Q. ive just downloaded a piano app for my phone & would like to be able to play the intro to yellow could anyone help by posting the actual notes instead of a link? (as you can probably tell im not a musician but i would like to do this for my bf)
thanks in advance
x
A. Making sure: by "intro" you mean the part before the singing starts? There are at least two guitars, and they're playing slightly different things, so here's a kind of summary. Each measure has four beats, so when there are two chords in a measure, each chord lasts two beats.
B-D#-F# |B-D#-F# B-E-F# |
B-D#-F# |B-D#-F# B-E-F# |
B-D#-F# |B-E-F# |
F#-A#-C# |F#-A#-C# |
E-G#-B |E-G#-B |
B-D#-F# |B-E-F# |
B-D#-F# |
Try that. If you have questions or anything sounds wrong, or if I misunderstood what you wanted, let me know. I hope your bf likes it.
how to tell the Quality of chords?
Q. i have a major midterm in band and we need to know how to tell if a chord is major minor augmented or diminished the bell rang right before our director explained it but i need to no how ive had music theory since pre-k but never gone over this every time they do i seem to be absent
A. Actually "quality" is exactly the correct term.
Chord qualities are like colors. You learn to identify them by being shown examples and associating a name with each example. Just like when you were a baby and someone showed you a color and told you that it is red, and they showed you another color and told you it is blue, you need to hear examples of each kind of chord and associate its overall "color" with the correct name.
You can teach yourself by playing examples for yourself on any chordal instrument, such as piano or guitar, but eventually you need to find a way to test your knowledge by identifying something that someone ELSE plays without you knowing in advance what the chord will be.
Learning to tell major and minor apart is the first thing to do. Try this:
Play a C major chord. Notice how it sounds "happy"
Play a C minor chord. Notice how it sounds "sad" or "dark" in comparison to the C major.
Play as many examples like this as you can: A major and A minor, D major and D minor, and so on. Also try playing a bunch of majors and then throwing in a minor. And vice versa: play a bunch of different minor chords and then throw in a major chord. Who knows, might come up with a hit song while you're at it :-)
Once you can reliably identify major and minor, you can use them to learn to identify diminished and augmented.
To learn to hear the difference between minor and diminshed, play a C minor chord (C Eb G) then play a C diminished chord (C Eb Gb). Notice how diminished sounds even sadder, darker, melancholic, distressed than the C minor chord. A diminished chord is what you usually hear in the old time movies as the locomotive is bearing down on the hapless heroine who is tied to the railroad tracks :-) Again, play lots of examples of minor and diminished that have the same root: C mi and C dim, A mi and A dim, D mi and D dim, and so on. (Confine your examples to triads for now; don't confuse yourself with "half-diminished" and "full diminished" seventh chords yet.)
To learn to hear the difference between major and augmented, play a C major chord (C E G) then play a C augmented chord (C E G#). Notice how an augmented chord does not sound the same as a major chord, it sounds a bit tenser, maybe even sort of sad, but not in the same way that a minor or a diminished chord does. A popular song that uses a major chord followed by an augmented chord is "Baby Hold On To Me" by Eddie Money.
Now... these characterizations as "happy" or "sad" and so on are just a starting point, and they apply best to very simple examples only. The surrounding musical arrangement can create lots of different sonic colors or moods that can obscure these very simple examples. (That's the cool thing about harmony! But let's crawl before we walk and walk before we run... 'kay?)
For now, just learn to identify the four basic chord qualities as well as you can - listen very carefully and try to remember the overall sound or color rather than trying to pick apart the intervals, because chords can be voiced in lots of different ways that change the intervals involved. But the overall impression you get from the chord quality or color does NOT change with its arrangement or voicing. When you really, really know them, you identify chord colors instantaneously, as quickly and easily as when you see a color that you instantly know that its red, not blue, or yellow, not black.
Be patient, and practice frequently every day. This skill takes time to acquire, but virtually anyone can do it.
There may be some ear training websites around that will play examples for you. Or you can pick them out from your surroundings. When you hear any song on the radio or tv, try to identify the chord colors as they go by. When you hear a car horn or a doorbell, ask yourself "major, minor, aug or diminshed?"
Check at your public library or the music library of a local university to see if they have any ear training tapes you can borrow.
Just keep working at it. Telling major from minor is usually not too hard after a few days to a few weeks, but don't be discouraged if diminshed and augmented are more difficult to identify. They can take quite a bit longer to identify reliably, for most people.
Which finger goes where on the piano chord?
Q. http://www.8notes.com/piano_chord_chart/Cm.asp
Obviously you use 3 fingers. But why is one of the dots yellow? Does the pinky, middle finger, or thumb go there?? PLEASE HELP FAST!!
A. Use whatever fingering is comfortable.
The yellow dots are used for the black keys, because blue wouldn't show against black (just as yellow doesn't show well against white). Then the page also shows the chord in all possible positions (root, 1st inversion, and 2nd inversion).
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