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You won’t believe how much this video helped!!! Thank you sooo much!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

You made it look simple. Thank you🙏

Hi everybody! I teach piano in Oregon. Great to finally see somebody addressing the key colors and also “the opposites.” ❤️🎹❤️ Like you said, D flat/D … E flat/E… A flat /A…B/B flat are opposite colors. -💥💥 F and F# are also opposite colors. (In my studio I refer to it as F# instead of G flat in chord studies) We love calling this “the law of the opposites!” OH!!! C and G have no opposites. Those two chords just match each other! 🥳❤️ Another interesting thing: the key colors of root and the 5th also match in every single key except for B-flat and B, which are opposites. My students love filling out pentascale and chord charts, filling in the circles with black or leaving them white. Great for visual learners So if you can’t find your chord quickly, at least hit the fifth and it will still sound great!

Love this. Super helpful for a novice. I can't see the link for the PDF; apologies if I've missed it.

Amazing tips - thank you!

Huh. That was really easy to pick up. It seems intimidating at first, but with a little practice, repetition, and an understanding of the basic structure of a chord it really makes the keyboard less scary to play around with.

🤯.... seriously thank you! I've watched many many many videos touching on chords and nobody broke it down so simply as this!

yea, you ain't kidding about taking breaks. i find 15 min is my limit. I practice for 15 min, then i get up and walk around for 5 min. for me it makes all the difference.

But the fingers never lift? Or there case they could be lifting?

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To remember the whole major scale, could you also describe it as “whole whole half whole whole whole half”, or would there be an issue down the line with that?

"You get comfortable being uncomfortable." Ok, this is my daily food for thought today. When I play an assigned piece next to my teacher, I make all sorts of mistakes I usually don't when playing at home alone. Same even when only one person, say, my brother or sister is hearing me play at my place. I get nervous and anxious.😢 I will have to practice to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Lol. Other tips are equally great. That flexibility of your wrist part and that giving mindless tempo changes won't help you express musicallity are excellent practical advice. I learn everyday. Thanks a lot Ashlee again for sharing your valuable insights.

Good video

Thank u so much for making the chords so easy god bless

Thank you, Ashlee. I think this will be very helpful.

I've been struggling with the first movement of a sonatina (with an Alberti Bass) for several weeks. I just watched you Alberti Bass and then this video. I am hopeful that it will improve me enough to at least accurately and rhythmically play the first 2 pages in 5 days for a small group where we share what we are playing. Thank you for the tips. I needed all of them and really appreciate that you did this for us.

Great explaination! Thank you!

Thank you for demystifying chords. I used to feel intimidated by them but now they feel like a fun, attainable challenge.

This works. I say this from my experience. As an adult beginner, I practice before I go to work and before I go to bed. Well, not 10 times but almost. When I practice, I use full concentration to accurately execute the problem passages. Next morning when I practice, I instantly feel where to go on the keyboard, and that is 100% correct. One more thing I like to add here is the power of our subconscious playing. When I practice before going to sleep, I use even more dedication to play the correct notes. Then when you sleep, your subconscious helps you memorise and reinforce the moves. Well, at least that's me. Thanks Ashlee again for helping us in this rewarding journey of learning to play the piano.

Totally agree. Talking especially about the second you mentioned, when I talk to my fellow adult learners, I see most of them equate proficiency to fastness. Obviously, there are pieces and passages where you need go fast. But that, I believe, does serve the purpose of the music. That is not fastness for fastness itself. In that sense, we adult beginners can safely ignore the idea that being fast is being good. Yes, the language example you used in a previous vid, being an ESL speaker of English, I try to speak accurately and correctly, although it makes me slow. That sounds much better than speaking unintelligible English fast. Lol Thanks again for this extremely informative and helpful video!

As a non-native speaker of the English language, I can relate to your analogy. Yes, music, the score in this context is like a language, and we need to read it as a whole where every note is in relation to another. We don't read "To be or not be", T, O, B, E..." Discovered your channel last night, and you have a new subscriber. Thanks for sharing your insights!

