try to learn them all at one time (where you won’t retain)
Your videos are so well done! Very good explanations. Thanks.
Thank you thank you!
You’re a great teacher.. I’m learning a lot everyday now.. as a musician it’s a very important to me to play my own stuff to avoid lawsuits etc
Always best to create your own
Ashlee, you're on RUclips now?! I guess it's been awhile! Your video just randomly popped up on my RUclips feed. Subscribed, and now I'll have to go back and watch all of your videos.
Former student here: Ashlee is an amazing piano teacher and a fabulous player herself! She met me at my skill level (a 40-something music teacher wanting to hone his piano skills) and helped me reach the next level. If she can help me, she can help you too!
So great to see you pop up here! I suppose I started right after you stopped lessons! Thank you for the kind words - you are awesome and I hope to see you pop up around here more!
You won’t believe how much this video helped!!! Thank you sooo much!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Yay! I’m so happy to hear that!
@@AshleeYoungMusicStudio Yah, a single triad per day; always returning to the previous one(s) learned. Repeat this next week, should become muscle memory. Simply adding new chords as time permits. TYSM !
@@R.Akerman-oz1tf exactly!
That’s difficult for me my brain isn’t so good but I’ll try?😊
Excellent piano chords presentation. Thank you so much.
Never Had A Piano Lesson - Wish I did - "I've written over three hundred songs - Almost got major record deals several times - I still dont know anything about piano methods or reading music, anyways, I enjoyed this lesson - My songs are Bo Johnson - One Man Band - "Thank You
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing teacher with excellent communication skills. Thumbs up!
Ashlee has done nothing wrong. Any Teacher will demo using different starting points. My brain prefers those variations from the same "tonic" starting point.
Awesome. Tqvm
I love how you dot the keys in your tutorial! I've been using physical stickers (micro dots from Office Depot) for years to help kids jam out on the blues scale. I wish I had your film editing skills too this is nicely put together.
Thank you! I can’t totally take credit for this, it is my assistant who does an incredible job editing the videos. But I absolutely love the dots as well, it really does something with the video that I used to think was only possible to do in person :-)
Very useful thanks a ton
Thank you for the info Ashlee
Your communication skills are fantastic, I could listen to you explaining things like forever. Thank you for this tutorial, very clear and well understood.👌
Thank you thank you!
Wow¡ Excellent vídeo¡ Not only by topic (I love formulas and patterns) but your clear explanation. Thanks for help me to love more the piano. Greetings from Colombia.
Thanks for saying so!!! Glad to hear it :)
Glad I am here this morning. Been learning the hard way (multi directions and sources of musical knowledge) . I am seriously beginning to see the Light and project that i can tackle my piano and soon upgrade it. Let's the fun times begin.😊
Yayyyy! This is huge!!
Excellent. Thank you!!
Your positive energy is inspirational, and I like your approach to the keyboard, me I just search it for something new
Thank you for saying that!
You must be doing something wrong. I actually understood that . . .
😂😂😂
Well done, Ashlee. Very informative.
Now I know the notes in the chords in this passage from "The Swan": G dim, C#m9, Bm, F#7.
Now the hard part: Figure out the best ORDER of the notes in the chords to play this particular sequence of those 4 chords AND what fingers to what notes.
Seems that music sheet publishers should help us out with that . . .
Wonderful teacher .Real communicator.Congrats from India.Thank you.👍
I was looking forward to receiving the link in the email, but I didn't find it, and it was not in the spam.
Hmmmm can you email info@CasualtoConfidentPianoPlayer.com and we’ll sort it out for you!
I enjoyed this lesson very much. Very informative. Loved it. Thank you.
You’re welcome, thanks for saying so!
Excellent explanation! I started playing the piano only with improvisations. This is very useful.
I can now understand how chords work. Thank you Ashlee
Bravo! That’s awesome 👏🏻
Great video! i'm learning how to play the piano!
I dont know why, but you remember me the Kim Raver
Cheers from Brazil!
Love this
Have wanted to play piano all my life (like many..). Never had the money for lessons . Now at 73 have decided i might try but about 1min 30 sec in, my eyes start to cross . Think it wasn’t meant to be. Thank you for your video .! 🌹
Amazing!
