Sunday, August 21, 2011

The Basics Of Piano Chords

By Andy Penbram


If you have elected to learn how to play the piano at home as opposed to going to a personal piano tutor then you'll most certainly have obtained a distance learning course online or a piano learning DVD. The very first thing you may learn is how to find all the notes on the keyboard and the way to play one or two basic melodies. The next step is to start to learn certain fundamental chords... Playing recognisable tunes along with chords places you on the right track to becoming a real piano player. In most situations this occurs pretty quickly.

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 quite simple also... Simply go up 2 and then 2 once more. This means that from the base of C for instance, you move up two notes to the E and then 2 more up to the G. So the notes of the C chord are C, E, G.

When you begin to play other chords it may become just a bit more complicated because of the flats and sharps. In the key of D for example the F is normally played as F sharp so the chord of D is, D F sharp A. The pattern of this basic chord nevertheless will stay the same. The bass of the chord then move up two and up 2 again.,, as easy 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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