Chuck - As I've said before, I've had no 'formal' training on piano (studied accordion as a teen and "migrated" to piano/kbs later in life), but at one time I did try to improve my piano skills by studying with a guy who was from Austria (I believe) .... He was a fantastic sax player who played GREAT piano ... he taught me the 'polyphonic' chord structure ...
Coincidentely enough, several years after we moved to Rhode Island I studied piano again for about 1 year, and the teacher was a fantastic piano player whose primary instrument was sax!!! .....
Back to 'chords', it would be great if we could keep this thread going with people offering some chord substitutions they use in different songs ... Provided, of course that we do not violate any copywrite laws...
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