Interlock your chords for great sounding progressions
When you're writing or playing a chord progression on piano or keyboard, things will sound a lot better if you choose good shapes for your chords — good voicings, to use the technical term. In this tutorial I give a short demonstration of how to interlock chords, making use of shared notes, to minimise jumping and create a flowing, musical sound. The chord progression I use is C-G-Am-F (1-6-5-4) but the music theory principles I'm describing will work with more or less any chord sequence.
These principles are also worth remembering even if you're not playing the piano — you can also use them when programming chord progressions in a DAW using a MIDI piano roll or writing music into a score.
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Bill Hilton
Welcome to my piano channel! Most of my videos are piano tutorials. Hopefully you'll find them useful if you want to improve your piano playing and learn improvisation skills for jazz, blues and ballad styles. I'm not aiming at complete piano beginners,...