Complete Piano Theory Course: Chords, Intervals, Scales & More!

hi guys welcome to this lesson which is the BGM piano theory course it's over two hours long and it's basically 40 lessons combined into one video this lesson is going to be in Charlie freeze if you want to learn everything here just people and watching now I just quickly want to tell you what I'm gonna teach you in this lesson its piano theory and music theory in general and I know it may sound a little bit boring but it's actually really important the stuff I teach you in this single video has helped me to play songs two or three times as quickly as what I used to be able to do having said that I completely understand if you'd rather just learn a song you like or if you want to start playing right away we're not gonna be playing immediately in this video I'm gonna teach you some of the groundwork it takes you two hours to watch but it's gonna be really valuable okay so now that we've got all of that out of the way let's saw with the obvious this is a piano now I'm not showing the entire piano this is the last note you can see on the right and this is the last one you can see on the left but there's actually four more notes on either side okay so just so you know that now I quickly want to talk to you about some of the obvious stuff you can see right away but it also has some implications so first of all this piano is a regular piano with 88 keys there's also other models out there with around 60 around 40 keys which are basically smaller okay it doesn't really matter how big your piano is at this moment but if you don't have a piano yet I would always advise you to buy an 88 key one because you can simply you have a bigger register you can simply play more on there okay but if you have a smaller one using the transpose function which you can actually google you can shift nodes and you'll be able to play a lot as well cool so having said that this is a peony you've probably seen one before in your life and the main thing you can notice is that there's white keys and as black keys okay this is actually really important because the white keys and the Black Keys the combination of them allows you to navigate on the piano as you can see there's a little gap right here and there's a little bit of a bigger gap right here as well and that means that instead of having black keys all over right here you can actually navigate and look for these gaps so therefore we have two keys and three keys two three two three okay and this makes it rather easy to figure out where to place your hands maybe not right now but it will be later on if we have a look at the water keys you will notice that there's actually no gaps in between it's like like a millimeter or something like that they're actually adjacent right here the Black Keys have gaps so you can actually put your fingers in a little right there when you're playing stuff okay this allows for a certain grip so let's say you're playing something like this you can place your finger against that key so you know exactly what you play it whereas if you're in the white keys you could stick it in between right there play something like this so this also allows for some grip and basically allows you to navigate even if you're not looking at the piano okay when you're playing on the on the black notes you don't have any grip to navigate like in the middle right here but the keys kind of stick out so it's a lot easier to feel them anyway if you play the white keys right here so you're you're not having your fingers up in there but you played at the bottom but then it's gonna be a little bit harder to navigate because you don't have any black keys to touch however because the distance between all of these keys is exactly the same it's quite easy to simply go through it and keep the same grip like that okay so that's the difference between white and black keys also with the white keys you have to pay attention that you're playing exactly on that key because if you kind of lose your grip you might play an extra note right there so let's say I want to play the G then I need to make sure that I'm not accidentally also playing that a whereas on the Black Keys there's like no way that's gonna happen because they're sticking out they're quite thin so you're quite safe right there that's an important difference as well apart from that the distance between the Black Keys is a little bit different than in the than with the white keys the white keys right here and an octave have a certain distance when I played on the Black Keys it's just a that a little bit shorter so that's also an important difference therefore it might be easier for you to play Optus on the Black Keys than on the white and also when I'm playing an octave right here let me get my fingers out of the way I have to pay attention that I'm not accidentally also hitting that note and also hitting that note so I have to stay clear of these corners right here which is also one thing you don't have to worry about on the Black Keys because there's no way you're gonna hit that I don't know anyway so these are the main differences between the white keys and the Black Keys when it comes to appearance and feel now what I'll talk to you a little bit about how to navigate on the piano because we can basically divide the piano in these sections if you have a look right here you can see a section right here here here here and here and it's basically all the same it starts with a white note then a black white black white and then it's white black white black white black white okay so basically three whites and two blacks and for whites and three blacks and we have the same right here three four three four okay three four and here three four so what that leaves us with is a section right here of twelve notes seven white notes one two three four five six seven and five black notes one two three four five and you can basically divide the entire piano into these segments of twelve notes so have a little go see if you can figure out these little boxes of seven white keys and five black keys and try that out it should be easy for you to to recognize them after a little while so that's all I wanted to tell you about the visual appearance of the piano and about the way it kind of feels with your fingers in between so have a little go at that as well see if you can find these boxes by simply feeling where they are and now in the next couple of lessons obviously we're going to focus away less on the appearance and all the way it feels and we're going to start with the sounds because eventually that's what it's all about so thank you so much for watching too this first lesson I know it's very basic very introduction airy and most of the stuff is quite obvious but it's good to think about it a little while to see how the piano is actually laid out and why it's laid out like that hi guys welcome to this second lesson of this piano music theory course right now we're going to be talking about the name of the keys so one thing that's very important to realize is as I've shown you in the previous lesson is that we have these boxes on the piano right here it's 12 notes in total one two three four five six seven white nodes five black notes and we're gonna focus on the white notes today so we have the box right here now you might think that we're gonna sort right here with the a but that's not the case so the a is actually located here there's no right here is the C and it's also the middle C okay why is that because it's basically in the middle of the piano we have a couple of C's because we have multiple boxes right here and all of these notes are reoccurring so let me quickly point out this C's this one right here which you cannot see cuz it's off the camera and then here and found a very last note of my piano is a C as well but that's also of camera okay so in total I've 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 C's on my piano why do we call this the middle C we call it the middle C because it's basically located in the middle of the piano and it's a C and this is one of the most referred to reference points on the piano a lot of people will say if you root your thumb on middle C blah blah blah blah then we can start playing ok so you see let's focus on this box for now and from the C up remember to the right is up it's actually quite easy just follow the alphabet says c d e f g now remember there's no H no Jane ok no I so this one was going to be a again and thambi ok says c d e f g a b and then we would sort in the next box see ok so starting from here makes a bit more sense a b c d e f g same here a b c d e f g baby ok so what's important to understand is that all of these notes are located on the piano multiple times okay we have a C as I said right here they're there but we also have an a right here there and there is another one over there that's one over there okay so all of these notes are occurring multiple times on the piano so what we're gonna do right now I'm gonna walk through it one more time right here and then I'm gonna give you a little test so c d e f g a b I'm also gonna remove the red square right now because I want you to get familiar with the natural look of the piano usually there's no red squares on there and let me quickly show you all of the notes on the piano right now okay so this is how they're laid out now a lot of people have stickers on the on the keys in order to learn that I say please don't do it it will only take you one maybe two days tops to learn all of these notes of by heart and then you're done for the rest of your life and that's not just the white ones that's including the black ones as well however if you keep stickers on there you will never be able to learn it because you will always need the stickers so let's get rid of all of these and start the test I will start right here and that will make it a bit more interesting I'm gonna play a note and you have to call out which note it is okay let's start with an easy one yes indeed it's the sea okay let's do another one this is also C okay maybe this one right here it's a d e G a a B and now let's make a little bit more tricky okay this is an a a D [Music] and II a C F [Music] gee be [Music] II okay um I'll think you're starting to get the hang of it so what you can actually do is play some random notes just close your eyes and drop your finger somewhere and then try and figure out which note that is now we're gonna do the in Reverse I'm gonna call out the note and I'm gonna pull up this a red box again because we're just gonna keep it into this section right here I'm gonna call out a note and I want you to play that note so please sort of with an easy one which is the C if you play that one you're right how about the G D a ah [Music] the B okay you show me an F okay just like that so I think you're starting to get the hang of it let me do a couple more over the piano like five more and then we'll get into the next lesson so what is this it's an A II [Music] g-d who or by that one it's black so you probably don't know which no this is yet because I haven't told you yet but I am gonna tell you that in the next lesson in the next lesson we're gonna cover all of the black notes and it will teach you all of the names of the black notes so make sure to watch that hi guys welcome to the third lesson in this piano music theory cause now lesson 1 is not required in order to which of this lesson but lesson 2 is so if you haven't seen lesson two make sure to go back which that first practice all of the white notes and basically will be really helpful if you actually know all of the names of the white notes already before we're getting into deep black note names so having said that right now we're gonna be going into the black node names I'm gonna be showing you this box right here I'm not putting it up in red again because I want you to start being familiar with this ok so cdefg a and B these notes right here we're going to be talking about the black notes in this little box so the first thing you need to know about black notes is that black notes don't carry their own name they're always being referred to as being next to a note ok and therefore a black note can be next to two notes all of the time it can be for instance if we're talking about this note right here it's next to the C but it's also next to the D ok makes sense right because it's in the middle same for this note it can be next to the D but it is also next to the e this note right here is in between the Evan G this one is between G and a and this one is between a and B ok so again it doesn't carry its own name it's being referred to as either on the right of blah blah blah blah blah or on the left of blah blah blah blah blah so let's have a look at this and I write here so I have to refer to this note as being on the right of the sea or on the left of the D okay and it's basically carrying two names right of C d makes sense obviously that is a long name so instead of saying this note is located on the right side of the C we simply say sharp so when you say sharp it means that notice on the right side of that note say this is C and this is C sharp makes sense right C C sharp D d sharp F f-sharp G g-sharp a a shop okay you can also navigate from the note itself says see if you move to the right from C you get sharp so C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp and a sharp okay so C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp and a shop you will probably notice that there's no eShop and no B shop because there's not a black note on the right at least past no black note with that name as we'll see in the next lesson you can also as I said refer to the note which is on the right of the note but then you're basically going down remember of the piano see the write down the pianos to the left so if we go up from C to C sharp it's called a shop because we're going up we're going to the right if we're going down we call it a flat so C well that's no black no right here so let's start on the D D flats to the left will be this note e-flat to the left will be this note G flat to the left will be this note a flat we're so going to the left this in a rod here and B b-flat okay so D flat E flat G flat a flat B flat why because the black note doesn't carry its own name it's always being referred to it's on the right of the C or it's on the left of the D cool so we have sharps and flats and it's all the same notes C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp a sharp or D flat E flat G flat a flat B flat so this now is being called C sharp or D flat D sharp or E flat F sharp or G flat G sharp or a flat a sharp or B flat so let's start with the shops first I'm gonna play the black notes and I want you to call out this sharp name for it okay so let's solve with an easy one right here yes it's C sharp now this one [Music] it's also c-sharp whoo this might be tricky one a sharp [Music] f-sharp d sharp F sharp remember if you're wondering about the name and it's called a sharp have a look at the left see what notes see what note is right there and basically steal that name so this one click to the left there's an F right here so this is the F sharp G sharp d sharp C sharp a sharp now to confuse you a little bit let's go into the flats okay I know it's annoying to switch back and forth and a might take you some time to get all of this but eventually you will so D flat E flat B flat remember if you want to figure out the flat name of the chord remember if you want to figure out the flat name of the note have a look to the right so there's a B therefore this is B flat okay he flat a flat D flat G flat again a G flat B flat D flat your flood okay so right now I want you to focus again on this little section right here which is gonna have these five notes but now I'm gonna be calling out sharps and flats at the same time okay in order to get you used to this so try and get as many as you can I'm gonna call them out and then I'm gonna show you them and I'm gonna sort with an F sharp please play the F sharp in this segment right here it's that one okay could you play me a D flat G sharp E [Music] flat G flat a sharp C sharp D flat it's the same one okay let's do a flat F sharp B flat D flat and a G sharp okay so now you basically know the seven names of the white keys c d e f g a b and the ten names of the Black Keys even though that's just five C sharp or D flat D sharp or E flat F sharp or G flat G sharp or a flat and a sharp or B flat okay you might be wondering hey well how do I know whether it's a sharp or a flat actually that's not that that's not that difficult in most pop songs you will either just have flats in this song or just have sharps okay in the classical music you could have flats and sharps in the same song but usually in a pop song let's say there's a flat and the G flat and a B flat than all of them are flats and we never call any of them a sharp you could also have a situation where you have a lot of sharps and then there wouldn't