| The Open Position Chord (OPC) allows you to create | | | | configuration you are able to make more music than if |
| a vented sound. A sound that is open, literally, as | | | | you were just playing a triad in your left hand and |
| opposed to the closed triads taught in most course | | | | playing melody in your right. |
| books. | | | | It also allows you to play in counterpoint. When you are |
| The OPC covers more than two octaves of the | | | | improvising with the OPC, your fingers will automatically |
| keyboard allowing you to create without moving the | | | | begin to create a countermelody. How? Because you |
| hands around too much. Perfect for the beginner and | | | | already have six tones underneath your fingers to |
| advanced player. New Age music in particular has an | | | | begin with. Just by moving your fingers over the keys |
| open quality that is created in a number of ways. The | | | | in different rhythms, you begin to have harmony with |
| first way is by the chord choices used. Most of this | | | | melody. |
| music is in a Major Key. The sound is pleasant without | | | | It allows you to play piano with both hands together |
| any dissonant tones. | | | | right away. This is entirely different than the way most |
| The second way is how the chord is played or voiced. | | | | pianists learn how to finger a chord. They are usually |
| The OPC voicing gives you the ability to separate the | | | | taught triads first fingered in the left hand then in the |
| chord into three different parts; low end or bass note, | | | | right and finally both hands together. Is this music |
| middle notes, and high or melody notes. With this | | | | making? Of course not. |