Lesson #2 Learn Chords on the piano

[tomjeffrey]

Hi All!

Following my last controversial free lesson, piano notes. I present you with my latest offering!

Learning chords on the piano!

Please learn notes first!

Chords

Since many chords exist, your probably unsure where to start, we recommend starting with the C chord. You'll play the following notes:

C, E, G

Your fingering positioning will be as follows: thumb pressing the key on the first left following any two thin black keys, index finger on the key first right following the thin black key to the right of the last black key I mentioned. Finally push your ring finger on first key inside between the first and second black keys on the triple black key set to the right of the two black keys I mentioned. Hopefully your now be playing a C chord! Your know if its right as it will sound bad if you play it wrong!

Remember you mustn't try and throw yourself into the deep end. Its important to set out goals such as "Learn three chords this week" rather than attempting to memorize everything at once, try to learn one chord at a time, mastering it before you move on to another. This way you will work step by step to achieving your goals of learning chords on the piano!

Again for further resources consider: https://www.learn-the-piano.com

Good luck!

P.s. my last message seemed to get a few teachers hot under the collar.

Many claimed I wrote "You don't need a teacher" - I never mentioned this, in any way. Online teachers can still be teachers, pre-recorded or not, or can give extra tuition to students studying with personal teachers! Online lessons, aren't only written lessons, they can be videos showing instruction. And I am sure many here provide excellent rewarding tuition.

Furthermore, what I have written does provide students, with a free reference on notes and now chords.

Finally thank-you, for pointing out my incorrect grammar, errors changed.

Tom

[perfect_pitch]

Since many chords exist, your probably unsure where to start, we recommend starting with the C chord. You'll play the following notes:

C, E, G

Your fingering positioning will be as follows: thumb pressing the key on the first left following any two thin black keys, index finger on the key first right following the thin black key to the right of the last black key I mentioned. Finally push your ring finger on first key inside between the first and second black keys on the triple black key set to the right of the two black keys I mentioned. Hopefully your now be playing a C chord! Your know if its right as it will sound bad if you play it wrong!

Okay - now If I'm not mistaken - the key 'following' usually refers so something 'after' the black keys, so one could assume that you're talking about 'E'... not 'C'.

I would just like to add that your descriptions are pretty poorly worded unfortunately... Technically if you had spent some time talking about the notes properly then you could easily have introduced chords as this:

"We're going to play C major chord... so put your thumb on C, your middle finger on E, and your pinkie finger on G - voila!"

INSTEAD OF:

Hi All!

Following my last controversial free lesson, piano notes. I present you with my latest offering!

Learning chords on the piano!

Please learn notes first!

Chords

Since many chords exist, your probably unsure where to start, we recommend starting with the C chord. You'll play the following notes:

C, E, G

Your fingering positioning will be as follows: thumb pressing the key on the first left following any two thin black keys, index finger on the key first right following the thin black key to the right of the last black key I mentioned. Finally push your ring finger on first key inside between the first and second black keys on the triple black key set to the right of the two black keys I mentioned. Hopefully your now be playing a C chord! Your know if its right as it will sound bad if you play it wrong!

Interesting question - you haven't explained what a C chord is... or what a chord is in general, plus the fact that you didn't label it correctly as C MAJOR chord.

Your know if its right as it will sound bad if you play it wrong!

Thats the dumbest thing I have ever heard... Define right... Someone who's listened to jazz might have pressed C, F & G thinking - this sounds cool... it sounds good.

[peterjmathis]

I have nothing against written explanations of piano concepts, but they have to be clear. I think an explanation like this does more harm than good...