Outstanding! I'm a long-time (self-taught) guitar player whose pea brain thinks in shapes and templates. This unlocks a lot for me as I start noodling on the piano for the first time. Thank you!
How about a video on how to quickly identify the key of a song? Specifically on the music sheet. Thanks for the content.
Love that idea - it’s on my list!
I think that learning Pentatonic Scale it will be easier to find the key of any song, at least I do that on guitar very effectively, piano is the same pattern.
Thank you for sharing this information with others. I love music. I’ve been playing keyboard for so many years.
I'd love to see a part II with suspended, 9th/2nd
No free pdf , clicked on everything and no pdf?
Hmmm did you check spam?
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I have a laminated chord chart booklet I purchased from a music store. I can write down the formulas and use the chord chart as a visual, Thank you for this tutorial. 😊
Great idea! You’re welcome
Can u share it?
@@Makkal123 Keyboard Chord Chart.
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You made it look simple. Thank you🙏
Awesoem
Something to add to the daily practice routine … thanks! 🎼🎹😄
Thank you very much indeed ❤
Thanks for your Tutorial! I teach it similar in Switzerland. Have a groovy day! 😎Serge
Oh so awesome! Thanks!
Thanks. This was a lot info for my beginner brain. I'll come back as I get better. I'm still not certain why composers use all these chords, especially adding more notes to a 3-note chord. Is it to get the exact sound and exact coloration they want in their piece?
Yes exactly! And sounds like a plan 👍🏻
I really appreciate you for this exposition. God bless you
Good Job Explaining Miss👌🏿
Thanks for the information about chords Amen
Thank you! This is almost exactly how decades ago I learned how to memorize chord shapes and how to recognize chords by ear. Very useful tutorial.
Awesome - thanks for saying so!
Hi Ashlee, couldn't find the PDF. Could you please provide the link to download? Thank you.
‼️ Grab your FREE PDFs here
Major Scale Fingering Freebie: www.ashleejyoung.com/majorscales
Inversions freebie: www.ashleejyoung.com/inversions
‼️ The secret sauce behind beautiful and accurate piano playing that no one’s talking about?
✅ Sight reading.
Want to learn how it helps and how to practice it correctly?
🚨 👉🏼Get access to a FREE class where you’ll learn that plus more HERE: www.ashleejyoung.com/speedreader
Ashley you did a marvelous job!
Thanks you so much!
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You are very welcome! Thank you for taking the time to say so 🙂
I loved this ❤ 👏👏🙏🙏
Great explaination!
Thank you!
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Thank you for sharing. very informative video
You’re very welcome!
Very useful
Thanks
Thanks for explaining that so well! You made it easy!
You’re welcome and I’m glad to hear it!
Brilliant video!
Thank you!
This is inspiring!!!
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Yep!
remembering what chords are in a composition definitely helps me memorize
attempting to play jazz you will find chords can be functional or non-functional, there is blues in jazz and blues is a series of non-functional dominant chords in a 1 4 5 pattern
theory for me is a way to explain intervals and patterns, what chords are related that might come next, and what my options are as an improviser or when trying to write new music
I am a permanent student of jazz improvisation, sometimes I take the chords you show me and try to make it swing, I think a good improviser is playing chords over chords which is a concept known as superimposing, that and are well familiar with the concept of voice leading or connecting one chord to another
I'm curious about the idea of using counterpoint and a moving independent second voice when I improvise as I have always been attracted to bach and high speed polyphony
I recommend playing bach every day and the jazz piano book by mark levine
Thanks! This is a really cool video! I think at this stage I know all the chords from the theory, rather how to read the chords quickly from the music sheet, and thus practice, which is super important for sight reading... if you have any suggestions on how to train sightreading chords, I am interested. Thank you for your hard work on this channel!! :D
Of course! Try this ruclips.net/video/Vq90J29vaJQ/видео.htmlsi=b1O4A6fxDD1QRLoO
Ashlee this is soooo good and logical and well done. Thank u very much. From Brian in North Carolina.
Glad you’re enjoying it!