be any flats so I'm not gonna go into that too much because I don't want to tell you anything you're not ready to know yet but um yeah it's we're either gonna have a song with regular notes and flats or a song with regular notes and sharps mates at the time so thank you so much for watching if you've been paying attention you know that there's seven notes c d e f g a b and then you also know that and then you also know that we only have five names with flat or sharp so for instance a B sharp because there's no black no right here we haven't been talking about that or an F flat for instance however these notes do exist and we're going to be talking about them in the next lesson so make sure to which that I always welcome to lesson 4 in this piano music theory course in the first lesson we've been doing overview of the piano what does it look like white keys black keys etc in the second lesson I've been teaching you the name of the white keys and in the third lesson I've been teaching you the names of the black keys so it's really important that you've forged lesson two and three so that you now know all of the white key names and most of the black key names I understand that if the Black Keys sometimes they're a little bit difficult but I want you to at least know all of the names for the white keys before you sort into this lesson if you don't know them yet let me quickly go over them again c d e f G a and B okay in this lesson I'm gonna be teaching you four new names names that you don't know yet because in total there's 21 names for all of them all of the notes yes we have seven white keys so we have c d e f g a and b that's seven names so we have the black keys which have double names remember so that's one two three four five black keys times two is ten so that's a total of seventeen names already and that is four names left for stuff we don't know yet so remember for the Black Keys their name is a reference to the note adjacent to it okay so this one is C sharp or D flat because it's in the middle of C and D and all flat means as we're going to the left and all sharp means as we're going to the right so that brings us to these four keys these four keys right here who are white keys but yet they can also be a sharp or a flat basically all sharp or flat means is go on to the left go on to the right and because there's no black key in the middle right here there are closest note to the left from this F for instance is this ear right here and the closest note is the right from this B is this C right here okay so let's start on that be um this is a C as you know but if I want to give it another name closest note either right as here C C sharp is a sharps if we go to the right it's a sharp remember from the previous lesson so a B sharp would be this note right here okay usually and in almost any song we call this a C but sometimes this is not a C but it's a be sharp okay cursor on the B we go to the right closest note is a sharp same goes for the e romani places note to the right as this one right here usually we call this note an F but sometimes very rarely we call this note an eShop okay so B sharp e sharp what about the flats well if you were on a sea and we need the closest note to the left which is the rule for the flats will be this row right here which we usually call a B but we can also call it as C flat okay so this is either a B or in rare cases a C flat now C flat is a little bit more common than all of the other ones you see it relatively often so yeah it's a good one to remember C C flat and then also F and one to the left will be F flat okay so now we know 21 notes in total there's a lot of them who carry double names and there's only a few of them these three right here who carry single names okay so let's start from the beginning just to rehash c d e f G a B C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp a sharp and D flat E flat G flat a flat B flat and now let's run through them all so all of these shops B sharp remember this is the BB shop C sharp d sharp e sharp F sharp G sharp Asia so I hope that makes more sense like this okay we could also start here C sharp d sharp e sharp F sharp G sharp a sharp B shop for the flats same story D flat E flat a flat G flat a flat B flat C flat okay so now you can see that there's actually three sets of seven eights we have c d e f g a b and then we have C flat D flat E flat a flat G flat a flat B flat and C sharp d sharp e sharp F sharp G sharp a sharp B Shop twenty-one names in total for only 12 notes now in the next couple of lessons we're going to be talking about Hall tones and half-tones and this is where it starts to get really important so make sure that you've got this of Dan before moving on to the next lesson hi guys welcome to lesson 5 in this PGM PNA Theory course by now you should have seen lesson 1 up until 4 anyway in this lesson we're going to be talking about half tones and then in the next one we'll be talking about whole tones before I'm gonna tell you about the half tense let me just quickly remind you to visit PDMP NomCom all of the lessons of this entire course will be up there as well as over 300 other lessons for specific songs if you want to learn how to play a specific song visit PDMP and calm for now I want to talk to you about half tones so what does it mean a half tone or a whole tone what it basically means is the difference between two notes ok so if we have the middle C right here let's say this is the starting point then we could go half a tone higher or half a tone lower okay so it basically measures the distance between notes half a tone high from C would be c-sharp right here or half a tone lower from C would be the beat okay it's basically the closest note you can fondle the piano and that's why it's quite easy to do so see if I'm here half a tenth higher there half a tone higher there half a tone higher half a tone higher half a tone higher etc I can just keep on going up and then I could also get down on the piano so half an it level remember down you see the left up is to the right so let's go down half on it to be flat a a flat G G flat F e b-flat D D flat and C okay so half tones basically means just the closest gap you can possibly go there's not a note to be found between C and C sharp so half a tone is right there so in the next lesson I will also talk to you about why there's only half a tone between E and F where that might seem weird to you so that's gonna be in lesson 6 for now all you have to remember is the closest distance between all of the notes it's called half a tone it's really easy nothing weird about it so let's get on with lesson 6 in the meantime don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it make sure to say subscribe to the channel and I hope to see you very soon bye bye hi guys welcome to lesson 6 of this PGM piano theory course in this lesson I want to talk to you about whole tones in the previous lesson as you remember a halftone means the closest distance on the piano say C to c-sharp or C to B that's a half turn a whole tone is basically two half tones so in this case if we start on C go up once and another note is a D okay so C and D has a whole tone difference between D and E there's a whole 10 difference why because we go up half a tone and a whole tone right here okay so C to D is a whole tone D to e is a whole town e to F oh wait that's not a black key in the middle okay so this is where it might get a little bit confusing C to D is wide to white whole tone D to e Y to white whole tone now if I want to do another whole turn I have to jump here to F sharp pay Y because of I'm on a knee if I go half a turn up to F and then half a turn up to F sharp but that's a whole turn okay then from here half a turn up to G sharp for a whole turns the F sharp to G sharp is a whole turn G sharp to a sharp is a whole turn and now a sharp not to C sharp because there's two in the middle now a sharp half a turn up to the C is a whole tone okay so these are the whole tents now it doesn't sound like a regular scale like like that and that is because in a skill sometimes you go half a tone up and sometimes you go a whole tone up makes sense right so to recap half a tone you just go to the nearest piano key on the right if you want to go up or on the left if you want to go down if you go up whole tones you have to skip a key every single time okay so whole turn up whole tone up whole tone up whole tone up a whole tone up and then here okay you could also start on c-sharp go a whole tone up so it's give the D go to D sharp go a whole turn up so skip the e go to F go a whole tone up so skip the F sharp go to G skip the G sharp go to a skip the a sharp go to B and skip C up to C sharp okay so basically all that I'm doing here is pointing out what is the distance between two keys in this case it's a whole tone because there's one in the middle in this case it's a whole turn because there's also a key in the middle in this case it's a half tone because there's no key in the middle cool so another way to remember it if there's no key in the middle it's a half tone if there's one key in the middle it's a whole tone so now hopefully you know all of the names of the white keys all of the names of the black keys you know what whole tones are and what half tones are and now in the next couple of lessons I'll be talking about skills so that's where we're really gonna take a big step from the real basics of into D more advanced of hi guys welcome to lesson 7 of the PDM piano theory course in this lesson I'm gonna be teaching you about key signatures and I'm pretty supposing you already know the name of the white keys the name of the Black Keys and what a whole tone and a half tone is and if you don't know that yet go back to the previous lessons lessons two three and four for the name of the keys and less than five and six for the name of whole tones and half-tones for now let's talk about key signatures so as you can imagine with all of these different keys right here if you play everything at the same time or a lot of them at the same time sometimes it sounds good okay and sometimes it sounds bad right here for instance right so you always want to have a key signature basically a template where for which notes you're gonna play and it's not just which notes you are gonna play it's also which notes you're not gonna play and every song is basically using a key signature most of the songs are being played in a certain key so I could play this for instance [Music] right and let's see which kind of notes I'm actually using let's focus on that on the right hand I started here so we have B D and G and then I went to be eg so we have PD en G and then I played a c e G so we have these notes and then applied a D and F sharp so we're playing all of these notes right here oh this is what the song is consisting of and I'm not playing any of the other notes so if I would play any of the other notes in there it would sound kind of weird now this also doesn't sound that brilliant but if I put it on the G all of a sudden it makes sense okay so what that sounds good we'll figure that out when I talk about the G major skill but for now I'm playing these notes right here and as long as I'm playing these notes it sounds good [Music] however I'm gonna play no that's all in there like for instance these it sounds really weird all of a sudden okay so as long as I'm playing LEDs that are in a key signature I can do quite a low stuff and it was still sound gear okay okay why is that because I'm playing the notes that are in the key signature and I'm not playing any other notes if I do the same way but I play something else [Music] and I'm gonna edie it messes it up because I'm using those that are not on the key signature so basically a key signature is a sample of the sass you can play these notes but you cannot play these notes because if you do it will mess things up now every song has at least one key signature it could have multiple it can go back and forth from one to the other but yeah it's really important that you realize which key signature is being played you don't necessarily have to know the name which you have to understand which notes you can and can't play especially if you want to improvise so in the next lesson I'm gonna be teaching you about major scales a scale is basically the same as a key but it's a way to explain which notes are in the key right a key is the whole name for the whole thing and a scale will tell you exactly which notes are in there so in the next lesson I'll be talking to you about major skills and the C major scale and then after that we'll be doing the F major scale and also the G major scale and the lessons to come for now have a good day and I'll see you tomorrow with the C major scale hi guys welcome to lesson eight of the PGM piano theory course in the previous lesson I talked to you about key signatures in general today I want to talk about the major scale and also the C major scale specifically so I should probably remember from yesterday a key signature is just a template showing you which notes you can and which note you can't play and we play these notes right here okay and that's a major skill but it's not the major skill we're gonna be talking about today we'll do that arm in two days time Fran I don't wanna focus on the most known major skill which is the C major skill probably sounds a little bit familiar to you we have all of the white keys in there and none of the blacks as you can clearly see however however there's a lot of other major skills like the one we did yesterday or this one okay this one right here so how is it possible to remember all of the major skills well there is actually a little trick lookup of the piano right now you see w wh w w wh and what that means is remember the whole turns and a half turns if we saw it on the name of the skills if we do see you have to start on the C alright if you do F you would have to start on an F if you did G sharp you have to sort in G sharp it's that simple so if you start on the C what you're gonna do is a w which stands for hole so a whole tone remember that's the whole tank then another W so not a whole turn now an H which means a halftone right so go from this halftone ups to the F now another W so a whole tone W whole tone W whole turn and then an H so another half turn okay so starting here we do a whole turn a whole tone a half tone a whole turn a whole turn a whole tone a half tone okay and as you remember because there's a half tone right here and a half turn right here that actually fits and therefore we're not going into any of the black keys cool so to C major scale c d e f g a b c whole turn whole turn half turn whole town hall turn all turn half turn we can also do that somewhere else so if we start here we do a whole town a whole turn a half turn a whole turn a whole tone a whole turn and a half turn okay we could start here do a whole tone a whole tone half sin a whole tone a whole tone whole tone and a half tone okay so like that you can pick any note you want doesn't matter weighs sword and then apply this principle and you will always get the major scale for that note okay all you have to know is the name of the note so B flat B flat major scale you do a whole turn whole turn half turn whole turn whole tone whole tone and a half turn okay it's that simple so for now please remember to give this video a thumbs up if you liked it remember w wh w wh and you will always find every major skill in there and for now we'll be moving on to the f major skill hi guys welcome to the ninth lesson already in the PGM piano theory course arm in lesson seven we talked about key signatures and in less than eight we talked about the major skills specifically the c major skill and today i want to teach you the f major skill now I've already taught you the little trick in order to figure it out which is w wh w wh if you don't know what that means go back to the previous lesson because it's really important for you to understand that rule but I'm just gonna apply it to the to the F major scale right now so you can have a few more examples so what do we have to do in order to find a skill we have to look up the note so if we want to learn the F major scale we have to start on an F right there and now we're gonna apply to WWH rule so W so a whole tone W another whole tune now H so half tone whole whole whole half okay so starting here f G a B flat C D E F that's the F major scale okay so that's really easy um if you want to practice these skills you may want to start like maybe here and just walk your way up okay so you can use like three octaves or four octaves of the piano and just go through the entire skill in order to practice it you can also practice it with the left hand walking down that's always good exercises to d4 now I want to thank you for watching I know it's a short lesson but it's so easy to find these skills with the WWH rule that we don't need to spend a lot of time and I will see you tomorrow to teach you the G