Q. I'm playing piano and well I just have no idea how to play chords like Gm7 or just G7 or Em7 or Dm7 and etc. To make it much easier please explain to me how to play them and not just what notes to press. I want to be able to know how to play any kind of chord that has "7" or minor in front of the note. Thank you so much! Please help me out!
A. Okay, so if you are in the key of G minor, take Gm7: it is a minor triad on G with the minor 7th added. So you want the root (G) and the 3rd, 5th and 7th degrees of the G natural minor scale. I assume you know what this is: G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, F, G.
The same applies to every 7th chord, major or minor: the chord consists of the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th degrees on the root. So for a minor 7th chord, you use the minor 3rd, but for a major 7th chord you use the major 3rd. Any 7th chord uses the perfect 5th.
Another point is that whichever 7th you add to the basic major or minor triad to create the 7th chord depends on the key the music is in: try looking at some examples, but the 7th of the minor chord is the 7th degree in the key of the music, not the 'key' of the chord. Generally the 7th of a minor chord is a minor 7th above the root, but the 7th of a major chord can be either a major 7th or a minor 7th above the bass. E.g. if you are in C major, G7 has an F as the 7th degree (i.e. a minor 7th), but C7 has a B (i.e. a major 7th). As I said above, as a general rule, count up from the root of the chord to the 3rd, 5th and 7th degrees, but using the scale and accidentals that the piece is in.
Another way to look at it is in terms of the intervals you are adding to the root. Again, you take your root, which for Gm7 is G, add a minor 3rd, giving you B flat, add a major 3rd on top of that, giving you D, and add another minor 3rd to give you F. Every minor 7th chord (Gm7, Em7, Dm7....) consists of a stack of three 3rds: minor, major, minor. For every major 7th chord (G7, E7...) you again use a stack of three 3rds, but it is major, minor, minor/major this time.
Incidentally, it's nice to see that you want to work out the principles of it, rather than just be told the 'right answer'!
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Q. I'v never played piano before (I have played guitar) and I wanted to play this song called "Pencils in the Wind (Sello Tape)" by Flight of the Conchords. I checked forums and found the chords according to this post:
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just mess around with these chords .........
G ........... G/F#........... Em ............ Em7
Am .............. Am/G# ........... Am/F# ............ Gm ...................(REPEAT)
on the last Gm you can do the little run down ........Bb Bb A G
on the brown paper bit the chords are like this .........
G ................ G/F# ............. Em ............ Em7
C .............. D ............... C ............ D .
thats it
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What keys do i hit for chords like G/F#. I don't get it. Online chrds have nothing on the slash chords and i don't know which keys to press for them.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
A. Don't confuse yourself about the chord's notation. Just press:
the G chord: G-B-D
and F# note, NOTE not chord, on the left: F# (because if you press the whole F# chord, it will sound very terrible)
where can i find the piano chords for a song called So Much Love by The Rocket Summer??
Q.
A. verses are [Em7] to [Am7]
pre chorus is [Em7] [D/F#] [G] [Am7] [G/B] [C]2
chorus is [Am7] [G/B] [C]2 [G] [Am7]
the bridge is [C] [G/B] [C] [Dsus] (x3)
then [C] [G/B] [Dsus] [D]
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