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

Welcome to the Chords Section. This page is devoted for all of us who love playing piano by chords. We'll learn to play different chords by ear and then check out if we got them right based on some theoretical knolwedge we're going to acquire together.

The Chord Finder

As time goes by I'll add a page on each and every chord so that you'll have an amazing chord dictionary that contains all piano chords. However, if you're searching for a certain chord (Or a certain scale) you should definatley check out our free piano chord finder.

Here's one more tip from me. If you wish to learn to accompany yourself or someone else on the piano I suggest you go through the Complete Piano Accompaniment Course where you're going to learn not only how to form chord on the piano but also how to accompany a song with grooves.

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...

All Major Chord on Piano
Lesson 2 - Major Chords

Intervals in a Major Chord,

Piano Chord Chart
Lesson 7 - Chord Chart of All Major Chords

Piano Chord Chart of All Major Chords...

Lesson 4 - Chord Inversions

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

Minor Chords on Piano
Lesson 5 - Minor Chords

Minor Chords, A Minor Chord,

A Free Piano Chord Chart of All Minor Chords
Lesson 6 - A Free Piano Chart of Minor Chords

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

Lesson 7 - Slash Chords

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

C Diminished
Lesson 8 - Diminished Chords

C Diminished, Intervals in Diminished Chords...

C Augmented
Lesson 9 - Augmented Chords

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

Chord Theory

Piano Chord Theory
Lesson 1 - Intro

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

Lesson 2 - Three Chords and the Truth

Tonic, Subdominant, Dominant Chord...

Lesson 3 -Three Chord Songs

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

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...

Lesson 6 - Sus Chords

Sus7 Chord, Sus2 Chord, Sus4 Chord...

Lesson 7 - The Diatonic Circle Chord Progression

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

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'...

Lesson 10 - I Got Rhythm - Examples of Chord Progressions

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

Lesson 11 - The 12 Bar Blues

Major Blues, Minor Blues, Blues Scheme

Lesson 12 - Blues Chords

Seventh Chords in the Blues, Blues Structure

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...

All Major Piano Chords

C Major	C# Major / Db Major	D Major
D# Major / Eb Major Chord	E Major Chord	F Major Chord
F# Major / Gb Major	G Major	G# Major / Ab Major
A Major	A# Major / Bb Major	B Major

All Minor Piano Chords

C Minor (Cm)	C# Minor / Db Minor (C#m / Dbm )	D Minor (Dm)
D# Minor / Eb Minor (D#m / Ebm)	E Minor Chord (Em)	F Minor Chord (Fm)
F# Minor / Gb Minor (F#m / Gbm)	G Minor (Gm)	G# Minor / Ab Minor (G#m / Abm )
A Minor (Am)	A# Minor / Bb Minor (A#m / Bbm)	B Minor