Adding Harmony To Melody - Open Up Your Possibilities On The Piano

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Learning to harmonize your melodies will open up a whole new world of texture and color to your songs.

Harmonizing will not only make you sound like a pro, but it will also help you to gain a deeper understanding of chord structures and how they work.

When you harmonize you are improvising, utilizing music theory, and training your ear!

In this lesson, I show you exactly how to find the harmony notes using chord names as your guide! I'm using "House Of The Rising Sun" as my example. You can download the lead sheet here to practice along:
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Here are the key points of the lesson with their timestamps:

Intro - 0:00

Keep the melody note as the highest note - 0:30

The easiest way to choose a harmony note - 0:46

You don't have to harmonize every note - 1:41

What to do with the left hand - 2:24

Using your ear to determine what works best - 3:04

As you'll see, a lot of this has to do with chord inversions and being able to build a chord below your melody note.

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