Thank you very much , very helpful

WWWWOOOOOOOWWWW thanks a LOTTTT!!!!!!!

It's amazing that you can speak while talking. You said in other videos how important it is to learn how to count while playing, I've been trying it out, it is so hard...

Thanks! This is a really cool video! I think at this stage I know all the chords from the theory, rather how to read the chords quickly from the music sheet, and thus practice, which is super important for sight reading... if you have any suggestions on how to train sightreading chords, I am interested. Thank you for your hard work on this channel!! :D

Ashlee, you're on RUclips now?! I guess it's been awhile! Your video just randomly popped up on my RUclips feed. Subscribed, and now I'll have to go back and watch all of your videos. Former student here: Ashlee is an amazing piano teacher and a fabulous player herself! She met me at my skill level (a 40-something music teacher wanting to hone his piano skills) and helped me reach the next level. If she can help me, she can help you too!

Excellent. Thank you!!

I enjoyed this lesson very much. Very informative. Loved it. Thank you.

Your communication skills are fantastic, I could listen to you explaining things like forever. Thank you for this tutorial, very clear and well understood.👌

SPEED READER

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Thank you very much , now I know this small note called “ grace note” so thanks. Usually I just skip altogether :) . Your video is always well made , not boring at all.

Brilliant video!

found this really helpful. thanks

Oh it is so good , I will practice this. Thank you very much. I like that you say forever ,

remembering what chords are in a composition definitely helps me memorize attempting to play jazz you will find chords can be functional or non-functional, there is blues in jazz and blues is a series of non-functional dominant chords in a 1 4 5 pattern theory for me is a way to explain intervals and patterns, what chords are related that might come next, and what my options are as an improviser or when trying to write new music I am a permanent student of jazz improvisation, sometimes I take the chords you show me and try to make it swing, I think a good improviser is playing chords over chords which is a concept known as superimposing, that and are well familiar with the concept of voice leading or connecting one chord to another I'm curious about the idea of using counterpoint and a moving independent second voice when I improvise as I have always been attracted to bach and high speed polyphony I recommend playing bach every day and the jazz piano book by mark levine

Hi again Ashley, I meant to say that it is the inversions of 7th chords (3 per chord) is the main challenge for me at my age 74 which causes frustration as I want to be able to play jazz standards. Any tips on that?

The thing is that memorising the chords as you say in root position is good information but the real challenge and method for playing chords in a tune is to be able to quickly play them using inversions of the chords rather than jumping all over the place. This is my challenge to myself but at 74 I have give up numerous times as I find it overwhelming.

My teacher suggested learning a piece one bar at a time but also including the first note of the next bar to help with the transition! 🎼🎹😄

Something to add to the daily practice routine … thanks! 🎼🎹😄

Great video! i'm learning how to play the piano! I dont know why, but you remember me the Kim Raver Cheers from Brazil!

I have a laminated chord chart booklet I purchased from a music store. I can write down the formulas and use the chord chart as a visual, Thank you for this tutorial. 😊

How about a video on how to quickly identify the key of a song? Specifically on the music sheet. Thanks for the content.

Thank you so very much!!

Your videos are so well done! Very good explanations. Thanks.

This is inspiring!!!

Yeah you made me very very depressed now , I am one of those 99% that ignored rhythm counting despite my teacher told me otherwise. :(

One of the coolest parts about practicing like this is that if you know the piece you're playing then the brain already (maybe roughly) knows the tempo, so once you do have it properly memorized you can take it to full speed very easily. One of my favourite songs to play is Nuvole Bianche by Ludovico Einaudi and I was having so much trouble playing the big crescendo accurately at full speed, doing this technique made it click almost instantly. If you're looking for a good song to use for lesson examples, Nuvole Bianche is pretty good. You'll see why when you read the sheets lol