Walkthrough of Medium Jump

Right Hand Techniques in Chord Progressions

I'll now take that to bits and tell you what's happening in the right hand.

Triads and Chord Changes

We've gone back to using a triad on the first chord rather than the sixth chord. You probably recognize that as a second inversion triad with the fifth on the bottom.

C Major to C Minor

Now, here's a little trick:

• If you're going to start with a C major triad, when you get to the F chord in bar five, you can change that to a C minor triad.
• That's the only change you need to make.

This is a pretty cool way of playing the F chord without moving anything except the E becomes E flat.

D Minor and G7

Then, over the D minor, G7, I've stayed basically on this shape, which is a D minor triad in second inversion as well.

Chords Insight

What's happening with those chords is, although you don't have to know this:

• When you play the C minor triad in the F bars, the G in that chord is really the ninth. So, you're really implying an F9 chord.
• When you play the D minor triad with the G in the bass, that's the same shape with the ninth included.
• For the G chord, the ninth is the A at the bottom of the D minor triad.

So, we're using three shapes. That's all you need to do.

Riff and Classic Blues Ending

When I played the riff, I'm putting the sixth in again, second inversion, C6.

• Again, all you need to do for the F chord is flatten the E, making it E flat back to C.
• For the D shape, I actually stayed on C.

Ending

Here's a classic blues ending:

• The last chord is also a ninth chord, C9.
• You could think of that as a third inversion chord. Instead of which is an ordinary C7 with the B flat on the bottom, I've moved the root up to the 9th , the C becomes a D.

So, that's now a rootless C9 chord.

Left Hand Accompaniment

The left hand plays root in fifth.

Now you're all set to play an accompaniment, like a shuffle accompaniment, but also to play some more melodic stuff in the right hand.