Handout 5a2t1s

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Related Notes For Module 2 (paid member site) This PDF has handy-access printable charts to refer to for the Number System taught in the free videos at http://www.InstantPianoGenius.com// . These are just quick notes to remind you what is in the full video training.

Circle Of 5ths The “Circle of Fifths” helps you know how many sharps or flats (black notes) are in each scale. Starting with the key of C (no black notes), the 5th note of the C scale is G. The circle of 5th tells us the G major scale has 1 sharp. The 5th note in the G major scale is D, which tells us that the D major scale has 2 sharps, etc. Flats are done in reverse. Please watch the video for full details.

Which Notes Are The Sharps (#) And Flats (b)? Notes that are sharped or flatted aren’t random, it’s always the same notes. In other words, the key of G only has one sharp in it, and that sharp is F#. (# is the notation for how you write a sharp. b is the notation for writing a flat.) The key of D has two sharps in it, one of which is F#, and the second which is C#, and it keeps building with keys/scales that have more sharps. The first four sharped notes are F# C# G# D# So since the key of E has 4 sharps in it, the above notes are the sharped notes. To that, I made up, “Fat Cat Good Dog” …with the first letter of each word making up the sharped note. You’ll usually only be playing songs that have up to 4 sharps, but there’s an alternate phrase that lets you more:

Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Baloney …That helps you the first 7 sharped notes, but you won’t be playing in keys that have that may sharps, at least if I have to say anything about it! ☺ There’s also a way to the first 4 flatted notes:

B.E.A.D.

Bb

Eb

Ab Eb

…But in practical , the key of F with one flat (Bb) is about you’ll be playing in. When songs are occasionally in an “ugly” key with too many flat etc, usually people just change the key of the song to be easier to play. (Which, by the way, is exactly where the number system comes in… If you know a song is a 1 – 4 – 5 chord progression but it’s in Ab, just change the key to A and play the 1 – 4 – 5 chords in that key. Problem solved.

Related Minor Keys/Scales Good news: Every major key/scale has a related minor key that has the exact same notes in it. We’ve already talked about the fact that the key of C Major and A minor are both all white notes. That’s no coincidence, because the Am is the related minor of C. Similarly, the key of G and Em both have one sharp (F#). The only difference between the two scales is which note you start playing them on. (For G you start on the G note, for Em you start on the E note) The related minor is always the 6th note of the major scale. (Like A is the 6th note of the C scale.) The related minor is also 3 half-steps down. (So from C, the A note is 3 half steps down from it.)

Playing 6m, 3, and 2 chords Putting a lower-case “m” after a chord or number representing a chord is short-hand for saying it’s a minor chord. The 6 chord usually a minor chord, while the 3 and 2 chords are more easily major or minor (both major and minor versions of them sound good in songs.) That is covered more in the videos. Please be sure to watch the related videos in Module 2 to see how the 6m, 3, and 2 chords are used and to get the feel of what they sound like when added to the 1 4 5.

On The Next Page Are Chord Charts The next page has simple chord charts to both Knocking On Heaven’s Door and With Or Without You. In the training videos, I use these songs to show how to work out chord inversions and how best to move between chords as well as how to play the chords to sound nice. If you don’t know the songs at all, I’d suggest listening to them (you can find them on YouTube) but please keep in mind: Whether you like or don’t like these songs or the recordings of them is besides the point – You don’t have to listen to the recordings while practicing them, we’re just using them as a starting point to learn the skills we apply to any other song. I hope you find this batch of lessons helpful! , shorter multiple playing sessions will get you better quicker than infrequent long ones. Your fingers will get trained to do what you want sooner than you think! Sincerely, Tim – InstantPianoGenius.com

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