Piano Chord and Song Accompaniment

July 7th, 2010 |

Much has been accounting about acquirements the Piano application Chords. There are abounding internet assets accessible to advise chords, but my acquaintance of them is that they are circuitous and abridgement a simple analytic approach. A added able strategy, that has formed able-bodied with my students, is to advise the piano in a agnate way to basal guitar. I get my acceptance to apprentice some ambit shapes and simple “strumming” techniques, and in a actual abbreviate time, they can play forth with their favourite songs.

So what ambit shapes to learn? The easiest approach, that I accept begin over the years, is to apprentice all the Major chords and from there all added chords can be acquired quickly. And the best way of acquirements is a beheld one, that employs basal shapes formed by the white and atramentous keys on the piano for anniversary Major chord.

How do you “strum” a piano chord? Able-bodied there three capital apparatus that I accept used. The aboriginal is to play chords in blocksand apply altered rhythms for appropriate and larboard hands. This is the agnate of strumming a guitar with a aces or hand. The next is to aces out alone addendum one at a time in altered patterns, which is the agnate of finger-picking on a guitar. And assuredly you can add riffs or hooks in your arena to accomplish a complete accompaniment.

In accession to these techniques, I apply a Piano Ambit Ruler, which can be placed on the piano to advice acceptance acquisition any ambit they like. In that way, they never get absent with chords. They aswell acquisition the beheld colouring on the Ruler is a added aid to memorising the ambit shapes.The added account of this access is that already you apprentice the address for basal chords like Major and Minor, it is absolutely aforementioned for added circuitous chords – Major 7th, Minor 6th, Diminished, Augmented. So acquirements gets easier as you advance and not harder.