
What are the different intervals on a piano? To form a chord, you know now that you need to combine at least 3 notes together.īut you can’t just take any note and put them together and say that you are playing chords.Īnd these rules are based on note intervals.īut don’t worry, it is not too complicated. If you want to know more about the piano keys, read this! On your keyboard, you have different notes (88 on a regular piano keyboard) with different pitch height. Which can bring back some interesting instability and movement in the music.įor now, we need to understand the foundations of a chord, which is a group of notes. With three notes (or legs), it is perfectly stable and you can build from it. With two notes (or legs), it is slightly better, you might start to be able to make it stand. With one note (one leg), your table won’t be stable and you can’t do much on it. My personal view is to see this as the legs of a table. Let’s start with the beginning, how chords are formed.Ĭhords are made of a least, and the most often, three notes. Stay tuned, I will explain further what you need to know about chords. You know it all now and you can go do something else.

There are musical structures you can build music on.Ī chord is a group of notes played together at the same time.

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So let’s not lose any more time and dive into the wonderful world of piano chords!ĭownload the FREE piano chord book and play hundreds of chords without learning them by heart: They can bring joy or sadness, mysterious ambiance or fulfilled resolution of an existing tension.Ĭhords give a context, an harmonic context to a melody. I have spent years only trying to reproduce (badly!) classical pieces that I didn’t always feel in my heart.Īnd chords are an essential vector of emotion. I learned piano without knowing any chords for years.īecause I missed a good part of what music is.
