PIANO CHORDS: The ULTIMATE Step-by-Step Guide For Beginners [IN REAL TIME]

so I've got my cup of coffee and I'm ready for an intense 30-minute piano lesson looking at piano cards from the very very beginning in real time hey what's up guys Joseph Sakura here from creative piano Academy and today yes we're looking at piano cards I'm gonna take you from the very beginning step by step and by the end of this video you're gonna be able to play all the basic chords in the key of C the theory behind building chords so you'll be able to play any card you want you're going to know what chord inversions are and finally we're going to look at a few basic chord progressions so you can start playing and start having some fun now if that sounds good to you as well as other videos like it then smash that subscribe button as well as that little Bell thing you're next to it so you know when I upload new videos so I hope you're ready let's get going okay guys I hope you've got your laptop your tablet your phone whatever you're watching this on you sat by your piano and you're ready to go over a real time lesson with me so this is a bit of a new thing I'm trying out so hopefully when I'm not just gonna give you a load of information and hope you go away and practice it we're gonna try and tackle all this together and this time we're going to be looking at piano chords now I want this video to be perfect for you if you're a beginner and you're excited to learn piano chords so let's get straight on with it now there's a few real basics that we need to kind of cover off to make sure we're all on the same page and we can go through all this together so I'm gonna very quickly run through a few things that you need to know now let's take you want to be sat right in the middle of the piano okay and this should be it should be really obvious right in the middle of the piano you've got these two black keys here and I want you to go to the left of it this here this this note right here is called middle C now if you're not familiar with all the names of the notes on the piano yet then don't worry you can still follow along with everything I'm doing but I'm gonna put a video in the cards for you goes over every single note on the piano and you'll know it like the back of your hand so check that out if you need to so really quickly we've got a C D and E and F and a G it's like we're running up the alphabet back to the beginning of the alphabet a B and then we're back to see okay so we're going to start building our cards on all of these all of these notes right here in your right hand you've got fingers one two three four and five okay your thumb is finger one same in the left hand one two three four and five when you sat in front of the piano you want to be relaxed you want your shoulders want to be nice and relaxed you want to bring your arms down to the piano and your wrists want to hang okay you want to be nice and relaxed here they want to have a nice excuse me they want to have a nice arc about it here and they want to solve hang nice and loose and when you play these cards that we're about to do you want to just relax and let you risk fall down onto those cards it's like a combination of arm movement and wrist movement here but the key is you want to make sure you relax at the shoulders and you can flow everything out of there okay so now we've got the basics covered let's see if we can build our very first chord so get your right hand and place it into this C position here which is what we've just done so you want your first finger on the middle C your second finger on the D here your third finger on the e fourth finger on the F fifth finger on the G okay now let's just practice that so bring your wrist up and place it down okay so take your hand away from the piano lift your hand up and just place it down onto those onto those keys try and make sure each finger has got its unique note on it okay so let's try that again hand up down into position now we're going to play our chord okay and I'm going to go over a little bit of theory afterwards but let's get you playing now and I want you to play this scene okay I want you to miss the D and wait to play the e miss the F and play the G okay so we've got the C the E and the G okay and this is a C major chord okay that's our very first chord okay let's lift our hand up again place it down and see if you can play just those three notes okay that's our first exercise so here let's take a hand away lift it up place it down okay remember stay relaxed in that shoulder lift it up place it down and that's why I want see if you can lift it up and straight away play that card this okay okay now there's a few things that might be happening here when you play these notes here this mapping happening you might be playing that f you might be playing the D although it's this finger that's the problem really this is quite a weak finger okay and so what you want to do is when we play these notes you want to try and make sure that our second finger and our fourth finger and nice and raised up out of the way we don't want them to to go down together like this we want them nice and raised up so that's something you can practice when you lift your hand up you play these chords try and make sure that these two fingers are out of the way okay so now you've got your very first chord the next thing to do is stop building mark odd so you've got more more chords under your belt and you can start playing them and mixing them up and sounding amazing so I'm going to quickly go over a bit of the theory as to how we're going to do this but bear in mind that this is a video on chords okay I just want my ambition is to just get this video so you can sit down and play some chords with me I'm going to do another video like this I'm covering you know the same kind of thing but tackling scales instead of chords and when you go through that video and you put them together it'll start making a lot more sense however in the meantime really simply when we've got our notes here in the key of C we need to convert these into numbers okay so C will be not one d would be two e would be three F would be four G would be five and a would be six okay now notice I'm missing B out which is seven I'm only missing that out because it's a bit of a strange card it's a funny one okay you don't need to worry about that for now it's called a diminished chord and it's a really fascinating card actually but you know and it's used to like change keys and stuff but don't worry about that for now just not one to six so we've got one two three four five and then six here so the task now is to build a card on each one of these numbers now how do we build these cards so let's go back to our first chord C major okay let's play this one we've got a root note which is the C the third note above the root which is the e so if we count up we've got root second