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Rainbow Colored Chords Bring Beauty Into Your Piano Improvisations

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Piano Improvisations Using “Rainbow Chords” To Create Color & Life

Today we are going to take a look at piano improvisations using “Rainbow Chords”. What are Rainbow Chords? Like a rainbow, they add an array of colors to most any song when applied with taste and discretion.

Watch this video to see how to apply colorful chords to songs. I use the song “Over The Rainbow” to illustrate the principle of rainbow chords, but the technique is applicable to most any song. (Except classical, of course). It’s not difficult, but it takes time to experiment around and discover what works in a specific situation.

This assumes that you know chords. If you don’t, please go to a video such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eq4r8EskpU  that teaches chords before watching this video.

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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

Here is the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIbe979tv6E

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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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