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4 Ways To Play a Right Hand Melody On The Piano

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4 Ways To Play a Right Hand Melody In a Song

 

Duane: Good morning. This is Duane. Today I’d like to talk about four different ways to play a right hand melody.

 
You have a lot of options when you play a right melody, and here’s at least four of them. I’m not saying there’s not more, but … in fact, I know there’s a lot more, but I’m just going to cover four basic ones.

 
The most basic, of course, is to just play a single finger melody. For example, if you’re playing “Moon River”, you can play … (music playing). Right?

 
Or, you could put one note under the melody. Usually, the best combination is a third, but not always. So in other words … (music playing). See that? Okay.

 
Another way is to play a whole chord. In fact, you could just play a triad (music playing). The triad, the three note chord, but you could also put in color tones.

 
Actually, I’m giving a third way already. In addition to the chord itself, you can put in a sixth or a ninth or a seventh or all (music playing). There’s a four note chord that I’m playing right there. Okay? So sometimes … often there are four note chords when you put in a color tone. A color tone, of course, being a seventh or sixth or a ninth or seventh and a ninth or a seventh and a sixth. It could be any combination of things like that. Okay.

 
Then the fourth way … actually, this is the fifth, we’ve covered four … is to play an octave filled in with chords. In other words, play a chord but play the melody in octave but filled in with chords (music playing).

 
Okay. Now when it comes to actually playing a song, we usually combine those. We don’t use one thing all the way through. For example, if I’m playing “All the Things You Are” … (music playing). I started out as a single finger, but then I went to full chord. So you want to mix it up to get some variety. Okay.

 
Well I think that’s all I have to say right now. We tried to cover four ways and we actually covered six ways. So you can see there’s many, many ways to play that right hand melody.

 
But there’s four of them: a single finger; two notes at a time; three notes a time, a triad; or four notes at a time; or octaves with a whole chord filled in, which would be four or five notes a time because you could put in a color tone in octave as well.

 
So that’s it for today. If you enjoy these little tips, come on to playpiano.com and sign up for a whole series of video tips and instruction on music theory and so on. So I hope to see you there. Bye-bye for now.

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BackdoorHi. This is Duane again and I’d like to tell you about a little book that I wrote a few years back. It’s called Piano Chords and Chord Progressions: The Secret Backdoor to Exciting Piano Playing. It’s a terrific resource about chords. If you want to know more about chords, you ought to latch on to this book. It’s just barely over ten bucks, eleven bucks I think it is.

 
It covers all the chords and chord progressions that I talk about in my videos. It’s just a great … It’s not a substitute for a videos or DVDs, but it’s a great summary. It’s so inexpensive that it’s well worth your while to get.

 
Here’s a table of contents. You just look down here and see all the things it covers. Starts out with major/minor, diminished, augmented, sixth, seventh, and on to thirteenth chords, and suspensions and alterations and then goes on to chord progressions, and so on.

 
It’s a very thorough book and it’s got a lot of illustrations. I’ll just toggle through a little bit. There’s the back cover. So it’s worth your while to get.

 
So I hope you take advantage of that. Thank you. Bye-bye for now.

 

Click on this link to watch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6IkSWk3QeU&feature=youtu.be

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Here’s a great little book on chords and chord progressions on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Piano-Chords-Chord-Progressions-Exciting-ebook/dp/B0076OUGDE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404158669&sr=1-1&keywords=piano+chords+duane+shinn

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About Duane

Duane Shinn (that would be me) has good news for you if you want to play the piano. He (me) has little fat hands & stubby little fingers - not at all suited for playing the piano - more suited to making mud pies or some such. I am also fairly uncoordinated with just average musical ability - certainly not a great piano player. But I've learned a ton about music over the years and people tell me I'm pretty decent at explaining how music works & how to progress more rapidly on the piano. Over the years I have developed about 150 techniques for conquering the piano. Most professional pianists can do these techniques, but very few can explain them in a way people can understand. I specialize in making complex techniques simple. I invite you to watch a few of my free videos and see some of these for yourself before making any decision about taking any of my courses.

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