Q. I'm not that good with music theory, but I have this melody I picked out on the piano. The notes in the melody are E, F, F#, G, G#. What key are these notes in? And if you could tell me how to pick chords to go along with a note that would be great.
That's not the melody, just the notes in the melody. Does the order matter to figure out which key its in?
A. If you want to tell a key signature then on the intro of the staff on the treble and bass clef will be an indication of the notes that have a #. It goes in order FCGDAEB= Five Cats Got Down and Entered Bed. Sorry not the best acronym just made that up- whatever makes you remember it tho in laymans term. Just try to uncomplicate and break down everything!
So FCGDAEB is the order it will always be in for sharps and this is backwards for flats BEADGCF. So seems that would be FCG- five cats got for this piece. Ive never seen FG before as not in the correct order. There is order for everything in piano it is not just hit and miss composition. So maybe a C# included. Ok so if you look at the scale for this it would be.... ABC#DF#G#A which is A major.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle_of_fifths_deluxe_4.svg
Now check out the circle of fifths if you click on the link above. If you look at A major you see that it has 3 sharps as I already said... FCG- five cats got..... You see the order ends on G# so go ONE NOTE UP FROM G.... which is A. Now go to E... FCGD.... last # is D again one note up is E. Notice the pattern for all. So you technically don't even need the circle of fifths... look at the sharps the order and whatever it ends in go one note up from that. It is very very simple when broken down.
For a bit more info... the relative minor is two notes back from root position. So for C major
CDEFG A BC it will be A minor... and A major ABC#D F# G#A. Rule applies for all if you check on the circle of fifths again.
Additionally, you can also check the flats b. The order for this is BEADGCF- blacnket exploded and dad got cold feet. So check circle of fifths again. Working out the key signature for this has A DIFFERENT RULE. Which is go one flat back. You can easily learn that F major has one flat for the rest check Bb for example... it has two flats b and e BE... go back one flat from E which is B. Now Eb which is BEA go back one flat- E. You can check the rest.
Only complicated thing in knowing the key signature is whether it is major or minor. Major sounds more cheerful Minor more solome, sad, gloomy. So a key signature will either be major OR minor. That is why every major key signature has a RELATIVE MINOR. Chords could be the relative of the note so say if you play C in the right then A can be the chord. A chord has a root a major third and a perfect fifth. Yes I know.... what?? In laymans terms its the first third and fifth note OF THE SCALE. This is called a major TRIAD as in three notes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_chord, heres your scales.
Sorry I didn't anticipate to ramble on so better leave it at this, just trying to break it down and not over complicate because I know what it looks like if there is no order... complete chaos. But to answer your question Yes there is an order for everything. So learn these rules and next time you see an indication of the key signature at the start remember BEADCGF for b and FCGDEAB for # and both have a relative key... like think twin brother and sister... their related and go together. No key signature appears it is therefore C major or its relative A minor.
Enjoy playing and keep asking questions, Best of luck to ye :)
Can you help me find "If It Means A Lot To You" piano sheet music?
Q. It's a song by a day to remember, and I would like to learn, but i can't find a free download. Thanks(:
A. Why thank you for the warning and ANNOYING WORDS IN ALL CAPS. By the way, you didn't answer the question. Music is meant to be played and enjoyed, and as long as she isn't reselling the music or making money off it, I think it's fine. Now to answer the question, I haven't found a good piano sheet of it, but the chords are
INTRO: C2, G, D/F#
VERSE: Em/D, G, D/F# (But at the line 'Cuz I can't come back home... it's C2, G)
PRE-CHORUS (la-la-la's): C2, D/F#, Em/D, G
CHORUS: G, D/F#, Em/D, C2
BRIDGE: C2, G, Em/D, D/F#
OUTRO: C2, D/F#, Em/D, G
I'm primarily a guitar player, so that makes sense to me, but in case you want the notes:
C2 (CDEG)
G (GBD)
D/F# (DF#A but have an F# as the root F#DF#A)
Em/D (EGB but have a D and a G on top so that it would be like EGBDG)
The intro is A-B-A-G-E A-B-A-G-E GDG (the chord) GDG A-B-A-G-E E-F#-G-G-F#-F#-G-F#
The second time you do that pattern play the same notes as before, but play these to get a dual lead effect (probably sounds better on guitar than piano haha)
C-D-D-C-G C-D-D-C-G GDG GDG C-D-D-C-G A-B-B-A-A-B-B-A-A-G
That's kind of sloppy, but hopefully it helps so that you can play something a little similar to the song
guitar chords into Piano?
Q. hello. i am trying to figure out how to turn the guitar chords/tabs into piano notes for my favorite song Wishing Well by the Airborne Toxic Event. I cant find piano music, so here is what the guitar tab website gave me: (the notes, when i played them as piano chords, sounded nothing like the song) Thanks!!
Intro:
G D C
G
Standing on a bus stop
Feeling your head pop
C
Out in the night
On the kind of night
G
Where you want to be out
On the street, on the street
C
Crawling up the walls
Like a cat in heat
G
And the air is thin
And it blows through your skin
C
And you feel like something
Is about to begin
G
But you don't know what
And you don't know when
C
So you tear at your hair
And you scratch at your skin
G
You wanna run away, run away
Just get on the fucking train and leave today
C
And it doesn't matter where you spend the night
You just might end up somewhere in a fight, in a fight
G
Or caught in your room on a concrete shelf
Fighting all alone, with yourself, with yourself
C
And you just wanna feel like a coin that's been tossed
In a wishing well, a wishing well
D
A wishing well, a wishing well
Well, you're tossed in the air
C
And you fell and you fell
Through the dark blue waters
D
Where you cast your spell G
Like you were just a wish that could turn out well
G C
G
So you stand on the corner
Where the angels sit
C
And you think to yourself,
"This is it, this is it,
G
This is all that I have
All I can stand
C
Is this air in my lungs
And this coin in my hand
G
That you tossed in the air
And I fell, and I fell
C
All the way to the bottom
Of the well, of the well
G
Like those soft little secrets
That you tell, that you tell
C
To yourself, when you think
No one's listening to, well"
G
And the walls spin
And you're paper-thin
C
From the haze of the smoke
And the mescaline
G
The threat of your brow
Under unmade sheets
C
In your ear with the noise
From the darkest streets
G
We ran far and wide
You screamed, you cried
C
You thought suicide was an alibi
G
But you were always a mess
You were always aloof
C
Yeah, it's awful, I guess
But it's the awful truth
G;
It was truth from the first
To the last words that she read
D
And she emerged from the dark
Like a ghost in my head
C
She said, "I haven't forgot
Any words that you said
D
I just stare at the clocks
And I cry in my sleep
C
And I tear up your letters
And I burn them in heaps
D
And I gather the ashes
In that hole in the ground
G
Where we fell"
Outro: G C
A. Ok, you can do the simple major chord triads on the piano like this:
C = CEG
D = DF#A
G = GBD
That's from what I remember. What you can do with that is up to you. If it doesn't sound right, you can try inversions, for example F#AD instead of DF#A, and you can try improvising along those scales. I found when I used to play guitar music on pianos, the chords never sounded right unless I put the chord notes in a different order.
Other options you've got to spice it up include: adding more notes to the chord, using arpeggios (broken chords) and adding articulation like turns, trills and mordents.
If you don't understand any of this, simply use Google or Wikipedia to find out.
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