Q. So I've been playing the guitar for a few years and, I can play quite a few songs. I play them just by chords mostly but picking here and there. But anyway I was wondering if there is a way to transfer those chords over to piano. The chord name remains the same correct? But what about if I have a capo on the guitar on the 3rd or 5th fret, then how do the chords transfer?
Thank you
A. The EASY ANSWER would be to get a piano chord chart book, look up the guitar chords you want to play on the piano in the index, and play away. But did you ever hear the adage: "Feed a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat forever"? Well, read on....here's the honest to goodness truthful answer to your question:
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Do you know how chords are constructed? Knowing this is the key. It doesn't matter where the capo is on the guitar: if you are playing a Cm7 chord, the notes in that chord are going to be the same no matter WHERE you play the chord on the guitar. It doesn't matter if you play an open chord, a barre chord, an inverted chord, etc. A Cm7 is always going to include the following notes:
C-E-G-Bb no matter where you play it.
Chords are built from scales. Scales are made of intervals.
It would be easy for you to play the chords you play on the guitar on the piano if you understood music theory a bit, especially intervals and scales.
You should also learn what intervals of which scales create what chords (sound confusing? This is a year of theory, minimum.).
Here are the intervals that create basic chords:
Major: 1-3-5
minor: 1-b3-5
dominant 7th: 1-3-5-b7
MAJOR 7th: 1-3-5-7
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All you need to know is what intervals / specific notes make up each chord; where those notes are located on an instrument and the proper way to hold the chord, and you're set. It doesn~t matter what instrument you are playing-- a Cm7 is a Cm7 is a Cm7.
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Thatms music theory. It's all formulas and patterns. It seems impossible to comprehend in the beginning, but once you catch on and grasp where chords come from, a whole new musical world will open up for you.
I taught myself piano because I understood the theory behind chord construction....even before I taught myself to read and write music. You can do it to! :)
So How do I know what note to play when going from a piano chord to another?
Q. I heard my music teacher Playing bohemian rhapsody today (by ear) and I know the chords but how did he know what to put in between them?
A. He used his sense of relative pitch to figure out the notes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_pitch
http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer
Knowledge of music theory also helps you to predict what may come next.
http://www.musictheory.net/
How do I create a good, piano chord sequence for the song I composed and wrote lyrics too?
Q. I wrote on piece on piano and then after re-adjusted it and put lyrics to it. Now I have an awesome song, but the lyrics follow the song notes exactly, which makes it odd to sing too. The notes should be the singer's notes, and I'd like to know how to create chords to play in the piano's right hand.
Normally people work the other way around, but I'm completely bonkers. Any tips on how to construct a chord sequence based on a series of notes (mostly in C Major)?
A. You can make this as easy or as difficult as you want, but it depends a lot on how much music theory you know or how you good you are at translating your ideas on piano.
If you somehow feel or know how the chords should sound, you could just look for these on the piano. If you're going to take a more theoretical, take some chords that are derived from the C major scale. When you use notes outside that scale or play another scale, you should probably use a chord that's derived from that scale. And there's a big chance that could be the C minor scale.
There's not much I could do, because it depends a lot on the style, which notes you use and how, how you use the notes outside the C major scale, ... I don't even know which key it's in.
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