Simple Step-by-Step Guide for Learning Lead Sheets | Ultimate Roadmap to Piano Chords (7/7)

[@philgray1023]

I paid someone a lot of money not to tell me this stuff. Thank you for explaining this Susan. Top quality video.

[@PianoRoadmap]

😯 No problem at all!

[@rc4211]

Susan, as a subscriber I always enjoy your gentle, graceful, and steady teaching style, and it was a delightful surprise to see your humorous side emerge in this video. Nicely done!

[@PianoRoadmap]

😆😃 Thank you!

[@ericorabello]

This series was spectacular!! Definitely will come back to study and practice in the long run. Thank you so much for providing this great content, Susan!

[@PianoRoadmap]

You're welcome! I'm so glad you found it useful!

[@wannabeplayer105]

Great tips! you have taken much of the hidden mystery out of lead sheets.

[@CalvinLimSH-ld5le]

Thanks for a keyboard lesson - the 6 easy step by step guide where the LH plays the chord and RH follows the melody of the song with both hands in sync together.

[@wengjai]

This channel is gold!

[@markcbeaumont4670]

good idea to play the odd chord note in right hand to get a balanced chord

[@lorimfrancis1]

Thank you so much Susan! so very helpful..

[@PianoRoadmap]

You're welcome!

[@2011watchman]

This is such helpful teaching and understandably why your subscriber base keeps growing. It's good content that's effective because you're an excellent teacher.

[@PianoRoadmap]

😊 Thanks so much!

[@PianoRoadmap]

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[@richard135b7]

"Give the right hand some chord duties while still playing the melody". I like how you word that : ) This tutorial is actually a template for learning a new song in an hour rather than taking weeks or months to learn it through traditional sheet music. Thank you 🙏

[@PianoRoadmap]

You're welcome!

[@shermiesdad]

Great video Susan! And a great conclusion to a great series. Look out, "Real Book", here I come! I hope lots of people avail themselves of the offer on your Faber Piano Roadmap course. I still say it's the best money I've ever spent on piano education. 👏 👍

[@PianoRoadmap]

Thanks so much!!!

[@barbaratodd1769]

This was a great lesson! Thank you for all the time you spend to bring us this content. After watching this video, I went right over to my piano to start trying this!

[@PianoRoadmap]

Awesome!

[@jeannetteantry1086]

Thanks so much for the lesson and for the free sheet music, this will be a fun piece to test practice my chords with the melody. I appreciate what you said about keeping going and not stopping between the chord changes. I am very slow at some chord changes. It does take a lot to bring those chords together in my work. I will try to slow it down enough to keep the chords together and played continuously. I seem so slow to learn these chords and the scales. I finally have a strong grasp of all the major scales. I want to move on to the minor scales, but I am still struggling to learn all the chords for the major scales and their inversions. I want to know as much as I can about music while learning pieces and getting better at sight reading too. It is a process and videos such as this are so inspiring and keep me going.

[@PianoRoadmap]

One small step at a time!

[@Hus-Alfen]

Great videos. Currently on my 7 months as an adult learner, and your videos has been helping me a lot. Keep going 🤩

[@PianoRoadmap]

I'll keep going if you keep going 😃😃😃

[@sonic2000gr]

The melodica part totally got me! Thanks!

[@PianoRoadmap]

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[@johnhiggins7793]

My search for improved my sight reading led to better chord knowledge and technique. Your KZbin cannel opened my understanding of harmonisation and hopefully a path to improvisation.

[@PianoRoadmap]

Wonderful to hear!

I learned a lot from your series. Thank you for doing it.

[@PianoRoadmap]

You're welcome, and thanks for watching :)

[@vk7898]

Thank you for your lesson. Great video as always. Love your channel.😊

[@PianoRoadmap]

Thank you 😊

[@timfilipi3788]

I found this video very helpful. Some great guidance and tips.👍

[@PianoRoadmap]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tommckee3443]

Love the lead sheet approach to learning piano. It's great for me coming from folk guitar. Seeing the chords laid out on the keyboard has given me a new understanding of music theory. Thanks. I hope you extend this series with more insights on chord patterns to accompany melodies.

[@dianeslowik7130]

Very helpful!😁

[@PianoRoadmap]

So glad to hear :) :) :)

[@BerminTing]

This is very helpful for me.

[@PianoRoadmap]

So great to hear!

[@janlee7052]

T Y for the videos. Very helpful. J

[@j2000rocks]

I’ve enjoyed these 7 lessons. Very helpful!

[@PianoRoadmap]

So glad to hear!

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[@bunnyhollowcrafts]

This has been fabulous! Try Over the Rainbow melody over Canon in D Chord progression. SO BEAUTIFUL! Loved the breaking down the lead sheet into simple steps. Thank you so much for all the time and knowledge you poured into these videos!!

[@PianoRoadmap]

Great suggestion! Music and harmony is so fun to play around with!

[@MusicChannel-rf5zz]

Thank you . I play by ear & don’t read notations. I find midi files easier to pick up from.

[@PianoRoadmap]

Interesting how everyone learns differently. The midi files make my head hurt, but awesome you can learn from them!

[@DesertRat332]

For me, this was your best teaching video yet. You went from simple one note bass accompaniment to playing something like a cocktail lounge piano player might play. So that's how they do it. Just need to learn how to talk and play at the same time! (lol) 😁 Question: Is there a rule for what inversion of the chords to use? Or do you just have to experiment? For me, it seems the second inversion (root in the middle) often sounds best. Once I took up piano I finally understood the concept behind "Power Chords" on the guitar. Playing more than two notes in the bass register does sound muddy.

[@PianoRoadmap]

Thank you! If you're following a lead sheet, you'll usually use whatever inversion it suggests with the slash notation. If you're improvising a chord progression on your own, it's a little more complicated of an answer...one that has to do with voice leading and other music theory stuff. In general, try to use the inversion that sounds the best in context with what comes right before and after it. Pay attention to the bass line your inversion creates, as well as what the inner voices are doing.

[@DesertRat332]

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[@DessieTots]

OMG Susan you are beautiful. That’s it, I’m talking up the piano. 😊

[@WaynePower-jf6gj]

This was a very helpful leasson, wish you had included the sheet music for that tune. But your hat with the ears was really awesom. love all your vidios.

[@PianoRoadmap]

Glad it was helpful! And the lead sheet music is included 😊 The link is in the description, but here it is again: www.janwolters.nl/blad/auldlang-lead.pdf

[@beardog5245]

Would love to get a free month on my Piano Roadmap membership, which I am totally happy with, but not getting that won't make me cancel my membership :D That discant thing was way cool.

[@PianoRoadmap]

Thank you! It'll be a random draw, so good luck :) :) :) And yes, improvising descants is one of my favorite things to do.

[@bobmcgee1849]

Having trouble funding lead sheets for some of my favorites like Schindler’s List or On Golden Pond. Are advice?

[@PianoRoadmap]

Some pieces are difficult to find in lead sheet format. In general, I suggest looking at websites like musescore.com. And I did a quick search and found this: www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0131937&PMax%3A%20%28ROI%29%20Smart%20Shopping%20-%20Everything%20Else&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwr9m3BhDHARIsANut04aLrKNOpbwQXI9GITcARSVkKPHk5TJDL_HluqjBaGli5gbeCT5QVIAaAoDLEALw_wcB

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