| Teaching ourselves how to play piano chords is quite | | | | Let's show an example of another chord. The A minor |
| simple. We just need to know how to play piano | | | | chord is just the notes A-C-E played at the same time. |
| scales first and the rest should come naturally. | | | | The A minor scale is just all the white keys starting |
| Learning the simple rules to playing chords allows us to | | | | from A up till the next A. The A minor scale is made |
| learn them relatively quickly. | | | | up of the notes ABCDEFGA. If we look at the first, |
| Chords are made up of three of more notes played | | | | third and fifth note of the scale, we will see that they |
| together. In this article we will talk about how to play | | | | are A-C-E. |
| simple chords made up of only three notes. The rules | | | | An important thing to note when we are playing the |
| behind playing simple three note chords is quite simple. | | | | piano chords is to use our thumb, middle finger and little |
| This simplicity makes learning how to play piano chords | | | | finger. Always sit up straight when playing the piano |
| quite easy. | | | | and not slouch over. Pretend that we are palming an |
| So what are the simple rules to playing chords? How | | | | egg and keep your arms relaxed and fingers curled. |
| can a beginner teach themselves these rules and | | | | Playing with straight fingers is quite difficult. |
| apply them so that they can play piano chords? The | | | | - Teaching yourself how to play chords |
| answer to these two questions lie in the rest of this | | | | We must master our piano scales first before move |
| article. These two questions will be answered in more | | | | on to playing chords. The reason for this is because |
| depth and you can learn exactly how to teach | | | | scales are where chords from. If we know our scales |
| yourself chords. | | | | we have essentially taught ourselves the chords. So |
| - The chord rules for a three note chord | | | | keep practising how to play scales when we have |
| A three note chord is just played by hitting the first, | | | | spare time and learn all the scale patterns. The |
| third and fifth note of a piano scale all at the same | | | | patterns for major and minor chords are quite easy |
| time. What exactly do I mean by this? If we know our | | | | learn and are just made up of half and whole tones. |
| scales quite well then this should be easy. Say we are | | | | In conclusion, we can easily teach ourselves how to |
| playing the C major chord. We simply play the nodes | | | | play chords by just learning scales and playing the first, |
| C-E-G all at the same time. The reason for this is | | | | third and fifth notes of that scales. Don't over |
| because C is the first note of the C major scale. E | | | | complicate things. The rules of playing chords are quite |
| and G are the third and fifth notes. | | | | simple and anyone can learn them. |