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"One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault. ~Author Unkown".

If you want to learn to play piano chords you have reached the right place!

Welcome to the piano chords lessons. Here you'll learn how to tell one chord from the other, where to press on the keyboard and how to accompany yourself in a cool manner. What do you need before we start?

A piano or a keyboard and some motivation.
Oh, and some knowledge about the piano keyboard.
It's two pages to read and then you're there. Just click here and go to the first piano lesson and I'll see you here in a bit.

Are you now familiar with the piano keys names? Then let's go!

What's a chord really?

A Chord is a combination of at least three notes which gives us an impression of a sound.

The chords are named after the big letters of the ABC. The different Letters state the basic note of the chord and according to the symbles next to it we can tell which we should press in order to produce that specific chord we're looking for.

When we play a sequence of chords we play the HARMONY of the whole song.
Later on, after we'll learn to form different chords we will talk about the rules of harmony. Or in other words, how each chord is related to the other.

However, if you're interested in going learning more about that right now you should Click here to learn about Piano Chord Theory.

In our lessons we're going to learn about chords in two levels. The intuitive level and the theoretical level.

In the intuitive level we will try to form the chords by ear according to the nature of their sounds.
In the theoretical level we will see how the chords are built in a logical manner.
Combining these two aspects is the real and ultimate way to learn to play piano chords.

I recommend you click here read this next page about music intervals before we go on.
We're going to use some of the terms discussed in this page when speaking of piano chords in the theoretical level.

In the basic piano chord lessons we're going to cover four main chord types.
We'll begin with the Major Chords.
Then we'll learn about the Minor Chords.
Afterwards we'll discuss the Diminished Chords ,
and finally we'll talk about the Augmented Chords.

When we're through with that we'll learn to create Chord Inversions and we'll end-up with learning to read and play Slash Chords .

Ready to learn to play piano chords? O.k., Click here to learn about your very first chord, the C major chord.

 

 

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