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The "Teeter-Totter" Technique
The "Teeter-Totter" technique is an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use technique for breaking up chords -- usually when you are creating a filler -- something to "fill up the empty spaces" in a song.
Pretend your right hand is a teeter-totter, and the middle of your hand is the fulcrum. You pivot back and forth between your thumb and your fingers. Your thumb obviously plays one note, while your fingers can play either 2, 3, or 4 notes. So we can have a 2-note teeter-totter, a 3-note teeter-totter, or a 4-note teeter-totter.
Watch the hand action in the video carefully, then go to your piano and try it on any chord. Use "3 white key" chords at first (such as C major chord), then "4 white key chords" (such as C6), and then you can try chords with black keys in them (chords using both black and white keys are a little harder, since your hand is in a little different configuration).
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Next week we will demonstrate the "Straddle-The-Inside-Note" technique, so look for that in your next "Chord-Color Magic" E-Newsletter.
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