The Easiest Piano Melody Harmonization System in the World

okay let's talk about how melodies work a melody is a pattern of seven different notes and in this case we're talking about the key of C so it's think of a melt think of a key of music as a menu seven different notes in which you draw from to play songs or melodies now what do you do with a menu you draw from a menu you pick and choose and that's what a composer does when they write music so as a player you're going to be playing from that menu like I said in the key of C a B be seven different notes now sometimes occasionally you'll have notes that are not in the key for example that note is not in the key of C that's called an accidental it's not an accident that the composer chose that note in the Star Spangled Banner could have just as easily went so accidentals are notes that are not in the key but you don't really have to be worried about those I mean there's usually no more than one or two of them and most songs don't have accidentals especially you know very very simple songs so that is your key of music your seven different notes in which you draw from the play a song now just as important as these seven different notes C and B is the numbering sequence of these seven different notes so along with CTAP you have one that this is really extremely fundamental but it's really important to understand and know the numbering sequence so you want to know the numbering sequence of those seven different notes while you're sitting at the keyboard you want to know them when you're not sitting at the keyboard and you want to know them in sequence of course out of sequence what is the sixth of C it's a what is the third what is the seventh is being you want to make sure that you know your numbers really important stuff make sure that you know your numbers now along with the seven different notes you have seven different corresponding chords so you have a C chord a D chord in ecord and escort a G chord and a chord and a B chord these are combinations of major and minor chords a major chord has a happy bright sound and a minor chord has a dark sad sound to them okay now these seven different chords are also referred to as diatonic harmony and that's just another way of saying in the key so you have these seven different chords they're in combinations of major and minor but just as important they're all numbered as well so you have your one chord your two chord your three chord your four chord your five chord your six chord and your seven chord and I need to point out earlier that when I was pointing out the seven different notes one two three four five six seven the one is always referred to as the root so if someone refers to a note being the root you'll know that that is the first tone and I should have mentioned that earlier okay now let's talk about the primary chord so the primary chords are your one chord your four chord and your five chord in this case it's C major F major and G major your secondary chords are your two three six and seven we're not going to worry about those because the primary chords are the most used chords and every key the reason being is that B seven different notes that we have are harmonized by one or more of the primary chords for example the c major will harmonize to C okay the D mate is the G major will harmonize the D okay the C major will harmonize the e the F major will harmonize to F the G major will harmonize the G the F major will harmonize the a the G major will harmonizing the B and then we're back to where we started again so those are the most used chords in every key now if you've ever heard about the primary chords you're probably thinking this is the dullest way to harmonize a song and I couldn't agree with you more but stick with me because we're going to put a little twist on the primary chords and we're going to show how you can use those three major chords in every key to create major and minor harmonies okay let's talk about inversions as you know I've been playing these chords in root position but there's this thing called inversions where you take and rearrange the notes of the court now here is C major in root position okay C major and first inversion C major and second inversion and the interesting thing about it is when you and invert a chord you change the note that's on top and the note that is on top is the melody note so in this case C major G is on top G is your melody note C major C is on top C is your melody note C major ears on top he is your melody note so anytime that you rearrange in you invert chords you put a different note on top that's your melody note your melody note has to be on top because it rings out among the other tones and that's what we listen to in music so now that we know we can take these seven different notes and now that we know we can use the one chord the four chord and five chord and now that we know we can invert each one of those chords towards a different note on top we can take the chord right that we would normally play right the one chord the four chord in the five chord we can take it out of our left hand we can put it our right hand so what we have here you're going to notice this pattern in the melody harmonization system and you're going to notice they look like this you've got your one chord you get your five chord one chord for chord one chord 4 chord five chord one chord ok because you're starting back over where you left off now what you're going to do is you're going to take the chord in your right hand you're going to put the basin up note in your left hand so your C major okay we've got to see in the bass G major have a G in the base B major again different inversion there C in the base F major F in the base B major C in the base F major F in the base G major G in the bass on the back where you've started again okay now I can harmonize any song this way right I think but I have the cord in my right hand I'm playing a bass note it feels things out but what's wrong with this what's wrong is they're all major harmonies they're all major chords the kind of music you and I have always listened to is a combination of major and minor chords so what we need to do is figure out a way to use this system and be able to play major and minor harmonies and the best way to do that and the way that we want to do that is to use a minimal amount of brain power and a minimal amount of movement in the hands so this is what we're going to do when