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Suspensions are a great way to get more out of any chords you know.

This 'Suspensions Focus' page applies the suspension-resolution technique to the 'Pyramids Variations' chord sequence.

The original Pyramids performance

Here is the original basic 'Pyramids' performance (sixteen bars only) in six-eight.

Here is the chord sequence.

The Pyramids suspensions riff

Now here's the chord-sequence-with-suspensions performance. (The keyboard texture/'feel' is admittedly also very different.)

Here is the chord sequence with the suspensions marked up.

Watch the virtual (top) keyboard in the video to see which and how many chord tones apart from the sus-res melody notes are playing.

Quite often, it's only one.

Also look out for whether the melody (sus-res) notes are at the top, at the bottom, or in the middle of the right hand notes.

The left hand is just bopping around on the (octave) roots, apart from the first A minor root-and-fifth pair.

Get the right hand playing along with the video before you try to put the left hand in.

Make the most of the your Suspensions focus by revisiting all the pages in the series.

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