CMajor Before The Show

There are some points about chords that are applicable to the piano that can greatly affect the sounds produced by a singer or singers. In today’s episode of CMajor Before The Show, CMajor talks about some chords that you may see according to the musical arrangement. In this case, we’ll see briefly how keywords line up with certain chords in the case of an anthem.

Have you come across your patriotic favorites, stirring marches and anthems over the holiday? I hope so because this weekend we’ll talk about putting chords to some tunes that you find easy to sing. How easy is it to play chords when you are singing certain words of a familiar tune? See you all this weekend! Thank you so very much for listening and coming to the podcast.

Let’s go back to the old times...various individuals were wanting to sit down at their pianos and play songs they knew and liked, even though they couldn’t read a note. Sound exciting?!—If so, tune in now as CMajor gives a short history lesson of sorts and shows you how some people can make music by chords. See you all soon!

Saturdays in the summer are fun opportunities to play piano by chords. We’ll talk about some of your favorite classical and pop tunes on our next episode. That’s tomorrow!—See you soon and remember to bring your iced coffee. After tomorrow’s show you’re invited to join us for more music literacy fun over at The CMajor Radio Show. See you all tomorrow. Thanks for tuning in.

Some of the chord symbols that you see in sheet music, for instance, are there for you to use in Performance. In today’s lesson we’ll talk about split bass chords. Split bass chords may be known by other names too! Listen now as CMajor describes chord notation in pop music and piano music.

Our #ChordsForAll Series continues with some split bass chords. What are those? We’ll talk about it tomorrow. Sometimes you may play a chord as CMajor with a G bass, for example. In Bach’s Prelude in C major he wrote a C in the bass as it begins with broken chords. We’ll examine some of his chord choices. Tune in tomorrow. Thank you for listening.

How much do you think you already know about 7th chords? You probably know more than you think. In last week’s episode we talked about Inversions of Triads. Today’s episode is about more ‘elaborate’ chords called ‘7th’ chords. See you all soon! Thank you for listening.

“There is a lot of music in just four notes.” That’s what one of my students said. Tune in this weekend because we’ll talk about how to ‘supplement’ your triads with seventh chords. We’ll practice soon together. I can hardly wait to hear the sound of triads being extended. Thank you for listening. See you all soon!

The individual notes that make up a chord are referred to as “chord tones”. You may use chord tones to create new rhythms, melodies and a certain kind of ‘feel’ for your music. But, in the case of classical musicians, the feel is already in the music. Listen now as CMajor talks about chord inversions and changing the sound of chords. Thank you for listening.

Listen now to “A Conversation With Cristina”. It’s an episode featuring a young woman who is an up and coming sound engineer. CMajor speaks with Cristina to gain more understanding about her musical influences and her ideas for music making. Thank you for listening.