There comes a point in any creative pianists life where they want to go BEYOND the basic triads and explore the satisfying texture of a CRUNCHY CHORD! But where do you start? Here.
If you want to play freely, you've got to practise playing freely! Makes sense when you think about it, right? And how does one practise playing freely? I have 5 activities for you to start doing that will draw that 'natural talent' for playing freely dramatically closer!
Have you come across a lead sheet or jamming on a chord progression and you realise that you can't, for the life of you, remember what those chords are anymore? I call it ‘chord amnesia’, when we forget chords all. the. dang. time!
If you want to unleash your creativity at the keys you want to do all of those things and more, then you need to learn more about chords and their jobs than you currently know!