Playing Piano Chords, Part II: Accompany Songs without Reading Music
By Tijs Krammer
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With this book you can learn to accompany songs on the piano in a smooth way. You don’t need to be able to read music for this book. Instead, you learn the chords with images that are easy to understand. With the pictures you quickly master the chords. You can accompany a first song after half an hour.
Each lesson will take about 15-30 minutes (depending on your skills of course). There are six blocks and there are nine lessons in each block. So in total there are more than fifty lessons. In each block you will learn new chords and new songs to play.
This book features countless songs from artists such as Ed Sheeran, The Beatles, Alicia Keys, Queen and The Black Eyed Peas. The songs are from different styles and periods. These songs have all been hits, so you’re probably familiar with most of them.
Tijs Krammer
A singer, conductor and arranger, Tijs Krammer is best known for his singing association with the internationally famed vocal group Montezuma's Revenge. Having studied singing at the Utrecht Conservatory in The Netherlands, Tijs pursued his musical education with Jos van Veldhoven at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, studying choral conducting, supplemented by a private course of arranging with Bob Zimmerman in The Netherlands and with Phil Mattson and Michele Weir in the us.TijsFounder and conductor of the Utrecht group Leeuwenhart, Tijs won the first prize at the Dutch Choral Festival, a major two-yearly a cappella festival in The Netherlands, with this group. In 2008 Tijs is interim conductor with the prize-winning jazz choir Dekoor. Until recently he was conductor of the vocal group Vocalicious. Currently he conducts the youth vocal group The Jump and the vocal world music ensemble Pangaea. With the latter he won in 2013 the Balk Top Festival, in recent years the most important Dutch festival on vocal pop and jazz music.Tijs is professor at the Conservatories of Rotterdam and Amsterdam teaching Conductor Vocal Pop & Jazz and he is one of the professors at the conductors course The Ward Swingle Cursus. Having written arrangements for internationally renowned groups including Femmage, Intermezzo, The Gents, Frommermann and Montezuma's Revenge, he has regularly been teaching courses in arranging, most of these organized by Balk.Tijs' arrangements are partly privately published and partly published by Music Shop Europe, Molenaar, ChorusOnline, Ferrimontana, ZoecMusic and Humm A Cappella. For any questions concerning any of these arrangements or for any arrangement orders, please send an email to tijs@krammer.nl.
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Playing Piano Chords, Part II - Tijs Krammer
Tijs Krammer
Playing Piano Chords, Part II
ISBN 9789083368719
© Copyright Humm Publishing 2023
Images, layout and cover: Tijs Krammer
Translated from Dutch by Karen Barnacle
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Block 5
Lesson 37 The pedal
Lesson 38 Six counts
Lesson 39 Three countsw
Lesson 40 Measures and time signatures
Lesson 41 A seventh in a major chord
Lesson 42 Are You Lonesome Tonight with C7
Lesson 43 Nothing Else Matters with B7
Lesson 44 Sevenths in The Winner Takes It All
Lesson 45 Unnoticed seventh
Block 6
Lesson 46 The pedal II
Lesson 47 The scales of F- en G major
Lesson 48 The exact place of the seventh
Lesson 49 A new addition: the maj7
Lesson 50 Cmaj7
Lesson 51 Gmaj7
Lesson 52 Unnoticed major seventh
Lesson 53 Seventh in the bass
Lesson 54 When which seventh?
Block 7
Lesson 55 Intervals
Lesson 56 Minor scales
Lesson 57 The scale of D minor
Lesson 58 Chords outside the scale
Lesson 59 Alternating bass and Latin bass
Lesson 60 A new addition: the ninth
Lesson 61 Am9
Lesson 62 Optional ninth
Lesson 63 Ninth in the bass
Block 8
Lesson 64 Scale degrees
Lesson 65 Scale degrees in F major
Lesson 66 Common scale degrees
Lesson 67 Slash chords
Lesson 68 C /E
Lesson 69 G /B
Lesson 70 F /C
Lesson 71 Am9 /G
Lesson 72 C /D
Overview
Chords
Scales
Songs
Glossary
App
Block 5
Lesson 37
The pedal
In this book so far, you have learned around fifteen songs and should be gaining a lot of experience in playing the piano. Now we will look at ways to make it smoother.
You might have already noticed that it is not easy to make fluent changes between chords. For this, you have to use the pedal.
Sustaining chords
A piano has two or three pedals. The most important of these is the one on the right. When you press it, all keys that are played will be sustained until you release the pedal. You can use this to make smooth changes between chords.
In this lesson, we look specifically at repeating a particular chord a couple of times. (And in a later lesson, we'll discuss connecting different chords.) If you repeat a chord, without using the pedal, there will be a short gap in the sound. This will sound more or less as follows:
→ 37, 1
If you press the pedal the sound will continue:
→ 37, 2
Schematic
Let's look at this once more with a couple of images. Repeating a chord without using the pedal may be depicted as follows:
Until now, there were only circles in the rhythmical images, indicating the starting of notes. In the image above however, there are lines, showing also the length of the notes. The lines get thinner at the bottom. With that we mean to indicate that the sounds gradually fade away.
If you press the pedal, a chord will keep on sounding, even if you release the keys. Thus, there will be no gap in between the chords. We might depict this in the following way:
Different chords
In the next block, we will continue thinking about the pedal and you will learn how to create smooth connections between different chords.
Lesson 38
Six counts
In block 1, we discussed that you don’t always count to four in music. In the song Fallin’ by Alicia Keys for example you count to six. Now you learn another song in which you count to six, namely Nothing Else Matters by Metallica. We will look in particular at different ways to play the rhythms in this song..
First, let’s look at the verse of the song. The chords are as follows:
key signature: E minor
Em D C
So close no matter how far
Em D C
Couldn’t be much more from the heart
Em D C
Forever trusting who we are
G Em
And nothing else matters
Rhythms
In the verses – especially when the groove is still quiet – slow broken chords sound appropriate:
This