Q. I already know that chords and chord progressions can make a song have an emotion. I don't want entire progressions but what chords should I use for happy feelings, sad feelings, funny, angry, scared and calm but progressive feelings?
A. Major chords obviously have a more happy feel and minor keys give a sadder tone to the song. I play piano and like using 2nd inversion chords. one of my favorite progressions is: G major 2nd inversion, then A minor 1st inversion, F minor 1st inversion, then G major 1st inversion. I guess you could say that this gives a sort of calm yet progressive feel. There are a lot of places that you can go from this progression, and different ways to develop it. Hope this helps!
Why is there a g diminished chord in bar 148 of the first movement of Beethoven's Pathetique?
Q. I'm doing an analysis of the development of the first movement of Beethoven's "Pathetique" piano sonata in Cm, Op. 13, and in bar 148 I found a G diminished chord between a D dominant seven and a C dominant seven. I don't know why it's there.
A. You're going to come unstuck if you try to persist in explaining chords in isolation the way you do, rather than functionally within a tonal region which, at bar 137, has been established as e-minor. If, from there, you proceed to argue the functional progression between bar 137 and 143, and then from bar 143 to 149, what you identify as happening functionally in bar 142 has a strict analogy in the bar 148 you ask about, be that in preparation for different (implied) key regions in each instance. (You're dealing with harmonic sequencing here.)
Crack what is happening in bar 142 and you will have the solution to bar 148, with the proviso that each instance is pointing to a different (passing) tonal centre on the way to settling on the (home key) dominant from bar 167 onwards to begin to prepare at length for the return of the 1st subject in recapitulation.
Al the best, and good luck!
How is watching someone play the piano good for people who are beginners?
Q. How is watching professional pianists play the piano good for people who are beginners & want to learn to read music & play the piano?
A. A lot of what a professional pianist does will be far too fast for the human eye to catch. Far better to sit at a piano and find out what works and what doesn't. Piano lesson number one. A "C" chord contains C, E & G in any order with a C bass (playing a G or E bass under the C chord creates well known combinations you're ear will recognise). An "F" chord contains F, A & C with an F bass and A and C basses played underneath having similar effects to those described above. A "G" chord has G, B & D and again, having a G bass is normal but using a B and a D as a bass note is very common to achieve certain effects.
Learn those three chords, play around with adding other notes until your ear recognises how the combinations can fit together and practise like mad.
If you learn 6 or 7 chords, you'll have the basics to play enough songs to sing along to in the keys of C, F and G (once you add B flat chord and so on).
A C chord with an A bass is an A minor 7th and it's used LOTS. An F chord with a D bass is a D minor 7th and THAT is used lots too.
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