How To Make Your Chords Bigger And Fatter
Discover how to make your chords bigger and fatter in this practical piano tutorial with Tom Donald. If you’ve ever wondered how to get a richer, fuller piano sound without using overly complicated voicings, this lesson will show you a simple but powerful approach using triads, inversions, and smart note doubling. Tom demonstrates how simplifying your chords piano approach to basic triads and triad inversions can actually create big chords and fat chords. By adding just one extra note — duplicating a note from the triad — you can instantly make your chords sound fuller, wider, and more professional. In this lesson you’ll learn: • How to make your chords bigger and fatter using simple triads • How to play chords with smooth inversions and note doubling • Effective piano exercises to train your hands comfortably • How arpeggios and arpeggiation help develop fluid chord movement • Left hand piano techniques for creating a much bigger sound • Beautiful left hand patterns built from triad notes • How to apply these ideas to piano chord progressions Tom also walks through practical exercises that involve arpeggios and arpeggiation that strengthen coordination and help you naturally develop these textures in your playing and improvisation. ————————————————————————— VIDEO BREAKDOWN: 00:00 Introduction 01:35 4-note triads 05:52 Chord progressions for practice (1) 15:06 Left hand pattern 16:10 Chord progressions for practice (2) ————————————————————————— 👇 If you would like learn effective piano chord warm ups, watch this tutorial next: • Unbelievable Piano Chord Warm Ups 🎁 Claim your FREE gift - RESOURCES PACK - by getting in touch with us at London Contemporary School of Piano so that we can help you solve your challenges and accelerate you progress at the piano: https://www.contemporaryschoolofpiano... 🎓 Get Your GROOVE COURSE to access all the resources you need to master piano grooves and expand your piano groove vocabulary: https://lcsp.samcart.com/products/gro... 🎓 Join our Flagship Course, THE COMPLETE MUSICIAN COURSE with Tom Donald: https://www.contemporaryschoolofpiano... 🎧 Listen to Tom’s NEW ALBUM: My Tempered Clavier https://tomdonaldofficial.bandcamp.co... 🔔 If you enjoyed this piano chords tutorial on how to create full chords, and would like to get more top tips on learning piano, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel right here: / @contemporaryschoolofpiano Credits: Filmed by Josh Adams. Edited by BUBI Productions & Caleb Hartley. • How To Make Your Chords Bigger And Fatter #londoncontemporaryschoolofpiano #chords #pianotutorial

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