Allow me to explain this chord progression in more detail. This starts with the chord Ebmaj7, then straight away goes into some non-diatonic chords. These are Abmin9, Dbmin7, Gbmaj7. This works because even though Ebmaj and Abmin are in different keys they share many of the same notes. Abmin, Dbmin and Gbmaj are also not …
I bumped into some Nate Smith drumming videos while looking at Facebook, so I decided to check out some more stuff on YouTube. I found this awesome video of a drum solo which I wanted to play some Neo Soul chords over. I have a lovely bass sound on my Korg Krome which I also …
Check out this neat three chord Neo Soul Freestyle I recorded – testing out my new camera. The Chords are Bbmin9th, Gbmaj9th and Fmin9th. Download this full track from the Soulful Compositions Page in the top menu. R&B Freestyle Keys from Soulful Keys on Vimeo.
This beat is now available for lease. This is the first time I have used the MinorMajor 7th aka The Bond or Hitchcock chord. Note the second chord in the progression, a rather unsettling chord however it works for this scale. Rhodes and drums from the Korg connected to the USB Audio interface. The other …
I have discovered some new on-screen piano software and wanted to show it by displaying some of my chords. This Neo Soul Chord Progression consists mainly of 9th chords. It begins with Eb minor however there are a number of key changes along the way. The chord display often shows 11th and 13th however that …
This smooth chord progression is not too difficult to learn so I will break it down for you here. Please note that the Automatic chord recognition software reads my right hand and uses that as chord information, therefore technically some of the chords are different. First three chords are: Abmin9th (notice the inverted 9th on …
I am going to show you a five chord R&B Neo Soul progression which I kind of discovered by accident, mainly the last chord which seemed to be a finger misplacement but turned out sounding nicer than I expected. I am going to start of by showing you the basic chords first which were played …
The hip hop genre is traditionally heavily sample based. The sampling comes in many forms such as sampling individual drums, sampling a whole drum loop, sampling an instrument section or even sampling vocals. These samples are normally patched together to make a whole track. In the 80’s and 90’s the MPC was one of the …
The below video is not me playing, it is Jamal from Gospel Musicians. I would love to be able to play like this but many will be put off trying to follow. I suggest you take it chord by chord and simply practice improvising over 3-4 chords. Try the initial chords. Eb Maj 9th Bb …
I did this little loop some time ago but forgot about it until I bumped into it today again while cleaning up my Hard-drive. Check it out, it’s rather an uptempo electronic style Neo Soul beat using just four chords on the electric piano and some voicing with the right hand. The chords are as …
