Play Piano 6 -Improvise on The Way We Were with Power Chords

Use 2-5 Power Chords to play by Ear on the popular song "The Way We Were". Learn Improvisational skills.

2-5 Power Chords are found in many standards and popular movie themes. They make rich full sounds that will captivate your audience wanting more.

In this song "The Way We Were", I show you how to take a tune from its basic harmony ( I IV V7 ) to advanced sophisticated chords.

""The Way We Were" is the theme song written for the popular movie in 1973. This song was written by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman and performed by Barbara Streisand. It won the Academy Award and ranked no. 8 in the AFI's list of Top 100 Songs.

First, we need to establish a harmonic foundation to the song with basic chords so that you understand how complex chords come into play.

I also 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.

Learn 2-5 Powr Chord Rules & Chord Substitutions to "The Way We Were Improvisation".

In this song, I teach you how to use 2-5 Power chords to reharmonize the song from the harmonic basic chord foundation.

In the full arrangement, you will be playing these chords:

CM7
C6
Am9
Am7/G
FM7
FM9
Bm7b5
E7
G7
G+
G13
F#m7b5
B7
Dm7
Em7
G7b9
B7b9
C7b9
Gm7
C6/9