major skill hi guys welcome to lesson 10 already of the PGM piano theory course and lesson 7 I talk to you about key signatures in less than eight I talked to you about the major skills and the C major scale and in the previous lesson I told you the F major skill so I want to ask you to which these lessons first if you haven't done so already and today we're going to be talking about the G Major scale now the reason I walk through to see the F and also today the G even though you might be able to find them yourselves because I want to make sure that you understand the system correctly and then I'll leave it alone so in the next lesson we'll be doing the next cool thing which is going to be minor scales but I want to make sure that you have the system of WWH in your head so again in order to find the scale we have to sort on the name on the key with the name of the skills so for G major you have to start on G now we have to go up a whole tone and not a whole tone now a half turn a whole turn a whole turn a whole tone and a half turn okay so right here so g a b c d e f sharp g okay so what i want you to do is practice them start here [Music] a good way to do that is by playing thumb pointer finger middle finger go under and play the thumb again pointer middle ring and then if you want to add the player pinky and you can go back up so like that or if you want to continue you do thumb pointer middle thumb pointer middle ring and now you slide the thumb on there again and do the same thing etc okay whoops hit that c-sharp right there so apparently I need to practice a little bit as well so practice this practice a C practice the F and practice the G okay so as a little bit of homework I want you to practice the three major skills we covered C F and G okay practice these before moving on to the next lesson hi guys welcome to lesson 11 already of the PGM piano theory course if you're still watching I want to congratulate you I know it might be interesting and also challenging to which through all of these lessons because there's a lot of stuff to learn and it's not the most exciting stuff of course however this is really important to learn right now I'm gonna teach you the little secret for minor skills remember to WWH www.h pretty major skills now for the - skill we also have a little secret like that however this one is WH W WH W so let's start on the a and do a whole note half note whole note a whole note half note whole note and whole mode okay so like this this is the natural minor scale you also have harmonic a melodic minor scales but we're not gonna be talking about that in this course because it's a little bit too advanced however as you can hear the minor scale sounds a little bit different than your major skill okay but with this little secret you can figure out anymore in skill you want if you'll now have C minor new a hormone half note whole note whole note half note hormone and hormone okay like that so you may have noticed that this C major scale carries the same notes as the a minor okay it's the same notes however it's a different skill so I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about that in the next or lesson lesson 12 hi guys welcome to lesson 12 of the PGM piano theory course right here in YouTube today we're gonna be finishing up the part about skills by going from a major to minor skill or from a minor to major skill and I'm gonna teach you how to do that now it goes without saying that you should have watched lesson 1 through 11 before watching this one but if you haven't some of the stuff is quite introduction Ares if you know the name of the white keys the name of the Black Keys you know what half-turns are and whole tones are and if you also know the C major scale the F major scale the G major skill how to find major skills and how to find - girls thank you're up to speed and you can just saw with this lesson if you don't know any of these things make sure to watch the previous lessons to get your knowledge up to par for now we're going to focus on the C major scale and the a minor scale okay why is that because the a minor scale and the C major scale have exactly the same notes look C major all of the white notes the a minor all of the white notes as well that means that these two are connected the C major skills exactly the same as the a minor skill even though obviously you saw it on a different note the type of notes in there are exactly the same so it would be helpful if there was a formula to go from a major skill into minor skill so we know that the C major has the same notes as the a minor but let's say for instance the f major skill okay would that also share the same notes with another skill so for the F major remember we have all of these notes and then also one black one so to b-flat now if you have a look at the D minor scale you will notice that a has the same notes as the F major Luke all wide notes except for the b-flat that's exactly the same as F major so D minor and F major also belong to each other right so now let's see if there's a pattern from C to a Thurs one two three half notes in between and from F to D there's also one two three half notes in between now it turns out that for all of these skills this rule is applicable so if you ever have a major skill like let's say the G Major scale and you want to find the corresponding minor scale all you have to do is drop back three half notes one two three you end up on the E and you end up on the E minor scale so remember when they correspond all of the notes in both skills will be exactly the same look see all white notes a minor all white notes when I go to F or white notes except for the B flat and D D minor all white notes except for the B flat if I try our G all white notes except for the F sharp and then if I try the E minor all white notes except for the F sharp so this way you know that these two are connected the easiest way to find it is if you start on a major to drop three half notes and if you saw it on a minor to go up three half notes okay so have a go with this try out a couple of the major skills and see if you can find the corresponding minor skills and then in the next lesson I'm gonna teach you all about intervals hi guys welcome to lesson 13 already of the PGM PNA Theory course today I'm going to be teaching you about intervals now if you're watching this I hope you've watched all of the previous lessons I've covered the name of all of the keys on the piano hall tones and half-tones and also everything you need to know for now about skills so if you don't know that yet please go back if you do know all of that keep on watching and we're going to be talking about intervals right now so what is an interval an interval basically shows you the distance between two notes okay so for instance I'm playing these two there's a certain distance between them and an interval will actually indicate what the distance is so let's sort out with this C major scale right here and we're going to be calling add the intervals now it's really important where a whole tone for instance if you saw here is moving to half tones up with intervals you're not gonna say there's a whole tone difference right here you're gonna say this is a second okay so that's a little bit different the way you can it it's different so with intervals what you want to do is sort on the tonic which is the name of the scale C major we have to sort on a C and that note this C is already called 1ok it's a first then if you move up to the D that's a second e will be a third okay but it's not just that single note it's actually the distance between the C and the next one okay so first second third and then fourth fifth sixth seventh and eighth okay you could also continue on ninth tenth etc and even further but for now let's just keep it to seventh and eighth okay so there's two main things you have to understand here one you have to saw caning on the grand note on the tonic and then go up first second third etc okay the second main thing to understand is that we're not counting distance I did because I'm doing this almost see my G skill you might get the impression that a second or a third or fourth is simply the next white key okay and with the C major scale that is actually the case but with a lot of the other skills it isn't so let me show you what I mean okay so first find a second plus one half turn in the middle four that's three half turns in the middle when I go to fourth that's four half times in the middle so we go from 1 2 3 to 4 then if I go to fifth there's 1 2 3 4 5 6 half tones in the middle so we go from one in the middle to 3 to 4 to 6 which is not a logical step per se ok 8 10 11 okay this means that we're not just counting the distance between the notes in a visual way we're actually counting the distance in a in a scale so it's definitely not the layout of the piano it's a skill and in order to show you what that means let me play the F major scale okay this one a first second third fourth no this is not the fourth this is the fourth okay because we have that b-flat in the skill then fifth sixth [Music] okay so it's not just about white keys goes into black keys as well if we have a look at the a flat major skill first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh so it's going from black to white Chris crossing over the piano so what's important to remember first second third etc it's we're counting in a scale were not counting on the piano we're counting in a musical skill let's do one more with the G first second six okay so keep in mind you can only play the notes that are in the certain skill that you're playing at that moment and then you can't the distance from the ground note from the tonic okay that's gonna be the first and then the next note in that skill not the next note on the piano but the next note in that skill is gonna be the second and then the next one will be the third and then the next one will be the fourth that's it so all you need to remember from this lesson is that we're counting on the first note that's why we saw we're not counting on the second one already know we're actually counting on the first none of that skill and we're counting through the skill not visually on the piano in the next lesson I'm gonna be teaching you all there is to know about octaves hey guys welcome to lesson 14 in the PGM piano theory course today I'm gonna be teaching you about octaves in the previous lesson I taught you about intervals and if you haven't seen that yet it's really a must before watching this lesson so make sure to check that out for now though I want to talk to you about octaves and even though you may not realize it yet you already know what an octave is because an octave is nothing more or less than an eighth okay remember the intervals first second third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth okay this is an octave why do we call it an octave because it's the same note as the ground owner as a tonic okay you can see that it's two seas right here that means that all of the notes have been in the middle and therefore we're honest see again however it's not the same see it's what we call an octave higher okay so this is an eighth or an octave and octaves are actually really nice to play around with we're gonna be playing a lot of octaves when we get into the court section later on this theory course but for now what's important for you to realize is that octaves are really easy to find because it's simply the same note twice so if I would ask you to play a g-sharp octave you find a g-sharp and another G sharp and you've got your G sharp octave D flat have B it doesn't matter you can find these octaves really easily another thing to realize about octaves is that D distance between their notes and on the white keys at least is exactly the same and then on the Black Keys as I told you in the very first lesson of this course it's gonna be slightly smaller about three or four millimeters but it's also roughly the same therefore once you learn how to play an octave in for instance your left hand which we're going to be doing a lot in there in a court section of this course you'll be able to simply play octaves all the time just by keeping the distance between your pinky and your thumb exactly the same so we're gonna try that starting on the left hand play as C octave right here remember this is the middle C so play one octave lower as you now know this is one octave lower with your pinkie so play as C octave and then simply keep your hand in the same position and move it up to a D octave now tune a active I've octave G octave a octave B octave and we finish up on a sea otter okay now if you haven't troubled to play this what I want you to keep in mind is that if you look at my thumb it's actually placed on the side so I'm playing with this part of my thumb I'm not playing with the bottom part okay I'm playing with this side so I twist my hand I tilt my hand and played with the side of the thumb same goes for the pinky I'm not trying to play it like this but I actually turned my hand and play with the side of my pinky I'm therefore I can actually put a bend in my pinky a bending my thumb like that and it will hit the note right here and it will also steer clear of that I don't know that I don't want to play because if I use if I play it flat it would be like this but I rotate my hand so it can actually go like this a rounding note yes like this as you can see the corners are not being played right here let me get rid of the rest of the hand so like this the corners I'm just missing those corners by tilting out the thumb and the pinky cool so let's give that another go and now continue always right okay let's throw this in the F major scale and with right live that the G major skill and with right [Music] now by all means if you haven't been playing for a long time don't worry you don't have to go as fast as I'm doing just pause the video and try it a couple of times okay this is not about learning how to play octaves this is about the theory behind it and I want you to mainly focus on getting the theory of playing the same note at the same time okay it's not about whether you can actually play it or not we'll get into that a little bit later let's do one more the a-flat major skill [Music] okay now you don't always have to play an octave by playing the notes at the same time okay you can also go like this okay which is obviously a little bit harder a nice thing to practice if you want to practice playing octaves is by playing them at the same time with both hands so let's do it in the C major scale and you can go back okay you can also split your hands so [Music] okay so have some fun with that play around and see if you're able to play these octaves it's also really good to practice by just saying I want to play G octave then playing is that I won't play f-sharp E flat B flat G flat whatever and just try and playing all of these octaves really quickly because the better you'll get are that the battery will be but again it's mainly about the theory for now we'll get into actually playing those octaves later on for now it's important for you to realize that we're talking about an eighth talking about that this is between these notes you don't have to play them at the same time sometimes you will sometimes you won't but an octave is simply the distance and when I say you're gonna drop it an octave let's say we're playing and I say drop your left hand an octave that simply means your left hand is gonna skip a whole box remember those boxes all the way down right there dropping in an octave go up an octave going down and on okay so for now head over to the next lesson and I will see you there hi guys welcome to episode 15 of the PGM piano theory course today I'm going to be teaching you how to draw the circle of fifths and that's a really cool thing it's the last purely theoretical topic we're going to discuss on this course and then after having taught you about the circle of fifths we're going to be doing a lot of really cool stuff and actually playing the piano as well I'm gonna give you an introduction to chords and then I'm gonna teach you all of the ways you can use chords and to make it a lot of fun and easy to play the piano so for now I hope you watched all of the lessons before this one and it's not necessarily important that you did but it's really good to follow the course chronologically and I'm gonna teach how to draw that circle and in the next couple of lessons I'm gonna teach you why it's so useful to have that circle of fifths so there's a couple of ways to do it the first way is to simply copy it down because it's up there already and you know that's one way to do it and to remember how it goes another way to do this actually use the piano to draw that circle and if you want to do that please have a look above you can see the C is in the middle so we have a see right here but what we're gonna do is we're gonna solve this see right here and then make our way up the piano using fifths