Welcome to your pop chord boot camp! This 17-minute lesson takes the most popular chord progression of all time and helps you to gain confidence by playing it in different ways! You will explore reordering the chords as well as using inversions to help you move smoothly (or not so smoothly) between the chords.
So many of my students come to me asking for fresh new ways to play their chords and progression to make them more interesting and help them get out of a rut. This boot camp does just that by presenting you with different inversion and chord combinations as well as different ways to play them!
Understanding how chords work will give you a BIG leg up in learning how to play the piano. Knowing just a handful of chords will unlock hundreds, if not thousands of pop songs. To get started today, check out our free Chord Hacks course, or read How to Play Piano Chords.
This lesson is a win-win-win. How often can you say that?! You are working on a chord progression that shows up in thousands of songs, you are developing keyboard familiarity and dexterity and training your ear to connect to the ways inversions change the way we hear the chords we play.
This lesson is presented in a boot camp style. This means that I want you to play along WITH me as you watch. I’ll talk you through all the chord changes and walk you through each change so you know what is happening and why it sounds the way it does. Work this video into your weekly practice routine and repeat it often until you can play along with me with a smile.
Happy Practicing!
Lisa Witt has been teaching piano for more than 20 years and in that time has helped hundreds of students learn to play the songs they love. Lisa received classical piano training through the Royal Conservatory of Music, but she has since embraced popular music and playing by ear in order to accompany herself and others. Learn more about Lisa.
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