Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Your Free Piano Chords to Download


When you're beginning piano lessons, it's very useful to have a piano chord chart. A basic chord knowledge will offer you the foundation and structure of your piano playing. The sooner you learn some basic chords, the quicker will be for you to play numerous types of music.

Starting with a Basic Chart for Chords on Piano.

Here you'll find a piano chord chart for you to download and it contains the 3 basic chord types: major, minor and seventh chords. After you learn a few chords well, you'll be ready to tackle other areas of music such as: playing from a fake book, writing songs, doing piano accompaniment, improvising, arranging, etc. .

Normally, most popular sheet music, regardless of the style, shows the chord symbols on the staff. However, in any classical piano piece, you'll see that there are no chord symbols listed above the notes. Although classical composers composed their music based on chords and harmonies, they never wrote chord symbols.

Even nowadays many musicians who play classical music, and sometimes popular music, have very little or no knowledge of chords. Since they're playing the notes just as they appear on the sheet music, they don't have to know the chords. This piano chord chart will give you a fast start, and when you can play a few chords well, you'll have a new world of possibilities available.

Some months ago, I got a phone call from a lady whose son heard me playing piano somewhere and got my phone number from a friend. She asked me if I would be willing to accompany her son on the piano for an upcoming recital. She sounded worried "I've called a few piano teachers to play piano accompaniment for my son's sax recital".

I was surprised that none of the teachers knew how to accompany her son. I asked the mother if we could meet so I could see the sheet music of the songs to be played during the recital. The songs were printed as lead sheets, in other words there was no left hand, only chord symbols above the melody notes.

I suspected that the teachers in all likelihood were familiar with chords, however they didn't know how to use them for an accompaniment. To put it differently, they couldn't make an accompaniment using the chord symbols listed (more on this below). When you learn more of the chords on this piano chord chart, you'll understand how beneficial chords can be .

You probably are not ready for arrangements yet, but I wanted to give you an idea of some of the benefits when you learn your chords well. This chart with FREE piano chords has the fundamental chords, and in the future I'll include more chords for advanced piano players.

If you have a natural gift for music, playing chords will be much easier for you and you'll better understand why knowing chords will make learning easier.

In the meantime, try to master the chords on this piano chord chart so you can perform lots of songs. You can learn piano quicker and easier by memorizing many chords and learning to read the notes on the right hand. It's time for you to begin going over these chords so you can enjoy your choice of music.

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