Hi Tom. I love the sus chords, they always sound nice. I would love to learn to play some gospel songs, so I guess those chords are used there. I just googled 1 2 4 5 progression and it didn't come up with one single song lol. How can that be? Or rather not in that order. Not one!! Scratching my head now haha. Thanks for another lesson as it gives me something old or new to practice. 😉

@@amusical12 Great to hear from you and that you are using sus chords. Google won't help, unfortunately. with finding chord progressions by precise numbers. It has algorithms that won't understand these music theory conversations and even if it did, there is not much good information in the Google sphere on proper music theory. Ultimately you want to be listening to the bass lines of songs and working them out by ear. Here are a few 1 2 4 5 songs to start you off - "Want you back" (Take that) which is almost entirely that chord pattern, or "Love is all around" or even the connected verse section of that old classic "My Girl" - all a good example of the use of 1 2 4 5 in pop music bridging into a chorus. If you use the cheat sheet you can find it located in lots of other songs as well.

Thank you Tom and yep, you are correct with the Google thing 😊 I thought I'd have a look anyway, but not wasting my time with that. And yes I am interested in learning from your school. You are the best teacher (I believe) for me. You seem to get how I work. If you have time I just did a new piano version of "The Rose" but you will hear speak a bit about my music, playing by ear etc. That might help to understand where I'm coming from 😉 And yes thanks .... I have to listen to the melody and fit the bass lines in. I need practice on knowing which inversions to use.... onward I go. Hopefully I will be online with you soon. Thanks again

One thought is that since the 2 and the 4 are functionally the same, a song that used 1 4 5 could interject the 2, giving you 1 2 4 5. Like for Amazing Grace, in the first phrase: "how" is Dm, "sweet" is F, "the" is G, and "sound" is C.

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano Where did you find the cheat sheet?

Yes! That's the beauty of piano these scales and chords are far more accessible than they are given credit for!

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great comment RP - i've watched zillions of these things on YT - including some very good stuff - and maybe i'm getting better and have assimilated some things - but Mr Tom and the LCSP make it all i dunno coherent and understandable and practical

I know exactly what you mean about the impossibility of traditional lessons and I agree that this channel is priceless!

Thankyou Jorge. Glad it's helping!

That's great to hear, keep up the good work and we look forward to hearing more about your musical journey this year!

Great that you've made a start. To get to that next level, I'd reccomend the Groove Mastery Course lcsp.samcart.com/products/groove-mastery-everyday/

Yes, that's also a good example!

Happy to hear that you found the video interesting and useful.

You are very welcome

Thank you for your comment! I'm delighted to hear that you enjoyed the class and found it fun to play.

You're very welcome!

We have lots of other videos, many more advanced ones. Try the 2-5-1 videos and the advanced jazz chords videos. That will keep you pretty busy for now!

Best of luck with your playing!

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Glad it was helpful!

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Yes the software is called Classroom Maestro! It's very useful.

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano Thank you

@@crox_rox I should add I think it only works on laptops/computer but they might have a tablet version.

Get in touch with www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com we have a masterclass on these chords specifically. Just mention this video!

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano done........thx

Cait is the Course Enrolments Director of the School, she doesn't check the KZfaq channel comments, it's best you email her if you'd like to speak with her, or email the team via the website, www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com

Haha - I've been told I look like him - but I've never quite seen it myself! But you aren't the only one to have said so....

There are so many reasons why you should study progressions. Chord progressions are in everything you'll ever learn and play, the piano is an instrument of chords (harmony) you are not just playing one note at a time. It's not a niche skill for composers only, it's an essential skill, that will enable you to understand how music works. Everything you hear, listen to, in music, is a chord progression. So understanding this probably is the most important "musical nutrition" a beginner can have. The benefits are too many to list in one message but would include, improved technique, understanding of sound, vital ear training (hearing major and minor), improved sight-reading (you'll actually know what you are reading!) and the list goes on! Hope this helps

Good question. So let me answer it in two parts. The first part, adding notes to a chord progression or melody that are not in scale, can be referred to as "borrowing notes from other keys", I like to call it letting in the neighbors. Music would be boring if it was only diatonic to the exact key. So composers never think of music as "you are not allowed to add notes from other keys" or their music could be very bland. So given that, why is it we refer to b3, b2, or b6 as major chords. The reason being, is usually, when we borrow a chord from another key, it will be a secondary dominant or a flattened major chord. That's because it is more "cohesive" to the sound. Though there is nothing from stopping a composer using minor flattened chords. It will just sound a bit more abstract, and polytonal, rather than consistent. I hope this helps! If you visit our website www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com and email us, we can provide you with some very valuable information on our courses which will help you really "feel" and understand this type of theory in a more artistic way. Many thanks for your quesiton.

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Thanks for your reply cap ..... I am just a beginner so this question derives from my level of overstand of scales thus far in my journey

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Be kind on yourself and take it slowly. Start with one progression, get comfortable with that. We are not computers, we don't need lots of RAM, it's all about emotion! In the age of AI a computer will beat us every time, but I will never ever beat us on emotion!

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano Thank you very much for your nice feedback. I will take this to heart. It was probably that I’m too impatient. But luckily I’m persistent. And hope dies last. One day I would like to increase my pension, e.g. in the church as an organist. That’s why I don’t let it go and work every day as often as I can on my progress.

@18:50 is at the end of the video, I'm not sure which part you are referring to specifically, but the software for chord recognition (Classroom Maestro) is hyper-sensitive to non-chord-related finger techniques such as arpeggiation, so it will occasionally display the chord in a different format. Though you can explain certain chords that are the same in different ways, take Csus4, it has exactly the same notes as Fsus2...(for example)

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano @16:20 F2 C4 D4 G4 can be interpreted in a number of ways, but F-5add9 isn't one of them.

@@ugajin7348 yes Csus2/F is much better or 1sus2/4 as on the lead sheet in our resources pack which is available via our site www.contemporaryschoolofpiano.com

@@contemporaryschoolofpiano If it is interpreted from the bass up, it ought to show F6(s2). No one's bogged down here! :)

Heh , ya , I was puzzled too. I was thinking (since no third) maybe there’s a case for: “Fsus2-5add9” but that’s just nonsense! Lol.

Hi Shirley. Thanks for asking this. Actually, this is a big misconception. Chords in the bass often sound muddy and bland and too many method books push this arrangement style which is a huge shame. There are better arrangement principles that are followed by composers, in general, to avoid the muddiness of a left-hand chord over a singular melody in the right-hand. Here are 3 vastly better ways. 1 Chords accompaniment in the left hand, as arpeggios against a right-hand melody. 2 Chord in the right hand integrated with melody in the right hand (I have some training videos on how to do this) with a bass line in the left hand. 3. Arpeggios in both hands spread out over the piece. Whatever way you look at it, you can't avoid that your right-hand needs to play chords and often! Be it Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata all the way to an Elton John song. Keep in mind all piano accompaniment figurations, mostly use right-hand chords as well. So it's really useful to train both hands in playing chords and melody. Hands need to switch roles in most piano playing.

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