A grace note is a note which is played in place of one of the chord tones. Grace notes moves always to the chord tone. A typical grace note fill-in around the chords third (4 semitones up from the root) with the note that is a whole tone below (second). A grace note fill-in can take place slowly or quickly, it is typically done on the second or fourth beats of the bar.
This grace note fill-in is most common where a given chord is a major chord or the chord contains a major chord, ie you can also make that fill-in on a m7 chord. About the m7'th chords: See page 35 vol. one.
The grace note Principle is most often performed and most easily with the chord in root position, ie you are doing an inversion of the chord, if you didn't start with the chord in root position.
Listen for example to Billy Joel: 'Piano Man' or Norah Jones: 'One Flight Down'
Numbered fill-ins appears in Chords On Piano 1-3, where there are also other fill-ins as well as suggestions and recommendations on how they can be used. Literates fill-ins only occurs on this website.
| slow beat - half time | Fill-in 34 | Fill-in 35 | |
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Fill-in 36 | Fill-in 37 | Fill-in L |
| 3/4 | Fill-in M | Fill-in N |
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