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Hello, it's Tom Donald here from the London Contemporary School of Piano, and today I'm gonna show you seven chord progressions, seven of the best chord progressions for beginners. And these are chord progressions you don't wanna miss out on. Today I'm gonna be taking you through some of the theory behind these progressions so you can put them into different keys and you can dig a bit deeper because on the YouTube channel, in the YouTube world out there, there's a lot of videos with fingers, close up fingers of the piano players. And that's a great way to learn, but only to a certain extent. It will only get you so far. You really want to go a bit further, dig into the theory, understand a bit more what's going on, you know that there's been a whole history of phenomenal pianists before they had videos to look at. So it's important that you go a bit deeper. You get into the sort of, you tap into the ancient wisdom of piano, so to speak. And despite the ancient wisdom of these chord progressions, they have been around, you know, for many, many years, but they're still very contemporary sounding to our ears. So let's dig in deeper and go to the theory. And if you'd like to see more of our content, please click subscribe the bell to subscribe to our channel. So let's get started. Now, if you'd like a copy of these seven Progressions for beginners, all you have to do is drop us an email at contemporaryschoolofpiano.com and we'll happily send you a copy, this sheet with our compliments. Now you'll notice these progressions have been analyzed in numbers because we're going to be looking at the theory behind these progressions so you really understand how they work, how they musically function. This is really, really important. So firstly we want to understand the seven chords of the scale in its raw triad format. So we're gonna do that right now it is chord one, if we're just in the key of C major. A C major is a chord one, D minor is a chord two, and E minor is a chord three, and F major is a chord four. A G major is a chord five and a minor is chord six and a B diminished is a chord seven. And then we return to chord one on the next octave. So basically chords one, four and five are major, and chords 2, 3, 6 are minor, and chord seven is diminished. So we're gonna analyze these from the lens of C major, but we will be putting this into some other keys today. So let's start with the very first progression here. The very first progression is 1, 5, 6 4. We also have another video on our channel of this progression. It's one of the most famous progressions in pop music. You would've heard it many, many times before. Let's do that one again. 1, 5, 6, 4. Okay, here's a slight variation of the 1, 5, 6, 4. This is our second progression. It's 1, 3, 6, 4. I'll play it now with some inversions. 1, 3, 6, 4. And that three replacing the five just gives it a bit more melancholy. Now with two minor chords in the progression. This is another very popular progression used in lots of pop songs. 1, 2, 4, 5. Can you think of any songs that use this progression? And if you can put it down in the chat, 1, 2, 4 For Five, very popular progression. Okay, now we're gonna go a bit next level. And and even if you are relatively new to piano, you want to be learning these chords and learning these types of progressions because they just sound so wonderful on piano and they're very doable. They, I mean, the design of the piano means that these chords are within our reach, even at a relative beginner level. And unfortunately I feel that the exam system, the piano exam system, it introduces these chords way too late. You need to learn them now. You don't wanna waste any time. You wanna get straight to the point. So I'm gonna show you a lovely chord here. A B flat major chord - here is the shape, got my thumb on the B flat, my third finger on the D, and my fifth finger on the F. It's really relaxing the wrist now as I play those three notes, so this is a nice substitute for chord seven, that what is normally a diminished chord. We're now going to actually change that chord cause it's a bit of the odd chord out of the scale. We're going to modify the chord and make it a flattened seven. And we just do that by turning that B into a B flat and then creating a B flat major chord out of it, the chord we just played. And therefore we get the progression one flattened seven, four and one, which in this case is going to be C, B flat Major F Major, C. Now nicer way to play the progression is go to the left of middle C and play it here. And then we could go down to the F if we're playing them all as root chords. And then back to the C. We can also use inversions as well. So here it is, one, flattened 7, 4, 1. Let's do that again. One, flattened 7, 4, 1. You also can do these inversions, one flattened 7, 4 1. This is a good party trick. This one. There you go. You can host the next sing song around the piano with all sorts of great tunes. All right, so the next one we're gonna do here, you've noticed we've got one flattened three, four, and one. So in the key of C major, the flattened three, we're gonna get the E minor, which would just be a standard chord three. And we're going to flatten that to an E flat and turn it into an E flat major. This gives it a real beautiful gospel tinge and this is a slightly gospel chord progression. You hear it a lot in that style of music, but you hear it in all sorts of wonderful music from Italian opera, gospel jazz, pop as well. It's a wonderful progression. This is one flattened three, four and one. So here's the shape of an E flat major chord. If you're a beginner and you haven't encountered this chord, again, another wonderful chord, you should just get your fingers onto. You can put your thumb on the E flat, your third finger on the G and your fifth finger on the B flat. Really relax your wrist. It's a lovely, lovely chord. Okay, so we got C, E flat, F, C, let's do that again. C, E flat, F, C. What a wonderful progression. I love this progression so much. I'm gonna put it in another key. Let's put it into the key of F, F major. I could not make my mind up there. I didn't know whether to go F or G Major. So let's go F major. So the flattened three of an F major would be an A flat major chord. And then chord four would be a B flat major chord, F major chord. So here we go, F A flat, B flat, F. And if you'd like a copy of this crib sheet with these seven chord progressions for beginners, just drop us an email at contemporaryschoolofpiano.com and we'll also send you a special crib sheet of all of the seven chords