Chord Jam Room
No sound on an iPhone or iPad? Check the silent switch on the side, or on newer iPads the bell in Control Centre.
Bar 1
Tap a chord and it goes into the outlined bar, then the outline moves on to the next one. An empty bar keeps playing the chord before it. Pick a new home note and the whole grid moves with it. For any other slash chord, choose its bass note under Any other chord.
Your progressions
Tap a name to take that player out; slide to make them louder or softer. Take the piano out when your student plays the chords, and the bass out when their left hand plays the bass line.
C blues scale
The coral note is home: C.
Space start / stop · ↑ ↓ tempo
Using it in the lesson
Put its chords in the grid and take the piano out. Your student plays the chords along with bass and drums before they tackle the written part.
Switch the grid to Roman numerals. Ask which chord feels like home and which one pulls back to it, then let them hear the same numerals in a new key.
Pick the four-chord progression from Set progressions and let your student swap one chord at a time. Every change is instant, so they hear what each chord does to the progression.
Pick the notes to improvise with under the band. A pentatonic scale is the safest start; the blues scale adds the grit.
Two chords in a bar get two beats each. The Charleston rhythm pushes the second chord early, on the & of 2, the way a real pianist would.
Copy the link and put it in their practice notes. It opens with your chords, key, tempo and band on any phone or laptop.
27 chord progressions to play with. All of Easy Chord Progressions to Inspire Creativity is in Set progressions, ready to play. Get the free printable to keep on the piano, with every progression written out.
Get the free PDFTeaching the blues? The Blues Jam Room is set up for the 12-bar blues, and Teaching the 12 Bar Blues takes you from the first three chords to left-hand trio voicings, step by step.
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