How can you play guitar chords/tabs on piano?

Q. I'm trying to figure out how to play "Colder Weather" by zac brown band, on piano. However, I can only find guitar tabs/chords and if i try to play them on the piano it does not sound right at all! Does anyone know how to play piano songs from guitar music?

A. A C major chord is a C major chord. There's no reason a piano player can't look at this:

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/l/lovin_spoonful/daydream_crd.htm

And know what to do.

If you know your chords, then you can look at that and bang them out. C, A7, Dm7... not a big deal. If you don't know how to do that, that's something to learn.

Here's a couple of videos I made about chord construction. They're meant for guitarists, but the information is applicable to any instrument.

http://www.tinyurl.com/lucasmanchords1
http://www.tinyurl.com/lucasmanchords2
http://a.1asphost.com/LukeSniper/ccc.html

Original Question

How do I form special piano chords?

Q. specifically (add9) chords and ninth and 11th chords. Thanks in Advance.

A. add9 just means you add the 9th to the given chord. The 9th is the same as the 2. Imagine you just continued counting the notes of the major scale AFTER the octave.

So Cadd9 would be C E G D, Emin(add9) would be E G B F#, etc

Cadd9 is different than a simple C9. C9 indicates the presence of the flat 7th too (C E G Bb D)

Here's a link to a chord construction chart I made. It tells you the which notes are in various chords, along with a few different ways they may be indicated on a lead sheet.

http://a.1asphost.com/LukeSniper/ccc.html

It doesn't have anything about 11ths or 13ths, it should make sense how that works after looking at it. The only thing to point out is that C13 is 1 3 5 b7 9 11 13. Parentheses are often used to indicate alterations or additions to a given chord. So C9(b5) would be 1 3 b5 b7 9 and C7(11/13) would be 1 3 5 b7 11 13

Original Question

How do you play the piano from guitar tabs?

Q. Most songs I find they have the guitar tabs or chords or whatever they are called. I only see them as chords for the piano, but obviously there's a way to read them as notes.

For example, can someone explain how to play the piano from these lyrics:
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/j/john_mark_mcmillan/how_he_loves_crd.htm
At least a line or two, if possible. I just want the gist of it.

Thanks!

A. Well, first I'll assume you know the notes on the piano.

Second, I'll assume you don't know how to build chords. (Otherwise you wouldn't ask this question)

That website is showing you the chords with lyrics, with little popups showing you a way to play that chord on the guitar.

If you know the notes on the guitar, you can move them over to piano, however it's just better to actually know how to build your own chords, because piano voicings are often different than guitar voicings.

Watch these videos I made on chord construction. They are intended for guitarists, but are applicable to any instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEdcmkec5NE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKobaiYiQ88

Here is a chord construction chart:
http://a.1asphost.com/LukeSniper/ccc.html

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Title : How can you play guitar chords/tabs on piano?
Description : Q. I'm trying to figure out how to play "Colder Weather" by zac brown band, on piano. However, I can only find guitar tabs/ch...