What can you do with just one chord?
- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 4764 posts since 25 Jan, 2014 from The End of The World as We Knowit
Hi, just wanted to share this practice exercise: 1 chord, 2 hands, 25 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7GBNfIhDY
Note: backing track is iReal Pro: https://irealpro.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7GBNfIhDY
Note: backing track is iReal Pro: https://irealpro.com
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- KVRist
- 180 posts since 16 Oct, 2009 from Italy
Nice ! I enjoyed that
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- KVRian
- 643 posts since 17 Aug, 2015 from Finland
Well, improvising a melody or solo over a one-chord vamp is pretty fun.
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- KVRAF
- 11093 posts since 16 Mar, 2003 from Porto - Portugal
The base track may be just playing C minor, but she DID play other chords accasionally. What she did is what we could call a very long "pedal point" (cfr. pedal point) over which she improvised. A pedal is not harmony.Michael L wrote: ↑Thu Jan 02, 2020 9:31 pm Hi, just wanted to share this practice exercise: 1 chord, 2 hands, 25 minutes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7GBNfIhDY
Note: backing track is iReal Pro: https://irealpro.com
Anyway, good stuff indeed, that reminds us of a time when music wasn't about "chords" but about playing melodies. Chords were the result of layering melodic lines, not the leading stuff.
Fernando (FMR)
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- Banned
- 1646 posts since 4 Aug, 2017
Joe Satriani is the master of that...playing all kinds of melodic modal stuff over a one chord vamp. Cool #9 is a good example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbUUKN4KR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlbUUKN4KR0