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Always strive for the most natural position for the hand.when the first note is not a black key) you should involve the thumb.

In general, avoid using the thumb for the black keys.

Here are some advice to lead you to right practice: The fingers to use when playing piano chords varies. This is far more natural than the opposite because the harmony and melody sound better combined this way. If you play solo, you are mostly playing the chords with your left hand and the melody with your right. the root note first and when the rest of the notes or the root followed by the whole chord on a higher octave, called stride chords). Other piano techniques include playing chords in two parts (e.g. you play in a band or with a singer) you can choose to play only with one hand or with both, depending on how advanced things you are playing – when playing chords including many notes, using two hands can be advantageous (see Two-hands chords). So which hand do you play chords on piano with? The answer is that it depends.įor musical accompaniment (i.e. It is also important to use the right fingers and this is called fingerings. As you make progress, you will find more ways of altering the outcome. A chord can be played by pressing down all the relevant keys simultaneously or each at a time. When you know which notes that belong to a chord, you can play it in several ways. C7, C9, C11), they are adding notes using intervals from the root of the chords with seventh, ninth and eleventh degrees. The Cm7 adds one note to Cm, the seventh in the C minor scale.

The Cmaj7 chord adds one note to C, the seventh in the C major scale. Building chordsĪ good way to learn chords on the piano is to be familiar with how they are constructed. In addition, chords with six or seven notes also exist. There are triads (three notes), four-note (sometimes called tetrachords) and five-note chords. One thing that differ among chords is how many notes that are included. There are lots of different chords that can be organized in different groups and categories. If you are curious, there is the "CAGED" system, based around chord shapes popular amongst jazz players, but there other systems as well.Īt the end, learning the scales will help you to improvise solos, create new melodies and start playing second instruments in the background of a song making beautiful and harmonic sounds.A chord is a group of notes that can be played together and function as the harmony in music. Many rock, blues, metal players rely on this system solely. Scales can be thought as one of the systems to organize and get to know well your fretboard. It tells you which note will be diatonic, i.e., a scale notes, and which one will not be, which can be used to build tension for example. So, you can use scales with melody and improvisation.Ĭonsidering both statements above, scale knowledge facilitates composition a lot. So you can more or less play notes of the C major scale and they will sound good over this chord, but not all of them equally good. So if you see a G7 chord, it's a C major scale chord, or G mixolydian if we were talking about modes. Īnd, reversed, when you see the chord and you know from which scale it has been constructed, you can use this scale to improvise or compose a melody over that chord. In this case scales are then the backbone of chord building and harmony. If you are intent on playing an instrument then learning the language of music is going to be inevitable. Scales are important for a guitarist, just as learning good grammar is important to speaking properly. Each scale, whether it be major, minor, dominant, Lydian Dominant, Harmonic minor, pentatonic and on, enables you to construct different set of chords, because of its structure, i.e., the intervals between notes of the scales. Scales are the foundation to building the chords.