{"id":617,"date":"2008-10-31T13:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/how-small-changes-to-chords-can-lead-to-huge-results"},"modified":"2024-12-25T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T03:07:00","slug":"how-small-changes-to-chords-can-lead-to-huge-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/how-small-changes-to-chords-can-lead-to-huge-results\/","title":{"rendered":"How small changes to chords can lead to HUGE results!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s post, I want to take our ballad <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chord progression<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n from yesterday a step further.<\/p>\n<div class='productinfo'>I recommend reviewing the following lessons to catch up&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/how-to-play-pretty-ballads-with-just-two-chords\">How to play pretty ballads with just two chords<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/how-to-use-my-secret-9-trick-to-add-flavor-to-your-chord-progressions\">How to use my secret 9 trick to add flavor to your chord progressions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-secret-to-using-circular-chord-progressions-in-ballads\">The secret to using circular chord progressions in ballads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve caught up, this lesson will fit right in line.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at where we left off yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>C major (add 9) <strong>(C + D + E + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>C<\/strong><br \/>\nG major (add 9) <strong>(A + B + D + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A minor 7 (<em>G<\/em> + C + E) *** Bass: A<br \/>\nD9 (<em>F#<\/em> + C  + E) *** Bass: D<\/p>\n<p>G minor 7 (<em>F<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: G<br \/>\nC9 (<em>E<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>F major (F + A + C) *** Bass: F<\/p>\n<p>G major (add 9) (A + B + D + G) *** Bass: <strong>E<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C major (add 9) (C + D + E + G) *** Bass: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>G major (add 9) (A + B + D + G) *** Bass: <strong>G<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I hope you practiced that <em><a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">6-2-5-1 turnaround<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n [A chord &gt; D chord &gt; G chord &gt; C chord] <\/em>from yesterday. Remember that you&#8217;ll have to play the turnaround a little faster than your regular chords because it needs to fit in the same amount of space as the chords from the first lesson. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-secret-to-using-circular-chord-progressions-in-ballads\">Thursday<\/a>&#8216;s lesson for details.)<\/p>\n<p>I have specifically emphasized the chords we&#8217;ve already changed. Now let&#8217;s start with the F major chord.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re playing a regular major chord. But after coming off such a nice sounding turnaround, I think this F chord should be jazzed up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that you can turn any major chord into a major seventh chord by lowering one note. Yes, one note!<\/p>\n<p>Since you&#8217;re already playing &#8220;F&#8221; on your bass, you don&#8217;t necessarily have to play it on your right hand. So let&#8217;s simply lower &#8220;F&#8221; to &#8220;E&#8221; on our right hand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>F major 7<br \/>\nF major (<strong>E<\/strong> + A + C) *** Bass: F<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See what I see? Yup, it&#8217;s what I talked about in a previous lesson. If you look closely, you&#8217;ll see that you&#8217;re now playing an A minor chord (A + C + E) on your right hand. You&#8217;re just playing it in second inversion, which puts &#8220;A&#8221; in the middle. But that&#8217;s another lesson. All together, this chord is an <strong>F major 7.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, let&#8217;s review our chord progression with this latest change&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>C major (add 9) <strong>(C + D + E + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>C<\/strong><br \/>\nG major (add 9) <strong>(A + B + D + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A minor 7 (<em>G<\/em> + C + E) *** Bass: A<br \/>\nD9 (<em>F#<\/em> + C  + E) *** Bass: D<\/p>\n<p>G minor 7 (<em>F<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: G<br \/>\nC9 (<em>E<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>F major (E + A + C) *** Bass: F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>G major (add 9) (A + B + D + G) *** Bass: <strong>E<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C major (add 9) (C + D + E + G) *** Bass: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>G major (add 9) (A + B + D + G) *** Bass: <strong>G<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the next change I&#8217;d make&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>See the chord on &#8220;E&#8221; bass right after the F major 7 chord?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s change it!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s actually many things we can do to it. For starters, we can invert it so that it&#8217;s closer to our F major 7 chord.<\/p>\n<p>Since we have made many changes to our previous chords, it&#8217;s sort of changed where we play our chords over time. So by going back to these original chords like we&#8217;ve done, it&#8217;s kind of awkward because our new chords are so far away. <\/p>\n<p>So the first thing we can do is invert what we already know to play and see if that makes things sound better.