The piano chords you need to know
Any budding pianist wants to learn their first songs as quickly as possible, I remember jumping straight into playing songs without even bothering to read up about even the most basic theory. In hindsight I’m glad that I did, because if I had to spend months of my life playing the same scales over and over again without even learning a song I’m sure I would have given up. Sometimes learning even simple songs is enough to motivate you to stick at the piano, this article is intended to help beginners start playing actual songs as quickly as possible by teaching them the most common and important piano chords. I’m positive that I would have had a far better time learning piano if I forgot about scales for a while and tried to learn piano chords instead.
In order to play any song we need to be able to play the chords which form the framework of the music, the beauty of learning chords is that even if you only remember 3, you are already capable of playing thousands of songs. So, the question which should be asked is, which chords do I need to learn in order to play the widest array of songs? I have found that I use the same 5 easy piano chords to play a large number of contemporary songs, these chords are C, D, G, Am and Em.
The more experienced musicians among you may recognize that these chords are all drawn from the key of C, though this is hardly important at this stage. Please note that this article isn’t going describe the fingerings of these chords because it is far easier for you to learn them on a piano chord chart, what I want to put across to you is the huge potential these chords have. Whether you like rock music, ballads, pop music or anything in between, these chords will be invaluable to you.
Learn these chords and you can play; Let it be, Simple man, Born free, Hero, Someday and many more, you will astounded with what you can accomplish with these 5 alone. The only drawback to learning these chords is that if you’re a jazz player, these chords may be ill suited to your purpose, you may be better off learning a similar set of Jazz piano chords (a lot of Jazz chords are formed by adding a 7th to the end of a major chord).
So there you have it, C, D, G, Am and Em are the chords you absolutely need to know if your unhappy with the number of songs you can currently play, I guarantee you will not be disappointed if you learn these. What makes learning these chords even better is that you can transpose songs into the key of c, if they are built around the same sequence, even if they were not originally recorded in that key! An excellent example of this would be Don’t stop believing by Journey.
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