4 Left Hand Tricks For Connecting Your Chords

We all want to be able to sound fancier while we're playing our chord progressions. This applies to jamming with a band, accompanying yourself while you sing, improvising, songwriting, and anything that involves chording.

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Lisa Witt has been teaching piano for +20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of thousands of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. She is a songwriter and recording artist. Lisa’s contagious enthusiasm will have you excited to practice and return to the keys for your next lesson. Her teaching style focuses on you, making lessons encouraging and fun.

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To sound busier and fuller:
1. do more of what you are already doing 00:38
2. adding passing notes 2:18
3. play notes that compliment the root note 3:38
4. add octaves 7:00

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I can feel a huge amount of difference between the normal progression and with passing notes/octaves. U r blessed with making complex stuff into simplest. I jus love u.

[tamarahimmelstrand]

I learnt to play the classical piano and now I'm really excited to learn chords and improvisation

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