okay so the first note you have to draw as a C so let's start on the C right here on play fifths so - a G and then the next fifth is gonna be the D okay and you can see clockwise on the circle we have C G D okay then the next fifth and a e whoops B and then F but if you remember correctly from B to F that's not a fifth okay you have to go up to F sharp okay because it's seven half notes one two three four five six seven okay say c g d a e be f sharp okay now on the circle this is either f-sharp or g-flat and then we're gonna continue on but let me just drop down a little bit on the piano right here cuz it doesn't matter where we play it f hop or G flat and then we're going to continue on one two three four five six seven it's gonna be D flat one two three four five six seven it's a flat one two three four five six seven is a flat B flat and then half right here and then the next one will be see you again you can start over like that okay so two ways to do it either remember the way the circle is laid out or you simply sort on a C and start playing those fifths until you have your entire circle okay so now that you have that circle of fifths in the next couple of lessons I'm gonna teach you exactly what to do with it I will see you tomorrow when I'm gonna explain you what to do with the circle of fifths hi guys welcome to lesson 16 and this less I'm gonna teach you how to figure out how many sharps or flats a certain key signature has okay so we have the circle of fifths above right here if you don't know how to draw that Yap make sure to watch the previous lesson but for now we have that circle of fifths and I want you to draw another circle inside the circle with the numbers like this so we can see right below the C we have zero and that is going to be one two three four five six and that's basically already indicating how many flats or sharps there are in a certain key signature in a certain skill okay so let's solve with C and check if it really matches according to this circle C should have zero sharps or flats say C major yeah that's just white keys and none of them are flats or sharps so then if we have a look at GE let's see first one shop there's an F sharp and as you can see in the circle it also says one so that matches D there should be two shops F sharp and the C shop and according to our circle there are indeed two sharps and the D signature let's have a look at a there should be three C sharp F sharp and G sharp okay and indeed according to this circle there are three let's have a look at F sharp kata should be six F sharp G sharp a sharp and the P is a regular note and then C sharp d sharp and C sharp remember in this case it's not F but it's a sharp and therefore we have six sharps in F okay let's say was G flat we should have six flats chief load is the same as a sharp so we have G flat a flat B flat and now this one has turned into his C flat remember the C flat so G flat a flat B flat C flat D flat E flat F G flat okay let's have a look at a flat according to this circle it should have three flat so let's see a flat a flat and B flat right so that's correct and then f okay just one flat so that all makes sense so you can try any of these skills or key signatures as many times as you want and every time you will figure out that the circle is indicating how many flats and how many sharps there are in a certain key obviously you can also if it's a D flat that will be the same as C sharp if it's a flat that would be the same as G sharp etc etc okay so you can actually mark your way through there now in the next lesson I'm gonna teach you how to use a circle to actually figure out which specific notes are in each skill so you don't need it so you don't even need a piano you can just draw a circle and you can pinpoint exactly which notes are gonna be in there for sharps and flats hi guys welcome to episode 17 of the PGM piano theory course in this episode I'm gonna be teaching you how to use the circle of fifths in order to figure out how many flats and sharps there are in a certain key signature and also which sharps or which flats that are specifically so what I want you to do is I want you to have a look at the circle and figure out the junction between the flats and the regular nodes okay so if you have a look at the circle you will see that it's not at the top you'll have to go a little bit to the left and between B flat and F that's actually when we go from G flat D flat a flat E flat B flat which are all flats to FC G da so that's a regular note so I want you to put a little line in between right there because we're gonna use that later and now I want to show you how you can use that line in order to figure out how many sharps we have in theme major scales so what I saw was C and as you can see it has a zero so this should be zero sharps and zero flats okay let's check that yes that's correct zero sharps or flats in the C major scale if we have a look at the G according to the circle there should be one so let's have a go yes there is one indeed one sharp and KDF shop now if you have a look at that little line we just put up there the first note on the ride is 1/8 and that's no coincidence it's the f-sharp right here ok let's see if we can figure out for D which sharps are in there so there should be two calling to the circle and there are 1/2 sharp and C sharp now if you have a look at the right to that line you can see F sharp C sharp okay so pattern is starting to emerge right here for G we needed one sharp and it was the first one on the right which is F for D we needed to and I was F and C okay so probably if we're gonna try a it should be F C and G let's see if that actually works out and it does look C sharp F sharp and G sharp you can find these three in the a major scale so how did I figure that out if I look at the circle I go to the a I see there should be three sharps in there and then I simply go to that line and count three notes F C and G so now this should be F sharp C sharp and G sharp like that right there okay then if I want to figure out e I have to start on E and according to the circle there's four sharps in there so I'm simply gonna go to that line and count four notes FC G and D those are the four notes that should be shopped when I do the E major scale so sorry as as correct e F sharp G sharp a B C sharp d sharp e F sharp C sharp G sharp and D sharp can all be found in the E major scale what about B according to this circle it should be 5 and according to my theory on the circle it should be F CJD and a so if we saw it here that's correct okay we have C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp and a shot all the shops we can have are already in there okay so that's really cool oh wait a minute how can these be all of the shops if for F shop there should be six hmm let's use a circle so after song F sharp and there's gonna be six sharps FC ji Dae ah a shop remember when we have an e right here if you sharp it we're gonna be right here he's sharp so an F sharp that's gonna be an e sharp so let's figure that out ah okay so we have F sharp G sharp a sharp and then the B is a regular note and then C sharp d sharp e sharp and F sharp okay so the only no that's not chop is the B let's go back to the circle and count down six notes fcg da e yep that's correct the B is not mentioned and that's the only one that doesn't carry a show up so that's really cool this way you can figure out how many shops there are in any of these cm ages our skills on the right side of the circle but I also want to figure out how many flats there are in the ones on the left side of the circle remember that inner circle indicates that F should have one flat B flat should have to be flat should have three etc etc so what I want you to do is you have that little section that little Junction right here at the top between B flat and F I want you to make another one between F sharp and B and we're gonna use that full of flats and actually go counterclockwise okay so we're gonna sort on F and there should be one flat as you can clearly see in the circle okay the flattest B flat now if we have a look to the right basically counter clockwise of the of these Junction right there you can see that the first layer is a B and again that's not a coincidence because it's the B flat okay B flat is the only node that should be a flat in the F major scale so if we have a look at B flat on the top of the circle you can see there should be two flats in there and I want to use a circle to predict the flats so again I'm going to go counterclockwise and we have B and E so B and E should be a flat according to the circle of fifths let's see if that actually is correct B flat C D E flat F G a B flat sounds pretty good to me a flat and B flat and yes that is of course correct so now let's have a look at Eve flat that should be three flats B E and a okay and indeed we have E flat a flat and B flat B ei now if we have a look at a flat a flat major there should be four flats in there so can them up be e a D says all right here like that okay four flats B e a and E then if we have a look at D flat that should be five flats in there be e a D and G so basically all of the black knights should be played all of these are in there B flat E flat B flat and chief leather okay and then for G flood of course that should be six as you can see according to the circle so can't your way up BA D G C so C is gonna be a C flat where we're in of the G flat major skip okay and that is how you can use the circle of thefts to find the amount of sharps or the amount of flats in a certain skill and also to identify exactly to basically be able to predict which ones they're gonna be so keep in mind you draw a circle you put in your numbers and then you put in the dividing lines and then you use your numbers to figure out how many flats or sharps are in there and then you can simply count and clockwise for the sharps or counterclockwise for the flats so in the next lesson I'm gonna be teaching you how to use the circle of fifths to find major chords so I want to invite you to watch that as well hey guys welcome to lesson 18 in the PGM piano theory course in this lesson i'm gonna be teaching you how to use a circle of fifths to find all of the major chords and this is a really cool feature of the circle you can do so many things with it but this is one of my favorite things you can do so in the previous lessons I taught you how to draw the circle how to use the circle to figure out how many flats and sharps are on a scale which specific flats and sharps that are and now we're here so make sure you at least watch all of the lessons about the circle of fifths so you know what I'm talking about okay if you've done so already great let's begin so I'm gonna be showing you how to use the circle to find those major chords but first I might need to explain to you what a chord is a chord is not that difficult is just a combination of three four five notes okay and this is the one everybody knows which is C major C Angie okay now a major chord is build up out of a ground node which is gonna be the name of the chord so if I want to play C major it's got to have a C and then it's gonna be a major third which if you remember is for half notes away right there and then there's gonna be a fifth okay which is gonna be one two three four five six seven half notes away okay and that's a major chord doesn't matter where you sword if you solo a flat it's gonna be one two three four for the major third and then one two three four five six seven forty fifth and you've got a flat major okay so basically we're gonna be focusing on the major chords which is c d e f G a and B okay and then we also have the sharps and flats of course so it's very nice that I can find a chord like this by finding the major third and the fifth right here and right here but I promised you to use a circle to find them so we're actually going to do that so in order to use a circle all you have to do is name out any court doesn't matter which one let's say C major okay once you name it you know which node you have to look to so if I say C major I have to look at the C in a circle okay it's that easy so I'm gonna be playing that already so I've already got my C I only need two more notes now remember this is the circle of fifths and in a major chord that's gonna be a fifth so if I take a look to the right of the sea I can already find a fifth which is gonna be the G okay so now I already have two notes of my chord okay and now in order to find the third in the middle this is a really easy way to remember I have to go three notes further than the G on the circle so da e ah he is gonna be on my third okay so in order to find any major chord on the circle you're gonna call out a note that says C you're gonna go one to the right and then three to the right and you're done okay C one to the right G three to the right E and I'm done okay let's try with G let's throw with G so sort on G do we made it major third 1 2 3 4 & 9 1/5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 say we want to end up on G B D ok let's use a circle find the G play that go one to the right player D and then three to the right so a B okay so now we can actually use this system in order to find any of the major chords and please keep him on that B flat E flat a flat D flat and G flat we can also use them as sharps so B flat could be a sharp a flat could be d sharp etc etc okay so let's call out any chord there's no matter which one D flat let's do D flat use the circle go one clockwise basically so after D flat we'll have a flat right here and then from a flat we have to go three more so we will end up on a flat B flat F right here this is going to be D flat major okay let's do B so B are we go clockwise so F sharp or G flat right here and then three more which is gonna be D flat a flat D E flat right here okay so this is gonna be B major now B major doesn't have an E flat in it it has a D sharp okay it's the same note but we call it differently and that's the one little flaw with the system on this circle of fifths you don't necessarily know whether it's gonna be a sharp or a flat but you do know it's gonna be this note okay so let's do one more B flat we have to go to the one clockwise so f and then three more D right here we have the B flat magical okay so that's how you can use the circle of fifths you find all major chords really easily really quickly and in the next lesson I'm gonna teach you how to do the same but now for minor chords hi guys welcome to episode 19 already of the PGM piano theory course in this episode I'm going to teach you how to use a circle of fifths in order to match major and minor scales now you might remember from earlier in the course that is actually possible to match a major and a minor skill and one of the examples I gave you was to C major scale so if I have a look at that C major and all of the notes in the C major scale are wide notes and then if you have a look at the a minor scale we have the same okay so also only white notes there for the notes in the a minor scale are the same as the notes in the C major skill it's not the same skill don't get me wrong but the notes are the same so if you want to match a major in a modern skill using the piano that's quite easy as I taught you you're gonna drop down three half notes and to end up right there on the a and there you know the be a minor scale has the same notes as a C major skill okay if you don't play piano or you don't have a piano handy it might be easy for you to use a circle of fifths in order to find that scale anyway okay so all you have to do in order to find the matching skills is you have a look at the skill you want to match to so if you're sorting on a major skill you want to start on the note of that skill the grand noted tonic which is the C and then you're gonna go clockwise on a circle of fifths for three notes so from C you move to G da and then as we've seen before we end up on a minor okay so if you want to do the same for G and you want to figure out which miners killed will match you go clockwise for three saps so D a e and therefore the E minor skill will have the same notes as the G Major scale okay and you can do this for any key doesn't matter you can go from D flat and then you'll end up on B flat you could go from F and you end up on D etc etc now if you want to go from minor to major then what you want to do is go counterclockwise for three steps of course if we start on a you go counterclockwise for three steps we find this C okay if we sort on e-flat we go counterclockwise and we'll finish up on G flat it's that easy so this was the final lesson about circle of fifths and now in the next lesson we're gonna solve with courts and that's where it's gonna get really interesting really fun and if you follow all of these lessons you're gonna learn so much stuff about improvising about playing songs in like ten minutes flat all that type of stuff is just really really important to get a good grip on your chords so let's