Play Piano 15: Play Popular SongsBy Ear Using Chord Progression! Improvise & Put 2-5 Power Chords to “You Light Up My Life” + WORKBOOKSI have developed thisAmazing 2-5 Power Chord Reharmonization Methodto help you gain success to playing your favorite standards. 2-5 Power Chordsare found in many standards and popular movie themes. They make rich full sounds that will captivate your audience wanting more.“You Light Up My Life” is ballad written by Joe Brooks. The song became the most successful single of the 1970s and set a new hot 100 record for the longest reign at No. 1In thissong “You Light Up My Life”,I show you how to take a tune from its basic harmony ( I IV V7 ) to advanced sophisticatedchords.“You Light Up My Life” is theme song of the Titanic Movie in 1997. The music is written by James Horner, lyrics by Walter Afanaseiff and recorded by Celine Dion. This became Dion’s biggest hit and one of the best selling singles of all time. Here’s the Secret Tip to this Song: There is a change of Key at the bridge to bring the song to a higher intensity. The song begins like many standards with the 2-5 chords: Dm7 G7. Even though the first section of the song is in the Key of C, C Chord is not even used at all in the arrangement. Em7 is used in place of C for the melodic flow of the song. We are going to follow a Play by Ear Procedure: First, we need to establish a harmonic foundation to the song with basic chords so that you understand how complex chords come into play. You are going to improvise the song with basic chord progression by EAR.I put in a section on Easy Improvisation. I show you different ways to improvise around the chord progressions so that you learn “tone motion voice leading”. Even when you don’t play the actual melody of the song, you can hear the song in the background when you play the harmonic chord progressions. This is a good ear training program to help you play many standard and pop songs by EAR. Second, Learn 2-5 Powr ChordRules & Chord Substitutions to"You Light Up My LifeImprovisation".In this song, I teach you how to use 2-5 Power chords to reharmonize the song from the harmonic basic chord foundation. Learn how an easy chord progression of using2-5standards chord progressions. Learn how to createhalf-step chromatic movementto create beautiful sounding basslines. In the full arrangement, you will be playing the song in Key of G with the following chords: Dm7G7Em7A7b9G13Bm7b5E7AmEm7b5B7B7b9D7D7b9G7b9Dm11Dm9E7b9. Come on in and join us, Rosa Rosa’s Online School: Teaching93 Courseson Music & Piano Courses! OVER74,000Successful students have already taken my online courses since July 2014 with many5 Star Reviews About Rosa’s online course at Udemy: Over74,000very happy students already in my Udemy classesSee the5 Star Reviewsfrom VERY satisfied studentsYou get free lifetime accessAll videos are at your finger tips to watch anytime & anywhereAll future extra lectures and upgrades arealways freeUnconditional Udemy30 day money-back guaranteeand that’s my personal promise to your success! Join this happy family of students
