KAME week 1

I can play a bit of drums and bass guitar but I would consider myself competent in only one musical instrument, the guitar. As I’ve progressed through my music-learning journey, I have realized the importance of being able to play keyboard/piano as a classroom teacher as it is excellent for: accompanying orchestras/choirs, learning music theory (letters laid-out on the keys logically) and is useful for demonstration purposes. I learned this all too well when I was on prac and my piano playing gave students the impression that I didn’t know anything about music. To begin my keyboard practice journey, I thought it would be more useful to play through songs rather than learn a multitude of chords so I decided to learn ‘Live it up’ by Mental as Anything. I tried to keep the chords close by using inversions instead of moving root position triads around; chord transitions are my weakest point at the moment. As you can see in the video I need to work on correct fingering and moving through chords more fluently. The chords I played were Am, Bm, C and D for the intro all in root position, and G Em C D for the verse; for Em I played the right hand as a first inversion to keep the harmony close. I also played this song in the key of C to practice more chords.