? Tip: Learn more about melodic harmonisation in Skoove’s Keyboard for Producers Course Just make sure not to play any B, as Hey Jude is written in the key of F, in which every B turns into a Bb. You can easily harmonize any melody-tone by playing it simultaneously with the note you find 5 keys below that melody tone. įor the less experienced, simply count 5 white keys down from the melody tone (D) to find the sixth (F). If you take a closer look with an experienced eye, you see that the F and the D in the right hand form the interval of a sixth. Look at the screenshot below: I am playing the melody tone D (top note) in the right hand and harmonise it with the F from the underlying Bb-major chord.Įven simpler: Harmonising the melody in intervals of 6ths makes it sound even more gorgeous and very emotional.
So far so good? To harmonise the melody-tone D, I can now choose to play either a Bb or an F, as both are tones of the Bb-major chord. (Like in many cases, the melody tone D is part of the underlying chord.) The Bb-major chord consists of the notes Bb – D – F. Say your melody tone is ‘D’ and the underlying chord is a Bb-major chord. To harmonise a melody, simply play a tone of the underlying chord simultaneously with the melody tone. Good news: Harmonising a melody is fairly simple to do. Harmonisation makes the melody of Hey Jude sound fuller and even more beautiful in the piano. ? Tip: Learn more about chords and chord accompaniment in Skoove’s Intermediate 2 Course and Chords & Scales Course Simply count four white keys up from the root note to find the 5th and another 4 white keys up from that one to find the 9th. Use the root, 5th and 9th as an accompaniment technique.Įxample : On an F-major chord, play the root note F followed by the C (5th) and G (9th). You will quickly notice how the inversion of chords will beautifully change your accompaniment to a more advanced, individual and interesting harmonic background. The expert term for this switch is called ‘ chord inversion ’. Switch the order of chord tones around to Instead of playing chord tones in the basic order of So, let’s get a little more creative with these chord tones: The piano song Hey Jude offers easily performable chords and most of them are basic triads.Ī basic triad consists of the root note, the third and the fifth tone on top of the root note.Įxample : The F-major chord consists of the notes F (root note 1) – A (3rd) – C (5th).īut who is saying that the order of chord tones cannot change? Luckily, no one ?. If you haven’t seen it already, it’s useful to watch our version of it, as I will refer to it throughout the blogpost: ? Tip: Get the best out of this blog post by studying the basic piano arrangement of Hey Jude in Skoove’s Intermediate Song Section
These are reasons enough to share tips and tricks with you on how to create your very own piano arrangement of Hey Jude. Moreover, it is one of the most beautiful piano based songs ever written. Even though this success is already half a century old, the song has never lost its popularity. With over 7 minutes playtime it is the ‘longest’ single ever topping the US and UK charts. Incredible! It was fifty years ago this month that the Beatles released their long standing #1 hit ‘Hey Jude’. ?Tip: Learn more about melodic harmonisation in Skoove’s Keyboard for Producers Course.?Tip: Learn more about chords and chord accompaniment in Skoove’s Intermediate 2 Course and Chords & Scales Course.?Tip: Get the best out of this blog post by studying the basic piano arrangement of Hey Jude in Skoove’s Intermediate Song Section.Most of the chords being played is an easy chords.
Try to play Hey Jude, one of Beatles songs, using easy guitar chords.