Q. I'm new to ukulele... and I'm wondering how you can make up your own chords for a song that you have a piano sheet to(without tabs or chords).
A. if it has the key signature you can work it out from there. look up chord formulas if you get stuck
I can't figure out how to recognise chords - how is it most easily accomplished?
Q. I'm attempting to teach myself music theory. Something I am having trouble with is identifying triads. Is there some kind of trick or formula? I understand that they are composed of the root, third and fifth, but I get confused as to how to identify them as being either major, minor, augmented or diminished. Can anybody help?
A. It takes time. The best way is to just sit down at a piano (or electronic keyboard, then you can practice hearing them with different sounds) and hashing your way through them. There's nothing better than doing these yourself.
If you've got yourself a book, it should explain the nuts and bolts of how to recognize a major from a minor and a diminished chord.
Basically, if you teach yourself to hear and recognize the 3rd of a chord in major chords first, you can teach yourself to find the root, and sing up a major third, and when this is a half step lower, you'll note that this is a minor chord. As for diminished or augmented, they'll become easily recognizable as it doesn't have a perfect 5th. (Really quite a different sound) It will be harder to find the root in these though, at least it was for me, because the chord can be played with any root, and can still have the "off" sound to it. (unlike if you hear a major chord with the 3rd or 5th in the root, they don't sound ready to end)
But, either way, my suggestion is to sit down at a keyboard and play these. You don't have to be able to play piano to do this, because you can take 10 minutes to set your fingers in place if you need to. (though eventually you will be able to do it quicker) The idea is just to hear them.
How can I write romantic piano music?
Q. I want to write a song for someone special so...
I want to write the kind of music Yiruma and Chopin make... What kind of scale is used?
Major? Minor (Natural Harmonic or Melodic...). And are there specific chord/chord progressions?
Interval that pertain to romantic type music?
Is dissonance useful to romantic music?
What other elements make for romantic music?
A. there's no formula for writing any certain kind of music. (except maybe pop music given the number of "four chord songs" haha)
but the best way to learn how is to study the music of others. romantic music, however, typically contains modulations to keys related by 3rds. it also features a lot more chromatic submediants and mode mixture than previous time periods, and just more chromaticism in general (especially in russian romantic music)
also romantic piano music more often features voices moving in parallel octaves than previous piano/keyboard music. this is usually seen when the bass voice is doubled, and/or in right hand chords where the pinky and thumb double the melody. here, the other fingers typically fill in the rest of the notes of the chord (this can sometimes be seen in left hand parts too, but not as often as it sounds muddier in lower voices)
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Title : How do you come up with chords for ukulele just by looking at a music sheet?
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