Piano Left Hand Bass - A Lesson and Tutorial

Learn how your left hand bass can profoundly alter the chords you play!

When you play piano, your left hand usually plays a single bass note on the root of the chord. In this video lesson we will look at how your choice of bass or note dramatically affects the actual chord, harmony and progression the listener perceives. The tutorial will start by looking at a particular progression and show how, by simply altering the bass in your left hand and playing close to nothing in your right hand (just the same note over and over), you can create a rich harmonic progression.

For the second part of this how-to lesson, we will take a simple C major chord and change the left hand bass to obtain varied chords such as C, Am7, Fmaj7sus2, C7 and more.

== Other Related Videos and Playlists =========

Here are other interesting playlists from my channel which group together my different piano lessons by theme/category:

Reading Sheet Music for Beginners: a 4-Part Series
Inspiring Piano Harmony, Chord and Voicing Tips and Tricks:
Exercises for Developing Piano Technique
The 2-5-1 Harmonic Progression: a 4-Part Series
The "Piano Quickie" series, with byte-sized lessons about piano harmony and music theory in general:

[FORCEGOD]

This is insane, THANK U. It really opened my eyes for how important and how much you can do with your left hand to make everything just sound different.

[goawash]

Can't stop listening to the first melody.)

[itsallroses]

Thank you so much! So good! I really struggle with adding creative left hand progressions to my right hand compositions

[ButtonMason]

This was insightful in a way that most tutorial videos are not. Thank you very much

[johnneihsial]

i hav been a silent student of yours. Thanks a lot.

[isaiahlevi]

0:27 just saving a time stamp for my self

[DeKn]

Loving your lessons. This one is very short and I wish it was longer because I feel there's a few more areas you could cover or maybe cover those areas in a bit more depth. Maybe play around with a few more chords and key variations? Would be great.

[braverite]

Thank you Sir. Im a beginner and coming across your videos on YouTube has really helped me

[sergep]

Excellent.  Doing this exercise also promotes left/right hand independence.

[chrisc]

This is exactly what I needed to see in my learning. Awesome

[nancykalepo]

Wow 😮😮😮 you are the best teacher...I was struggling with this base. Thank you for sharing 🙏. Be blessed 🙏.

[rqgefury]

Thanks for the video. I play the piano in grade 6 currently... was helpful ur video.

[kowcrazycantell]

Thanks really trying hard to break the base line code ..thanks this is practical....not gimmicks. Good job.

[southpark]

That was another awesome video lesson. One of the best music teachers ever. This teacher's mind or brain works like a computer such as making the associations so quickly with assigning different key positions based on the regular chords. But also amazing in knowing all the various chords and their names so quickly. It's sort of like computer chess at high speed ---- making moves quick, looking ahead very quickly applying strategies in real time very quickly, and art --- IQ, everything - all at once. Definitely a talent too.

[salihinrusni]

Where can I learn more of these implied chords?

[fiklonz]

Thank you Man....just this....thank you from Italy!!! I saw so many different piano and harmony lessons video on youtube but whit you it seems really "easier" for me to learn!!;)

[neosilente]

good lesson, thank you. your tutorials are the best

[saadachab]

You are the best, all your videos are interesting thank you

[hectoraguilar]

Great technic. Also is possible playing the C, D, C together with the right hand.