Intro To the Keyboard

This is the definition of redundant but I can’t jump into the keys without starting from the beginning. So, here we go

Keys on the piano

 

 

Hand Positioning (in the key of C)

Scales

Once again we tackle scales. That’s bow important they are. If you learn your scales and chords, you can play anything. I’ve seen it and I’ve done it, so I know it’s true.

 

Some exercise to help with your scales

Chords 

A chord, in music, is any harmonic set of pitches consisting of two or more (usually three or more) notes (also called “pitches”) that are heard as if sounding simultaneously. An ordered series of chords is called a chord progression. One example of a widely used chord progression in Western traditional music and blues is the 12 bar blues progression. Although any chord may in principle be followed by any other chord, certain patterns of chords are more common in Western music, and some patterns have been accepted as establishing the key(tonic note) in common-practice harmony–notably the movement between tonic and dominant chords.To describe this, Western music theory has developed the practice of numbering chords using Roman numerals which represent the number of diatonic steps up from the tonic note of the scale.

Here is a list of some chords I think will be useful to anyone: