Minor piano chords are beautiful – here are some ways to make them even more interesting.

Good morning, this is Duane. Now there’s more than three ways, but I’m just going to cover 3 ways today. Let’s take a typical minor chord, I’ll take A minor, that’s probably the simplest. You can take any minor chord, D minor, E minor, F minor, C minor, D flat minor, whatever you want.

I’ll just take it, make it clear, by explaining A, C, and E that A minor chord which is relative to C major as you know. One way to spice up a minor chord, is to add a color tone of some sort, one or more color tones. If I add a seventh to add, if I’m playing A out to the left hand, and A chord in the right hand, if I have a seventh, that immediately makes it more mellow doesn’t it.

If I add a ninth, that really makes it a lot more complex, listen to this. That’s a lot more complex than … Just in, makes me intrigue. Better now if I was playing in church, and I was playing … Then I wouldn’t want that complexity, I want it straight and simple. If I’m playing something more jazz oriented or pop oriented then I may want to add those color tones.

That color tones such as a ninth, or a seventh, or both you can add a sixth that really makes it very colorful with the sixth. You can even add up fourth, it’s surprising, if you add a fourth along with … You have a real complex chord there. It makes it more way interesting than just a plain A minor chord. That’s one way you can add the color tones.

The next way is related to that, except they’re called passing tone, you can take say a ninth or second pass to the route or unless you heard this. You pass one color tone like a nice to the route, or seventh, seventh to the route, add the seventh, major seventh. By adding a passing tone, you make the chord more interesting right away too. The third way is to use a crunch.

A crunch is where you slide off one or more black keys, like that, you can crunch the board. It can be that black key, it could be black key, it kind of depends on where you at, it depends what you’re playing, if you’re playing a jazz oriented tune, then you definitely want that crunch sounds sometimes, not all the time but once in awhile.

Crunch can be slightly for black key, or it can be as simple as breaking a chord up from a top down. I encourage you to experiment a little bit, and trying all those ways. 3 basic Ways To Spice Up a Minor Chord, one is to add a color tone of some sort, such as a seventh, a sixth, or ninth, or all of the above.

Second ways to use color tones, as passing tones, and the third way is to use a crunch of some sort. Okay that’s it for today, if you enjoy this simple little piano tips, go on over playpiano.com and sign up for a free piano tips because they’re free. Thanks, see you there. Bye-bye.

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