How to Play Piano Chords in 12 Levels

How to Play Piano Chords in 12 Levels | Piano Tutorial

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Here's a short tutorial of how to play piano chords in 12 levels, using different techniques from beginner to insane. What are the 12 levels of playing chords at the piano? This is a piano chords tutorial for beginners
0:00 Intro
0:15 L1. Root Position | Closed Voicings
0:51 L2. Inversions
1:30 L3. Open Voicings | Drop Voicings
2:38 L4. Octave Displacement & Duplicates
3:18 L5. Extensions
3:53 L6. Rootless
4:20 L7. Functional Chord/Chord-scales
4:59 L8. Upper Structure Triads
5:43 L9. Upper Structure Quartals
6:37 L10. Hexatonics
7:18 L11. Stacked Structures
8:34 L12...!!! Poly-Structured Clusters :)
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@mDecksMusic 3 жыл бұрын

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@danchernowmusicandtranscri2112 Жыл бұрын

This concept is incredible. I am writing my next set of exercises to practice for the next year or so based on this! Thanks so much for expanding my brain!

@LandyA33333 Жыл бұрын

To mDecks, you have great skill. I would give anything to be as good as you are. I will keep going back over it patiently to glean more each time I watch it.

@miso5554 4 жыл бұрын

I love that ending run... great sound!

@bekagigauri1799 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for great lesson!!

@pentapandamusic 4 жыл бұрын

Love the video, thank for the cleat illustration

@pacopena7749 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, Excellent !!

@Vipelez 4 жыл бұрын

Cannot wait to level up =) Thanks for the video!

@anjinmiura1158 4 жыл бұрын

Cool video. Everything in a nutshell. Nice!

@PlayitonPan 4 жыл бұрын

I’m ½ way through watching this video for the first time. Before we get into the “more interesting” 🤯 levels, let’s take stock of where I am now. Basically L2. I use inversions but may repeat tones in higher octaves (i.e. ignorant of drop 2). I would often extend with octave displacement… but more like octave repetition. For example, on my F3-C6 (32-note) caribbean steelpan instrument, I may voice a C⁷ chord as G3, B♭3, C4, E4, G4, B♭4, C5, E5, G5, B♭5, C6. Notice that all I’ve done is play every possible chord tone on the instrument. No drop voicing. In this instance, I haven’t even extended the chord. Okay… back to the video for the second half 📺👀🎓

@ajadrew 4 жыл бұрын

Just what I needed...thank you!

@nyambe 6 ай бұрын

lol it almost sounds easy. Great explanations

@CazimirCostea 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@deborahgordillo1251 Жыл бұрын

Fabulous video

@DanielCespedes 4 жыл бұрын

this video was mad helpful. have to admit I got lost after L7 so I'll have to watch a few times over, haha

@danielportugal1507 Жыл бұрын

same

@joaocatan 4 жыл бұрын

I would like to know where I can find this complete lessons please. thank you

@PlayitonPan 4 жыл бұрын

*The 12 Levels* L01 0:22 Root Position (Closed Voicings) L02 0:52 Inversions (Closed Voicings) L03 1:36 Open Voicings & Drop Voicings L04 2:42 Octave Displacement & Duplicates L05 3:18 Extensions L06 3:54 Rootless _The More Interesting Levels_ L07 4:23 Functional Chord-Chordscales L08 5:01 Upper Structure Triads L09 5:48 Upper Structure Quartals L10 6:42 Hexatonics L11 7:24 Stacked Structures L12 8:48 Poly-Structure Clusters

@randebuu1 2 жыл бұрын

Jesus this is so useful to have a peek on things i dont know or the reasons why i should learn a bit more of music theory as a self taught. Thanks a lot! Ps i pooped myself on 12

@oakywood9509 Жыл бұрын

When I still can't find the chord, I guess I'm stuck at the basement!

@hoboken5224 3 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the pitchman for mDecks Music?

@IgorBogomazov Жыл бұрын

split chords fall under L8 upper triads?

@alvodin6197 10 ай бұрын

Where can we find the course for those 12 licks arpeggio runs? Can't find it on the website

@jsw0278 Жыл бұрын

So level 11 is similar to the hexatonic level 10 except you can play the structures simultaneously?

@mDecksMusic Жыл бұрын

yes

@johnwade7430 3 жыл бұрын

L11 - it did sound very Messiaenic. So are you suggesting that Messiaen’s book ‘The Technique of my musical language’ is about Jazz piano voicing??;-) Ho Ho/....

@mancavelegostudios9711 3 жыл бұрын

You scared the poop out of me at level 12...

@EricNolaime 3 жыл бұрын

At level 7, you say V7 of vi but it is written V7 of ii ?? Is it a mistake or is there something I did not understand (which would be normal because I'm not a jazz musician 😊)

@mDecksMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Probably a mistake. The point is that the V7/ii and the V7/vi both take mixo b9 b13 as the chord-scale. That's the key element. Thanks for the feedback.

@EricNolaime 3 жыл бұрын

@@mDecksMusic Thanks for your answers. I must admit I don't get how we find the notes from the V/ii or V/vi but I'll try to figure it out.... :) great video by the way!!

@danchernowmusicandtranscri2112 Жыл бұрын

@@mDecksMusic Hmm I agree that V7/vi takes mixo b9 b13 I was taught that V7/ii takes mixo b13. The reasoning being to keep the natural 9 on V7/ii, for example, a C7 chord- the note D- would be the natural 6 on the resolution ii chord- Fm7. Seeing as natural 6 is desirable on the ii chord and is the characteristic note in dorian, whereas the b13,- the note Ab- would be the b3 on the Fm7 chord. Tough to explain but does this make sense?

@michaeldewitt3451 4 жыл бұрын

So what’s lvl 12?? Poly-structured chords? Isn’t that the same of a poly chord?

@mDecksMusic 4 жыл бұрын

Clusters. Group of notes in a cluster taken at random from upper structures existing inside the chordscale

@michaeldewitt3451 4 жыл бұрын

Oh ok thank you for the clarification!

@jojo-fj7lw 2 жыл бұрын

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP HIM OUT FROM THE LEVEL 12😭 HE DEFINITELY NEEDS HELP

@ajv5811 4 жыл бұрын

you lost me at 9 👀

@efraincantu9647 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, C'mon ! You are ugly guys ! Lol !!!!! Great video by the way !

@LandyA33333 Жыл бұрын

Nice likeable guy but presented in a fast, way-over-the-top, complex way. This is obviously for advanced players, especially if, after level four, he does not stop and interpret/translate and illustrate the chords he uses. Goes too fast to assimilate. Not many followers, perhaps because of this, or perhaps because this is for limited audience of very advanced players, of whom there are not many. I wish him luck. Others find this valuable looking but hard to follow?

@danchernowmusicandtranscri2112 Жыл бұрын

Nah. I see this video as more of an FYI type of video. He's whetting your appetite for all the voicing and structural possibilities that exist for a simple chord type. If you don't understand something, well that's kind of the point- the next step should be you starting your investigation and improving your knowledge and skills. You can't do that in one video alone. I loved the video as it shows me- a piano player for 2.5 years but a guitar player for 38 years- just where my chord skills are in my brain (can't complain), on guitar (got a bit of work to do) and on piano (got a LOT of work to do!). I took notes and tomorrow I'll be making some piano exercises for myself to drill the lower chord levels and see what can be improved upon there, as well as eventually with the higher levels. This was one of the most enlightening videos I have seen anywhere.