saw that right now hi guys welcome to episode 20 of the PGM piano theory course in the previous lessons we've been talking about a lot of soft skills intervals of circular fifths whole notes half notes the name of the white keys the name of the Black Keys and now it's time for chords my favorite subject and this is really really really important stuff guys if you maybe skipped a couple of lessons in the previous parts I can live with that but this is the most important part I'm gonna teach you in this course why if you learn courts and oh my god I wish I did like when I started to play the piano I wish I learned as much about it as I know now if you learn how to play chords you can play nearly any song right off the bat but just simply looking up those chords all of the easy lessons I have here and PGM piano calm are based on chords only and therefore once you know all of these chords you could simply click on any of these easy lessons have a really quick glance and play that song like two minutes three minutes maybe five minutes okay that's why it's so important to learn these chords with more difficult songs almost all of them especially pop songs are based on chords and when you know the chord structure it's so much easier to play all of these songs apart from that if you play a lot of chords your left and right hand will come really in sync and I even have this problem now that if I play a chord you can right hand is moving and my left hand is moving as well right when I move my right hand into a court that left hand automatically jumps to the correct octave and there's nothing I can do about it so sometimes you have to play a different octave with your left hand when you play a certain chord in your rider now and I really have to force my left hand to go there because I've done it so many times that whenever my right hand moves to certain chord my left hand just automatic automatically follows suit and there's really nothing I can do about it so that's where you basically want to end up having said that I know some people are intimidated by courts it's really not that hard I want you to think of a court as a recipe and a chord consists out of three four sometimes five notes and all we're basically saying is if you take a little bit of this note and a little bit of that note and a little bit of that note and you put them together you get this sound and for instance with this one C major which is the most commonly known one what we say is if you play C DM g together you get this sound and this sound this little harmony of sounds all blending together that's what we call C major okay and you could also play like this it's a different kind of sound a different quality we call that C minor okay you don't need to remember that I'm gonna explain all of that in the next couple of lessons but what's important to realize is that if I play eng together I'm missing that little sign of the C and therefore it's not C major okay it's just eng together now what's important to realize is that when you play chords you don't necessarily have to play all of them together in this little box you could also play the C right here and then play the E and a G right here and you still have C major okay the only requirement for C major is that you play C E and G and you don't even have to play them at the same time you could go like this you're still playing the C major chord okay so it's basically the same as with the scales where we say you have to play these notes and you're not allowed to play these notes in order for it to be aa an F major skill it's the same with court you have to play these notes and you're not allowed to play any of the other notes otherwise we're going to change the name of your court so on keyboard a lot of people play chords in the left hand and it's basically determining what the background music or whatever the thing is going on I don't know too much about keyboards to be honest but it's basically determining that that music is in the correct cord so it's matching with whatever you're playing in the right hand on piano for our purposes we're going to be playing a lot of the courts in the right hand and then we'll be accompanying it with octaves in the left hand okay remember octaves playing the same note twice so for instance if I would play the C major chord I will play as C octave with that okay G major E minor D you know and that left hand is going to play those octaves so when you do that give part of a cool sound already and all you're basically doing is playing three C's and then Eng on top of that you get a really nice sound you can play so many songs with this and they're really recognizable by just playing these courts and that's what I'm doing in the easy lessons so for now all you need to remember is a chord is a combination of a couple of nights and in the next couple of lessons I'm gonna teach you exactly which combination is going to lead to what type of chord okay keep in mind that you can break him so you don't have to play them at the same place you can play them right here and also keep in mind that you don't have to play this this order you don't have to sort on the C and then a and G you could also play g.e.e.c and we still have a C major chord okay that's all I want you to remember for now and let's head on to the next lesson where I'm gonna teach you all of the major chords hey guys welcome to lesson 21 in the PGM piano theory cause today I'm gonna teach you all of the major chords and they're really important to know so make sure you're going to watch this lesson in the previous lesson I gave you a brief introduction about chords so I want you to watch that first if you haven't done so already for now remember accord as a combination of three four or five notes and in the major chord family it's going to be three notes like C major okay what's really important to understand is that all of these chords major minor seventh fifth aukmen that diminished all of these type of quotes were going to be going through it's basically a family and in all of these families we have 12 courts Liberty f12 keys 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 10 11 12 in this little box right here and for all of these Keys there is gonna be a chord so all of these families have 12 courts and the first family we're going to have a look at is the major chords now in order to be in a family of chords there's a couple of rules so the rule might be they have to be three notes and then they have to be a certain distance from each other okay now all of the courts that match these rules are allowed in the and we'll call them major chords and all of the chords that don't match these rules we're gonna say lick sorry mate you had a good try but you just don't fit in our family okay you're gonna have to look somewhere else and there's another 11 chords waiting for you right there so for the major chords we have a rule they have to be three notes okay and what's really important with all of these chords in the next couple of lessons this is really important the contrast is enough you have to sort with the grand note or the tonic on the left or down at the piano okay otherwise you're gonna get in so much trouble how do you do that if it's a C major chord you have to make sure that the C is on the Left it's on here don't go looking for notes right here cause Santa won't then I won't match okay then it just won't work so see right here and we're going to be walking up to find the rest of the notes so for the major chords the rule is going to be three half notes in between and then two half notes in between okay so you can clearly see three half notes in between and two half notes in between start on the C you could also see it like this one two three four half notes away is the e and one two three four five six seven half notes ways the G okay but I like to say three in between two in between the easiest for me so this rule will apply to all of the courts in a major chord family doesn't matter which one you pick so let's have a look at the next one D now remember start with the D at the bottom of the chord so work your way up d one two three half notes in between we'll find their own s the next one right there and that one two in between and the next one right there okay let me get my fingers in a more natural grip so D F sharp and a is D major let's write for e e one two three in between will be G sharp and one two in between will be B so eg sharp and B is gonna be e major okay we have F major G major a and B ok have a look right here one two three in the middle one to say c d e f g a b back to see you again okay now you might be wondering what about the Sharps and the flats ok well let's have a look C sharp one two three in between f1 two in between G sharp boom there we have C sharp major d sharp same kind of thing three in between two in between okay I've shot three in between two in between you can apply this rule to all of the quotes B flat if it's a flat doesn't matter one two three G 1 2 B flat ok so this way you can find all of the major chords and what I would suggest you do is actually practice to play them so start here C D B F G a B C and you can also do here C sharp d sharp F sharp G sharp a shop and the flats will be exactly the same chords okay so these are all of the major chords now in the next lesson I'm gonna teach you how to figure out all of the minor chords so make sure to have a look at that hi guys welcome to episode 22 in the PGM piano theory course in the previous two episodes we talked about courts in general and then also the major chords so if you don't know how to find a major chord yet I want you to go back to the previous lesson and learn that first before moving on to this one if you have seen that already this lesson is going to be really easy for you so right now we'll be talking about minor chords and the minor chords is just like the major chords it's a family there's a couple of requirements and if you meet them you're allowed in and if you don't you have to go away and find yourself another family I know it's really tragic but that's just the way it works in the world of music so want to focus all the C major chord for us as you remember that from the previous lessons C E and G and now I want to show you what I have to do in order to make it minor so in order to make it minor I have to drop the middle node in the middle note only with half a note right there you hear that that's more sad or more this is really happy like [Music] we were sad that's a minor chord okay so how do we find out the minor chords are by dropping the middle note half a note so if we have F major right here we can drop the middle node afternoon and we'll get them on a chord okay another way to look at it is basically we used to have three in the middle and then two well for minor we're gonna have two in the middle and then three okay one two in the middle one two three four F a minor that was the same two in the middle and then three if we have a Luke right here and F sharp minor it's two in the middle which is gonna be hard to see by now but good two in the middle and then three so that's the rule for minor chords you have to be three notes and if you start again remember it's odd on that ground node right here work your way that way but if you start on the ground note is gonna be two in the middle and then three ending up right here on C minor so let's run through all of them C minor D minor E minor F minor G minor a minor and let me get my hand right B minor okay then photoshop's c-sharp minor D sharp minor F sharp minor G sharp minor and a sharp one and of course the flats are the same D flat E flat G flat a flat B flat okay what I want you to do is practice these minor chords and also practice the major chords right through each other okay so you might grab a piece of paper and a pencil put it in your phone and just write down C e F and then maybe do like GM which will be G minor and then B flat am eve flat and just write all of them through each other right like 20 and then just put that list on your piano and start to see if you can figure out all of these chords and play them okay play them with your right hand because we're gonna be mainly playing with the right hand but if you want you can also practice with left so that's it for now in the next lesson we're really gonna start playing because we're gonna teach you about chord progressions and this is also one of the most important things to learn so make sure to check that out hi guys welcome to episode 23 already in the PGM piano theory course today I'm gonna be teaching you about core progressions now remember in the previous two lessons I taught you major and minor chords and we're gonna be using a couple of them in this lesson so I really hope you did your homework and practice them because I'm not gonna explain them again you're gonna have to know them by now so let me quickly tell you what a chord progression is a chord progression is basically nothing more or less than a little leap and that loop usually consists out of four steps not always but usually it does okay now a chord progression basically says if we pick a court and then another chord and then another chord and then a final chord and we play that again then we're going to get a sequence a progression a loop if you will and I've proof for courts above the piano right here so you can peak a little bit if you if you want and check out those notes if you forgot them but I've put four quotes up there and what happens is if we're gonna play those four chords in a row we're gonna end up with a song and most of the songs most of the pop songs out there basically use a chord progression of four chords and sometimes they use two chord progressions and that's all like that's the entire song let's have a look at the chord progression of there we have F minor a flat E flat and D flat okay now if we play these in a row you're gonna get this okay and this is actually hello by Adele and basically by playing these four chords if I remember correctly that's the entire song that's all that basically happens so what I want you to understand is that if you keep on looping this you simply get a song and that's what we call core progression okay so all you're basically doing is playing those four chords right after each other and sweating that ensues therefore if you know your chords and you have a lookup of the piano right now you see those four chords you see our F minor a flat E flat D flat that's all you have to remember in order to play hello by Adele so I could accompany it with the left hand plane evocative a flat octave E flat octave and a D flat octave for all of the core singing at this okay so if you do that other formats these you're gonna get a song and all you have to do is keep on playing that then later on on this course if you learn about inversions you can play around here so it actually sounds like a song okay but you don't have to worry about that for now I'm gonna teach you that lighter so what's important to remember a core progression is nothing more nothing less than just a couple of course being played right after each other and you're gonna live that and play it again and play it again okay it's also possible to play a chord twice and then another one so let's say you play AB minor twice [Music] okay makes it sound different of course but that's also good progression it basically says play f twice and then move on to ear flat and D flat okay I have minor that is of course so chord progression just a little loop of chords being played after each other most of the pop songs have one two or three of these loops and that's the entire song and that's why it's so powerful if you learn how to play these chords so make sure to check out that lesson cuz it's really cool it's gonna be a little jazzy hey guys welcome to lesson 24 in the PGM piano theory cause we've done major chords we've done minor chords we've done core progressions in the previous episode I now went through that a little quick but we're gonna be talking a lot about that later on so don't worry I've got a little planner and I know what I'm doing for now I want to teach you the major seven chords okay the major seven chords are a little bit different than the major chords why is that because we're gonna play a seventh remember from the intervals that we have a second a third a fourth a fifth a sixth and a seventh okay we're gonna put that seventh in here in order to play the major seven chords like this okay so again as with the major and the minor chords the major seven chord is a family of 12 courts and they're a little bit nit picky about who gets to be in a family and who doesn't so in order to find a major 7th chord what you need to do is find the major chord first so let's say C major remember 3 in the middle and then two half notes in the middle and in order to find the 7th all you have to do is simply put another three notes in the middle before playing their fourth note ok so the pattern is 3 in the middle two in