Play Piano 8 - Play Over the Rainbow by Ear & Free Improvise

Learn how to dress up the music of Over the Rainbow from its basic chords & improvise with advanced 2-5 Power Chords.

2-5 Power Chords are found in many standards and popular movie themes. They make rich full sounds that will captivate your audience wanting more.

In this song "Over the Rainbow", I show you how to take a tune from its basic harmony ( I IV V7 ) to advanced sophisticated chords.

"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award winning ballad song written by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. The song was written for the movie, "The Wizard of Oz" and was sung by Judy Garland. Over time, this song became Garland's signature song.

First, we need to establish a harmonic foundation to the song with basic chords so that you understand how complex chords come into play.

I also put in a section on Easy Improvisation. I show you different ways to improvise around the chord progressions so that you learn "tone motion voice leading". Even when you don't play the actual melody of the song, you can hear the song in the background when you play the harmonic chord progressions. This is a good ear training program to help you play many standard and pop songs by EAR.

Learn 2-5 Powr Chord Rules & Chord Substitutions to "Over The Rainbow Improvisation".

In this song, I teach you how to use 2-5 Power chords to reharmonize the song from the harmonic basic chord foundation.

In the full arrangement, you will be playing these chords:

CM7
A7
A9
A+
F#m7b5
B7
Em7
Em11
F
FM9
Bb7
Em7b5
B7b9
Gm7
C7
D7
Dm7
C#dim7
G7b9
Bb7b9