You should have warned us that this was about the I, IV, and V chords in the title. Then, suggested that those familiar with these concepts should check out another video in your series. As it is you wasted my time. I won't be back. Obfuscation.

I just realized why there are black keys. There's no way anyone would be able to do what you're showing us. 😮

Excellent instructions. Thank you.

Not for composers. Brilliant for pianists

This video is so helpful

WOW!!! TY! TY! TY! Great Lesson!

Thanks for this video Ashlee. FYI, I could be interested in your January free class But why are you asking for a phone number? I am afraid I can’t do that and since it’s required, I won’t be able to join your class.

I will subscribe to your channel a million times

Aren’t those single notes, not chords?

An video where the presenter says ' ....share this with adult learners...' is getting my sub.

Great vid!❤ wow, you cut thru all the ‘math’ and made it sooooo easy to compute!!! Love you!

I'm a beginner I'm sorry I did not understand nothing I need hands on I just started I don't understand I'm sorry

Barry Harris once commented on the fact that classical piano players have no idea what they're actually playing. He was talking about the changes. This sort of stuff should probably be taught to beginners. Thanks.😊

Good lesson Ashley and what would you recommend in learning the Brahms A major Intermezzo Opus 118 # 2? 🎉😂❤

Thanks so much! You laid the concept out very nicely and this will be very helpful to this beginner!❤

Bach's prelude is arguably a pretty challenging piece to play it ultra well. I've played both Fur Elise and Bach's prelude and I find the prelude to be more challenging... Great video as always...

I didn’t start learning piano the traditional way of reading notes but learning chord patterns instead. years later when i took my piano learning more seriously and started sightreading, i developed a habit of identifying chords in every piece i play. i thought it was a weird habit and a bad one since it felt like i was cheating. but after seeing this i felt great knowing this is a good skill to have😂. I’m a church pianist these days and this skill allows me to quickly learn any song even though i’m sightreading them for the first time.

You’re such a great teacher !! Thank you for all of your informative and educational videos

@Ashlee Young, do you recommend using a metronome for accurate timing, or does hearing that persistent click get in the way of focusing on your technique (very interesting technique, by the way)?

Innovative approach to teaching music! Something that I felt but never realized. It is really important! This works and helps a lot. Thank you.

Where is the Free PDF?

Love you mam❤❤❤❤❤

Great video. I agree with everything you said - each performance is different and you have to take in everything in the performance venue - the room, the audience, the piano, and adjust. 😋 Ray Chen said on Reddit that you have to practice performing in front of an audience so often that your brain doesn't distinguish between practice and performance 🤯 which I have done and I have almost no nervousness when performing now. (This is why he created the Tonic practice app) Loved the annotations on your performance. I'm sure you learned a lot by doing that too. When you said you made a mistake, I didn't notice and had to rewind to hear it and still didn't notice 😂 I don't know this piece though 😋

I only heard 3 minutes of your lesson and already love the breakdown of. chords that you're doing. This is exactly what I need to learn.

I expected some kind of clickbait hahaha. It's nice to see it explained, we have videos where people talk about the technique, but not how to practise it. It's a shame that such an amazing way to practise the piano isn't more popular, especially for tackling baroque pieces. The vast majority of Bach interprets render a sluggish legato with little to no articulation within the melody. Modern ones in particular, surprisingly enough. You'd think people would be more aware of the possibilities now that we have Gould's recordings.

Wow! I had many, many, MANY years of piano lessons and was never taught about chords so obviously never about chord analysis either! I few years ago I decided to learn classical guitar and my guitar teacher said to me, you play piano so you recognise these chords! She was chord analysing and I had no idea 😢 I felt so embarrassed, I ended up stopping lessons. I would call myself an Intermediate piano player but lack so much knowledge! I have to be honest I’m ready to stop playing as I am now « stuck » and not progressing. Sadly all the years I spent on lessons were just learning to pass exams 😢 Thank you for making this video.

Great information ! I agree with richard135B7 ... Patterns are great! Thank you both ! Lee 19-14-24

How do I sign up the January 2025 session that you mentioned in the video? I wasn’t able to find the link in order to register.

I played at my first piano recital. I went in early, warmed up on the piano, in the hall, on stage, no emotions. Then, WAITING to be the next person, to play (I was one of several playing at the recital), was BRUTAL! By the time it was my turn, my heart was pounding, I was sweating, I was cold, and hot at the same time. When I sat at the piano, I was shaking. Visibly shaking. It wasn't until towards the last two thirds of my second of two pieces where my anxiety went from a 9.5/10, to a more manageable 7.5 out of 10. Ashley, even when I play in front of a cell phone camera to upload our, "Fearless Friday," videos, I get so flustered from the nerves, I often forget the music!

