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This is just something to think about as you're working out how to play a song
Number one, we've covered in great depth
You can use your different chord voicings
Number two, We can use our broken chords
Either all the way through the bar
o'r rhaid o'r bar, o'r rhaid o'r bar, a'r rhaid o'r bar.
Nr 3, add some ninths into the chords you're playing, major or minor.
Major chords adding ninths just sound great all the time.
Minor chords adding a ninth.
It's just a very fruity sound back to a major chord.
So you can add ninths.
Suspended fourths.
We talked about sus chords, just sound like this.
That's a sus chord resolving to the normal chord.
Amitting the third, moving to the fourth and then back again
can often be done to add some interest. Do try it.
The fifth thing we can do is to change the chord.
All we need to do is look at what the melody note is
and find another chord with that note in.
For instance, if you've got an F in the melody and you're in F major
and the chord is F, we can often substitute that with D minor
which also has an F in the chord.
The same thing would go if there's an A in the melody.
So if you're not convinced by a chord or if it crops up too often
why not try changing it?
We can play chords at any register.
So number six is we can play the chord at a different register.
Lower or higher.
Do experiment and see where it's best.
Number seven, we can alternate the chord with a single note.
So if you have a triad, split it into a group of two and one.
As you can hear, this is quite effective.
It keeps the music moving without being too repetitive.
The next thing we can do is decide how many notes we're going to play.
So that's number eight, how big is our chord?
We can go from two notes right the way through to playing eight, nine or ten notes.
That chord's possibly a little too big but you can play chords of varying sizes
and they'll have a very different effect.
There are times where just two notes will be perfectly adequate
and other times where you need the power of using most of your fingers.
The next thing we can do is to add a melody in between the notes of the chord we're playing.
If you listen to contemporary music, this is something which a lot of bands do,
a kind of pop groove, a repeated chord.
I'm going to play my right hand, we're just repeated, with a little melody inside it
and a changing bass note. Listen to this.
So the chord at the top is repeated with a melodic fragment in the middle
and the note underneath, the bass note, just changes.
It's a very common popular technique which bands like Coldplay and Keen use today.
The last thing we can do with chords is not to use them.
Just throw them out.
There are times where you might want to have just a vocal on its own
or some silence in the music.
Having silence can give a song structure and direction.
So consider not using them.
Let's just run down our list again.
Number one, use different voicings.
Number two, broken chords.
Number three, add some ninths.
Number four, add some suspensions.
Number five, change the chords.
Number six, change the register.
Number seven, alternate with a different note in the chord.
Two notes to one note.
Number eight, play chords of different sizes.
Some big, some small.
Number nine, use those pop grooves with a repeating chord and melody.
Number ten, just don't play the chord at all.
