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Learn Piano #2 - Play Piano Color Chords & 19 Ballads (Udemy.com)

Learn Piano Music Theory & 19 Piano Tips to Play Color Chord Tones: 6, 7, 9, 10 in RH + LH Ballads Variations & Runs

Created by: Rosa Suen

Last updated October 2019

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What you will learn

  • harmonize a song with color tones
  • play 4 tone chord on the right hand
  • add the 6th color tone to Major chords
  • add the 7th color tone to Major chords
  • add the 9th color tone to Major chords
  • add the 9th color tone to Dominant chords
  • add the 9th color tone on the Left Hand
  • add the 10th color tone on the Right Hand
  • be able to create Quartal open sound easily

How it compares

Against the other 45 rated Udemy courses in Piano on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 35% of them
  • Reviews31#42 of 46 by number of reviews
  • Length1.6 hoursshorter than 91% of them
  • Last updatedOctober 2019earlier than 68% of them

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Course Description

Here is a review from one of my students: Barbara   

  "I have lost track of how many courses I have taken with Rosa but my playing has improved and I am so excited to keep learning more & more with her. Each course goes deeper into what we need to know and makes playing beautiful music easier. Rosa has the God given gift of being a very gentle teacher. It's fun to learn with her and as you watch the videos it's almost as if she is in the room with you. If it is your goal to enjoy playing the piano let Rosa help you reach that goal. Thanks Rosa, we appreciate you." 

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Learn Piano Level 2 - Learn Intermediate Music Harmony & 19 Fun Piano Ballads to play like a PRO!

  • Do you want an easy method to play 4-tone chords without boring drills & practice?

  • All you need is a little music theory of how to add: 6th, 7th & 9th

  • Learn my 4T6 Handshape weapon to automatically gives you 4 tones in the RH & LH to do beautiful water sounds.

  • Are you stuck with boring LH accompaniment?  Learn my 10+ Piano Tips on Ballad variations for the 10th color tone.

  • Is "Quartals" a mystery to you? I have a Bonus Section that will break the secret code for you so that you can start playing Quartal Open Sound immediately!


Here's the Secret:   By using a 4T6 Handshape, you can easily put in the 6th, 7th, and 9th color tones.  Professional musicians always play Left Hand Ballads beyond an octave to get the 9th and 10th color tones in their accompaniment. That's how you hear the nostalgic mood and the New Age sound just moving the color tones around. 

TWO MAJOR SECTIONS:

Part 1:  Music Theory 

1.  What are color chords? 

2.  Adding the 'extra' note to Basic Triad - 4 Tone Chord 

3.  Upper Chord Extensions - 9, 11, 13 

4.  4 Tone Chord - C:  C6, CM7, CM9, C6/9 

5.  4 Tone Chord - F:  F6, FM7, FM9, F6/9 

6.  4 Tone Chord - G:  G7, G9 

7.  Do Color Chord Substitutions to Basic Chords: C, F, G 

8.  Apply Color Chord Substitutions to Away In A Manger 

9.  10th Color Tone - Use by Left Hand 

Part 2: Piano Techniques  

1.  Piano Tip 1: Secret Handshape 4T6 - RH Plays 4 tones automatically 

2.  Piano Tip 2: 4T6 Color Tones moving 1 step or 1/2 step 

3.  Piano Tip 3:  Left Hand plays 10th Color Tone 

4.  Piano Tip 4:  Left Hand plays 1 -5- 10 Open 10th Harmony 

5.  Piano Tip 5:  Left Hand Plays Rocking 10 

6.  Piano Tip 6:  Ballad 9 with Thumb Trick stopping at 9 

7.  Piano Tip 7:  Change the Order of 9th & 10th tone to get New Age Sound 

8.  Piano Tip 8:  Use Walking Thumb to play New Age Sound 

9.  Piano Tip 9:  Create Nostalgic Sound - Finger tricks of L3 + L1 playing 9th & 10th 

10.  Piano Tip 10:  Finger Trick L3 to Cross Over to play color tones 

11. Piano Tip 11: Finger Trick L3 to Cross Over 2 Octaves 

12.  Piano Tip 12:  Ascending Arp - Use 2 Movement & Move Entire Hand 

13.  Piano Tip 13: Ballad Hop Filler - The Magic tones of Repeating 3 + 5 

14.  Piano Tip 14. Use C6 Color Chord to create water sounds 

15.  Piano Tip 15: Finger Thumb Trick - On Note E Always 

16.  Piano Tip 16. Waterfall Run - Both Hands play C6 

17. Piano Tip 17: Finger Trick & Eye focus 

18.  Piano Tip 18: Rosa's Insider Tips to Play Quartals Easily 

19.  Piano Tip 19:  Circle Tip to Understand Quartals 

This course concentrates on giving you a variety of creative way to put in color tones with your left hand and right hand. You need to learn some finger tricks to know where to concentrate when you create the beautiful colorful sounds. 

Have fun playing Away In A Manger in a creative way sounding like a professional with all those color tones! 

Have Fun! 

  Rosa 


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Instructor Details

Rosa Suen

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. 

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Reviews

4.6

31 ratings on Udemy

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By Edgar on 4/6/2019

Pros: the '4T6' and 'quartals' concepts Cons: I guess I was expecting much much more from this course considering the original price was $194.99 dollars(!) which I find preposterous.

By Elvie Pena Tan on 1/31/2018

Very clear instructions I love the 4T6 method. First time I could play difficult inverted chord and actually playing without thinking so hard. Just following 4T6 finger position. Thank you for this wonderful tip. This course is fully loaded, worth every penny you pay for and much more. I have learned a lot and what is important is that I can apply it to other songs with ease and sound professional in no time at all.

By Brian Smith on 11/23/2017

Rosa breaks everything down into simple bits of information to help you quickly progress in knowledge and skill.

By Carol on 5/15/2017

Very clear ..and good demonstration

By Chris Gooden on 3/27/2017

I've lost track of how many of Rosa's courses I've done so far. This one is, like all the others, beautifully laid out, eloquently explained, fully detailed yet simple to follow. Since I encountered her my playing has progressed beyond recognition. Top marks yet again.

By Sharon Marsh on 8/21/2016

Some of the videos are cut off at the end and do not finish. Some end long before it stops. Good information but would like it to be more of a lesson and less of a snippet of information. I think these courses would be much more useful for people who have already learned basic piano and these were used to augment/improve their playing.

By Pamela Call Johnson on 2/1/2016

The teacher uses fairly simple techniques that most students from any level can use to improvise and enhance playing. I wish I had learned this a long time ago.

By Susan Mi on 8/26/2015

Loved this course - have learned so much! I have been playing for years as a note reader and have always wanted to learn to harmonize on my own. Rosa is superb in her teaching style, so I'm sure even total beginners would enjoy this class.

By Alene Thornton on 11/18/2014

Easy method to find ways to add color tones to your playing.

By Dang Duy Hien, MBA on 11/15/2014

This great course will help you to learn a lot of techniques to play Ballads and Runs. Thank you very much Rosa Suen.

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