I'm playing for example a C major okay and I have a C in the bass that's a major harmony our first instinct is to do this our first instinct is to if we want a minor harmony is to lower the middle note and play C minor our play go from F to F minor our G to G minor right the problem with that is every time we do that now we're playing a note that's not in the key C major it's a flat is not in the key F major F minor the a flat is not in the key and you want to get to pick what we want to do is we want to change a note but not anything in our right hand we want to change the note in our left hand so what we're going to do is we want to play a major harmony we're going to play the root of the chord you can play the root in octaves if you want you can play a root and a fifth and as you can see the fifth is just the top note of a triad when it's in the root position so you can play the root in octave so you can play a single note you can play the losing fifth however you'd like to do it but when you want to play a minor harmony what you want to do is take the base note and you want to move it down three keys doesn't matter if those keys are white or black you just want to move them down three keys so C major okay and there you have a minor harmony I'll explain what these chords are in just a minute all right F major okay move it down three keys okay G major okay move it down three keys for minor harmony all right it works this way with every chord in every inversion in every key so you want to play a major harmony play the root of the chord and when you want to play a minor harmony just move the bass note your bottom note down three keys okay okay now I have to reveal to you that I tricked you I told you that we were only going to be doing the one chord the four chord and the five chord the two three six and seven I implied that we weren't even going to be playing those because I told you not to worry about them that we were just going to ignore them but really what's happening is anytime you take this bass note and you move it down three keys that's exactly what you're doing you see your two three six and seven are CD a and B and what you're doing is every time you do that I'm now playing the six chord which is the a chord if I play a G major with an E in the bass I'm playing the three the three chord all right let's minor and if I play an F okay and I play a D in the bass okay now I'm playing the two chord the only one of these chords that you're not really playing is the seventh chord the seventh is actually a diminished chord but because it's so closely related to the five chord you see in the seven chord you have a B D and F or the five chord you have a G B and a B so you share through the same notes so what you have is is when you're playing the three chord you're playing a minor harmony and you're playing two notes of the seventh chord and if I've muddied the waters and confuse you just don't even worry about it just remember that anytime that you want to play a major harmony you just add the root of the chord any time you want to play a minor harmony you just move these notes down three keys now I'm walking them down and that's for simplicity sake but you're not even going to have to worry about this because you're going to get real familiar with this I believe in you and I know you can do it now what are these chords well D major and I said this is a minor harmony also said that this is the two three six and seven so what we're doing is we're essentially playing D minor E minor and a minor but wait a minute I've got my a minor chord here all right I know that's a CED that's my sixth chord what is the G that's an extra note in there just think of that noticeable as a bonus because what happens is and this just happens naturally if you don't change any notes in your right hand you go from playing a major chord okay to a minor seven chord okay so the note that's below the pay turns out to be the dominant seven and if you don't know what sevenths are like I said don't even worry about it just remember you can play major and minor harmonies just by taking this bass note and changing it major harmony minor harmony major harmony minor hum major harmony minor heart it's really really simple to do this and you're going to see this in the melody harmonization system and the user guide explains everything that I'm explaining to you here [Music] you but if I can take itsy-bitsy spider and I can make it sound like a real piece of music you can do this with anything you can do this with hymns you can do this with any kind of music any pop song anything that you can actually play the melody do with one finger and you can change it up you can have these interesting harmonies major and minor minor harmonies playing them in your right hand and choosing how you want to do it you do not have to harmonize every note for example if you have a series of very fast notes like eighth notes or sixteen notes worth well you might be on a C chord and you might be ok you don't have to harmonize every single note it really doesn't work that way it's not necessary and the faster the notes are the busier it would be if you were to try to harmonize every note with a chord not that you can't with eighth notes but anything any faster than that you don't necessarily have to do it if you have a combination of quarter notes and eighth notes just don't even worry about it just play single notes when you have to and use this way to harmonize with your right hand using the base notes just use that to harmonize the rest of the melody you can use other notes in the bass to experiment I have a c-major here okay and this is the C minor okay I can arpeggiate and do things like this but if you want to use other notes in the bass for example have an F major here well what if I don't want to use a minor harmony but it's not really working and I need another note but I really don't know what it is I can use the third in the base you experiment and use whatever note sounds good to you remember your ears the final judge sista what sounds good to you hey I want to send you this this is the melody harmonization guide from color score just click on the link in the description and it'll send you to learn color piano calm or you'll get this for free and also I'll give you a free subscription to the color notes easing you

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Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 28 2017