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Right Hand Cluster Chords.
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Cluster chord is a chord in which two or
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three of the notes in the chord
are clustered together.
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So up to now you've played quite evenly
spaced three note chords [SOUND].
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You can see there's a gap in between.
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If you added an extra note into that,
two or
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three of the notes will
be clustered together.
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[SOUND].
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Okay now try the following examples,
all right hand.
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C added six middle inversion.
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So find C middle first of all.
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So middle finger on the C,
find the other two notes on the chord.
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C middle, add in the 6th.
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So finding the 6th, so if you go one
octave to the left, start at C, one,
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two, three, four, five, six.
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It's much different
than just the C middle,
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you can see the cluster chord
that the extra note makes.
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A very distinctive sound.
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Try the next one F
major7 middle inversion.
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So find F middle,
fill middle finger on the F.
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[SOUND] Find the other
two notes of the chord.
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And then find the major 7th.
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So remember the major 7th is
one left of the root note.
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So there's the root note, that's one left.
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So that's the major 7th.
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Okay.
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Now the trick we've used before,
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you would have removed your finger from
the root note and just played the major7.
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Okay.
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Because you're playing
the root on the left hand, but
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this is a cluster chord, so you're
leaving the root in beside the major 7th.
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[SOUND] And
it gives that nice distinctive sound.
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Very different than just the major 7th.
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Next one A minor added 9 middle inversion.
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So find the A minor middle.
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Middle finger on the A,
find the other notes of the A minor chord.
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So, that's A minor middle.
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You're going to add in the ninth.
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Now ninth can be just
the same as a second.
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So let's look at it and see.
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One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine.
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You can see that's the same as second.
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[SOUND] So just think of the next note
after the root when you're playing
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these ninth cords in a cluster way.
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So middle A minor there's the root,
the next note second, then ninth.
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Can you hear the tension in the chord?
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[SOUND] Okay,
let's try the right-hand cluster
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chord examples on the next two pages.
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So the first one is in the style of
Phil on the Hill by the Beatles.
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So find a two chord shifts,
C6 Middle Inversion.
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So it's C middle of the sixth.
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[SOUND] and then you're gonna
play F6 Middle Inversion.
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So everything's basically everything's
jumped up to the F middle with the six.
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And you're gonna play an oompah
with these two chords.
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Next one, in the style of Alone Again,
Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan,
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or Everybody's Talking At Me, by Nilsson.
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So F Major Seven, Middle Inversion.
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There's F middle with the major seventh.
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Down to F six Middle Inversion,
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again a cluster chord because
two of them are together.
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So that's the seven.
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That's the six.
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F middle.
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F major seven.
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F six.
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Okay?
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So the next one is in the style
of Without You by Nilsson.
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Two chords, F added 9 Middle.
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So Middle Inversion F with an added nine,
it's the one after the root note.
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[SOUND] And then the second one
is just F middle inversion.
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And you're going to do
a split chord rhythm.
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So the last one there in the style of
It Must be Love by Labi Siffre or Madness.
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Two chords,
A minor added 9th middle inversion.
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So A minor middle,
with the 9th, [SOUND] and
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then just to an A minor middle Inversion.
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So, this is a new rhythm so just
follow the notation and the recording.
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