not above third note above and then we go fifth note here so that's the fifth note above the root so we've got root second third fourth fifth okay so we simply build our notes on the root note the third note above the root and the fifth note above the root and that's it okay that's all you need to worry about so this is called one okay now we need to build chord - so let's move up our root note now is the D okay so what's the third note above the root here so we've got a second above third note above so I'll play the third note here and then we've got the fifth note above so we've got one first or root second third fourth fifth boom must play that one okay so hand up that's the D minor chord okay so we've got our first chord which is C major built on the first note and we've got our second chord D minor which is built on the second note here okay so I'm going to describe what a major chord or minor chord is in a second but let's just practice going between C and D minor so bring your hand up okay let's play a C and after four I want you to move to D minor so let's play the C 3 and C two three four D D minor two three four C 2 3 4 D minor two three four ok now there's a little trick what do you know it's about this if you notice I'm playing C maxi major here all I'm doing to play D minor is I'm just moving up you know everything just moves up one note like this okay and the same is true for the third chord which is a minor chord so we're gonna move everything up just one note and we've got a minor okay but again we can work this out because ease now our root note will go up the third note above E and the fifth note above E okay one two three four five now the difference between a major and a minor chord is something that I don't want to get too hung up on right now but basically a major chord here would your major chords they sound quite bright cheerful happy and minor chords yeah they can sound quite sad melancholic and that's the difference one sounds kind of bright happy and the other sounds melancholic and sad and we use this combination between major and minor chords to create interesting music now when I release er my other video that I've got planned on approaching scales I'm gonna go deeper into the theory behind why this is the case but briefly it's the third note okay so it's always that third note which changes between major and minor so if you notice on C major here we've got a third note and if you count up all these little what we call semitones we've got one two three four semitones here okay and what gives it a minor sound is what we call a flattened third from a major chord here we're gonna just flatten the third and we get that minor chord so if we're building this D minor chord again one two three semitones not far some it tones three semitones one two three like this okay and that's how we know it's a minor chord from a theory point of view but you can also tell because it's got a very distinctive sound as well so it's good to train your ears to notice the difference between major and minor chords like that so let's carry on we've got our third chord here which is a minor our fourth chord is f major so we're going to build on this fourth quarter fourth note here so we've got the root the third note above the root and the fifth nub of the root this is F okay now the next chord G root third and fifth G major and the last chord a minor got the root the third and the fifth okay so these are our six chords now here's a little exercise for you what I want you to do start off with Cod one so into position rest down chord one and try and play that C major chord now after four we're going to move up each chord okay like this I'm going to move up positions up to called six and then back down again like this after the count of four each time and we're going to try and play this together so after a count of four we'll play the C major chord and then after each count of four we'll move up a chord at a time so 1 2 3 4 C 2 3 4 D minor 2 3 4 mm - a minor 3 4 F 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 a minor 2 3 back down again G 2 3 4 F 2 3 4 B minor 2 3 4 D minor 2 3 4 2 3 4 rest now you might notice that on the major chords I'm just saying the letter name and on the minor chords I'm actually saying minor that's just to simplify things you know typically when you say major chords you just say it's assumed that it's major if you just say play a G chord if you you have to specify it's a minor chord and then we know it's a minor chords just a way of keeping things fairly simple so we don't have to keep saying major and minor every single time so let's try this again a little bit faster bring you right hand up into position okay and here we go 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 three four one two three four one two three four rest now if you want to make this harder for yourself okay I'm not going to go over this again but in your own time if you want to make this harder then you can keep the Collard held down for as long as possible so like this 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 like that ok what might be happening is just as you're getting familiar with it you might be doing this 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 I'm looking and finding what know it like this and then the coming on and that's absolutely fine as you're getting used to it you know it's all part of the learning process just stick with it and then it will get more familiar and you'll get much better at it so we're gonna see if we can make things a little bit more interesting for you by bringing in the left hand ok and the left hand we're just going to play the root note of each chord and it'll be really good for coordination whilst keeping things fairly simple but it's also going to give you a cause that really nice grounding sound like it's gonna bring in that bass kind of like oomph behind your cards so to start with bring your left hand in an octave below the right so it's this position here you want your fifth finger here onto this C okay and all you're going to do is when you play the C chord in the right you're going to play the scene in the left as well so when we play that together get this okay so after four let's see if we can play that one two three four okay now the next card caught - lady - oh no it's what I'm doing here I'm just gonna play the D with this finger my fourth finger here okay so after four one two three four okay and then we're gonna work our way up so let's do this really really slowly okay and just see if you can follow along you'll have a few chances to go over this and you just if you're struggling the first time just rewind the video a bit and have a rewind it was says rewind anymore I don't know what to say how would you say go back a bit and watch this bit again so left hand um let's see after four wait to play I want you to try and play all