Piano Chords
The Basis of Harmonizing!
To see how important chords are, ask somebody who can play the piano to play a song, first with chords and then the same song without chords i.e. just play the melody. See the difference that chords can make to your playing. 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, also known as the Root Note. Some of the popular basic chords are - Major, Minor, Diminished and Augmented.
You will need to learn to play these chords as well as hear the difference between each of these different types. For Major and Minor chords, you will also have to learn to play the various chord inversions.
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, where the first three notes remain the same as in the basic chord. 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. The seventh chord is something which you can look to learn before the other chords since it is used as part of a cadence i.e. as part of the chord progression to end a song.
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