i love all your stuff……i wish that you and your team will provide more than one chords on next year lesson…
thats all….. bye

Wonderful tip. This will really cut down the time consumed in translating the note to the right alpahbet and play it which woul definitely increase the speed to read as well as play note. You ROCK.

Can the vidoes on this website be download able so that it is easy to watch on a big screen TV and play?

Thanks and Regards,

The CM9 should read 1 3 5 9 which will be C E G D.
Wish I could use an eraser in the blog (smile)

The numbers did not alien as I hoped they would but I hope you understand the number system. It helps me a lot.

There are a lot of great sights on the Internet referring to the number system if you do a search.

Maybe this will help: Ex: C scale

C D E F G A B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1 3 5 of the C scale makes a C Major chord CEG
1 3 5 7 would be a C7 chord etc.

CM9: C E G B D
1 2 3 5 9

This works for all scales.

Good luck with your lessons.

I have not really started on your lesson, if any, as you have recommended me to Yoke. I would like in addition to Yoke’s tuition online to have your assistance to progress in my keyboard playing also. I would like to learn to play those difficult runs, fill-ins and more. (Cascade, waterfall, etc) (Improvisation??) with that in mind, I have supplied you with my degree or lack of knowledge of playing the organ from 1960 onwards)

So, if you can assist me, I shall appreciate it very much. .

Due to a recent attack of a bad stroke which left me with a certain degree of impaired vision, I find it difficult to read the normal music books so I have to resort to the Hall Leonard Publisher’s EZ Play 3 Chord song books of which I have 3 and am ordering 2 more from JJ Pepper of USA since our Singapore bookshops do not carry stocks of them.

The print of those books is really bold and big making it easy for me to read them. Without music notes I do not know how to remember the chords to each stanza! I therefore cannot play by ear but have to read musical notes. I many times wonder how blind people like Richie could not only play so well but compose music as well and I marvel at such people.

My greatest difficulty is to remember those B chords like Bb9, Bbaug, Bbm7, Bbdim, Bb7#5 and the likes, Db#9(+5), Db7#5,Db13(-9),Ebdim7,Eb7(-9),Eb#9 and also the sharp chords e.g. F# etc. If you have an easier way to learn those difficult chords rather than memorise them, I shall also be obliged.

There are so many such chords though not common in songs and I am doubtful if I need to learn them. Sometimes I have come across in some songs the 13th.chord which seems also rare!

I remember my tutor knew how to count the number of the chords with the scales on a keyboard/piano/organ. Perhaps you could show me how to do it?

Thanks.
Regards,
Donald Yeo

Thank you so much. Right now

Thank you for offering these amazing, easy to understand free lessons. I can practice whenever I have time or the energy without actually having to make an appointment with an expensive music teacher. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge, especially ‘free of charge’, with other piano enthusiasts, beginners who may otherwise never have realised that no matter what age you are, you can still comprehend and play a tune on that wonderful instrument.