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Play By Ear #3: Use 3 Major Chord Trick to Harmonize Songs

Play songs by EAR & recognize places where chord changes in songs. Learn Music Theory & Play by Ear Techniques listening
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Play by Ear Method Level 3:

Learn to harmonize songs by EAR with my 3 Chord Harmony Trick. Learn Music Theory & Music Techniques to listen to how chord changes in songs.
Are you bored to tears playing piano?   
As I am writing out this page, I just received the following message from my student Barbara who has been taking my piano courses one after another: 
  “We are on fire with the need to accomplish goals and you are a God given teacher!! 🙂 I seem to be having a love affair with my piano now….can’t get enough and want to be with the keys all day. It’s a wonderful feeling. I praise God for all the knowledge and you for sharing your talent.” 
Start picking up the Skill to PLAY by EAR and your piano playing is going to take off like it has for my student here. You will be in love with your piano, playing your music, making music at the piano ALL day!  Believe me, I see this happening to students all the time. 
Learn to play by EAR and learn how to harmonize songs by EAR!  It is a very comprehensive in-depth study so that you will be able to pick up this skill IMMEDIATELY.   
You need to free your mind from reading notes, free your mind from memorizing things, and just concentrate on LISTENING to SOUNDS, listening to CHORD progressions, listening to the sounds you play at the piano. This is what piano playing is about! 
My students are having so much FUN and on FIRE at the piano from one course to another.  This is Level 3 of part of the Play by Ear Series. 

Overview of the Course: 
In this course, you are going to learn about CHORDS & MELODY in Harmony! 
You will pick up 34 Magic Tips & a total of 17 Songs to practice on so that you can harmonize hundreds of songs with only 3 Chords:  I, IV, V7 
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Part A:  Melody Tones vs Chord Tones
Play by Ear Tip 1: Distinguish Melody Tones from Chord Tones
                          Play by Ear Tip 2: Chords are built from scale tones 
                          Play by Ear Tip 3: Listen to the 3 Tone Chords 
                          Play by Ear Tip 4: Triad Chord Tones: R 3 5 or 1 3 5 
                          Play by Ear Tip 5: Triad Chords in C Key – 7 Diatonic Chords 
                          Play by Ear Tip 6: Many songs can be harmonized with 3 Major Chords 
Part B: Tonic Chord I and its distinctive character 
                          Play by Ear Tip 7: Chord 1 (R 3 5) is C Chord in Key C 
                          Play by Ear Tip 8: Use Left Hand to Play Chords: R 3 5 
                          Play by Ear Tip 9: Chord 1 Harmonizes with Melody tones: 1, 3, 5 
                          Play by Ear Tip 10: Chord 1 is the Home Chord – Beginning and End 
                          Play by Ear Tip 11: Find Places where you can put in Chord 1 
                          Play by Ear Tip 12: Study the tones of each measure to see what tones dominant 
Part C: V7 Dominant Chord and its distinctive character 
                          Play by Ear Tip 13: Dominant Chord is V7 in the Scale 
                          Play by Ear Tip 14: Formula for V7 – R 3 5 b7 
                          Play by Ear Tip 15: The personality of V7 Chord 
                          Play by Ear Tip 16: V7 harmonizing melody tones 
                          Play by Ear Tip 17: V7 Chord has a Tritone creating highest tension interval (4 and 7) 
                          Play by Ear Tip 18: V7 Dissonant Chord Moving to Stable Chord I 
                          Play by Ear Tip 19: V7 to I has a Perfect Cadence Sound 
                          Play by Ear Tip 20: V Chord harmonizes with melody tones 7, 2, 5 
                          Play by Ear Tip 21: V7 Chord harmonizes with melody tones 7, 2, 5, 4 
                          Play by Ear Tip 22: How to Write Chord Progression of Songs 
Part D: Subdominant Chord IV and its distinctive character 
                          Play by Ear Tip 23: Chord IV Subdominant Chord – F Chord 
                          Play by Ear Tip 24: Chord IV Formula: R 3 5 
                          Play by Ear Tip 25: Chord IV in relation to Chord I & V7 
                          Play by Ear Tip 26: Chord IV is a travelling chord 
                          Play by Ear Tip 27: Chord IV has 2 movements 
                          Play by Ear Tip 28: Ending of a Chord Progression IV to I – Plagal Cadence 
                          Play by Ear Tip 29: Chord IV harmonizes with melody tones: 4, 6, 1 
                          Play by Ear Tip 30: Left Hand F Block Chords & RH Harmonizing Tones 
Part E:  Rosa’s Easy Play By Ear Method – 3 Chord Melody Tone Trick 
                          Play by Ear Tip 31: Melody Chord Theory 
                          Play by Ear Tip 32: Three Chord trick covers all 7 Scale Tones 
                                 Play by Ear Tip 33: Which chord to choose when tones appear in both? 
                          Play by Ear Tip 34: Chord Trick: I IV V7 
  17 Songs: 
                          1. Clementine 
                          2. Ode to Joy 
                          3. On Top Of Old Smokey 
                          4. We Wish You A Merry Christmas 
                          5. Amazing Grace 
                          6. Oh Danny Boy 
                          7. Blessed be the Tie that Binds 
                          8. This is my Father’s world 
                          9. Today 
                          10. Bridge Over Troubled Water 
                          11. Day By Day 
                          12. Auld Lang Syne 
  Bonus Gospel Songs: 
                          13. Trust and Obey 
                          14. Be Still and Know 
                          15. Deeper, Deeper 
                          16. Thanks to God 
                          17. Just As I am 
  Bonus Popular Songs: 
      18. You are my Sunshine 
      19. Silent Night 
      20. Do Re Mi 
      21. Edelweiss 
      22. Unchained Melody 
      23. Moon River 
      24. Away In a Manger 
      25. Yesterday 
  In Depth Study on these Chord Changes: 
                          1. I to IV 
                          2. IV to I 
                          3. I to V7 
                          4. IV to V7 
                          5. V7 to I 

