Having Fun With the 1 4 5 Chord Progression

today let's have some fun with a 1 4 5 chord progression to get more content from this video click on the link in the description and view it on the article page you'll also get the instructional guide for this video absolutely free learn color piano calm okay let's have some fun with the 1 4 5 first of all we're working in the key of C major which is again slower that's G and B and just as important are the numbers of C major or any other major Keys and 7 make sure that you know the numbering system that makes life a whole lot easier for you now just as each one of these notes that are in the key as well as any key has a note they have a corresponding chord so I have a 4 before going back that's a one chord those are combinations of major and minor chords I'm not going to get into all of them but the three that we want to focus on are the word so the word Ford Ford and the footboard is a very common chord progression and the 1 4 and 5 chords are very common in the way that they harmonize any melody of any song now if that's all you do you're going to get really bored with that and anyone listening to you play is going to get really bored with that but we're going to play around with a one four five progression because I want you to get this one four five chord progression in your ears so again now let's take things a little farther by taking the root of the chord and putting it in our left hand now we're going to double up on it we're not going to take it out of the right hand but let's play the root also in our left hand to give the you know the chords and base or the progression of a little bit of bass sound so it's and by the way I'm using my my first my second in my third fingers to play these chords now you can play them with the first the third and the fifth fingers are good like a lot of beginners will do that but with myself I like to play them with one two first second and third fingers because I like to use or have my fifth thing you're available to play [Music] good chords whatever that may be so here we have the word get very comfortable with that play that those one four and five chords play that progression you can get real familiar with it now let's change things up just a little bit by taking the one chord in our right hand okay we're going to play that in second inversion if you know anything about inversions or anything about chord inversions you know that you can play chords in different positions you can rearrange the notes of the chord here's the major root position major first inversion a major second inversion and that's exactly the way we're going to play this one chord C major we're going to play it in second inversion but we're going to move it down occupy we're going to play it right here we're still going to play the bass note and listen I was looking to see if you can see this the last note you're not going to really be able to get your own clothes the way that this camera shot is set up but this is see two octaves below this see our one load to see can't see this on the virtual keyboard so I apologize if I didn't have that set up exactly the way I should so we're going to play our everyone I know did the inversion especially a try it look and see where the root is and in case of a triad the root the root is in the middle of a chord when it's in second inversion so now our four and five we're going to play just like we played them but we're not going to play those up here we're going to play them an octave below [Music] again now that sounds a little less basic then but now we're going to add to this by playing the second what is the second well every major key of music has a second every chord has a second so here's three major here is C add to our C - depends on what school of thoughts which are in but this is the second color tonight I don't really call it a night because there's no dominant seventh present if you don't know what I'm talking about that's okay the second and again we're going to still play it major second inversion we're going to add this [Music] and then we're going to add the second to the F major chord which is a four chord we're going to add the second I'm going to plant like this you could play it like this I'm going to be doing something else chord as we move along so the second is always a whole step above the root in this case it's G and it's a little bit above F we're going to do the same thing with G major just a 5 quart and I kind of just moved into what we're going to go into next but before we get ahead of ourselves let's play that chord progression again the one four five you hear the difference there that second add something to that chord so we have our line playing this in our bass we're playing [Music] and I apologize if you can't see it in this shot but you can't see it on the virtual keyboard so it's [Music] okay now let's get into something different but make sure that you have this sound in your ears make sure most importantly you have the bass up a little higher so you can see it [Music] go as low as you would like probably a little lower than what you necessarily want to but we're doing here again now we're going to move into bouncing off of that second now I don't think I'm going to do it really so much as in with this one chord because of the way that it's between my third and my fifth finger not that I couldn't but now lift it up on that too we're going to do the same thing for the for a little bit above I wouldn't say necessarily a bluesy sound but kind of a twanging sound maybe a little bit of a country sound so let's do that again like I said you don't really have to play the one chord and bounce off of the second I was doing that you just played the one chord like that the Western twine gear one more time you play it however you like to play it you can kind of mix and match it match just like I did okay so what we're going to do now is play a little bit of a left-hand bass notes in our left hand that's more of a I don't know I wouldn't call it a run but I would call it something a little different than just [Music] it's kind of what we're doing but if I do something like this kind of getting ahead of myself let me just do this what I'm doing in my left hand is just playing kind of a little bass note riff there I'm