November 2008 - Page 4 of 5 - Hear and Play Music Learning Center

Yes you can! Play a top-charting pop song with just 4 chords!

I’m off to support my grandma as she has surgery today in Long Beach but I wanted to post this short lesson before I leave.

I just posted a mega 33-minute video so this lesson will just give you an abbreviated version of the video. What I really encourage you to do is stop what you’re doing and head over to view the entire lesson. Dozens of comments have already come in about it since i posted it last night (…don’t forget to leave me one as well!)

The tutorial teaches you how to play a popular song with just 4 chords! And they’re all seventh chords too (major, dominant)… [more]

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Exclusive: Get to your piano and learn this new song!!! (30-minute video lesson)

If you’re a beginner, have been studying major and minor chords on this site, and want to put your knowledge to good use, check out this archived 33-minute video lesson I created some time ago.

I cover, step-by-step, how to play a very popular song called “Lost Without You.” I chose this song because it really allows me to show you my song learning process… and I dig the progressions! You’ve probably heard the song… it was a chart-topper for sure!

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Cool new enhancement to the blog

I been working hard for ya’ll!

Listen, I’ve always wanted to include pictures of keys in my blog posts but it’s just too hard to create them each and every time, so I resorted to just plain text…

…Until had this cool idea…

What if I could have someone build me a tool that basically generates piano images with highlighted notes on the fly? All I have to tell it is what notes I want, what color to shade them, and how big to make the image.

Well, that’s what I did! I posted it to one of my programmers and 3 weeks later, it’s a reality!

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Huge Announcement (personal video from me)

The website is up! Click here to get all the details about the free GospelKeys 102 I’m giving away! (Ordering link not active until 9am pacific / 12 pm noon eastern)

This is a personal video from me. You don’t want to miss what I’m announcing…

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Learn these most common chord progression types and never get stuck again…

When it comes to playing songs, there are tons of progressions to learn. But I want to focus on what I think are the 3 most commonly used types.

And even among this group, I think the “Pareto principle” or “80-20 rule” would apply — meaning just the 1st type will probably be responsible for majority of chord progressions out there in songs (or as they put it, 20% of something will generally be responsible for 80% of a result).

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“You can vote however you like”

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It’s not where you start… it’s where you finish

This is something I’ve believed my entire life — “It’s not where you start, it’s where you finish.” It applies to just about anything — your music playing, your career, your relationships, and simply your life.