My students tell me that my teaching and videos are very motivating and entertaining!  I think what they mean is that they are learning a lot and having lots of fun. 
Enroll into this course and learn all my secrets of loving piano playing, 
Rosa 

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What can you learn from this course?

✓ Listen to Chord Tones
✓ Distinguish Chord Tones from Melody tones
✓ How Chord Tones are formed
✓ Listen Deeply to the characters of the Chord I, IV, V7
✓ Hear the Home Base Chord
✓ Listen to the Key of the Song
✓ Distinguish Chord 1 from Chord V7
✓ Spot why Chord V7 is a tension chord
✓ Understand Leading Tone
✓ Know which melody tones harmonize with which chord
✓ Feel the distinct character of Chord 1
✓ Feel the tension of the song
✓ Know where to spot the dissonance of Chord V7
✓ Hear how Chord IV travels within the melody
✓ Play many songs using my 3 Chord Trick
✓ Listen to how chord IV is distinctively a Travelling Chord
✓ Identify the transient chords
✓ Identify the Plagal Amen Chord Ending
✓ Train your ears to listen to moods of the song
✓ Feel the song when it goes up to a tension sound
✓ Feel the calming and gentle nature of the Amen Ending
✓ Feel the release of tension when V7 goes to I

What you need to start the course?

• Know how to pick out melodies of songs
• Preferably they have taken my Play By Ear Method 1 course

Who is this course is made for?

• People who dream to play by ear
• all musicians whether they play guitar, piano, ukulele, violin, etc

Are there coupons or discounts for Play By Ear #3: Use 3 Major Chord Trick to Harmonize Songs ? What is the current price?

The course costs $14.99. And currently there is a 82% discount on the original price of the course, which was $84.99. So you save $70 if you enroll the course now.
The average price is $14.2 of 82 Piano Chords courses. So this course is 6% more expensive than the average Piano Chords course on Udemy.

Will I be refunded if I'm not satisfied with the Play By Ear #3: Use 3 Major Chord Trick to Harmonize Songs course?

YES, Play By Ear #3: Use 3 Major Chord Trick to Harmonize Songs has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.

Are there any financial aid for this course?

Currently we could not find a scholarship for the Play By Ear #3: Use 3 Major Chord Trick to Harmonize Songs course, but there is a $70 discount from the original price ($84.99). So the current price is just $14.99.

Who will teach this course? Can I trust Rosa Suen?

Rosa Suen has created 108 courses that got 1,873 reviews which are generally positive. Rosa Suen has taught 33,299 students and received a 4.5 average review out of 1,873 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Rosa Suen is an instructor that you can trust.

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Rosa Suen

Best Seller Music Teacher, 35 Years Pianist, 25,00+ students
Rosa is the Pastor and Church Pianist for a local community church in Hong Kong  for over 30 years. She graduated from University of British Columbia and received her teaching certificate specializing in Chemistry and teaching English as a second language. She taught public schools in Canada for a couple of years and then went on to receive her Master’s degree in Christian Theological Ministry at Ontario Theological Seminary in Toronto. She started full time ministry with her husband in 1989 and received intensive Pastoral Counselling and Discipleship Training at Christian Disciples Church. They were ordained to become church ministers as Pastors in 1996 in a local church in Tsuen Wan and have been ministering to this same congregation for more than 20 years now. 
Over the years, she has gone on church missions to Mongolia, Sydney, Nepal, India and expedition trips to the Holy Lands: Israel, Greece and Turkey. Wherever she went, she found herself taking up the music ministry and became the church pianist for that church. 
Many people at church have asked her to teach them to play piano. As a result of her passion in playing piano, she started developing piano courses initially for church pianists online since 2008. The piano courses are very unique because she was finally willing to share her Unique Piano Method: Color Chord Improvisation Method known as CCI. The CCI method works for all types of music: Gospel, Pop and Standards. 
This Piano Method is easy, fun and creative that you learn to play piano not only from music score sheets, but to play chords from fake books and eventually to play by ear. Students all over the world have requested for courses to teach them play standards and popular songs. As a result she developed 3 Great Reharmonization Method courses for them to play from fake books and play by ear. The Dreamy Piano Techniques courses, especially the one on Autumn Leaves is her students favorite. She has a piano website at Learn Piano With Rosa where she continues to offer new courses to her students.  She also holds piano workshops for her local students and train church pianists. 
With her education and expertise in teaching, her students love her piano courses and found her piano lessons extremely easy and fun to play piano. They are highly motivated to play piano and playing piano had never been more fun and satisfying for them. You can read their testimonies on her website. 
She is now an instructor at Udemy. Come and join her hundreds of students to play piano in a fun and creative way. 
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Play songs by EAR & recognize places where chord changes in songs. Learn Music Theory & Play by Ear Techniques listening
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Language: English
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