by Jermaine Griggs · 2 comments
in Chords & Progressions
Wayne Dyer said: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
It’s true in music too. Quite literally.
Take, for example, suspended chords.
If you ever see a suspended 4 chord (or “sus4″), it simply means to play the fourth instead of the third in a major chord.
by Jermaine Griggs · 11 comments
in Chords & Progressions,Experienced players,Piano
In a post last week, I talked about quartal chords — which are chords built off fourth intervals.
But here’s an interesting discovery with quartal chords. They are actually inverted suspended chords. Yup, suspended chords! Here’s why…
by Jermaine Griggs · 10 comments
in Playing songs
Today’s post is going to be very exciting because we’re going to finish off our ballad we started a few days ago.
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’re adding seventh chords and even a suspended chord. Check it out…