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Piano Chord Dictionary

For my students, it's important to review the language of piano chords.
Major and Minor chords, that is, for beginner piano students. There are many valuable resources for sale from music dictionaries to theory music books. Understanding the name of chords and how to play them will open up a whole new world for you.

I found this awesome tutorial, online chord dictionary, from latinpianist.
View the clip, study it, repeat it and use it as a warm up. With practice, watch how you can quickly grab these basic chords... you're on your way!

Beginner's Chord Dictionary

This a beginner's video to all those people that need to know how to play all the basic chords on the piano.
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Credits: VozUngida (Yeisha) (Video Editing and Video Recording)

* On The Go Music Resource
If you're interested learning the formation of chords while you're in your car, at the gym, jogging or at home, purchase Hear and Play's Chords Audio Course. I have the set and highly recommend it. It goes hand in hand with a chord dictionary, and it's on tape!
Click Here, Chords (Audio)

* Music Resources

Piano Chord Dictionary By Morton Manus. For Electronic Keyboard. Electronic Keyboard. Book. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing. (285)
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Now that you know your major scales, the next thing is to learn the formulas for your 4 basic types of chords. Once you learn the formulas, apply them to each key one at a time until you go through all 12 keys. Here is the order that you should learn and play them in:

Major = 1-3-5
Minor = 1-b3-5
Diminished = 1-b3-b5
*Fully diminished = 1-b3-b5-bb7 *just an extension of the regular diminished chord
Augmented = 1-3-#5

As you go through learning and practicing the chords in this order, you will find that the last note for the augmented chord is also the last note for the major chord in the very next key. The next thing you should learn are the chords that are built off each scale degree of the major scale for every key. Again, learn it one key at a time until you go through all 12 keys:

1st - major
2nd - minor
3rd - minor
4th - major
5th - major
6th - minor
7th - diminished

Then move on to learning progressions. Play progressions like the 1-4-5, 2-5-1, 7-3-6, etc.

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Learn To Play Piano By Ear Harmonizing Melodies With Chords

Here 's my review for HearandPlay's GospelKeys 101 Dvd

Great Beginning- GospelKeys101

I love GospelKeys101!!!Here's an outline of the Dvd:

1. How To Instantly Figure Out Chords To Simple Melodies
(How to put chords behind certain notes)
A. Determine The Melody
B. Harmonize The Melody
C. Adding The Bass

2. Songs You'll Be Playing Right Away
A. Kumbayah, Jesus Love Me
B. Wheels On The Bus, Mary's Lamb

3. Inversions
(Different Ways To Play Chords

4. Primary Chords
( I IV V )

5. Exercises

6. Bass Techniques

I highly recommend this Dvd for those who want to play without sheet music!

http://zone.hearandplay.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Review&file=index&req=showcontent&id=187

This Dvd will teach you everything you need to know to get started playing basic hymns and congregational songs by ear. If you're a beginner and would like your very own gospel piano teacher on dvd, this course is definitely for you! This dvd course moves at a very comfortable pace and leaves no questions unanswered.

Step One: Determining the Melody

Step Two: Harmonizing the Melody

Step Three: Adding the Bass

These three steps are not super complicated theories that require several years of experience. In fact, they were designed for the total beginner with absolutely no musical experience.

What most people don't understand is that most songs follow patterns. If you've been mistakenly learning songs, one by one, you're only exercising your ability to MEMORIZE chords --- and that's exactly why it takes SO LONG to learn just one song.

BUT...

If you concentrate on LEARNING PATTERNS, you'll never go wrong because songs are built on repeating patterns. You should NEVER
EVER have to memorize over 100 songs when they all share the same exact CHORDS, PROGRESSIONS, AND PATTERNS.

Click Here, GospelKeys101

* Learn To Play Piano By Ear Harmonizing Melodies With Chords

This harmonization scale technique that I've learned from this "Gospel Keys 101" DVD has helped me A LOT to instantly play songs by ear. Anyone can pick up a melody, but learning how to harmonize it with chords. After I learned the "Harmonization Scale" from this video, I was surprised how quickly I put chords and bass to the melody, resulting in full-sounding songs. This Harmonization Scale is also taught in their best selling 300 pg piano course:

Click Here, 300 Page Piano Course

* Gospel Keys 101: The Secret To Playing Hymns!

The GospelKeysTM 101 Series dvd course will teach you everything you need to know to get started playing basic hymns and congregational songs. I will show you, step-by-step, how to harmonize every single tone of the major scale. AND since songs are based on melodies (and melodies are based on major scales), you'll be able to harmonize MOST songs.

Sara Bareilles Love Song- Tutorial

Sara Bareilles: Love Song l LadyDpiano.com

"Sara Beth Bareilles is a Grammy Nominated American singer-songwriter and pianist. She achieved mainstream success in 2007 with the hit single "Love Song", which brought her into the number one spot on the Billboard Pop 100 chart."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Bareilles

How to play Love Song by Sara Bareilles on Piano / Keyboard