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"Once I started following these free piano chord lessons I knew that I had found exactly what I've been searching for!"

You want to learn to play chords because you were just listening to your favorite song, and you really want to have it under your hands.

You've never played before or you can read notes, but what is the secret behind all those letters? How, exactly, can you make music out of it?

Let's say you already know how to play those chords? Is it enough?
No, of course not! You have to add some rhythm and learn how to accompany yourself or someone else in a cool manner.

Does this sound familiar to you? Is this what you want?
If the answer is yes, then you have reached the right place.

"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitched the ear is pleased with melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear is touched within us, and the heart replies.~William Cowper".


Basic Piano Chords Lessons


These chord lessons offer you everything you need in order to learn to play chords. We will start with the basic and before you know it, you'll be able to play your favorite song whether it's pop, rock, funk or anything else that comes to mind.

Introduction to Piano Chords
Lesson 1 - Introduction

What's a Chord, What's Harmony...

C Marjor Chord on the Piano
Lesson 2 - C Major Chord

Intervals in C major, What's the Meaning of Major...

G Chord on the Piano
Lesson 3 - G Major Chord

Invervals in G Major, What's Similar Between C Major and G Major...

E Major Chord on the Piano
Lesson 4 - E Major Chord

Intervals in E Major, Fingering of E Major...

B Chord on the Piano
Lesson 5 - B Major

Intervals in B Major...

Piano Chord Chart
Lesson 6 - Chord Chart of All Major Chords

Piano Chord Chart of All Major Chords...

C Minor
Lesson 7 - The Minor Chords

C Minor, Intervals in C Minor, What's a Minor Chord...

A Free Piano Chord Chart of All Minor Chords
Lesson 8 - A Free Piano Chart of Minor Chords

A Free Piano Chord Chart of all Minor Chords...

C Diminished
Lesson 9 - Diminished Chords

C Diminished, Intervals in Diminished Chords...

C Augmented
Lesson 10 - Augmented Chords

C Augmented, Intervals in Augmented Chords, Chord Chard of Diminished Chords...

Chord Inversions
Lesson 11 - Chord Inversions

How to Invert Chords, What are Chord Inversions for...

Slash Chord
Lesson 12 - Slash Chords

What's a Slash Chord, A Song with Slash Chords...


Chord Theory


Piano Chord Theory
Lesson 1 - Intro

Scale Degrees in Major and Minor Scales, Theory Exercises...

Three Chords and the Truth
Lesson 2 - Three Chords and the Truth

Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant Chord...

Three Chord Songs
Lesson 3 -Three Chord Songs

Three Chord Songs List, Three Chord Songs for Christmas...

Chord Substitution
Lesson 4 -Chord Substitutions

Turn Around, Supertonic, Submediant...

Chord Construcion
Lesson 5 - Chord Construction of seventh chords

Major Seventh Chords, Minor Seventh Chords, Dinished Seventh Chords...

Sus Chords
Lesson 6 - Sus Chords

Sus7 Chord, Sus2 Chord, Sus4 Chord...

Chord Progression
Lesson 7 - The Diatonic Circle Chord Progression

Falling fifth, voice Leading in the Diatonic Cricle...

Secondary Dominant Chord
Lesson 8 - The Secondary Dominant Chord

The function of the Secondary Dominant, A chord Chart of Secondary Dominant Chords...

Chord Progressions
Lesson 9 - Examples of Chord Prgoression in Songs we All Know!

Killing Me Softly, Summer Lovin'...

I Got Rhythm
Lesson 10 - I Got Rhythm - Examples of Chord Progressions

Chord Progressions in I Got Rhyth, View the Chords of the Song....

12 Bar Blues
Lesson 11 - The 12 Bar Blues

Major Blues, Minor Blues, Blues Scheme

Blues Chords
Lesson 12 - Blues Chords

Seventh Chords in the Blues, Blues Structure

Blues Chord Progressions
Lesson 13 - Blues Chord Progressions

Expending the Blues Structure, A Bluesy Groove

 

Shell-Voicings
Lesson 14 - Shell Voicings

What's shell voicings? Examples of shell voicings, Voice leading in Shell Voicings


Jazz chords Lessons


C Major 9
Lesson 1 - Adding the 9th

9th in Jazz Chords, Chord with a 2nd, Inversion of a 9th Chord...

C minor 11
Lesson 2 - Adding the 11th

11th in Jazz Chords, Inversion of 11th Chords...

II-V-I Chord Progression in Jazz
Lesson 3 - Adding the 13th

13th Chords in Jazz, Inversions of 13th Chords...

Jazz Blues
Lesson 4 - The II-V-I Jazz Chord Progression

II-V-I in Jazz, Inversion of Jazzy II-V-I Chord Progressions...

Piano Chord Chart
Lesson 5 - Adding the lowered or raised 9th, 11th, 13th to Jazz Chords

Adding Jazzy Colors to the Blues, Expending the Blues...

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