The chord will be B-flat – D – F.Īt this point, you’re probably thinking, “Zach, what’s up with the boom?” The reason is, when I first started teaching this, the biggest mistake beginners would make is they’d count the first note when they’re doing the 4-3 method and they’d end up playing the wrong notes. Even though it’s a little trickier, it’s the exact same formula, we just have some black notes now. Let’s say we do a little trickier one – a B flat major chord. We can use this “Boom 4-3” method again to find the F major chord and we’ll find that it’s F-A-C. Also, if you want to watch me finding the C major chord with the “Boom 4-3” method check out this video. You start on C (Boom) then you count 4 notes to the right for your next note and 3 more notes to the right for your final note. How it works is let’s say you want to find a C major chord. The formula for finding major chords is what I call the “Boom 4-3” method.
#THROUGH IT ALL CHORDS PIANO HOW TO#
How to Find Major Chords (The Boom 4-3 Method) How do we figure out these chords? I’m going to give you a couple very simple step-by-step formulas. If you know your major and minor chords, you’ll be able to play 99% of popular songs out there. One of the reasons major and minor chords are so popular is that by mixing them we can get happy, we can get sad, and we can get any human emotion in between. Major chords have a very happy sound to them while minor chords are the exact opposite, sounding very sad. The two most common types of chords are major chords and minor chords. I could play a few notes and name that collection the “Zach Chord” because a chord is just a group of notes we add a name to. So, we’re literally going to sit down and learn the song “All of Me” by John Legend by using chords, without reading sheet music and without playing by ear.Īt the end of the blog post I have a little quiz for you just to make sure that you truly did learn everything I’m talking about today and that you are mastering all of the chords.Īlright, let’s get started! What is a Piano Chord?įirst off, what is a chord? It’s simple, a chord is just a collection of notes. I looked up a lot of YouTube videos on how to learn chords and many of them talked about theory of chords but then they never showed you how to put these chords into a song you actually want to learn. Then, you’re going to learn an actual song using chords.
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On top of that, I’m even going to give you some downloadable PDF cheat sheets so you can check your answers and find any chord almost instantly. In this blog post I’m going to simplify the process and give you a couple of easy step-by-step formulas for finding any major or minor piano chord. What’s up my piano friends! Today we’re going to go over my ultimate step-by-step simple version of chords on piano for beginners.
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