essential skills - ourworshipsound
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essential skills
INTRODUCTION
express yourself
essen tials
chord skills
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chord skills
Simplify and space your chords to make them sound their best.
Simplify and space your chords to make them sound their best.
Know how to alter chords for a more modern sound.
Use inversions to create smooth chord changes.
Adjust your inversions so the top chord notes create a melody.
theory skills
The most important step with a
new song is to identify its key.
theory skills
Understand chords as numbers,
not just by their chord names.
Develop the knowledge to
build scales in every key.
Learn how to transpose
chord progressions.
melody skills
02
03
Simplify and space your chords to make them sound their best.
melody skills
Improvise melodic riffs in between chords.
Know what different scale notes sound like before you play them.
Develop strong technique to play the melodies you conceive.
Build a strong vocabulary of melodic ideas to draw from.
rhythm skills
rhythm skills
Learn to play simple rhythms perfectly in time.
Use both hands to create rhythms.
Use melodic ideas to add rhythms to chord progressions.
Develop the ability to play syncopated rhythms.
sound skills
Upgrade to high quality
piano sounds.
Add layers to your
piano sounds.
Add effects to
your sounds.
Learn to edit and set up
your own sounds.
sound skills
