Anyone that plays piano or guitar.?
I’m trying to teach myself to play piano, but I’m stuck. I want to learn to play by chords instead of music, but I have no idea how to do it. I got a thing off of the internet and it has all of the chords that are in a certain key, but I don’t really know how to use them in a song. And plus their for guitar, and I don’t know if that would make a difference with piano or not.
Anyone that has any imformation PLEASE help. I am desperate. And please give as much info as you know.
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Chords are the same for piano and guitar. Chords are simply groups of notes. So, if you downloaded something that gives you the chords for the key of D on guitar, you can use those on piano too. Your 3 major chords in every key are the basis for modern songwriting. In D, that’s the D chord, the G chord, and the A chord. F# minor and B minor are really common too, in the key of D.
Just start putting chords after one another and find a sound you like. Experiment!
Here’s a great, free, downloadable theory workbook. It will get you going in no time. (It’s not mine — I just think it’s the best free theory course out there, bar none.)
http://www.gmajormusictheory.org/Fundamentals/workbooks.html