notated in all of the different keys written out in all the different keys. So you have this little cheat sheet so you can transpose these progressions into different keys. And if you're really serious about your music, that's a really good resource for you. So just drop us an email, let us know you've seen this video. So now the next progression, we're gonna start going a bit next level and start looking at some chord dissonances. So I'm firstly going to show you what some seventh chords look like on the piano if they're new to you. So a seventh chord. We're now moving into chords with dissonance in them. And so these chords are going to have four notes. For instance, let's get a C major chord, and you can notice I'm playing the C major with my first, second and third fingers. And my fifth finger is gonna play a B. So I'm playing notes C, E, G, and B. And I'm just gonna do this on the white keys just to get the sound of it and get this under my fingers. This is a C major seven chord. If I do this on chord two, this is a D minor seven chord. And if I do this on chord three, this is an E minor seven chord. And if I do this on chord four, this is an F major seven chord. Doesn't that sound just absolutely dreamy and beautiful? So the next progression we're going to do is gonna start on chord four seven, which is an F major seven. Then it's gonna move down to three seven, which is an E minor seven. Then move down to chord two seven, which is a D minor seven and then down to one seven, which is a C major seven. F major seven, E minor seven, D minor seven, C major seven. Let's do that again. Put some octaves in the left hand. So let's have a little look at the theory behind that. Again, these are just wonderful chords and you can get your hands straight onto these chords. So because chord four is an F major seven in this progression major seven chords are usually notated with triangle seven. In jazz, it is notated that way. However, in a lot of pop music it's also notated, as you can see to the right of the screen, it's also often notated as an abbreviation. It both means the same thing, triangle or abbreviation. And it's a major seven chord. The three is a minor seven chord, E minor seven, and this is how it's notated D minor seven. So it's notated as an abbreviation. And then the major seven, chord one is a major seven, C major seven. Now of course I can do this progression in different keys, but C major a great place to start. And we're starting on chord four, so it sounds sort of unresolved. And I'm playing it with just a soulful six eight groove here. Now if you are struggling as a beginner to get your fingers around these chords, just two things you really need to make sure you've got the right fingering. You want to use fingers 1, 2, 3, and five. Some of you with larger hands might even accidentally be, will be tempted to use your fourth finger. Try and avoid that. Really try and finish on that fifth finger because then your wrist is at balance and you need to have a balanced wrist when you play these more complex chords. I'm going to also suggest if you are struggling getting your fingers over those notes, it's just play them as broken chords with the pedal. Sounds beautiful with the pedal and it just gives you a bit more technical preparation to getting your whole hand over those chords. Again, using the finger in 1, 2, 3, and five. Very important you do that. Okay, Let's do this in another key. Let's do this in the key of F major, It's gonna be a B flat major seven, A minor seven, G minor seven, F major seven. I added a couple of chromatic decorations there, but it was pretty much the same progression. So we're gonna finish off with a nice little instant gratification party trick which is always fun, particularly if you're a beginner, and it's suspended chords. And so this is really, this is the seventh progression I'd like to share with you. But the cool thing about this progression is you can actually apply it to any progression. It's a nice little lazy trick that sounds really, really good. And it's used in a whole bunch of songs. This is the pop music gold. It's also used a lot in musical theater actually. And it is the suspended second chord. So this is an open C major triad, but we're going to turn this now into a suspended second chord as S sus two. And we do that by just dropping the E down to a D. So the chord is neither major nor minor, C D G, it's suspended, it's sort of hanging in the air it wants to resolve back to its major counterpoint, but we're not gonna do that. We're just gonna let it sit on the C sus two. We're just gonna leave it hanging. And just play it in repetition. And the left hand however, is still going to move to the base notes of the chord progression. And we're going to finish with the chord progression we started with - 1 5 6 4 in the base - and we're just going to leave the right hand hanging on that C sus two. And it sounds just absolutely lovely. It even creates a whole wide range of other chords as a result of this dissonance. So if you look to your left here at the crib sheet we've got here, it's is one sus, one sus over five, one sus over six, one sus over four. But because our hands are our left and right hands are creating these sort of dissonant textures by keeping the right hand suspended and just sitting there on the c sus two, we actually end up creating far more complex chords without particularly a great deal of technical labor cause the right hand's just sitting there. So it's an easy way to create more complex chords. We actually end up creating a C sus two to a G sus four to an A minor 11. Fancy that. Hey, but you don't have to be thinking of that theory. You actually can just let your fingers just physically sit over those sus chords. And that's really what's really cool about this trick. And of course we can then break up the chords, play some arpeggios with it. And you've heard that, I'm sure, in many, many songs. And of course you can apply this suspended trick to any of the progressions we've covered today, such as the flattened seventh one or the gospel flattened third one. I've just resolved back on that C major. And of course you can practice these progressions in a whole bunch of other keys as well, which I think is really important that you do. I've just jumped to the key of A flat major. What about B flat major? So if you need that crib sheet that we've got of all of the seven chords of each scale you can drop us an email at our website contemporaryschoolofpiano.com and we can provide you with that handout, which is really gonna come in handy. 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