Hello and welcome back. I'm Joseph Hoffman.
Well "Chumbara" was just too fun to leave it at one lesson.
So we are back again today to learn how to play an accompaniment for "Chumbara"
to have the maximum fun with this song, and i definitely recommend going for maximum fun.
I suggest that you find a duet partner to play this with.
Remember, a duet is simply two people making music together.
To turn "Chumbara" into a duet, you'll need one person to play the melody and one person to play the accompaniment.
So, try and find a duet partner who can play the piano. Just have them learn the melody from the other lesson,
and then you can play the accompaniment, which we'll learn in this lesson today.
or you can trade jobs and do it the other way around. Totally up to you.
Let's come to the piano to get started learning the accompaniment to "Chumbara".
So for the accompaniment let's go in the lower half of your piano, and in the bass clef area.
Whoever is playing the melody could be up here starting on middle C, so we want the chords down here.
So I'm going to place my right hand in the bass C pentascale and my left hand in the low C pentascale.
On an 88 key piano you'll also have this very low C, which we're not using at this point.
Now,
for the accompaniment pattern that I think sounds best, what we're going to do is our left hand is going to alternate going DO SO DO SO
Just back and forth whenever you see the one chord that's what you're going to do.
Remember, a I chord has a DO, a MI, and a SO in it.
So we could really take any of those notes to make an accompaniment pattern,
but a really common base pattern in folk music is just going back and forth
between the root of the chord, and the fifth of the chord.
Wherever your root is, the fifth of the chord is the note of fifth above it.
So we have the root, fifth, root, fifth, or DO and SO
DO and SO. Try this with me with your left hand using fingers 5 and 1 on C and G, go.
DO SO DO SO DO
SO, pretty simple right? And that's going to keep a good steady beat for us.
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chumbara, chumbara♫
Good now here you see we get to a V7 chord.
Now let's talk a little bit about the meaning of the V7 chord.
The V part of the chord tells you the root of your chord. That roman numeral tells you the root,
and in the key of C, the I chord is built on the first note of the scale. The V chord is built on the fifth note of the C major scale.
1 2 3 4 5, which means G is the root of the V7 chord.
Now to make this sound more interesting, we're not going to use this G.
I think a good low bass sound sounds good. So we're actually going to take the G down here instead.
So here's our I chord for the V7 chord. We're going to shift down to the G pentascale.
And go back and forth between G, which is the root
of our V7 chord and the fifth of the chord which is D.
Boom, boom, root, fifth, boom, boom.
Okay, so whenever you have a I chord, you're here on C and G for the V7 chord we're on G and D,
G and D,
C and G, or G and D.
Now, I'd like you to press pause and on your own practice going back and forth
between C and G, and G and D, then press play when you're ready to go on.
Great, now let's try to play "Chumbara" using the left hand for accompaniment. Watch for the chord symbols
in the music,
and uh if you like you can sing along as well or just focus on what the left hand is doing.
Here we go, we're going to start with the I chord, ready go.
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chumbara, chumbara♫
Now we go down to the V7 chord. ♫Chumbara, chumbara,♫ back to the one, ♫chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum♫
You notice during the ♫chum, chum, chum,
chum, chum, chum, chum, chum♫,
you gotta go back and forth from I chord down to the V7, keep going.
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chumbara, chumbara♫
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chum, chum, chum♫
Now here we're going to do something kind of cool. We're going to go
C, and then G, and then a very low C for the last ♫chum, chum, chum♫
At least, that's what I like to do.
C G C at the end.
Okay, now,
Let's try the whole thing together now.
Using your left hand, and this time we're not going to pause so be ready for those shifts.
Here we go.
Left hand alone just alternating between the root and the fifth on the I and V7.
Ready, go.
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chumbara, chumbara♫
♫chumbara, chumbara, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum, chum♫
♫Chumbara, chumbara, chumbara, chumbara♫
♫chumbara, chumbara, chum, chum, chum♫
Now, if you need more practice on that feel free to press pause or rewind,
but if you're ready, let's add in the right hand now.
So our left hand's just playing root and fifth of each chord,
but our right hand is going to play ...