the middle three in the middle right there let's see if we can find it for D so sauron d one two three in the middle f sharp one two in the middle a and one two three in the middle C sharp ok so therefore it's really important to always look for 3 in the middle because if you're just looking at those void notes you might think 2nd third fourth fifth six seven and that's not correct okay it's not this it's this one right here okay for emajor this core right here three in the middle two in the middle and then another three in the middle and look again we're going up okay it's D shop so we have C D E and now F right here okay so for F three in the middle two in the middle three in the middle and then G oh that doesn't sound right what doesn't it sound right because again we're not just looking at those white notes we have to go up right there okay because we have three in the middle two and then three so what I want you to do is go through this and figure out all of the twelve chords that belong in the major 7 chord family and then tomorrow I'm gonna be teaching you how to find the minor seven chords hey guys welcome to episode 25 in the PGM PNA Theory course if you're still watching as of lesson one congratulations you've been through 24 lessons and you've learned a lot of stuff if this is the first time you're watching welcome here welcome to drop in I would recommend you to to drop back a few lessons to the beginning of chords so the main lesson about chords major chords minor chords chord progressions major seven chords and then end up here on minor seven chords so that's gonna be the topic of today - seven chords if we have a look at what we learned yesterday the major seven chords play consists of the four notes instead of three and they start with a major chord and then we added about seventh by putting another three half notes in the middle okay for a minor chord we're obviously not gonna start on the major chord we're gonna start on the minor chord and if you remember the template it's two half notes in the middle and then three okay so in order to find the seven simply add another three half notes and then you're gonna play the who that doesn't sound right at all why does it not sound right because she shouldn't add another three half notes okay remember it's two half notes then three and therefore we're gonna add another two in the middle ending abroad here and that sounds a lot better okay so the template for a minor chord is two in the middle three in a metal two in the middle start here put tuna middle b3 in the middle and then another two in the middle ending up right there okay there we go let's try de minor right here now as you can see for D minor we don't have to fiddle about with all of these Black Keys it's just white keys and there's a key in the middle right here now why is that because if we count to three and another two that's simply where we end up okay II - seven - in the middle three - f - 7 - 3 - g - seven - three - okay a minor 7 - 3 - and now the biggie B - 7 - 3 & 2 okay we can obviously do the same for the shops let's have a go at F sharp put two in the middle and then three so right there and then another two and ending up right here so F sharp minor let's write for B flat two in the middle three in the middle and two in the middle okay so right here b-flat minus 7 so now I want you to go ahead and figure them all out by itself make sure to practice them and then you can do something which is a bit annoying but it's really good to do and it's to practice the major D minor and the major 7 and the -7 chords all together so it's 48 chords you can write you can write a couple of them down just write some of them down like 20 and then put them on your piano and try and find them all and check them to make sure you got them correctly ok once you've done that you're ready to move on to the next lesson where we're gonna be talking about five chords hi guys welcome to lesson 26 already in the PGM piano theory course today we're going to be talking about five chords and it's gonna be a really nice day for you because they are so easy to play now I want to remind you that in the previous lessons we've been talking about major minor and major 7 and - seven chords and it's quite important that you've got those down before you're getting into this one even though these are a little bit more easy the other four families of chords are actually really important and really basic and you're gonna need those a lot if you want to play songs so make sure you got them then and then you can add to your inventory with another 12 chords 12 really easy chords to remember so 5 chord it's basically an octave remember the eighth from the intervals as an octave playing a see right here and another see has simply one octave higher so in order to find a five chord all you have to do is play that octave and then find a fifth okay now make sure you start on the bottom start on the bottom always want to start on the bottom with chords simply count seven half notes and that seventh note is going to be your fifth okay so your five chord will be C G c4 c5 okay CGC basically that node is gonna be in the middle of your octave I'm not exactly in the middle because we have two notes here are three notes right here but it's it's about in the middle that's why it's so easy to find cool most of the time well not always but most of the time you're gonna play them in your left hand okay if you remember that song we played before from the chord progression hello it's me okay if you wanted to make that a little bit more powerful you could have played five chords in your left hand so instead of simply the octave play their fifth along as well you get this [Music] you know compared to this I get a bit more powerful [Music] okay and that's why we usually play them in the left hand but sometimes you play them in the right hand as well [Music] okay same song playing five chords okay anyway the five chords very easy to find you start on the tonic find the fifth and they simply complete the octave if you want to do f-sharp find the fifth completely optin f-find 1/5 completed the octave the only ones we need to be really careful are arm b-flat because she need to go down here go - why not Luke two three four five six seven and then also B which you need to go up one two three four five six seven right there okay so these two are a little bit tricky sometimes and the rest of them are quiet easy so those are the five chords now in the next lesson I'm gonna be teaching you how to play seven chords okay so no major server and the one is seven regular seven chords let's have a look at that hi guys welcome to episode 27 of the PGM piano theory cause today I'm gonna teach you how to play seven chords not to be confused with a major seven chords or minor seven chords now it's just seven chords one of them we call c7 K we don't call them C major seven C minor seven Knights choose C seven and the pattern for these chords is soaring a grand note put three notes in between two half notes in between and then another two to end up right there okay quite a cool quotes if you ask me um let's have a look at E so sorry b3 in the middle between the middle and then I'm not a two to end up right there okay so basically what we're doing is we're playing a major chord and then putting two half notes and playing the next note major chord two half tones playing the next one okay major to half-plane the next one major two half playing the next one okay that's all we're doing right here I know it's a bit of a short lesson but these courts are actually really easy to find if you know all of your major quotes all you have to do is put in two half tones and you will find that last note remember in order to be in these seven family in this case you need to have four notes and then they need to be three half tones in the middle two and two and if you got that down you're allowed in the seven family and then tomorrow we're gonna be talking about all commanded chords hey guys welcome to episode 28 already of the PJM piano theory cause in the previous couple of lessons we've been talking about courts and in this lesson I'm going to teach you about augmented chords specifically so we'll be doing augmented courts in this one and then diminished in the next one and they kind of belong together in a way that they're both a little bit weird and they can both kind of be used to you go from one chord progression to another one or from one case signature to another one even though I have to say in the most songs that I teach there's no augmented chords in there neither diminished but in some very rare cases it does occur its more common in like classical pieces than in for instance pop music however I felt that I needed to teach you these chords anyway so we're going to be having a look at augmented chords right now so in order to find an Augmented chord which F to play is play a regular major chord so let's say C major right here and remember you have three notes in between and then the next one and then two in between okay major remember this is a minor and now for augmented what you're gonna do is play that major but the third note that's also gonna be three in between so you got this okay so three in between and then three in between so seokmin that right here deokman that brought in you can already hear that they sound really wait three in between three in between e3 in between and then three in between okay um let's do a for instance right here three in between and three in between okay maybe have a look at F sharp right here three in between and three in between so you can go ahead and figure out all of the twelve augmented chords by yourself remember it's three in between and then another three in between in order to find that code and I know I'm going over code quickly but I don't want to show you all of these chords because I want you to actually figure them out on your own because it will make it easier for you to remember them okay so let me just show you Eve lad right here and then we'll finish up you have to figure out the rest of the chords by yourself and if you have time have a look at PGM piano dot-com there's over 350 lessons right there for now I'm gonna say goodbye and see you tomorrow when we'll be talking about diminished chords hi guys welcome to lesson 29 in the PGM piano theory course in the previous lesson I've been showing you some of the augmented chords and in this lesson I'm gonna be teaching you the diminished chords so as you remember for the Augmented chord you have to play a major chord and they have three in between and then two but instead of having two in between at the end you're gonna have three in between it gives us really this really weird sound okay these are the augmented chords for the diminished chords I want you to sort on a C minor chord okay so we have two in between and then three and then in order to get to diminished instead of having three at the end you're not gonna have to pay so we'll be two and two okay let's have a look at D right here - in between - in between remember to always sort on the name of the court okay play that with your thumb or at the bottom okay at the left of the piano and then played - and - in between in order to find the correct court cool so II with two and two in between let's have a look at F right here - in between and - in between okay I'm gonna skip gim because I want you to find them yourself but let's continue on with C sharp C sharp diminished right here C in between and - in between okay I want you to find D sharp yourself and then we'll continue on to F sharp so major minor diminished right here okay and then let's do B flat as well right here B flat diminished okay so please figure out G a and B and D sharp and G sharp for yourself and then you know all of the diminished chords it's the same little pattern - in between and - in between so in the next few lessons we'll be looking at sauce - and sauce for chords and they are really cool you can use them to make things a little bit more interesting when you're improvising sometimes they're being played in a song originally already and yeah they're really cool quotes after those lessons we're going to be getting into how to play chord songs and that's why the real magic will soar to happen so make sure to keep on watching tomorrow we'll be doing suss to you and then the day after sus4 hi guys welcome to lesson 30 in the PGM piano theory course if you're still watching congratulations you've already seen 29 lessons and I think there's about another 29 to come so we're about halfway there in this lesson I want to teach you how to place us two chords we've been doing major a minor a couple of lessons back and if you haven't seen that make sure to go back there to learn that first but for now let's focus on these substituted chords okay so what I want you to do right now is to play a C major chord and if you're playing this you got a road and I want you to have a look at how many notes are in between we've got three half notes and then two half notes right here okay say three and two now as you know that's always the case with major courts okay doesn't matter where you play them there's always going to be three in between and than two now for resource to court what we're going to do is we're going to be moving that note in the middle so basically the fifth will stay there the C and the G it's just gonna be the middle note and you're gonna move it to half notes down basically okay what you end up with then is you have a situation with one half note in the middle and then for that kinda sounds like this I really like them I think it's a really cool sound okay you can try that for D as well so basically move it down to half notes so the middle note down to half notes and you get this sound right here okay so see sus 2 and right here DS let's see what you're basically doing is you're playing a second okay instead of that major third okay um 4e move it down to half notes now notice with see you're playing tune avoid notes next to each other with D you're playing too wide notes next to each other both with E you're not gonna be playing this you're going to be playing the F sharp okay why is that because we need to have a half note in between okay so from G sharp dropping at one two half notes right there okay F G a and then B we have the same situation not here not even here but here okay because we need to have one half not in the middle and then one two three four half notes in the middle so here we go again c d e f G a and then B right there okay let's do D sharp so normally you play here D sharp major you're gonna drop the middle note two half notes two half turns here okay here are nine said science I think they're really cool f-sharp right here one two three four half minutes in the middle and a half nine in the middle writing and maybe let's do B flat as well right here a half note in the middle right here okay and then four in the middle ready so I want you to play all of them all of the sus two courts and make sure to figure them out and now I went over them pretty quickly but in my opinion it's best if you figure out a lot of these chords on your own but just using that little trick half note in the middle and then four half notes in the middle I will see you tomorrow where we will go over sauce for chords hi guys welcome to a lesson 31 in the PGM piano theory course in a previous lesson I talked to you about sauce two quarts and in this lesson I'll be teaching you this sauce for chords so just as with the sauce to start on a C major and with sauce to you're gonna go down to half notes okay remember that now with sauce for you're gonna go up one half note so the middle note is going to go up a half note right here okay now this is really important because when I'm playing C major and then sauce too and then sauce for it may actually this is quite a nice chord progression it may actually appear that I'm just playing notes next to each other all the time okay but you have to keep in mind that when I'm dropping the middle two sus 2 I'm actually going down to half notes when I'm going up to sus 4 I'm only going up one half note but anyway we're ending up with the same kind of grip for major we have 3 in the middle and then to force us to we have one in the middle and then four and force us for we're gonna have four in the middle and then one ok so it's basically the reverse of sauce - ok let's do it for deep so d right here de sus 2 and now de sus 4 ok de sus 4 we have 4 in the middle and then one for e let's go to e sauce 4 right here 1 2 3 4 in the middle and one I'll let you figure out Aven G for yourself let's have a look at a and a sauce for right here ok 4 in the middle and then 1 you can do be by yourself and then let's do D flat okay D flat major and right here we have D flat sauce for let's do G sharp so from here to here G sharp sauce for a 4 in the middle and I want to know ok so let's play a C in the left hand just a single C and then play C major