The most effective practice for learning piano chords 🎹

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LESSON SUMMARY
Chords are a key ingredient in making music. However, many beginner students struggle to gain proficiency with basic 3-note chords. When this occurs, it's usually because they don't understand how different chords are related. Today's Quick Tip will help beginner pianists gain mastery in playing chords by exploring chord relationships in a memorable way. You'll learn:
-What are Diatonic Chords?
-What Does 'Diatonic' Mean?
-Learning Piano Chords with 'The Function Method'
-How to Master Diatonic Triads in 3 Months

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Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - How Most Students Learn Chords
02:03 - Learn Chords by Function
02:17 - Step 1: Start with a Major Scale
02:39 - Step 2: Stack 2 Third Intervals on Each Note
04:01 - Pop Chord Progressions
04:22 - Diatonic Chords
04:39 - Memorize the Formula
05:25 - Chord Game
05:59 - Step 3: Assign the Chord Quality
06:51 - How to Practice
08:29 - Conclusion
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Happy practicing!
Jonny May

[PianoWithJonny]

00:00 - Intro
00:48 - How Most Students Learn Chords
02:03 - Learn Chords by Function
02:17 - Step 1: Start with a Major Scale
02:39 - Step 2: Stack 2 Third Intervals on Each Note
04:01 - Pop Chord Progressions
04:22 - Diatonic Chords
04:39 - Memorize the Formula
05:25 - Chord Game
05:59 - Step 3: Assign the Chord Quality
06:51 - How to Practice
08:29 - Conclusion

[Pauluz_The_Web_Gnome]

First time in my 55 Years of musical "career", that I have learned the diatonic scale! Wooow...I feel real motivated! Always make music without musical theory, but I feel that I am sort of stuck...So I searched the net to learn musical theory, and here I am....I wish a year of hard practicing had gone by already! Your video inspired me to make this important step!

[ladyp]

Thank you much for this video! So helpful and something to work on!

[einzwei]

Cool lesson to put things into perspective for newbies like me.

[tompetrie]

Hello Jonny...Great information! Thanks much!

[dwightthompson]

Thanks Johnny I really like how you explain the chords

[gedinchristian]

I like your method witch I consider the best I find on the web because you go depth in each learning opposite of a lot of method who pretend avoid work and difficulty. No progress without work. thank you for your site very well organized.

[jonathanstephensmusic]

Great video! This is a really effective way to learn the chords within a key!

[DavidShort-ovvb]

I find it interesting that some people who know how to read music 🎵 cannot play a basic song 🎶 without the sheet music in front of them. And they play far better than I do. My first guitar teacher taught me chord progressions in each key where I don’t need sheet music for most songs to play. When I learned where middle C was on the piano 🎹 I could play your basic songs. It’s hard to play with someone who took piano lessons. Why don’t they not teach you chord progressions?

[HUMZMIC]

That was very Educational THANKS....I LIKE!!!

[vilmaguillermo]

Thank you so much..I am your new subscriber from the province of Isabela, Cagayan Valley, Philippines. I am a beginner in playing piano. I hope and pray that I will be able to learn a lot from your lesson. God bless

[maloneycraig]

One could argue that internalizing triads (and chords) BOTH ways is important. How they are constructed from intervals AND how they are built diatonically off a certain scale (major, melodic minor, 6-th diminished, etc).

[ironfistentertainmentptylt]

Yes sir. New subscriber here. Taking you up on this three month journey.

[patricktobin]

Any information helps to understand better.👌😎

[RenegadeAngel]

It's pretty self-evident that this a superior method. I am pretty surprised if there is somebody who has not figured out this yet :)

[dunefour]

Hi Jonny - what is the model of Yamaha keyboard you are using? Thanks

[makzoor]

This is brilliant lesson! I love practicing it. Im new to piano. I don't know if i am missing something, or there is a mistake on every 3rd chord in fingering on left hand in lesson sheet. First two are 1, 3, 5, which is fine and then 5, 2, 1?

[billligon]

I'm like classical piano been playing a long time, but never got the theory thing. So I'm thinking to instantly recognize chords will help me learn a piece faster and memorize it better. Do you have a program just for learning chords faster?

[deni-gibbs]

I liked what you said. I'm going to get me a keyboard. I know the notes.. but that's about it. Any suggestions?

[kwright]

The thing is, watching all of these adhoc videos su just as this you will learn the piano at such a snail pace that you just won't bother in the end. This is how I learnt my chords but you need a more structured approach to go beyond this. And sometimes watching someone playing great tunes can add to frustration cos. One must find a structured approach otherwise you will be going round in circles!