Playing Piano has been one of the greatest things that I have been blessed to actually learn how to do in my life. There are lots of ways to learn how to play the piano but there is definitely a few that are WAY more successful. If you want to learn how to play piano chords then you are actually one step ahead of the rest in my opinion. Most traditional students fail at piano lessons. The ones who learn how to play piano chords are the ones who usually play for life.

Learning how to play piano chords is actually very, very easy. Once you know the tricks, you can find any major or minor piano chord in no time at all. Below is a detail on how to find piano chords so that you can learn how to play piano chords which will in turn allow you to play the piano faster than you have ever dreamed possible.

1. How to make any MAJOR chord is as simple as finding 3 things. a. Root, Major Third, and a Fifth

THE ROOT: of any chord we know as the actual key of that chord. So if we want to find the root of the C chord, we simply start at the C key.

FINDING THE MAJOR THIRD: Go 4 half steps up from the root and that is the major third. For example E is the major third of the C Chord, it lies 4 half steps above the root C.

FINDING THE FIFTH: Go 3 half steps up from the major third. So in this example we will go up from the E 3 half steps which lands us on the G key. So C,E,G makes up the C major Chord.

2. How to make any MINOR chord is as simple as finding 3 things a. Root, Minor Third, and a Fifth

SIMPLE TRICK: to make a major chord a minor chord, take the major third a half step down – that’s it!!! Sounds “darker”

There is no reason to make it any harder than it needs to be. Just take your major third down a half step to find your minor third and complete the minor chord.

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