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what we&#8217;re already playing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>G major (add 9) <strong>(A + B + D + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>E<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, let&#8217;s invert it so that it&#8217;s closer to our &#8220;F major 7&#8221; chord&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>G major (add 9) <strong>(D + G + A + B)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>E<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds good to me! So let&#8217;s save this one! We can use it!<\/p>\n<p>But we also have other options&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/this-will-spice-up-your-major-chords-guaranteed\">this lesson on quartal chords<\/a>? They&#8217;re basically chords built on fourth intervals.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like the way major 7 chords sound when they progress to quartal chords. Here&#8217;s a quartal chord you can use over &#8220;E&#8221; bass:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D quartal \/ E <strong>(D + G + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>E<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s plug this into our progression&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>C major (add 9) <strong>(C + D + E + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>C<\/strong><br \/>\nG major (add 9) <strong>(A + B + D + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A minor 7 (<em>G<\/em> + C + E) *** Bass: A<br \/>\nD9 (<em>F#<\/em> + C  + E) *** Bass: D<\/p>\n<p>G minor 7 (<em>F<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: G<br \/>\nC9 (<em>E<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>F major (E + A + C) *** Bass: F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D quartal \/ E <strong>(D + G + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: E<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>C major (add 9) (C + D + E + G) *** Bass: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>G major (add 9) (A + B + D + G) *** Bass: <strong>G<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting better and better!<\/p>\n<p>For the chord on &#8220;D,&#8221; I&#8217;m just going to play an <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">F major chord<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n on my right hand. That makes it a D minor 7 chord.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>D min 7 <strong>(F + A + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the thing about ending songs. Remember yesterday, I talked about circular progressions?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s exactly what D &gt;&gt;&gt; G &gt;&gt;&gt; C is! We call it a &#8220;2-5-1&#8221; chord progression. It&#8217;s probably one of the most widely used progressions in music. It&#8217;s perfect for ending songs.<\/p>\n<p>And if you review yesterday&#8217;s lesson and look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/the-secret-to-using-circular-chord-progressions-in-ballads\">circle of fifths<\/a>, you will see that <strong>&#8220;D &gt;&gt;&gt; G &gt;&gt;&gt; C&#8221;<\/strong> are all neighbors!<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that you can keep the &#8220;F major&#8221; you&#8217;re playing on &#8220;D&#8221; bass the same! No need to change it. Just change your bass to &#8220;G.&#8221; <em>(This goes for most song endings, by the way!)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fmaj \/ G <strong>(F + A + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>G<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this will naturally bring you back to the beginning of the ballad!<\/p>\n<p>~~~~~~~So beautiful ~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s put this all together&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>C major (add 9) <strong>(C + D + E + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>C<\/strong><br \/>\nG major (add 9) <strong>(A + B + D + G)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A minor 7 (<em>G<\/em> + C + E) *** Bass: A<br \/>\nD9 (<em>F#<\/em> + C  + E) *** Bass: D<\/p>\n<p>G minor 7 (<em>F<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: G<br \/>\nC9 (<em>E<\/em> + Bb + D) *** Bass: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>F major (E + A + C) *** Bass: F<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D quartal \/ E <strong>(D + G + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: E<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D min 7 <strong>(F + A + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>F maj \/ G <strong>(F + A + C)<\/strong> *** Bass: <strong>G<\/strong><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How do you guys like the additions?<\/p>\n<p>Until next time &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/chords101picsmall.jpg\" class='videopic'>Today&#8217;s post is going to be very exciting because we&#8217;re going to finish off our ballad we started a few days ago. <\/p>\n<p>If you remember, we started playing this ballad with just TWO chords. Then it turned into a few more. Yesterday, we actually added a turnaround chord progression. Today, we&#8217;re adding seventh chords and even a suspended chord. Check it out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1181,1180,1178,1179,1177],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playing-songs","tag-chord-alterations","tag-chord-changes","tag-sus2","tag-sus7","tag-sus9","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How small changes to chords can lead to HUGE results! - Hear and Play Music Learning Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/how-small-changes-to-chords-can-lead-to-huge-results\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How small changes to chords can lead to HUGE results! - Hear and Play Music Learning Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today&#039;s post is going to be very exciting because we&#039;re going to finish off our ballad we started a few days ago.   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