Ashley, thank you. One question I have is, for the pieces with Hans Zimmer, where there is a NC (non-chord)? Ex. The 1st, and the 5th is there, but the 3rd is omitted. There is a BEAUTIFUL (chord?) that sounds/feels like a C Dominant 7th chord, but once again, the third is omitted, so it's definition is unclear! The notes, by the way are: C4, G4 (Perfect 5th interval), and a B-Flat5. Thomas Newman is also famous for chords (again, non-chord stacks) where the 6th interval is used a LOT, and suspensions, but the 3rd is almost always omitted. This is a fantastic way to obscure the emotion, but it makes it difficult to analyze the chordal structure itself! Any advice for such pieces? I attached the piece that I'm playing for piano. It sounds so jarring at first (a little atonal), with the isolation the astronauts feel, deep in space, in such a tiny craft, but then it shifts to more tonal, but of course, ends on that Dom7th chord (with the omitted third). kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKvKl5Z6j9yrj7s

Really nice performance. Love Rachmaninoff! I really need to learn to play through those mistakes the way you do... I am getting better, but having to stop and pick it up is so awful. There again, I am still alive! 🙂.

It's not advanced but easy to recognize the Chords in Bach's prelude, because the whole piece consists only of chords. Pieces with a lot of enharmonic changes and melodies following other lines in the late romantic periode are advanced. Furthermore: classical music isn't always based on chord progressions, but on several melodies. Then you have room also room for several interpretations, what is going on in the piece.

so thats like simular to guitar for some reason

Amazingly clear concise video. Makes so much sense the way you explain it. Also love the contrast in sound when you play the major chord then go down a half step on the middle note to show the minor chord. Must admit I'm a sucker for a minor chord. They're beautiful! Gonna go and put this into practice. I've just recentlystarted playing so this is a godsend. Thanks kind lady!

I just liked and subscribed. Where were you when I was 7? Oh ya, not born yet. Damn. Checking out your other video's now. Thanks Ash.

Hi, I see that Mr. Starer has a “Basic Rhythm Training” book as well. Should I start with that book? Or does this book (in your vid) work for beginners?

Great stuff. Would you please analyze the arpeggio section of Clair d lune?

Hey Ashley I love music mostly from the eighties but I don't think I'm smart enough to translate it to my fingers from what I have to work with in my head 😢🙄just not smart enough.

I think the key to understanding music theory and harmony is the concept of modes or scale degree is very difficult to teach, the musical examples you provide are always so thoughtful and relavent to the concepts you are explaining It takes time to get to know the modes and each has a different flavor my approach to learning modes is creative scale practice - play the scale, penatonic, arpeggio, triads one mode at a time and experiment with voicing chords in different ways, play the extentions like 9, 11, and 13 chords start with a major then a lydian then a dorian a aeolian a mixolydian a phyrigian do the same thing in the key of d its cool to hear you play bach, ive said before high speed polyphony is probably the most exciting thing for a virtuoso can play

Thank you for this video!

Thanks Ashlee. This is great!!!! I too agree that Chord Analysis is super important!! This video gave me the inspiration to play Twinkle Twinkle with different chord progressions as well such as Tritone Substitutions and the Barry Harris 6th Diminished Progression!!!! Such fun!!!!!!

thanks for the boost in motivation

Ash ❤😍😍😍

As always Ashlee, another banger of a video. Dumb question probably, would chord analyzation as you discuss help with something like reharmonization? Seems like an odd question, but I like to experiment a lot and figuring out the chords underneath the piece would give me a good idea of what other notes may work in that space no? I appreciate you and these lessons you offer. Thanks a bunch!

Thanks, Ashlee! This is really insightful and well structured advice as always. From personal experience as a 'beginning intermediate player' I'd add that there are two additional practical benefits to chord analyzation worth mentioning. First, it has allowed me to perform a piece of music that I might otherwise really struggle with in sections, by substituting easier-to-play chord and note patterns. Now I'm not advocating to do this in lieu of ever mastering a published score, but it has allowed me to complete the performance of a piece of music that I might otherwise not be able to achieve without stopping and starting, and as such serves as a source of inspiration to continue to work on the piece. Second - and very much related - chord analyzation also is the basis for improvisation, whether it's to do something as simple as substituting one chord inversion for another or something more advanced like chord substitution/reharmonization. I'm sure that I'm stating the obvious in mentioning these simple things, but I felt it was worth bringing up if merely to benefit others who are in the early stages of learning to play.

This is great stuff....really digging your content...scribed up....thanks

Excellent advice to analyze the chords in a piece or song and the chord progression when starting to learn it. I will remember to do that. Thank you

Very helpful.

Thanks, excellent video!

Brilliant, thank you!