Chords for Piano Left Hand Bass - A Lesson and Tutorial

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Welcome back to another video lesson and in this lesson we're going to talk about the importance of choosing your left hand bass _
And I'm going to demonstrate this by playing a short
I'm gonna call it piece or song but just a short progression and in this progression which is going to be in the [Dm] key of C
[C] C of major
_ I'm going to play only one or maybe two notes in my right hand
And these notes are going to be either the root which is C
And I'll probably double it and I might add in some points the fifth which is G
Now _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] in my left hand, I'm going to change
the bass as I play and _
_ On the top part of the screen.
I'm going to write out the implied harmony and by implied harmony
I mean the sort of chord that a
particular
Combination of notes makes you think of as a listener now implied because
_ These chords would not have all of the notes
making up the chord
_ _ Only some of the notes but because of the progression in [C] the way in which the bass is played
_ _ This the listener sort of fills out the missing details
_ _ _ So let's first play the progression and then then discuss it a bit _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ _ [F] _
_ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Cm] _
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _
So
You see just by
Changing the bass in my left hand.
I could really get a large variety of
Once again, I won't call them chords, but implied chords in this song
_ And you could see their names on the top part of the screen
_ so _
All in all your choice of bass and left hand is extremely important [C] when you build up your song or harmonic progression
And it's something you always need to keep in mind
_ _ Let me give you another example.
Let's take a simple C major chord in the right hand.
So I'm playing a
_ G a C and an E
_ Now if I play a bass of C in _ _ _ _ _ _ _
my left hand, _ _ _ _ I just get a C major chord
_ now if I change this bass to say a
[A] What _ [Am] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ I get is really an a minor seventh chord [Am] because look at the notes I'm playing I have an a
[C] I'm gonna take this C down an octave and this [E] E down an octave
[Am] _ _
and I get this a minor seventh chord a _
C E and G
_ [F] Now I can play a bass of F and [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ this would make it in
_ F
_ Major 7 sus 2 chord _ [F] because if I take this F up here
[C] I really get the notes of an F sus 2 major 7 or F major 7 sus 2 chord.
They're the same thing
F G C and E _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ if I play
[Cm] _
_ _ This once again a C in my right hand [C] and a B flat in my left [Bb] hand
I get a C dominant 7th chord because once again look at what I'm playing
_ I'm gonna take this B flat up here _ [C] this C flat
Down here and this E down here.
So I'm playing the notes C E [Gm] G and B flat
Which make up the C dominant [C] 7th chord? _ _ _ _ _ _
[Ab] So you get all of these different variations simply by changing the bass you play in your left hand. _ _ _ _
That's the idea
I wanted to lay out.
I hope this helps some of you rethink their playing and chord voicing and
I will see you next