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- Week 84 - 2-1 and 3-1 Breakups- or - Breaking up isn't hard to do... You can make some wonderful fillers for songs simply by breaking up chords. There are many ways to do this, and over the course of the next few lessons we will examine several. Today we will look at the easiest of all fills -- the 2-1 and 3-1 breakups. In a 2-1 breakup, all you do is take a chord and play the 2 top notes of the chord followed by the bottom note of the chord. Likewise in a 3-1 breakup you simply play the top 3 notes followed by the bottom note of a chord. Watch this 3 minute video, then try it on a 3 note chord. Then try it on a 4 note chord. Then watch the video again, and try it on a few more chords. After a while you'll get the hang of it and you can then plug it into a song. The best place to use these breakups is at the end of a phrase, or between the verse and chorus of a song.
That's all there is to it. But knowing and doing are two different things, so take what you've learned here and apply it to your favorite songs. Like most all techniques, they are transferable -- that is, what you learn on one song can be transferred easily to another and another and another. If you need help drilling on this technique, one of my "Pro Secret" CD's deals with this very subject. I drill you repeatedly on chord after chord using both 2-1 and 3-1 breakups. See www.piano-playing-by-ear.com
Next week we'll take up another broken chord technique. See you then.
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