these cards with your left hand and your right hand okay so watch carefully one doing and then joining here we go one two three four two three four do liner two three four two three four F 2 3 4 G 2 3 4 a minor and all you need to do is just jump this thumb up to the a for now ok but down again 1 2 3 a minor 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 three four one two three four and then back too soon two three four you'll be playing better than me soon more yeah okay let's try this once more so now you've got that let's try this one small C major one-two-three-four one-two-three-four one-two-three-four one-two-three-four one-two-three-four one-two-three-four one-two-three-four back down down to the G three four one two three four one two three four one two three four one two three four rest okay so by now you've got six cards we've got C D minor E minor F G and E minor which we can also call cards one two three four five and six so we can play all those cards in the right hand and we've also brought the left hand in to give those cards some some nice grounding okay so hopefully that's making quite a bit of sense to you and you're able to go up and down those cards now all of the cause we've played have been in what we call the root position so that means we're just building the card on the root note like this okay if the root note now there's something else I want to go over for you really briefly and I'm only going to go over the very basics of it I've got chord inversions and these can add some really nice dimension to the cards and it can kind of kind of just add a subtle sense of melody if you if you know what you're doing with it and it can be fascinating to play so chord inversions so if we take our C major chord again we've got notes one three and five for the root the third and the fifth and four chord inversions all we're going to do is take these notes reorder them and start our chord on a different number on a different on a different note so we've got root position which is here C and instead of building it on the root just to see we're going to build it on the e so we're going to take these notes and we're going to reorder them we're going to Stanley B which is a third then we're going to play the fifth which is the G and then back to the root at the top which is C so notice how this yeah the uses exactly the same notes but we're playing them in a different order okay like this now that work that's what we call the first inversion okay so just to confuse matters we've got root position we've got first inversion built on the third note and then we can build on the fifth note as well so let's try it let's bring our thumb up to the G third finger on the C little finger on the E this here is the second inversion C chord so we've got root position first inversion second inversion okay and notice again on the second inversion it's the same note we've got a C and E and a G is just played in a different order okay so what I want to do now is give you an exercise you can do for this and I'm not going to go over every single inversion otherwise we'll be here all day now you should have the tools to be able to kind of go over these in your own time and work out what all these inversions are so I'm going to show you them in the key of C which we've just done okay those are our inversion plots and F okay root position first inversion F which is built on the again the third the fifth and the root and second inversion which is built on the root sorry the fifth the root and the third okay so it's five one three so we've got root first inversion second inversion now so those are the basics of inversions and what I want to do now is go over a bunch of exercises so you can walk away from this video actually having done something really productive and like I said before I'll take the theory of inversions and you can apply it to every single card we've done and see if we can get familiar with those as well it's a lot of work but it's well worth doing so we'll go back to inversions in a bit and I seem to be doing this with my hands all the time I don't know why I seem to be in a this kind of mood at the moment you'll have to bear with me let's play some really fun good sounding chord progressions so the first chord progression I want to play is a very common one it sounds amazing and you can hear it in virtually you know 8 2% of pop songs it's a really common cooperation you'll have heard it before and it's called the one five six four sequence and now you should understand what those numbers mean and what they represent because Codd one okay C major called 5 G major chord 6 a minor and then caught for F major okay we've got one like this okay so if we play this together nice and slowly remember we've got our counter for so after for you coming in and then I count to 4 again you're gonna change chords so after fall in on that C major chord so one two three four on the C major crotch right also I am playing with my left hand if that's too hard for you right now don't worry about it just forget about the left hand put it down and just do it in your right hand that's absolutely fine it'll still sound good you we can still play along together but I will put my left hand in so God one after four move to card five one two three four card five okay so hopefully you've got that after for up to code six one two three four six and then after for back to code for one two three four okay so let's try this again and I'll keep that account going so we can try and get it a little bit smoother what to see major first one two three four two three four G two three four two three four two three four and rest that's a sale let's try that a little bit faster again if you struggling kind of like where's my faith chord I got this one this one don't worry about it the good thing about this count when we're playing together is you can play the C chord and then you've got all that time to try and find the card two three four one two three four yeah just if you just starting out and you're finding this difficult then you know this is all part of the learning process just just keep going so let's try this again a little bit faster chord 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ok so again that's something you can practice in your own time as well another great chord sequence to do would be 4 1 6 5 so notice we're using those same four cause we're just reordering them and that's something you can do in your own time as well just take those four chords put them in any order and usually it'll sound really good anyway but let's play this one together 4 1 6 5 ok so after 4 1 after we've got F major cut so called one is F major so let's find F major after 4 1 2 3 4 ok now after 4 we're gonna move to Cod 1 which you see here 1 2 3 4 a minor one two three four and after four G major she's called five one two three four okay so