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Gospel Instruments => Gospel Keyboard / Piano => Topic started by: SirTJ on August 27, 2009, 10:00:32 AM
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Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).
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I hear them in my head, and see them notated in my mind. I'm weird that way. What chords are called sometimes I have to figure out later; many Jazz chords are ambivalent, can be spelled several different ways...
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I have to memorize the chords at first.
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I have to memorize the chords at first.
Me 2. But the more I practice, the less I have to think...it just flows.
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Me 2. But the more I practice, the less I have to think...it just flows.
Thats kinda how I am for chords. But for easy songs, I dont bother learning the chords or memorizing them.
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Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).
The way I memorize something is by practicing it until it becomes a part of me, er my playing, LOL. Once it becomes a part of you, u don't have to go through the "bringing it back to memory" process that normally takes place, because it's a part of you already.
So, I don't necesarrily memorize the chord, I moreso memorize the context/movement in which I used the chord. For example, it's much easier IMO to remember a dom7.#5/#9 chord as the 3 of a 7-3-6 progression than by itself.
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I remember the hands separately, but I look at the chord as one, if that makes any sense.
I remember the right hand chord in relation to the left, for example, dom7 a whole step up, or minor a whole step up. I stack chords most of the time, so my left hand plays a diatonic 7th and the right hand will play some chord with the melody at the top, usually a normal major or minor chord.
I also use T-Block's method.
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I memorize. Its a guitar thing. I am so used to memorizing chord shapes that i do it on keys also. It is probably very bad cuz it kind of limits the voicings i can play and i am trying to break out of it.
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I remember the hands separately, but I look at the chord as one, if that makes any sense.
I remember the right hand chord in relation to the left, for example, dom7 a whole step up, or minor a whole step up. I stack chords most of the time, so my left hand plays a diatonic 7th and the right hand will play some chord with the melody at the top, usually a normal major or minor chord.
I also use T-Block's method.
I use yours and T's method as well.
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I have to memorize the chords at first.
Me too, but after doing it enough, you just know.
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For me its about where the chord I learned was placed in a song. Then I commit to memory for later use.
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Memorize chords you learn, or do you have a method of recalling them? Say for instance you're taught a new chord...do you simply memorize it or is do you have a way that helps you recall it (like the picture system?).
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The only 2 chords I know by shape are the fully diminished (dim.7) chord and the dom.7(#5/#9) chord.
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I take that back, I know a 3rd chord by shape, the min.7b5 chord in 3rd inversion.
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I take that back, I know a 3rd chord by shape, the min.7b5 chord in 3rd inversion.
I'm sure you know more than that.
1. Major - All inversions
2. Minor - All inversions
3. Diminished
4. Augmented - All inversions
5. Suspended - All inversions
6. Maj7 - All inversions
7. Min7 - All inversions
8. Dom7 - All inversions
9. Dim7
10. Maj9
11. Min7b5 - 2nd inversion
12. sus7b5 - 2nd inversion
13. Dom13
14. sus13
Those are some of the ones I know.
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I know them but i dont when to use them.pls help me GOD BLESS
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I'm sure you know more than that.
What I meant was that if I can't remember the notes of the chord right off, I can play the shape of the chord and know that it's a ___ chord. Those chords up posted I can play automatically.
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What I meant was that if I can't remember the notes of the chord right off, I can play the shape of the chord and know that it's a ___ chord. Those chords up posted I can play automatically.
Sweet. I got you.