I'm a beginner learning the piano and I have a question on the G-F-C blues chord progression. In this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehla5I1aat0), the G chord is demonstrated at 02:46. It's fairly clear that the notes played are... LH: G and D; RH: F, B and D i.e. there is no G played in the right hand. Yet it sounds right. Even playing the right hand only, the progression sounds right. Using a standard Gmajor chord also sounds right, but it almost sounds too right, too pure; there's a tension in the played F, B, D chord that sounds good.
My question is: how can the F, B D chord be described as a G? (Or have I horribly misunderstood something?)
Thanks.
Submitted March 23, 2019 at 04:03PM by spectacletourette https://www.reddit.com/r/Learnmusic/comments/b4muwu/question_about_a_blues_g_chord/?utm_source=ifttt