let's try and keep it continuous back to C F major if to start with one two three four two three four six two three four m-mine two three four G one two three four okay once more a little bit faster after start with one two three four two three four two three four one two three four two three four okay and when you get better at this you can start putting them into loops as well so if C a minor G and then instead of stopping just go straight back into that content once again like this okay now I've got one last chord progression to do with you it's the same chord progression from Canon in D sounds absolutely amazing and Canon in D is this one here [Music] now this is obviously in the key of D so we're gonna switch keys to C because that's what we familiar with for now and so we've got cards one okay so they're not called five six three okay when I'm done three yet in a chord progression so that's called three four one four five like this okay so let's see if I can play this together let's find called one which is C major okay after far you gonna move to G which is called five one two three four cheating card six which is a minor which is this one after four one two three four after four a minor okay which is down here okay II minor which is called three one two three four liner and then called four G's F two three four and then back to Cod one two three four one and then back to four two three four and then up to G just got five two three four two three four and rest okay so that would it before let's see if we can put that all together and see if it can move between the nationís movement so god want to start with one two three four one two got five four one two three cards six one two three got three 1 2 3 cod 4 1 2 3 cod 1 1 2 3 cod 4 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 and stop oh that's quite impressive actually I'm impressed with my counting so those are some really nice chord progressions you can play around with and now on to chord inversions I've got a really nice exercise for you here and it's going to take a little bit of getting used to so if you can't do this for now just do the other stuff and then keep coming back to this video keep coming back to this section and so I showed you the chord inversions of the first card which is see here these call inversions so we've got a root position first inversion second inversion and F okay so we've got the root position first but the first inversion hopefully that's given you a few really nice fun kind of chord progressions to play around with now I want to just go back to chord inversions and if this is also if this is all a bit much farther than you know don't worry about it just play along as best you can and the more you play through this video and have a go at it the more this stuff will start to sort of seep into you and you'll be able to start playing this kind of stuff but I want to go back to inversions and show you a quick exercise that I think sounds really really nice whilst it terranes chord inversions as well and this is what it sounds like we've got C it's going to move between the inversions of C and F okay which are the two that I showed you so sounds like this okay so let's break this right down so you can see exactly what's going on here let's have Cod one choose onto C and this is the root position then we're going to move to the rest inversion and then we're going to move to the second inversion okay so let's see we can practice that after four wait to come in on the sea the root position and then after another four on to the first inversion and then after another four on to the on to the second inversion so root position first you ready 1 2 3 4 C 2 3 4 first inversion 2 3 4 second inversion let's try that again root position to our kanya 3 4 root position 2 3 4 2 3 4 second inversion 2 3 fun after this we're going to move to the F first inversion which is an a a C in an F like this built on this for the red note and then we're going to go to the Alpha root position and then down to the F second inversion so you can see how I'm just simply moving up what's natural with these they're chord inversions here okay so from the top play this one first or get into the first inversion F chord position 3 and F 2 3 4 - root position ok and then we're going to move down to the second inversion three four second inversion ok so when we put that together so let's see we can play this together really nice and slowly see root position our first chord after four and you come 1 2 3 4 C position 3 4 1 2 3 4 second inversion 2 3 up 2 F first inversion 1 2 3 root position 1 2 3 second inversion to 3 and back to the revolution C okay and that's our loop so let's say we can play that a little bit faster ok 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 2 three four okay so your task now is to take that speed it up get familiar with it and you'll find that when you play inversions like this they'll just start coming out with you're playing and you're black well that sounded really good that sounded a bit different it just adds that spice it adds that spark to just playing normal triads and it can be a lot of fun so I hope that's just that little bit of extra something for you so that's kind of it guys I really hope you've managed to kind of follow along and if you've man if you've dropped out here and there then don't worry about it you know this video is here forever you can just keep watching it keep playing through it we've covered all the basic chords in the key of C you should be able to understand how we can build those chords as well remember we've got the route we've got the third note above and we've got the fifth note above we brought the left hand in as well to ground the chord so you can start playing with both your left and your right hand we looked at some really nice chord progressions that you can use to kind of get used to switching between those cards and try and get familiar with them and finally you've got this chord inversion exercise which is a little bit more advanced but hopefully over time you'll get really good at it so that's it guys back to me okay guys so thank you so much for watching I really hope you manage to kind of keep up with this video it is 30 minutes it is intense and there's a lot packed into it so if you wanna manage to get through half of it then make sure you get familiar with the half and then come back to the video let me know how you got on in the comments below because your comments are so important to me I can make sure that I'm on the right track with these videos am I going too fast am I going too slow and I can tailor them for you remember guys like the video if you liked it subscribe to the channel and I will see you I will see you in the next video

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Length: 33min 1sec (1981 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 10 2017