Q. Hi, so I just got a piano for my birthday and would like to learn how to play. I used to take piano lessons . I took them for 3 years when I was really young and only remember the very basics. (such as hand positions) I would like to learn to play by ear. I already know how to read music because I've been playing the oboe for 3 years now. I just find it hard to read both lines at the same time as I am used to reading one, plus playing by ear gives you mad cool points. So anyone know any sites or videos where I can learn the chords? Thanks for your advice.
A. I am a bass player. But I used the piano to help with my theory. However I'm not going to state the obvious (I know what I'm talking about). Here's where you can go to get the absolute simple basics. Concentrate, learn, and enjoy your piano playing from now on....
http://www.pianobychords.com/index.html
piano chords?
Q. can someone give me the piano chords of "what i've been looking for" of high school musical
A. Try these links below-
http://nephele.kulichki.net/eng/index.php?ind=downloads
http://musiced.about.com/od/freestuff/a/freesheets.htm
http://www.qualitysheetmusic.com
http://mrpiano.bestmusicpages.com
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=piano+chord+
http://www.musicnotes.com
http://www.sheetmusicfox.com
http://www.music-scores.com/piano/composer.php
http://www.freshsheetmusic.net
http://www.8notes.com
http://www.sheetmusic.com
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com
http://www.myspace.com/yiruma
http://www.encoremusic.com/piano/1702
Teaching myself piano..?
Q. Well, I had actually played for about a year, but my teacher didn't teach me anything. Waste of money and time... Anyways, I'm now teaching myself. I know the notes and a few simple chords. I go online to look up chords so I can memorize. I already play guitar and my dad told me the chords on a guitar are the same as a piano's (as in the notes that make up a chord) I've learned some songs, too. Any tips for me? Thanks and God bless <3
A. You know your notes. Good.
Take a look at the articles on this website http://www.chordmusic.net/index.html
TIP #1: CHORDS - you don't need to look up or memorize chords. I am going to show you how to construct a MAJOR CHORD using a formula, all the other chords are an alteration of or add-on's to the MAJOR CHORD. Here is how you make a MAJOR CHORD using what is called a...
4-3 MAJOR CHORD FORMULA
Starting from C (don't count C) count all the black and white notes stopping at 4, which will be the E note then (don't count E) count all black and white notes stopping at 3, this is the G. (C,E,G = Cmaj or C)
Starting from E (don't count E) count all the black and white notes stopping at 4, which will be the Ab note then (don't count Ab) count all the black and white notes stopping at 3, this is the B. (E,Ab, B = Emaj or E)
Starting from Bb (don't count Bb) count all the black and white notes stopping at 4, which will be the D note then (don't count D) count all the black and white notes stopping at 3, this is the F. (Bb,D,F = Bbmaj or Bb)
Using this formula you can play all your MAJOR CHORDS and...
MINOR CHORDS - flatten or lower the middle note of the Major Chord - (C,E,G = Cmaj or C (C,Eb,G = Cmin or Cm)), (E,Ab, B = Emaj or E (E,A, B = Emin or Em)), (Bb,D,F = Bbmaj or Bb(Bb,Db,F = Bbmin or Bbm)
AUGMENTED CHORDS - sharpen or raise the last note of a Major Chord
DIMINISHED CHORDS - flatten or lower the middle and last notes of the Major Chord
6's, 7's, 9th's, 13's, sus2, sus4, etc require a knowledge of scales and is nothing more than telling you to do something with the specified degree of the scale (add, flatten, sharpen, remove, etc...)
TIP #2: LEARN YOUR MAJOR SCALES. Practice them and get them under your fingers, so that you can play them up, down, inside-out, jumping-around, extending into octaves up and down the keyboard. Here's a quick way to learn all your major scales by using shapes and numbers
To play a Major Scale, you start on any note and move up (to the right) and down (to the left) using this spacing pattern going up W-W-H-W-W-W-H and this spacing pattern going down H-W-W-W-H-W-W ( W = Whole Step, skip one note. / H = Half Step do not skip any notes ).
Here's the C Major Scale
1 = C Whole Step to
2 = D Whole Step to
3 = E Half Step to
4 = F Whole Step to
5 = G Whole Step to
6 = A Whole Step to
7 = B Half Step up to
8 = C
Pay particular attention to the numbers I placed to the left of the above example. You will notice that 1 = C and there is a Half Step between 3 to 4, and a Half Step between 7 to 8. If you let 1 = "any note" i.e., Ab, F, B, C#, etc, and applied the above spacing pattern, you can play all your Major Scales. If you burn this spacing pattern into your mind, and into your fingers, in short order this spacing pattern will begin to jump out at you whenever you looked at a note. You don't need to know the name of the notes except note #1 when you are playing a Major Scale.
You don't need to know your other scales, you don't need to study modes, and you can easily pick out melody lines because all of these are contained within the Major Scale. When a person say a song is in the "Key of ???", what they are saying is that the song is being play in the "??? Major Scale". THE MAJOR SCALE IS THE "KEY" TO PLAYING MUSIC.
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