Q. I've been trying to play all sorts of piano chords, to match up with the melody i'm playing, and i can't seem to find the right chords. For example if i play a E or a G#, how would i know what type of chord would go with that?
A. Write all twelve of your major chords out on a piece of paper.
Now you'll notice that each note appears in three chords. For example A is in the A chord, it's in the middle of the F chord and it's the last note in the D chord.
Now write out all twelve minor chords and you'll see that A is Am, F#m and Dm.
Now that you have all 24 M+m chords written out, if your melody contains E and G# (As in your example) Then you look for a chord that contains both those notes. In this case you would use E, or C#m The choice of which one is totally up to you, whichever one sounds best.
You can of course go into 7th chords and Major Sevenths and extend the list from above, but you'd still be working fromthe same rules. Fromthe 7 group (just write them all out again) you'll add the choice of E7 (not much difference from group one huh?) and from the Major Seventh group the AM7 and the AmM7.
Of course then theres the 9's, 11's and 13's, but the ones listed above are the real answer=choose between E Major and C#minor (Which by the way are the same chord: E6=E G# B C# and C#m7= C# E G# B = exactly the same notes.)
All the best
Cat
What do (piano) chords do?
Q. I've just started learning piano for 2 months and a half. I don't really get the purpose of chords or why we have to learn them by heart. Couldn't we just look at the sheet and play?
A. What role chords play:
Music has three components: rhythm, melody, and harmony. Chords are the harmony. If there was no harmony, all music would sound like people singing "Happy Birthday".
The piano can serve in many roles. One of them is providing (or contributing to) harmony with a versatility that few other instruments can.
Why learn them:
Jazz, folk, and popular music pianists can look at a lead sheet (melody, lyrics, and "guitar chords") and improvise a suitable harmony. Why can they do this? Because they've memorized how to play chords.
Pianists who play classical music are expected to play the notes on the page, but knowing about chords matters at least as much as in other kinds of music. If you hope to have any meaningful understanding of music at all, you need to know about chords, how they're formed, and how they interact. Just looking at the sheet and playing is like reading aloud the words of a language you don't understand.
Pianists! Please help (piano chords!?!)?
Q. I am trying to find a useful website which has a list
of piano chords and their definitions, as i am trying to learn piano.
Thanks!
A. I play Piano,
http://www.8notes.com/piano_chord_chart/
If you are trying to learn piano you should first learn to read notes and what which note is on the piano.
http://www.easypianobasics.com/lessons.html
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