Sunday, 21 August 2011

Learning Chords On THe Piano

By Andy Penbram


If you've elected to learn how to play the piano at home rather than going to a professional piano teacher then you will certainly have obtained a home study course online or a piano learning DVD. The very first thing you will learn is the right way to find all the notes on the keyboard and the way to play several basic melodies. The following step is to start to learn certain fundamental chords... Playing distinguishable tunes together with chords places you on the right track to becoming a real piano player. In most cases this occurs pretty fast.

Piano chord basics are all that's needed at this early stage and piano chords are essentially really simple to play. The simplest piano chord consists of only three notes. Also, in its most straightforward form the base or first of these 3 notes is the note of the name of the chord itself. This implies that for a C chord, the note at the bottom will be C itself.

The subsequent notes are very straightforward also... Simply go up two and then two once again. This means that from the root of C for example, you move up 2 notes to the E and then two more up to the G. Thus the notes of the C chord are C, E, G.

When you start to play other chords it might become a little more complex due to the flats and sharps. In the key of D as an example the F is usually played as F sharp so that the chord of D is, D F sharp A. The pattern of this basic chord however will remain the same. The bass of the chord then move up 2 and up two again.,, as straightforward as that.

Insert a bass note and a little rhythm to these chords and you will be playing good sounding music in a flash. You'll find it pretty straightforward to remember the patterns of each chord but solely to be sure you get it right there's is a chord sheet available on my web page to set you straight. This shows you the fundamental notes that each chord is composed of.




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