6 MUST KNOW Piano Chord Rhythm Patterns - Perfect For Beginners!

so playing the piano is a lot of fun but one of the biggest questions I get asked all the time is hey how can I make my playing less rigid less boring and more exciting and the answer to that my friends is rhythm patterns now one of the reasons I personally like Rhythm patterns is because they are easy way to add some fun variety to your music and it could take something that's very dull and straight and just Bland and make it super exciting really quickly so to show you how easy this is I'm going to show you six yes count it six Rhythm patterns that you can start doing right now to really make your piano playing a lot more fun by the way this is Josh at piano frenzy and I'm excited you're checking this video out today and as always if you're new to the channel make sure you like And subscribe so you don't miss a beat I don't want you to miss any of these videos we're doing some really fun things over here so our first Rhythm pattern is going to use two quarter notes I'll explain it right now all right so the first thing we have to do is figure out what chords we're going to use for our Rhythm pattern so for this one I like to use a minor F major G major and then D major and then I like to also add a left hand uh octaves that's just outlining the same notes so for example you're going to have this a f g and the D major so the two chord note rhythm is very simple you're just going to play two chord notes 1 2 1 2 and you're going to change chords every two so for example a minor a minor f f g g d d so what we've done is just taken the basic Rhythm rather than holding whole notes we're just varying it a little bit adding a little bit of a pulse to it and you add your left [Music] hand so for me this is the easiest way to get into adding a basic rhythm pattern and from here you can expand so the great thing about a two-note rhythm pattern is that it keeps you right on the beat keeps you steady and it gives you a framework where you can do a lot more with it you can add rhythms in between and much more I'll talk about some of those in a second so now that we got the two quarter note Rhythm down we're going to start adding eth notes to the Rhythm but we're going to add them to the left hand I'll show you what I mean so once you're comfortable adding cord notes into your right hand with the two cord note Rhythm you can start adding eighth notes into your left hand so rather than just holding the chords like that you're going to do like this 1 2 and 1 2 and 1 2 and 1 two so now we're going to add the right hand to this left hand Rhythm so you can see what it all looks like together you can also mix this up a little bit so if you don't want to do only octaves in the left hand you can also just maybe take your thumb and do the eighth not like this [Music] so yes adding the left hand takes a little bit more coordination so make sure you take your time practice slowly and really understand what you're doing line those rhythms right up and then you'll be comfortable the whole time so so far we've done the two quar note rhythms with the right hand and we've added the eighth note rhythms with the left hand and we've also done some variance of it as well now we're going to add or not arpeggios which are going to be done in the right hand now if you're already a subscriber to the channel then you know how much I love arpeggios they're very easy to use they really make your music sound a lot more uplifted they fill in all the empty gaps and it's a nice way to actually start practicing some additional Rhythm patterns when you get ready to experiment so let's go ahead and go over the forn arpeggio now so when you're adding the for note arpeggio it's the same chord structure right you're still doing the a minor chord an F major chord A G major and a D major but what we're going to do is add an octave on top so your finguring for this should be one two three and five if you're not sure how to do arpegios make sure you check out my other arpeggio videos which I'll link right up here and you'll be able to go and check that out so a basic Rhythm would just be putting four notes together kind of like this and then you'll move to your next Harmony so for example here's the whole pattern [Music] together now arpeggios are special but they're not so special if they're uneven so the biggest thing I would do is make sure you accent that thumb a little [Music] bit that's what gives you your Rhythm and your pulse otherwise you might rush on your other keys so I do want to keep it simple so let's take your left hand back to Long notes when we add our hands together now so here's how we'll do [Music] it and then we can think of some things we did earlier so maybe we can add the two note Rhythm that we did in the right hand earlier to the left hand while this hand is playing arpeggio so here's what I mean by [Music] that or we can vary this even more we can add the eighth note Rhythm to your left hand and do this [Music] now so I kid you not I want you to make sure you pause and rewatch this part a lot this is probably my favorite way to do a rhythm pattern is just by adding arpeggios mixing up the left hand with some quarter notes and some eighth notes and this just makes things sound really full especially when you add the petal into the mix so as you can see the Forno arpeggios are a very simple way to add a lot more variety to the Rhythm it really fills in whatever harmonies you're putting on the piano at that moment and it makes you sound cool and like a pro all right so the next method that I love using is simply adding passing tones so passing tones are notes that are not part of the main chord so for example if you have an A minor chord cord B would be considered a passing tone or G would be considered a passing tone because it's not part of those core three notes that you're using the cool thing with passing tones is you