Now that you are more familiar with the chords and patterns you can use on the piano, Pete Sears shows you a riff on the root A minor.

Video Transcription

We will start off counting to four bars, playing the Jimmy Reid rift of the root note A. This is also referred to as the one chord. If you are playing the key of C, C would be the one chord. I know we talked about this a lot, but one chord is an important concept because it helps you move the keys. Playing this one is counting (Demonstration). (Music playing) You can start counting the sequence all over again after that and you just keep on repeating that sequence.