Play Piano 11: Improvise All I Ask of You chord progression

Learn to Improvise with 7th and 9th color tone chords. Apply 2-5 Major and Minor Power chords to dress up the music.

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 "All I Ask Of You", I show you how to take a tune from its basic harmony ( I IV V7 ) to advanced sophisticated chords.

"All I Ask Of You" is a song written by Andrew Lloyd Webber in the musical version of 'The Phantom of the Opera." Andrew Lloyd Webber achieved popular success in musical theatre and has been referred to as 'the most commercially successful composer in history.

Here's the Secret to this Song: You will discover that many color tones are embedded in the melodic lines. Once you discover how to make use of the 3 piano tips in this song, you will start playing this song effortlessly in the flow. So by playing just the basic chords, you hear all these colorful sound even before you dress up the music with 2-5 Power Chords.

We are going to follow a Play by Ear Procedure:

First, we need to establish a harmonic foundation to the song with basic chords so that you understand how complex chords come into play. You are going to improvise the song with basic chord progression by EAR.

I 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.

Second, Learn 2-5 Powr Chord Rules & Chord Substitutions to "All I Ask of You Improvisation".

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

Learn how an easy chord progression of 1645 can be easily changed to many of the 2-5 standards chord progressions.
Learn how to create half-step chromatic movement to create beautiful sounding basslines.
In the full arrangement, you will be playing these chords:

CM9
FM9
G9
Dm9
Fm7
Bb7b9
A7b9
C#dim7
Am7
D7b9
C/G
Dm7/G
G7.
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