Posted in General, tagged chord, glossary, key, scale, transpose on March 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I will update this list continually. All suggestions are welcome.
Chord
A combination of notes played simultaneously.
Key
A key is what you use to unlock something. In playing piano by chords, a key unlocks all the chords that you need for a song.
For instance, the 3 basic chords (I, IV and V chords) in the C key are: [...]
Posted in Cheat Tricks, tagged key, transpose on March 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you do not have any formal training in piano, you’ll likely find playing songs in any keys other than C difficult. It is tough enough to identify and learn the numerous different chords in one key at the first place, not to mention that there are 12 keys to learn!
Lucky you! There is such [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged chord, minor on March 22, 2008 | 12 Comments »
The 3 Minor Chords
Didn’t I say that most songs could be played with just 3 chords? In fact, the 3 basic chords may be “tweaked” a little bit here and there to give us many more other chords! As for now, let’s look at 3 minor chords that can be derived from these 3 basic [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged piano, chord, inversion on March 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Honestly, you don’t have to know about inversions to play a song. However, being familiar with the different inversions of a chord will be extremely useful for your hand’s movement, from one chord to another.
There are 3 different inversions for a chord. These are called the root position, the 1st inversion and the 2nd [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged chord, left hand, octave on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
One thing I didn’t mention on “The 3 Basic Chords” post is that, to play a song using chords, usually the chords are played with the right hand, while the left hand plays the “bass” notes.
A question one may ask is, “then with which hand is the melody played?” There are 2 answers to this [...]
Posted in Cheat Theories, tagged basic chords, chord, key on March 19, 2008 | 14 Comments »
This may be surprising to some people, but in fact most songs can be played with just 3 chords! The 3 chords are the I, IV and V chords of any key.
For example, in the key of C, these 3 chords are:
I - C,
IV - F, and
V - G.
If we were in the key of [...]
