You can cognize which chords go with each melody note!
I used to wonder...but no more!
Dear Piano-playing friend:
I used to wonder how in the earth nice piano players knew which chords to use in a song -- once there was no music in front of them. They would be play song after song effortlessly without ever looking at a piece of sheet music.
I remember a man in Hollywood named Dave who was acknowledged as "THE piano teacher". Big names -- recording artists -- took lessons from him. Students and others sitting about the room in his studio on Cahuenga Blvd. (between Sunset Blvd. and Hollywood Blvd.) would be call out songs and Dave would be play them one after another. If he didn't cognize the song, he would be ask them to sing or hum a few bars. Before long he was playing the song with some hands -- not simply the tune, but harmonizing each melody note with a beautiful chord. I admired it, but I had no idea how he did it.
The 4 Private secrets of Harmonization Dave Instructed Me
- Which 3 chords wish harmonize most any simple melody...and why
- How the theme of a song reveals simply about 3/4 of the chords you can use to harmonize it...so once you harmonize the theme, you're about house free...
- How the shape of the melody often "gives away" what chord you should use to harmonize it...
- How a simple question you ask yourself wish open up a earth of exciting chord harmonizing...
I was so affected by his ability to do this that I pumped up up my courageousness and asked him if he would be give me private lessons. He aforesaid he would, but his prices were out of my league at the time (I was in college). But a few months later during the summer I saved up enough to take 6 weeks of lessons.
By the time those 6 weeks were up, I was able to do pretty more the same as Dave -- not quite, but close. And I was thrilled! What I knowing that summer -- even as although it cost me a great deal -- has been worth a fortune to me -- not only in money, but in terms of satisfaction and simply the sheer joy of being able to harmonize any song with a series of appropriate and beautiful chords!
The benefits are HUGE!
Just think what it wish mean for you once you are able to harmonize any song -- any tune. For the rest of your life you won't have to wonder what chords go with which notes. If you play professionally, it wish be of great value in your career. If you play with a group at church, you won't have to wonder what chords the another musicians are playing -- there is an intrinsic logic to the process. And if you play for your own enjoyment, you'll simply flat-out get more pleasure out of your playing!
