• Newly added songs under MUSIC: At Last; Somewhere Out There; Vivo Per Lei (Andrea Bocelli); Fly Me To The Moon; You And Me (2008 Beijing Olympics); We Could be in Love (Lea Salonga); The Most Beautiful - Cantonese; Two Words - I Do (Lea Salonga); Dahil Sa Iyo (Tagalog).

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• How I began hearing things

• Why learn piano by ear

• My piano hearing tools

• How I learn a song

• You And Me (Beijing Olmypics Song Tutorial)
  

• Why write your own notes

• How I write my notes

• Song structure

• Transposition on the run
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• About chords

• How to figure out chords

• How to determine the key of a song

When hearing, if you happen to discover a chord that you’re unfamiliar with and really want to know its name…. As long as you know its root bass you would then just use a chord chart, look up that same root bass name and each of the available chords under it. Next, match the notes against each of these chords until you find the name of the chord that matches your notes.

In a another case, say you know a chord in one key , Eg . C Minor 6^th, and want to find out what the corresponding chord position is on another key, say Ab (ie. Ab Minor 6th)… and you don’t have access to a chord chart to look at.

All you then need to first count how many semiitones (ie each adjacent note) from the root of the first chord, ie. C, the next root (Ab) is from C…either left-wards or rightwards of the keyboard

The following video shows how, by counting left-wards, you are able to figure out the notes making up the Abm6 chord, based on your knowing the notes making up the Cm6 chord.

So, by knowing:

…you are able to count each of the above chord’s notes leftwards, and figure out:

Here’s another example for F7 chord, converting to Db7 chord…..

So , as long as you know the position of one chord type (by this I mean a Major, Minor, Minor6 etc.) in one key, you can find the position of the same chord type for any other key.

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