While the harmony is still ‘in D’ you’re going to play a simple melody, walking over notes of the key (‘d’) from the ‘f#’ to the ‘a’ with both your left and your right hand, to ‘land’ on the next chord, Am9. Picture above indicates a couple of optional notes that you can use in the voicing. You’ll see me play a few different version myself throughout the video.
No extensions here yet, although a ‘sus2′ (‘9′) (the note ‘e’) is used as a flam-note (quickly playing the ‘e’ immediately ‘resolving’ to an f#), when the root position of the chord is played.Īs I indicate in the video, you can voice this chord however you like. The first chord ‘D’ is pretty straightforward. he knows the chords to the song) and uses his knowledge of chords and inversions, mixed with patterns, to create a ‘non-fixed’ piano piece, on the spot, that can (or even probably: will) thus not be exactly the same every different time he plays it.Ī great example of exactly what I’m trying to teach y’all here at Piano Couture: know your chords, know your patterns, add your creativity and feeling, mix ‘em all together and PLAY!Īpart from advising you to just follow the lesson in the video, I’ll quickly dive into the chords used (and their extension notes) and add some tips and explanation here: He just knows which harmonies he want to play when (e.g.
Practicing creativity, so to speak.Īs I also say in the video, this is one of those ‘freestyle’ songs, that also D’angelo himself, doesn’t really have a fixed piano piece for. This smooth song is a great exercise for practicing heavy voiced chords (with extension notes up to 13’s), groove and timing, as well as practicing ‘messing around’ with inversions and different ways of spreading the notes of a chord over the piano. Please leave a comment with your answer to the challenge as described at the end of the post.ĭ’angelo is a gifted songwriter, a true ‘soul-man’, one hell of a singer and on top of all that, also a great piano player. At the end of the text of this lesson, I added a little bonus for all of you newsletter subscribers and members, so read on! This week we’ll dive into extension notes again. How’s everybody doing? I must say that I’m a little disappointed and also scared, for I received not even one new-years-piano-goal-resolution, in the comments of last weeks post!Īlthough a few of the emails I received from many of you, did contain a few (which I already told you, I cannot post in the comments myself, it has to be you! please comment in stead of mail!), most of the emails also didn’t include any!ĭon’t you guys wanna learn and / or get better? 😉
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