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The All Chords Memory Trick.
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As you now know,
there are twelves tones on the piano.
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One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, 11,
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12, and you can build a major or
minor chord on each of these tones.
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So C major, C minor, D flat major,
D flat minor, and so on.
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So how are you gonna remember all this?
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I wanna show you a trick that will
help you play any basic major or
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minor chord instantly.
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Look at the keyboard diagrams on the next
page, and notice that if you play
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all three note major or minor chords
in your right hand in root position,
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That's the thumb on the red note,
followed by the third and the fifth.
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You'll notice that except for
the four B chords, the other 20 chords
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always have the same color key for
the thumb and the fifth finger.
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So let's have a look at it.
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[SOUND] C major, C minor first and
fifth are white.
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It's the third of the chord that
determines whether it's a major or
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a minor.
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The first and the fifth will be
the same whether it's major or minor.
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D flat major, D flat minor,
first and fifth are black.
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[SOUND] D major, D minor,
first and fifth are white.
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[SOUND] E flat major, E flat minor,
first and fifth are black.
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[SOUND] E major, E minor,
first and fifth are white.
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[SOUND] F major, F minor,
first and fifth are white.
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F sharp major, F sharp minor,
first and fifth are black.
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G major, G minor,
first and fifth are white.
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[SOUND] A flat major, A flat minor,
first and fifth are black.
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[SOUND] A major, A minor,
first and fifth are white.
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And now you come to the B chords,
and it's the opposite.
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So the first and
fifth will be opposite colors.
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So B flat major, B flat minor,
first and fifth, black and white.
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B major, B minor, first and fifth
are different colors, white and black.
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So now you can instantly find the first
and fifth of all of your chords.
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So, C major and C minor, first and fifth.
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First and fifth of D flat major,
and D flat minor.
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[SOUND] First and
fifth of D major, D minor.
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[SOUND] E flat major,
E flat minor, and so on.
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[SOUND] See where they're always the same
color until you get to the B chords?
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B flat major or minor.
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[SOUND] Black and white.
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Or B major or B minor, and then back to C.
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[MUSIC]
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So then what you've got to do is
just get used to that distance.
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[SOUND] Okay, that's too narrow,
that's too wide.
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So the first and fifth in root
position used to that distance.
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[SOUND] And the black keys.
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You'll see there's two
black keys in the middle.
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That's two narrow, that's too wide,
that's just right.
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[SOUND] Two black keys in the middle.
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[SOUND] Okay, when come to the base,
just get used to that distance.
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[SOUND] So now it's just
a matter of figuring out where
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the third is for the major or the minor.
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Between the first and the fifth, and
there's a trick you can use here as well.
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If you keep in mind that major is
up to the right, minor is left, so
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think major, happy up, minor, down, sad.
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Okay, so let's look at C.
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[SOUND] C major and C minor.
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[SOUND] So you can see that
the major third is to the right,
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minor is to the left.
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[SOUND] So up and down, okay.
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Let's look at D flat.
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[SOUND] It's actually easier to see with
D flat, because you've got your first and
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your fifth, and
the two notes in the middle.
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The major's on the right, the minor's
on the left, so that's the major,
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D flat major, D flat minor.
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A flat will look something similar.
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A flat major, A flat minor.
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So look at those notes in the middle.
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To the right is major.
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To the left is minor.
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[SOUND] And some other chords
will be easy to figure out.
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You already know D, E,
and A, so they're major.
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So to make a minor you just
go left with the third.
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D major, D minor.
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E major, E minor,.
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A major, A minor.
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Okay, so you just get use to that
middle note being added to the right or
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to the left, and some chords it's not so
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easy to see which notes are in the middle,
but so let's look at E flat.
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First and fifth, so in the middle,
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you'll know that's too far up,
that's too far down.
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So that will be your major there,
it will be your minor, so
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those two notes in the middle.
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[SOUND] Okay, same with B flat.
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Remember it's black note for
the first and white note for the fifth.
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So in the middle,
that's B flat major, B flat minor.
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Minor to the left, major to the right.
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So to recap,
now you can easily find the first and
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fifth of any chord in root position, okay?
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[SOUND] Just always the same color,
except for the Bs.
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[SOUND] And then to find the middle note,
the third, whether it's major or
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minor, major's to the right,
minor's to the left.
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C major, C minor.
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D flat major, D flat minor, and so on.
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So this trick of the first and fifth for
20 different chords being the same
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color is useful when you're
playing the Oom Pah rhythm.
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Because that pattern moves from
the first down to the fifth.
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So obviously, it will also be
the same color for 20 of the chords.
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So if you're playing C Oom Pah.
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Or C minor Oom Pah.
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See the same color, C down to the fifth.
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Or A major.
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Or A minor.
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It's the first down to the fifth,
so it's the same process.
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The first down to the fifth.
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So and the Bs, again, are the opposite,
so it will be a black down to a white,
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B flat, down to the fifth,
B, down to the fifth.
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And that's all you've got to remember.