C sus to see sus 4 and then C major again in the right hand ok like this [Music] okay that's a cool little chord progression [Music] and go to the other way around okay that's your first a little corporation right there you can of course do this with any of the other cords and they jump back to see [Music] you you can fool around a little bit and do anything you like okay these were all of the courts I wanted to teach you that's some more of them but you will either find that in any of my easy lessons right here on YouTube or when I'm going through the rest of the PGM piano Theory course it doesn't really matter you already know a lot of basic chords right now and if there's new course for you to learn I will tell them to you at that moment hi guys welcome to lesson 32 in the BGM piano theory course I cannot believe we're here already 32 lessons in so if you're still watching congratulations you've made it to the actual port where we're going to be playing songs so what I'm gonna teach you as of now is how to play songs and what I call an easy way we're playing the chords so we've learned before and actually using that to play actual songs now in the beginning it's gonna be quite easy and then it'll be more advanced later on and in this lesson we're gonna teach you the basic chord setup that we're gonna be using with octaves in the left hand and chords in the right hand so in order to teach you that I'm gonna basically teach you how to play hello by Adele and I'm going to use those chords to teach you how we're actually playing chords so if you have a look above the piano you see F minor a flat E flat and D flat major okay and what I'm usually doing when I'm playing one of these easy lessons is the left hand is going to be playing octaves now if you're wondering which octave you have to play it's actually really easy because they're named out above the piano we don't have to watch for minor or major all we're gonna do is take the name of the chords so we have F so you play an evocative remember playing two notes at the same time as an octave so have octave okay then the next one is a flat so you play an a-flat octave and then an e-flat octave and a D flat octave okay so let's play them slowly [Music] like this okay now this doesn't sound like hello that much but ever use the correct rhythm [Music] it's a little better okay okay you can kind of get that idea now in the right hand we're gonna be playing courts we're not always playing full chords but most of the time we are so we have F minor and then a flat E flat and then D flat okay so let's play the right hand if they went a little bit too quick for you f minor we have F bay flood and C then for a flat you simply let go of the F and play the E flat on top so B flat C and E flat then e flat G B flat and D flat both beef okay so like this and I gonna put your left hand in there as well apply them at the same okay now you might notice a couple of things first of all it could be tricky in order to match your left hand right hand in the beginning I'm you're gonna have to get used to that but I promise you it was really really really hard for me in the beginning as well and now it's really really really easy so you will actually get there on your map you will make quite a progression right there I don't even have to think about it anymore I'm not saying that you brag I'm just saying that because of I can you definitely can okay trust me on that one so I'm playing an octave in the left hand and a chord in the right hand basically what we're doing then is playing the F so the name of the courts for three times and then adding these two unites on the top I can we do the same right here okay so um you might be wondering like I know it kind of sounds like hello but it doesn't sound exactly like it and you're wrote something isn't really matching up okay so what we can do is use inversions okay so instead of playing the core right here you might want to play it here that sounds a lot better [Music] okay or maybe right there depending on what you want to do but I'm not gonna teach you about inversions in this lesson I'll start that tomorrow and it's going to be three consecutive lessons in a race so make sure to watch through them right after each other if you can for now this is the basic setup I'm gonna be coming back to this like a hundred million times if you didn't get it exactly that's absolutely fine just keep in mind octaves in the left hand chords in the right hand and you're gonna have a lot of fun playing a lot of cool songs hi guys welcome to your lesson 33 in the PGM piano theory course and in this lesson we're gonna be talking about inversions now it's really important that you watch the previous lesson before watching this one because in a previous lesson I'm teaching you the basic layout with octaves in the left hand of course in the right hand that we're going to be using for all of the other lessons okay so lesson 32 is really important apart from that I'm gonna be teaching you repositioning this one then first inversion in the next one second inversion in the one off of that and then third inversion after that and I'm basically gonna go through it as if it is one lesson but I chopped it up into these four segments because of the different topics okay but basically it's gonna be one lesson so you're gonna have to watch straight through that in order to get it so in this lesson I want to talk to you about root position chords and you already know root position chords we've been doing we've only been doing root position chords for the entire time but I just want to spend a little extra lesson on it so when you play the name of the chord in this case F minor so you say F minor so if you play the F on the bottom or on the left of the chord we call that a root position chord okay what it means is that it's that you played in the position root in the root position why is that because the name of the chord is on the left and then the rest of the notes are going to be added on the top okay so this is the lowest note on the left and then the next one is gonna be on the right of that and the next one's gonna be on the right of that and it doesn't matter whether you play for three you know or even five notes that doesn't matter the only thing that matters is that the real position is where the name of the court is on the bottom okay so let me show you a couple of reposition chords we have C major C is on the bottom D major these on the bottom okay E minor is on the bottom half major eva's on the bottom G minor G is on the bottom a minor A's on the bottom okay so all of these are reposition chords if I play this we have to figure out what kind of chord that is so you might say a flat because I'm starting on a flat however a flat major is this a flat C and E flat so it can't be a flat because I'm playing an F right here um it could be a flat minor no because that's this one right here it's definitely not one of the diminished ones because look there's a lot of notes in between three right here and then four right there it's neither a sorceress us to so that's really weird now why we're having trouble to find out the name of this chord that is because it's not in root position okay so if we have a look at the notes we have a flat C and half remember in a quarter doesn't matter where you play the notes it just matters that you have the right set of notes so a flat C F I don't recognize that chord at all C F a flat we have four in the middle other than two I don't know what what the heck that is as well F a flat C 2 and that wait it's F minor okay so this chord is actually F minor even though it doesn't start on F however it's not F minor in root position this is F minor in root position this is f minor root position why because the F is at the bottom so when I play a flat C F I'm not playing every position and therefore it might be difficult for you in the beginning to recognize the chord because you have been playing real position chords only ok so let's go straight through in the next lesson to first inversion chords where you will start to figure out why this is happening hi guys welcome to episode 34 in a PGM piano theory course in the last two lessons I taught you the basic layout or the basic setup for piano chord songs and then I told you what a root position chord is if you haven't seen those two you have to go back and watch those first ok for now I'm directly continuing on where I left off in the previous lesson so as I said a flat C and is an AB minor chord but it's not in real position and therefore we were having trouble to identify it let's throw out another one this one right here it's science major but G b-flat e-flat we have two in the middle and then four so it can't be a regular magic all right that doesn't make any sense so maybe B flat E flat G see what I'm doing right here I'm letting go of the G going up B flat E flat G we have one two three four in the middle then two that also doesn't help me at all so maybe I could move on a flat G and B flat are the notes that we have oh wait three in the middle right here and two right there so this is actually e flat major this cool right here okay and this is also the core I want to talk to you about because this is not a flat major in root position as we know in that case we would have to play in here or here okay but this is a flat major in first inversion and that's what we're going to be talking about in this lesson first inversion chords so what does it mean it's really not as hard as you might think let's take it back us up root position means that the name of the chord is on the left okay what we're going to do now is we're gonna be moving notes from the bottom of the chord to the top so from left to right and with every step we take we're gonna call that an inversion so you're going to start on root and then you're gonna put a note on the top of the chord which will be first inversion okay and then after that we're going to be putting a note on the top which will be second inversion and then if you have four notes there's another note left so you can put that on the top we had third inversion okay what does that look like it looks like this he flat G B flat is a flat major in root position because the E flat is on the bottom so what do I need to do in order to get to first inversion I need to let go of the lowest notes in this case the E flat and put that on the top okay it's called first inversion because it's the first step where you're gonna end up because in order for it to be an e-flat major we have to have all of these three notes in there but they don't have to be in this exact position okay so the first [Music] possible option whilst walking up is the first inversion and that's G b-flat e-flat okay now you might say cool I got it let's hope that you got it but now we still need to play all of these chords in the first inversion okay and that's gonna take some time so let's go through it I want to sort in C major and then I want you to find the first inversion so let go of the lowest note the C and add it to the top okay so we have first inversion right here same for D let go of the lowest note add it to the top okay e let's add it first and then let go so Luke now you can see what's actually happening we're having four notes okay but it's still an E major chord because we have e G sharp and B okay we have another rebut is the same as the Z basically so let go here we have E major first inversion F F G G a a and B be okay I'm going through quite quickly on purpose because I want you to take some time and spend on it to figure it out yourself so C sharp C sharp d sharp d sharp F sharp F sharp G sharp G sharp and then a sharp a sharp okay so what we're going to do is a little test I'm going to be calling our root position chords and first inversion chords right through each other and I want you to actually find them okay so the notes are not gonna be running down for now because you're gonna need to find them yourself we're gonna start with an easy one C major and oh by the way we're just gonna do two major chords okay so C major D ma etc let's solve with an easy one C major in root position if you play this you're correct okay have a D sharp major in root position okay how about F in first inversion right here okay so that's already a little bit more tricky if you've got it congratulations if not take some time you will get that okay how about F sharp and reposition right how about G in first inversion have a look at G in first inversion right here okay how about D in first inversion okay how about C sharp every position how about F minor in first inversion i total charge is gonna do major chords but I wanted to do a minor chord as well okay let's do two more minor chords how about a minor in first inversion and maybe D sharp minor in first inversion okay so what I want you to do is to go through that and figure out if you can the major and the minor chords in the root position and in the first inversion you can play them right after each other go rude first rude first rude first okay you can do it like that you can also for instance do root and then first for the next chord would first root first and do it like that there's a lot of different ways to do it but for now we're going to go right through into the next lesson which is going to be second inversions hi guys welcome to lesson 35 in the pigeon piano theory course in the previous three lessons we did the basic setup of easy lessons for PGM piano basically how to play chords basically how to play a song using quartz and octaves in the one after that we did root position chords and in the one after that we did first inversion chords and right now we're at second inversion so if you haven't watched all of the other lessons that I just mentioned so sorting or less than 30 to go back there and watch through all of them otherwise this isn't gonna make any sense okay so I hope that by now you practice the major and the minor chords in a root position and the first inversion and now we can continue on with the second inversion so I can finally have a look back at that Adele song okay so root position first inversion means you let go of the bottom note and add it to the top and as second inversion simply means again let go of the bottom node and add it to the top okay now you might want to mark what happens if I do a third inversion well if you only have three nodes your back of your position again like this sees at the bottom cool so we have root position first inversion second inversion root okay let's do that for all of the courts root position first second root okay play along with me root first second root root first second root okay root first second root first second and eight first second root okay let's do D flat so rude first second root [Music] like that okay I know I went really quick but you can actually rewind and now all of the quotes are at least in there so you can have a go at that at your own pace you can also do the minor chords that's absolutely fine but the most important thing that I want you to get from this is that if you're playing a song especially when I'm playing a song in any of the easy lessons okay because all of the easy lessons are based on chords and you see those courts above the piano and I'm playing this and you're wondering like that's so weird because it's not an F minor chord yes it is cause look right here there is the F minor F a flat and C okay it's just that my right hand is in a first inversion okay that I've got placed from the bottom on the top that's why it sounds different okay that's what I want you to keep in mind that for the chords with three notes that we have three possible positions root first and second and that's only for as far as the notes are together okay so they're all basically in one grip if you would for instance play this then they're not together anymore okay so we have root first inversion second inversion okay if you start breaking up such a chord like this or for instance like this then we don't call it root or first or a second anymore okay it's different so that's it for now in this lesson please remember to give it a thumbs up if you liked it and we're gonna go straight through into the next lesson to talk about third inversions because they do actually exist hi guys welcome to lesson 36 of the PGM piano theory cause ever since less than 32 I've been talking a lot about cause and root position first inversion second inversion so if you haven't watched that ya made sure to go back for now we're going to be talking about third inversion chords so what's really important to understand is that if you have a regular chord with three nodes we have a root position first inversion second inversion and then our third inversion that third inversion is not really an inversion it's the same as the root position we were playing right there okay so if you have three notes you only have two inversion you have root first inversion and the second inversion okay then after that we'll pack a root if