scales and chords--- easy intro.

[Sharmaji]

the almighty Led Zeppelin plays "Fool in the Rain"--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2015S3A-lg

the song is is Cmaj/Am (depending on what you want to hear)-- all white keys on the piano, regardless.

fire up your keyboard and play C-E-G. Play, in your right hand, C with your thumb, E with your middle finger, E with your pinkie.

see the shape your hand makes? play a note--skip a note--play--skip--play? Good. don't lose that. that's a triad.

Now, play along with the song, just triads going up the scale:

Cmaj, Dm, Em, Fmaj, then skip up to Am, back down Gmaj, and end off w/ a solo C, no chord.

now stop the almighty Zep and and do it slowly-- see how each chord flows into each other? Some solidly happy, some solidly dark, some transitional?

Boom, music theory.

[josherman454]

Very cool!

[antman]