• How to play songs with just two chords and still sound good

    Today, I want to slow down and go the other direction.

    2chordssmall.jpgI wanna talk to my straight beginners in this post! I want to give you guys some hope that if you know just two chords, you can actually sit around the piano or keyboard and have fun with your kids…

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    How to Harmonize Melodies to Create Full-Sounding Songs Part 2

    (Part two of a two week series on harmonizing melodies. Click here for last week’s lesson).     Last week’s lesson generated many questions so before providing answers to the exercises I issued in the last newsletter, I’ll first take some time to address some key thoughts:     Question #1 from student:   Hi […]

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    How to Harmonize Melodies to Create Full-Sounding Songs Part 1

    (Part one of a two week series on harmonizing melodies)       Harmonizing melodies is different than laying chords beneath a melody.   You may have heard of fake books and chord charts where you are given chords to play under various melodies. Jazz standards are usually notated this way.   For example, the […]

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