going for excuse me and then I'm just going to take this left hand I'm going to play off of the a minor or the a blues scale or the some people would call it an a minor blue scale and ahead of myself we're gonna play GT plan I'm adding a little bit too much rhythm I'm getting ahead of myself so we're going to do this try it again Oh now to go a little farther let's add a little bit of rhythm here in our right hand like I was doing earlier getting ahead of myself so it's slower I say this is I'm playing off of the a blue scale actually actually a minor blues scale depending on how you're looking at it or I'm going to play the left hand with a little more in a lower register for more bass so you can see what this sounds like so you can do it on your own so I'm doing the staining I'm doing it an octave lower in my left hand okay now we are doing the 1 the 4 and the 5 but we're having fun with it playing along with it so I'm going to add another progression to this now we're working on but now I want to go into the 2 3 & 4 okay in the case of C major your 2 quart is going to be your D your 3 into being your Iman okay and your 4 core is maybe your F major chord we're already doing but we're going to add that to this this progression which is the 2 3 4 your 2 chord your 3 chord of course your 4 chord is we're going to voice them a little different now we're going to add a note to them called this the dominant 7th it's going to make them minor 7 chords so let me just slowly move right into it I'm going to move into B minor 7 this looks very very familiar in our right hand side we have major board over Annie but because I'm playing separate record it's actually a D minor 7 chord you see D minor this court here B as in a has a lot in common with the F major chord which is see they have the C and the D minor is the dominant if you don't know what that means or what that is minor chord we're doing the same thing here with the E minor just for here has a lot in common with major this chord here one note so they they share force D that we're adding in here and the dominant seven these two the same time relatively the same [Music] our m4 know that our F course again is our four chord but we're adding smoke here and the dominant seven no that's not a ton of the major seventh it's a half step route there's me below it but if you voice it like this very smooth now so again these are our two three and four chords okay so let's just go that far adding little new odds here and there and I may have may or may not have played the second there let's try that again now what we can do is we can play the two three the two and then we can play this excuse me we can play the four and okay let me just play along with what we have so far and play along very slowly so you can see what it looks like and what it sounds like now as you can see in my left hand playing playing the rink of the D minor playing the major chord but I'm also playing here if if you know your major chords that's not going to confuse you because you understand a major chord is made up of a root a third and a fifth just like C major there's a third there's a fifth and with a D minor minor third fifth and he is roof etcetera so you know if you understand your major chords that's not going to throw you off and you can complain the rhythm of the song and all that sort of stuff so let's again just kind of play what we have so far now we're going to play a four chord over a five what does that mean we're going to play the four chord okay I'm going to play the four chord and we'll play we're going to play the four chord play we're actually going to go back to playing in the way that we're playing it before and we're going to play the loop okay I'm going to play this four chord over a five what's the five in the key of C major G so we're gonna play the word over the five chord see what's happening here what is your ear telling you [Music] Aurel some we're pulling back to what the one that says we're finished we're done it's over with right so let's play that progression in its entirety and we're going to put all the little elements here that we that we put together okay ready [Music] add a little nuance there to the end now this can be done obviously in any key and it can be done in different types of voicings you don't have to do it the way that I'm doing it here but like I say the title of this video is having fun with a one four five progression look at this article there's an article that I have published about this at learned color piano comm hey there's another interesting key that I had thought that this was interesting to do and so I'm just going to do this G flat one four five progression and we're just going to take a look at it and see how it sounds and I'm just going to add maybe we're going to go the lower in the register with a base like I said because of the camera shot you can't see it and the virtual keyboard only goes to us about right here so just use your ear and listen ready [Music] make them lower [Music] okay now if you have an electronic keyboard instrument like a lot of people do and then have some sort of rhythm accompaniment you can play along with the rhythm you could play along with a metronome or any of that stuff and I just chose the first rhythm when I was taking a look at this that popped up and I think I may have I may have a job I didn't even adjust the tempo i justed the the rhythm volume so I didn't even do that so anyway let's just kind of play along and we're just going to play out this okay just take a look at this and see of listen to what this sounds like and see how you can take the 1 4 5 in and just play with it [Music] there is an instructional guide to this video that may look something like this depending upon the video that you're watching click on the link in the description that will take you to learn color piano comm where you can download it for free it won't cost you anything my name is Greg would learn color piano comm I'll see you next time

Channel: Learn Color Piano

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Keywords: chords, piano, chord progressions, 1 4 5 chord progression, keyboard, learn piano

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Length: 21min 16sec (1276 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 24 2017