Chords for How to Arrange Songs on Piano - Lesson 3 [Anime Chord Progressions]

_ _ _ _ _ Alright, so we're gonna be looking at a very common chord progression in music
I call it the anime chord progression because it's used in a lot of anime songs.
So it's the four five six progression
Let me [C] demonstrate
_ _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [F] _
_ [G] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [Ab] Yeah, you heard that a lot of times before
_ [F] And what's significant about this chord progression is that the sixth [E] chord is included in it
And the sixth [Ab] chord is the relative minor of the key signature
[C]
So we're playing in C major so C major
There's C right [Ab] [G] so the relative minor of C major [Am] is
_ _ _ [E] _ Is a [Am] minor
_ basically, what a minor relative minor is [Gb] is that
it contains all the notes that the
_ relative major would contain so C [C] major
Right [Gb] all the notes a minor
[A] _ _ _ [Gb] Contains all the white notes from here to here if you compare the keys
I [D] mean all the notes of the a minor scale to the C minor C major scale
You would see that they they have exactly the same notes
so that's what it means for _ _ _
Minor scale to be the relative minor of a major scale so
[Am] _ _ So [Ab] let's count down how many half [Bb] steps so
_ [Gb] _ _ That means the relative minor.
It's gonna be three half steps below [Ab] any majors key.
[Eb] So let's do E flat major
_ _ [Cm] _ _
_ _ That's gonna be our relative minor _
Okay
_ [D] Okay.
Now I'm gonna move on to another variation of
_ The
Anime chord progression is called the Royal Road progression and what they did was just insert
_ third a three chord right before six chords, so four five and then three and then six so
All [A] _ _ [F] right _ _
[G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Am] _ _
[F] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ something [Ab] like that _
_ _ Yeah, _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ [Fm] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ that song's also has the railroad progression
There's another variation the five chord can be played on top of the four chord bass
[G] _ _ [D] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[C] Right, so I [F] played the four chord here and instead of [G] switching over to like this
I just kept the piece [Gm] as the four chord
_ [F] and then play a five chord [Gm] on top of _
[Em] _ [Am] Okay, _ _ _ _ _
[Gb] _ now we're gonna move on to some Navarone blue chords
So what these are if you don't know who never in blue is then you should check out his channel
But he uses a couple of different chords that sound really nice and unique
You can alter chords to give them a different feel like if you played for a while
You probably know that the four chord can be
the four chord major seven in any key [C] so C major the four [F] chord is gonna be [C] F major
And [D] then if we make it a major seven he gives this [F] out _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ The four chord here to make it
_ _ Major seven that's a really [Gm] common like a whole ton [C] of pianists do it a minor
All minor chords the two chord three chord and six chord you can add a minor [D] seven, so let me demonstrate
The two chord first
[C] _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ Right now let's demonstrate the three chord and the six chord I'm gonna use the Royal Royal Road progression [F] again just to demonstrate it _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _
_ [Em] _ _ There's the three chord with [Dm] the minor seven [Em] right there
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
That's the minor seven
so [D] you can
If you can do it for all the minor chords in a key that pretty much means that you can
Do the add the minor seven to all minor chords in general sometimes or won't work
But just experiment around and you can see if it works or not
_ Okay, now here's when we get really
Navarone boo type chords the two chord and the six chord you can add a minor nine to them
_ so let's say
_ Two chord in the key of C, so that would be this
_ [Dm] _ _ _ And that sounds a lot like [D] what never would place you can even put the knife stack up the knife on the
_ left hand to
[Am] _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
[D] And then the six chord [Fm] so let's do the [C] see four five six progression
_ [F] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [Em] _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ [A] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And yeah, [Gm] that sounds a [D] lot like what never would play
_ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ So you're just playing [F] around with all these chords even _ like the _ _
_ Four major seven _ and then adding [Dm] minor seven
_ _ _ [D] Two three and six pretty much all the minor [Dm] chords and then finally adding the nine to the two and the six chord You _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ That's [Ab] all for today and for the assignment you're just gonna be analyzing
Core progression so you're not gonna be