have you have four nights you have basically four nights to move around so therefore we have the first inversion right here we have the second inversion right here and we have the third inversion right here before being back okay so real position first inversion second inversion and then right here third inversion before being back every position okay so that only happens when you have courts with four notes it's basically the same principles what we've done before so if you want you can figure that out for all of the course that we discussed so the major in the minor seven chords have a look at that and see if you can find all of the inversions for them hi guys welcome to lesson 37 of the PGM piano theory course now that you know all about inversions from less than 33 34 35 and 36 in this lesson we're actually gonna be using that knowledge to decypher the song hello Adele to see in what inversions were actually playing that so the first thing you need to understand is that when we're playing chords so it's not necessarily a good way or a bad way to play it there's only different ways different ways it sounds so I could be playing Adele right here [Music] okay but that doesn't really sound like the song so I can actually change that a little bit until does sound like it so let's try repositions it's a little bit better okay I think this one is the original they are not mistaken but you could also go here or do something else it doesn't really matter okay that's the way our Plata they was like this okay as an example so let's see if we can figure out water was actually doing so the quartz we already know the quotes F minor a flat E flat and D flat but if you don't know what quotes they are then it's so important that you can actually figure that out so I started playing the right hand because the left hand that's all fine we're talking just about the right hand now I started playing a flat C and F okay so you might think again that's an E flat chord but it's not even though we're sorting all that a flat it's not necessarily an A flat chord okay once you figure that out let go of the a flat place it on the top this really doesn't make any sense as well so continue on and now you see they were actually playing an F minor chord once you've been doing this a lot then you actually know all of the chords off by heart so you will immediately know this F minor you don't have C like calculated like this but that will take a little bit of time so F minor let's see I had to go to inversion so it's the second inversion right no it's not because I didn't start in root position so what's actually happening this F was stolen from the bottom right here okay and therefore it's the first inversion okay this is root position this is the first inversion so then I play this which is C E flat a flat and that's actually the first inversion of a flat as you can see right here okay as then I went here which is B flat E flat G and let's put the G back so right here and now to E flat back as well and narrower reposition say this is actually the first second inversion okay and then D flat is exactly the same right here so also the second inversion so we have F minor e first inversion a flat and first inversion of the B flat and D flat both in second inversion okay so if I want to change the song or change the way the song sounds I can change the inversion so I can go here [Music] I can change to position it's the same chords but it sounds different still the same cause but different inversions okay you could also go here you [Music] this is sounding pretty pretty good maybe maybe they're so so you can do all kind of stuff with these inversions [Applause] and then consuming one so anyway uh you can you can do this for any song if you cannot figure out which chord it is simply keep on inverting until you get the correct chord and so you get the root position and then you can figure out what it is okay in the beginning this will take some time but eventually you will actually start to recognize songs real quick real easy say for now please give this video a thumbs up if you liked it we're gonna be continuing on with the next lesson which is gonna be less than 38 and in that lesson I'm gonna be teaching you how you can use those chords in order to learn songs even quicker hi guys welcome to lesson 38 in the PGM piano theory course I started talking about chords and lesson 20 so if you haven't seen that one yet and then you have some catching up to do but if you don't want to go through all of these lessons at least start on episode 32 that's why you have to sword in order to understand what I'm talking about right here so we've done inversions and a root position chords in a previous couple of lessons and I've also shown you how you're gonna play chords usually with a basic chord setup by playing octaves in the left hand and chords in the right hand remember that so now again it's an Adele song I didn't even think about that but I'm gonna teach you how to play someone like you by Adele in the old ways so let's say you don't know anything about courts I'm gonna teach you how to play that song okay here we go for the left hand you have to play a and E together then G sharp and E F sharp C sharp F sharp or F sharp a C sharp right here and then dat okay as the right hand is a c-sharp c-sharp and you keep on doing that for four times and then you're gonna play G sharp C sharp e sharp also for four times then F sharp C sharp F sharp and then a D F sharp D okay so by now you know how to play the song right I don't think so um the reason that is is because right now you have to remember all of these notes separately and it's such a lot of noise to remember okay but the way I remember it is actually not by remembering their notes but by remembering courts which is groups of three notes if you remember and therefore you only have to remember four things instead of twelve yeah so if we have look at the right hand for instance on playing AC shop EC sharp which is an a major chord okay so all I have to do is remember a major then I'm playing G sharp C sharp and E which is actually a C sharp minor chord okay it's the second inversion but it's a C sharp minor chord so we have a C sharp minor then we have F sharp five remember F sharp C sharp and F sharp so that's a five chord and then right here this is actually D major in the second inversion okay so we have a c-sharp minor F sharp 5 and D and if you remember that you already know this song all you have to do is apply to pattern by playing the bottom note then the middle the top and the middle and keep on going back and forth ok so start here a c-sharp minor' f-sharp 5 and then all that's left is D major okay for the left hand I'm basically playing an a chord as well but I'm leaving at this C sharp then I'm playing a C sharp minor chord but I'm leaving at the C sharp then I'm playing an F sharp five chord I'm leaving off the F sharp and then I'm playing a decore right here okay I'm adding a D and I'm letting add the F sharp so played like this okay so also when you know these chords a lot easier to remember a c-sharp minor' a shop v but leave of the f-sharp [Music] and our t5 basically okay so you can imagine that by simply remembering the quotes a c-sharp minor F sharp five and D that like let's say two years from now if you've been playing this song a couple of times and you don't know exactly how it's going even if you play the chords in root position and with a regular octave in the left hand [Music] okay so we're just playing this you can already hear that you're basically doing a good thing all right here and then right here and then you might notice like this sounds really weird so you could get to work on that a little bit like that actually sounds not too bad okay and then you go you and they were there already okay then you remember like wasn't there some kind of pattern going on so you try no that's not it that's not it ah that's it and simply by remembering these four quotes [Applause] you can real easily get back to this song that you learned like three four five years ago we have to do is look up those quotes and within no time you'll be playing that song again because it's so easy to remember these quotes and figure it out okay anyway I just want to show you that by using this chord structure it's a lot easier to figure out how songs are being played how to adapt them so they don't sound good you can use your inversions to basically shift the chords to go from there so you may be like oh right here and then shifting those courts around and also if you have to do a little pattern like this one right here instead of remembering all of these notes separately by simply remembering the quotes it's a lot easier to remember those songs and play them quicker as well because your hand is already used to a couple of these grips okay so that's what I wanted to tell you in this lesson not something specific I just wanted to give you an idea of what you can do when you and know all of these chords and how it makes it easier for you to remember songs and eventually how'd you figure out songs by doing that hi guys welcome to lesson 39 of the PGM piano theory course if you're still watching congratulations I know there's a lot of lessons and I'm hoping that you're learning a lot so I just want to talk a little bit about exceptions on the basic core piano set up that I've introduced to you so I want to have a look at G major right here and what I told you is that when you play G major you're gonna play a G octave in the left hand and that's true I will usually do that one playing these easy lessons or the chord lessons however you don't have to do it it's also possible to for instance play a D octave in the left hand okay or a B octave basically borrowing from the G BB notes right here you could play either one of them okay keep in mind the chord is gonna change a little bit because this is just G major when you play it like this we're gonna call that G major /dy because there's three DS in there okay is pretty dominant so G major G major /b and G major slash D okay so that's possible it's also possible to play for instance G and D in the left hand basically v [Music] and GBD in the right hand and then you get a different sign as well than where you play this okay so that's also possibility it's also possible to borrow a note from here so maybe you would play DGD and GMB and play the chord like this in this case I'm not playing a D in the right hand but I am playing them in the left hand or like this same kind of idea I'm not playing it in the right hand um I could also do that with the B for instance play it like this okay and you can clearly hear that's a different kind of sound and you could go there which is quite cool G B TD so we have G B and D and therefore it's still G major chord it's also possible let's have a look at E minor to play an octave in the left hand that's not only chord like this for instance and it sounds really cool and jazzy and why is that because we've actually changed the cord Luke right now we have G B e in the right hand and a C in the left hand so if I remove that E and I place it here I'm actually getting this chord so by playing a different pocket in the left hand I could change D chord because I'm simply adding a note okay then it's also possible to play five notes in the left hand so like this which are basically doing is playing a five chords so you played a fifth okay [Music] makes it sounds a little bit of dark I think this would be taking a bit too far so you could stay here right so [Music] like that so that's quite cool as a change sometimes I do that I play a song and then if I want to make it a little bit more crunchy I'll put in that extra note in the middle so there's a lot of different things you can do with the left hand and sometimes if you play note that's not in the chord and you can actually change or alter the chord in the right hand and thereby altering the entire chord you're playing hey y'all welcome to lesson 40 in the PGM piano Theory course today I want to talk to you about right hand chord patterns sounds difficult actually it really isn't it's really quite easy and basically what you need to understand is that one of your playing chords or like these easy songs that I'm basically teaching we're gonna play a pattern in the right hand and the pattern might be play all of the notes at once okay all of the notes from the courts over have my a major chord right here AC sharp and E C pattern might be I'm gonna play all of these notes at once and then maybe the next chord I'm going to play all of them at once and then right here and then right here okay so this is a pattern I could also play all of the chords twice or four times but that's worth three notes at once I could also play one note at a time so playing the same chords and now all of a sudden it sounds pretty much like I doubt someone like you okay why by simply applying a pattern okay plain the bottom Middle top middle like that and there's other parents as well for instance two nights and their one like that or taking the two outer nets and then playing the middle or the bottom and the top of course which is a little bit less common okay so for instance playing the two notes and then one you do that with apologize [Music] [Applause] okay or which is simply not a pattern top bottom middle bottom okay like that but you have to give him one though what are you playing the full quarter wants like this or applying a pattern it's always going to be a pattern okay when you play the full quarter once that's just the pattern of playing the full chord at once there's a lot of patterns like for instance bottom metal top and if you for instance prove that here you get a beautiful song um Bob basically you're just playing with these basic chords right here applying a pattern etc okay so keeping that in mind if you learn the chords of a song you can actually apply different patterns to get the result you want okay can become something like okay so keep that in mind different patterns for the right hand and yeah have a go that and see what you can come up with say that says these are all of the right hand patterns I wanted to show you there's tons and tons more you will find them in the easy lessons hi guys welcome to lesson 41 of the PDMP na theory course and the previous lesson I talked to you about the right hand patterns and right now I want to talk about the left hand patterns basically we're going to keep the right hand in a study pattern and look at the left hand so let's have a look at this core progression the pattern right now for the left hand is to simply play octaves along with the chords in the right hand okay would you agree now the left hand can also go back and forth like this [Music] okay or it could simply go [Music] like that which is plainly fool octave and then a single note I do that a lot [Music] so have a go that [Music] and when you're going back and forth you can start on the top one [Music] or sod on the bottom one which sounds different [Music] okay then of course there is tons and tons of more stuff you can do with the left hand like for instance [Music] which would sound like this [Music] okay and there's so much more stuff you can do in the left hand is basically the same as in the right depending on what you want to play [Music] [Music] etc that left hand can actually play a lot of different stuff but that's not really a chord song is it that's not really an easy lesson so yeah the left hand does have a couple of patterns the most important ones to remember are simply an octave or playing an octave and a single note like that or this one [Music] because that one is occurring quite a lot as well and another one that sometimes it's not really that common but or sometimes you could just be playing a chord but that's also quite rare so now you know a couple of patterns for the left hand we will be seeing a lot more of them than any of the easy lessons you're gonna see patterns in that left hand all the time so that's the end of the PDMP n a theory course as I've told you before there is another lesson in the description exam below that will really really get you started on how to play the piano and it's basically a guide as to how to watch my lessons how to interpret all the stuff that's on the screen and also just a lot of tips about combining left and right hands and all that kind of stuff it's a really useful lesson if you haven't watched it yet please have a look at that right now if you'd rather go straight into learning a song have a look at youtube.com slash PGM piano you can find all of the lessons right there by clicking the videos tab or if you rather have an alphabetical order of all of the lessons go to PGM piano comm and click all lessons right there I want to thank you so much for watching it's been a long lesson if you're still here congratulations you've made it all the way till the end and now you know a lot about playing piano

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