YouTube Channel – www.YouTube.com/ChordsGalore Hi – this is Duane, and I’d like to take you to my YouTube channel. For those of you on YouTube that already know about how to get to channels and so on, you can tune … Continue reading →
Free Piano Videos on Google+ Pages Good morning. Â Â This is Duane Shinn and if you don’t know about Google+, I would like to show you how to find all kinds of free piano videos on my Google Plus Page. Â If … Continue reading →
What can you do with chords once you know them? There are upteen zillion things you can do with chords, and the more you learn about all aspects of music theory and form and compostion and improvisation and chord progressions, … Continue reading →
The basic chords of music are TRIADS – 3-note chords composed of various intervals of the scale based on the root, 3rd, and 5th and their alterations. To form a 4-note chord you simply add a note of the scale … Continue reading →
Any chord can be turned upside down simply by taking the bottom note of the chord and putting it on top – an octave higher. There are 3 positions of any 3-note chord (triad): root position, 1st inversion, and 2nd … Continue reading →
Diminished triads are formed by lowering the 3rd and the 5th of a major triad. (A triad is a 3-note chord). Remember that a major triad is formed from the root, 3rd, and 5th of a major scale. Watch this … Continue reading →
A triad is a 3-note chord of some kind, and an augmented triad is composed of a major 3rd stacked on top of a major third. That creates the “unbalanced” sound typical of an augmented triad. This short video demonstrates … Continue reading →
Somehow when folks talk about jazz chords they see them in an entirely different category from “regular chords”. So are they different? If so, how? This short video answers that question: Then click here: “Super Chords Made Super Simple!”
Continue reading →If you love old hymns and gospel songs, take a look at this 7-minute video. It is a preview of a course I have in arranging hymns and gospel songs — making them more interesting and exciting using chord techniques … Continue reading →
When there are flats in the key signature, how do you locate the key of the song? It’s easy. Just count down 4 scale degrees and that is the key.
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