The 5 Levels Of Learning Piano Chords: Beginner to PRO

this is your ultimate road map for learning all of your piano chords and how to Jazz them up today we're going from 0 to 100 level one this is where you don't know any chords at all so in level one we are going to touch on just a few major and minor chords that are extremely popular in music and if you have no idea what a major and minor chord is a major chord typically sounds happy and a minor chord typically sounds sad so for level one I recommend learning C Major G major a minor and F major why these chords are like the building blocks of music they are found in tons of songs seriously hundreds of songs check out this video from Axis of Awesome in this video they have mixed a lot of these songs together that use this chord progression and it's pretty awesome I could I I'd go Wherever You Will you feel the love tonight so if you start with these four chords you can quickly start playing a lot of your favorite songs so let's go with learning these chords on the piano C major is always c g g major is always GB D A minor is always a c e and f major is always f a c and if you're in level one I recommend playing what we call a a fifth in your left hand so a fifth is basically five notes apart so for example C to G is five notes apart so if you're playing C major then just play the fifth of C major in your left hand C to G if you're playing G major then play G D A minor a e and then F major would be f c so practice between these chords and get comfortable with that then pick one of the songs with this chord progression and start practicing it you could refer to the AIS of Awesome song for a list of a lot of these songs that have the score progression some of my favorites are Let It Be by the Beatles or I'm Yours by Jason morz and you can easily find these songs online by going to a website called ultimate guitar.com and you can find it like this so for playing a chord sheet like this you're basically going to play the chord where it lines up with the lyrics so it would go like this but I won't head no more no more and on these sheets major chords are written with a capital letter and minor chords will have a capital letter and a lowercase M next to it like this once you can play a song with these four chords you have passed level one level two now that you've mastered the basics it's time to expand your chord vocabulary in level two learn all the rest of the major and minor chords so every key on the piano has a corresponding major and minor chord so for example a has a major and a minor this means that there are 12 major chords and 12 minor chords and here is a huge hack for major chords you can use the formula 4 + 3 to find any of them watch this here's a c now I'm going to count four 1 2 3 4 and then 1 2 3 that is how I would find C major but what if I wanted to find another chord like E major so here's e I'm going to count four 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 that is e major and you can do that with every single major chord and then with minor Chords it's actually the opposite you're going to do 3 + 4 so watch if I wanted toine C minor press c 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 that is C minor now that you know how to find all of your major and minor chords you're going to practice them until you know them quite well but to make sure you still have fun look up the chords to your favorite songs online and start playing some more songs practice songs that just have major and minor chords in them so some of my favorite songs that work with this are wild horses by The Rolling Stones or Love Me Do by The Beatles In level three we're now going to dive into cores that add some tension to your your music we're going to add suspended and diminished chords for suspended chords there's actually two types sus two and sus four basically with suspended chords we're going to replace the middle note of the chord so for example C sus two is this and C sus4 is this and don't worry I have wonderful formulas for you the suspended 2 formula is 2 + 5 so say c 1 2 and then 1 2 3 4 5 for the suspended four it's going to be 5 + 2 so you go c 1 2 3 4 5 and then 1 2 and when you're playing on a chord chart they're going to look like this one of my favorite songs with suspended chords is Tom Petty's free Fallen and our other new tension chord is called diminish chords diminish chords are like super minor chords a very quick way to find diminish chords is by using the formula 3 + 3 so watch this if I wanted to find C diminished I would say c 1 2 3 1 2 3 so to complete level three Now find some songs with these new added chords some good ones to practice with are free Fallen by Tom Petty or Perfect by Ed Sheeran before we get to level four and five let me know in the comments which level are you at level four now it's time to master seventh chords and there's a lot of different types of seventh chords today we're going to do major minor and dominant seventh chords these chords add some rich and sophistication to music and they're basically Jazzy or bluesy so the first one we're going to go over is a dominant seventh chord this is probably the most common used one and this is a four note chord so let's find one we're going to use the formula 4 + 3 + 3 so let's do c dominant 7 c 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 and on your chord charts you'll see them written like this [Music] next is minor 7th chords again this is a four node chord and here's the formula all you're really doing is building a minor chord first so the formula is 3 + 4 + 3 so let's do C Minor 7 c 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 and you will see these written in music like this and our last one is major 7th chords again this is a four note chord and you're going to build a major chord first so if I was doing C major 7 it's going to be say c 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 and you'll see it written in music like this once you get familiar with the seventh chords Now find some more songs online that include seventh chords some of my favorites are Fallen by alashi keys or fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra and now we've finally made it to level five we've learned all the main chords in music now we want to add some Pizzaz because no one wants to just play boring chords train your left hand to do some different things for example if your right hand was playing C you could play Just A C in your left hand you could play the fifth or you could start playing an octave which is eight notes apart so if you're playing C major then you would play the C octave in your left hand if you're G major you'd be doing G in your left hand and so on then experiment with some Rhythm patterns to add some flare so I'm going to give you three examples of what that would look like but by the way there's a billion ways you could do this you could add arpeggios you could break up the chords you could toss between your hands a little bit and of course there is so much more to learning the piano and there's so much to learn about how to play your favorite songs but what about the melody what are more ways you can Jazz up the chords too in my free training I show you exactly what to learn on the piano in order it shows you the exact road map that you need to take to be able to learn your favorite songs more quickly don't wasit waste your time just piddling around with a bunch of different YouTube videos and that's what my student Jim did he actually learned all of his cords he learned how to play the sustain pedal correctly he learned so much in my piano accelerator program after only 6 months and he even claims to have not practiced for about two of those months check it [Music] out to watch my free training and to see Jim's full video testimonial head to the links in the description below and if this video helped you be sure to like And subscribe and I will see you next [Music] time

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Length: 10min 29sec (629 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2024