hello everybody welcome to uh improv class for my really jazz students claire's with me today playing synthesizer as you can hear in the background and today we're going to talk about a really really common um chord progression is actually more common in rock and pop music um so if you if you learn this and classical in fact if you learn this chord progression you'll find it that you can improvise with all sorts of tracks you can just kind of play along and feel your way around and remember learning these progressions is is more about ear than looking at music okay so today we're going to play the one five six four chord progression i'm going to explain to you what it is how to do it with the left hand we'll do the right hand another day so what does 1564 refer to the first note of the scale the fifth note of the scale the sixth note of the scale and the fourth okay so if you've got your c scale here

each note is represented by a number the first note is a c the fifth note is a g the sixth is an a and the fourth is an f okay so how do we do this progression we start off with a triad the c triad c major triad

and now we just move two fingers down for an inverted g major g major chord and when you look at an inverted chord you can see that there are there's a wider gap between your thumb well it doesn't matter what finger is but there's a wider gap and then a third but when it's a triad the it's evenly spaced an inverted chord is not evenly spaced in your fingers okay so let's just gain the major triad in c and then the g inverted chord

now we're going to move to our sixth we'll rather move our hand right up to a c g e up up the other end or the other towards the other side towards the right we can just move a couple of notes down so we're moving two fingers down one note and our thumb down two we've got an an a triad there it's actually an a minor triad okay

so let's do this the c the g the a and again the c the g the a we haven't moved very much have we we're now going to do the fourth which is an f chord f in the root but we're inverting it so all we're moving now is this e one along to the f and we're playing the other notes as we did on the a triad so we've got the a triad and we move one finger to that f do that again a c e up and one finger to the left uh to the right sorry

back towards the left for the a chord and to the right for the f and that's an inverted chord and you can see when you look at it we're no longer even that's how we know it's inverted so should we do this again the c the g the a and the f

the c the g the a the f

the c the g the a the f

so i hope you followed that i won't talk too much more because i like to keep these classes under five minutes if i possibly can we're going to have some great fun with this this was just an introduction what i'd like you to do now is practice your transitions with a metronome you could do things like this

and so on and so on you could do things like this

you see whatever you want and then do it really slowly and really steadily and when you are really not thinking about it it's all coming it's just really really fluid that's when you can start to make stuff up but also you should be able to actually pop on a pop record and really hear where you can fit these various chords because your ear will become increasingly well adjusted and you'll be able to really work out um what they're doing and it's wonderful right that's the end of this class i went home for six minutes so um i'm doing lots of other stuff today i'm doing um a classical training from the abrsm and uh some suzuki also so something for everyone so i'll catch you later