can play them at various rhythms and different speeds and they kind of get you from one's place to the next in a more interesting way and it takes some of the dullness out of just simply playing Just For example the two chord note Rhythm or just playing arpeggios you can add a lot more with it so here's how we're going to go ahead and do passing tones so passing tones just adding notes that are not part of the main chord is basically what we're going to do here so if I had a a minor I have the opun of adding a b a d even an F or even a g things are not part of that main chord so an example what you can do maybe you can start like [Music] this and then VAR it [Music] now so all I did was I just added just a quick little in between um and I use finger two each time to do that it's an easy way to do it so the nice thing about passing tones is it helps you add even more rhythmic pulses to what you're doing U so for example if I wanted to add 16 notes I can do [Music] this passing tones can also be added when we're doing our peggos as well so here's an example of that passing tones of arpegios and really there's nothing wrong with how you do it as long as you get to your next cord on time as long as you're making sure that all your harmonies are correct there's just so much you can do with it passing tones can also be added into your more rhythmic hand which is your left hand which is your foundation right so we can also do something like this [Music] so I'm just adding everything I need a part of the chord I'm adding some f some e I'm passing on between wherever I got to go it just depends what I'm trying to do all right that's passing tones now for our next method we're going to go ahead and add 16th notes in the left hand 16th notes really kind of get the Rhythm really moving and bumping along and it's one of my favorite ways to do it so I'll show you how to do it right now so moving on here we have 16 and the way I like to add 16 is simply in the left hand it just kind of it works like the eigh note Rhythm a little bit but it adds a little bit more like ta a little bit more thump to it so here's an [Music] example you can even add a passing tone if you want to to be your 16th note for example you can do like [Music] this and so I don't want you to feel like you're kind of like Stuck In The Box you can only stay with the chord tones right the D the F the a the g whatever it may be at the time you can add the note that's up a second down a second you can you can jump you can do lips leaps and skips whatever you want to do here it all works out all right so now we're on the final method which is simply adding triplets for your Rhythm patterns trip are a really exciting way to do this because they really completely change the flow you have to remember the triplet is equal to one beat so you can fit three notes in the space rather than two notes like an eighth note so it's a bit different and you kind of have to think of the situations where you might want to use this if you're trying to make an instant change to the mood or you just kind of want to throw the listener off and get them thinking a little bit triplets are a really good thing you can use for that so let's go over how to use triplets so as I said earlier when I really want to shock my listener I like to add triplets into the mix so for here's an example what a triplet [Music] right now triplets work best when they're broken apart like that but you can also do them as chords [Music] right kind of like that old 50s 60s rock music sort of vibe so if I put them together and I have my left hand I'll just do the broken [Music] first now the [Music] chords and then of course here's an example of us doing the same thing but now I'm going to add some more rhythmic variety to my left hand so you're going to see me add some passing tones you're going to see me add some eighth notes and some 16th [Music] notes so there you have it that's exactly how I would use triplets when I'm working on Rhythm patterns okay I couldn't let you leave this video without adding a bonus tip so in this last example I want to show you progressively how we can add all of these methods together to create a really cool set of Rhythm patterns to make just simple chords sound really cool so here's how I would do this in real practice and you can copy this method you can stop and Rewind and pause the video if you need to to try them out yourself and I encourage you to bookmark this video so you never forget how this is done so here's how we're going to do that what I really want to show you right now what I hope you pause and rewatch and rewatch and pause and rewatch and save this video because this is really going to be cool it's how we can take a very basic Rhythm pattern from the very beginning everything we talked about right the cordin notes and expand it to all the different things we've already discussed so here we go let's give it a [Music] try [Music] oh [Music] so of course I had some fun with it there at the end yeah I did some things I didn't exactly talk about but what I'm trying to get the point across is you can do anything you want to do once you've got your base area right start with the quarters add the eights some 16s some triplets some arpeggios some passing tones throw it all in there mix it in as long as you have your Harmony you're going to be just fine trying this out all right so I hope you've enjoyed the video so far I love Rhythm patterns you should try all of these out right now make sure you come back to this video like it save it so you never forget it and you can try this out in different keys with harmonies as well just make sure you have four different harmonies you're going with and it'll be a lot of fun to do all right with that said I hope you have a great day and I'll see you in the next video

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Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 23 2023