How to Play Piano - Discover How to Play Piano Chords

Have you ever wondered what piano chords are and how to play piano chords? Well wonder no more.
I will help you to discover how to play piano chords in this article you are about to read.
Piano chords are just made up of three or more notes that are played simultaneously.
The notes that you have to play depend on which piano scale it is.
Just like piano scales, chords come in many different flavours.
They start at different notes along the keyboard and there are a bunch of rules which you must follow.
I believe quite firmly that you should first master the art of playing piano scales.
Without this fundamental knowledge of scales, you are going to find it quite difficult to learn chords.
The reason behind learning scales first is that chords are very much linked to playing scales.
To demonstrate why this is so, you just need to know the rules of playing a chord such as a chord consisting of three notes.
- A quick recap on scales Major scales follow a simple pattern of whole tones and semi or half tones.
The pattern is like so: Whole tone, whole tone, semi tone, whole tone, whole tone, whole tone, semi tone.
To read this easier, you can remember it like so: WWSWWWS.
W stands for whole tone and S stands for semi tone.
The minor scale pattern is like so: WSWWSWW - How to play piano chords Start at the first note in the scale we are playing.
So if we are playing the C major chord, we start at the C note.
Skip the second note and play E and finally skip the fourth note and play G.
Playing CEG at the same time is the C major chord.
To play chords made up of three notes we just simply follow the rule of playing notes 1-3-5 in that scale.
The other thing that we need to remember is that we need to use our thumb, middle finger and last finger.
Using the right fingers is essential to playing a chord.
We might find it easier in some chords to use the index finger instead of the middle finger.
When we practise playing chords we ought to use a metronome to stay at the right tempo.
Tempo is very important when playing piano pieces.
In conclusion, this article has helped us discover what chords are and how to play a simple three note chord.
The rules are there and you just need to know your scales and chords should come pretty easily.