Chords for How to Play Piano - Learn Pop Songs on the Piano in 5 Minutes

Have you always wanted to play those pop songs you hear on the radio?
Adele, Bruno Mars, The Beatles.
But you always heard piano was hard, didn't you?
Just give me the next five minutes and I'll show you how you can almost instantly be playing
all of your favorite songs on the piano, even if you've never even touched a piano before. _ _ _
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_ [C] Jacques Hopkins here with Piano in 21 Days, where I've taught thousands just like you
to learn piano in the least possible amount of time.
In this video, I've included some of my best tips and tricks to get you playing your favorite
pop songs on the piano in just five minutes.
So let's go ahead and start our timer and begin.
A standard piano has 88 total keys.
Some are black, some are white, but don't let it be complicated.
They're all just keys.
And the only reason for having [F] black and white keys is so you know where you are on the piano.
Now you don't need to memorize all 88 keys because each section of 12 keys just repeats
itself over and over again across the entire piano.
So here we go with the keys.
The white key just to the left of two black keys is C.
Next is D.
Then we have E just
to the right of these two black keys.
Next is F to the left of the three black keys.
Then G.
After G, the alphabet starts over in music.
So this is not H, but it's A.
So from G we go to A.
And finally we have B, which is just
to the right of the three black keys.
Now the black notes are called flats and sharps.
A black key just to the left of a white key is a flat, and a black key just to the right
key is a sharp.
To remember that, just remember that flat and left both have the letters F-L-T in them.
So flat is left and sharp is right.
Now that you know all the keys on the piano, let's talk about how you can play your favorite pop songs.
You see, any pop song can be broken down into chords, which is just multiple notes played
at the same time.
And there are a lot of chords out there, but the majority of them fall into one of two
categories, [C] either major chords or minor chords.
The major chords are the ones that sound all happy and cheery, kind of like this.
_ And the minor chords sound a little more sad and dreary, like [Cm] this.
_ _ So here's all you need to know in order to play all the major and minor chords on the piano.
For major [C] chords, just remember four, three.
And for minor chords, just remember three, four.
Let me show you what I mean.
Let's say you want to play C major.
Start at C, and we'll go up the very next four keys.
One, two, three, four.
And then three.
One, two, three.
There's our C major chord.
Now if instead we wanted to play C minor, we would just reverse the formula to three,
four.
So we'll go one, two, three.
One, two, three, [Cm] four.
There's our C minor.
In the left hand, we're just going to play two C's.
So again, with the left hand, C [C] major is like this.
[Cm] And the left hand for C minor is the same.
So now let's try a couple more.
Let's do F sharp minor.
So we'll find our F key.
It's sharp, so that's to the right.
So it's a black note.
Then it's a minor chord, so we'll use the formula three, four.
We'll go one, two, three.
One, two, three, [F#m] four.
We'll do our two F sharps in the left hand.
There's our F sharp [A#] minor.
Let's try B flat major next.
So here's our B key.
It's flat, think left.
Okay.
And then it's major, so let's do four, then three.
One, two, three, four.
One, two, three.
Two B flats in the left hand.
And [C] there we go.
So now you know every major and minor chord
on the entire piano.
But the next question is, how do you know
what chords to play for your favorite songs?
Jump on over to Google and type in the name of the song
that you want to learn how to play,
followed by the word chords.
In this example, I want to learn how to play
Let It Be by The Beatles.
So I'm just going to type in Let It Be chords
and search for that.
The first result will almost always be a good one,
so just click on that, and there you have
the chords to that song.
So this song starts out with our C major chord.
_ _ [G] Next we move to G major.
_ Then A minor, so it's minor, think three, four.
One, two, three.
One, two, three, [Am] four.
_ Then F [F] major.
[C] Then C major.
[G] G major.
F [F] major.
Now here's a tricky one with the slash.
That just means you're playing a different one
in your right and your left hand.
So this C slash E would be a C [C] major in your right hand
and an E in your left hand.
_ _ And then [Dm] we have D minor and [C] C major.
_ So it sounds something like this. _ _
[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ [Em] Now that is obviously a very basic version of the song,
but there are a lot of advanced techniques
we can throw in there to spice it up a bit.
For example, we could play our pointer finger
in the left hand.
We can do something called an inversion.
So for example, our C major chord,
we could play the same notes, but just in a different order.
And eventually it can sound a little something like this.
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[G] _ _ [Am] _ _ [F] _ _ [C] _ _
[G] _ _ _ [D] _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ So it looks like we hit our time of just five minutes.
So go ahead and try this method out
with some of your favorite pop songs.
And when you're ready to learn
some of the more advanced techniques,
I've got a free ebook waiting for you
at pianoin21days.com.
Just click on the image of this ebook
or click the link in the description below.
Good luck. _ _
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