Piano Hack #5 – 6 Chords To Play 100s Of Songs
You can very quickly create 6 of the most common chords from the C major scale. Simply take the chord shape of the C major chord and move it up the C major scale from steps 1 to six.
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Piano Hack #4 – Minor Chords
Just as major chords, minor chords consist of three notes stacked upon one another. You can create it by playing the root, adding the minor third, and the fifth.
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Piano Hack #3 – Major Chords
Major chords consist of three notes that are stacked upon one another. The first one is the root. For the C major chord the root is C.
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Piano Hack #2 – Intervals
This Piano Hack is about intervals or the distance between two notes. On the piano you can easily count this distance by counting the keys between two notes. The distance between C and the next E to the right, for example, is four half-steps. It is called a major third.
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