Piano Chords – The basis of harmonizing!
Piano Chords - are nothing but a combination of notes played together. Knowing all the chords is the first step if you want to harmonize any piece of music on your own. Harmonizing simply means adding notes below the melody note to give a far richer sound. That is where chords come into picture! Let us look at some of the most commonly used chords.
Basic Chords
Everybody starts with these Piano chords! A basic chord is nothing but a combination of three notes and derives its name from the name of the bottom note, AKA the Root Note. Some of the popular basic chords are – Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented.
Other Chords
Most of the other chords are derived from the basic chords by adding more notes to it. These chords have more than 3 notes. To begin with you need to learn the basic chords and then gradually move onto these chords.
There are lots of chords that can be derived from the basic chords but these are some of the most commonly used chords – Sixth chord, Major seventh chord, Seventh chord, Minor seventh chord.
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