Piano for Beginners 151 E D Eb F F# G Ab
152 Piano for Beginners Chords and scales Simple and popular for a reason Major chords Basic major chords are incredibly popular in Western pop music, probably because many of them are easy to play and they give your songs a happy feel. These chords contain the first, third, and fifth notes in the corresponding major scale. It’s worth noting that the ‘major’ isn’t often referred to when you see these chords written down – just the letter. A B B F# G A E E F C D D
Piano for Beginners 153 The best way to get a sad sound Minor chords A basic minor chord will always give you a much sadder sound than a major chord. This happens because the third note in the major scale is ‘flattened’ in pitch by one semitone. For example, ‘E’ is the third note in the C major scale (CDEFGAB), and this is flattened by a semitone to Eb, which ends up giving a C minor chord its distinctive melancholy sound. A B B F# G G# E E F C C# D
154 Piano for Beginners Chords and scales Improve your progressions with seventh chords Dominant seventh chords The chords that we have seen so far consist of the first, third and fifth notes of a scale, so naturally the next step is the seventh. A dominant seventh chord (shown simply as ‘7’) is formed with the first, third, fifth, and flattened seventh notes of a scale. ‘B’ is the seventh note in the C major scale (CDEFGAB), so a C7 chord can contain C, E, G, and Bb. A7 B 7 B7 F#7 G7 A 7 E 7 E7 F7 C7 D 7 D7
Piano for Beginners 155 The perfect way to give your pieces a warm sound Major seventh chords Major seventh chords (maj7), are similar to dominant seventh chords, but they include the natural seventh note in the major scale, rather than a flattened one. For example, Cmaj7 would feature C, E, G, and B, rather than the Bb from the dominant, as B is the seventh note in the C major scale. Using a major seventh chord will give your tunes a warm, happy feel. Amaj7 B maj7 Bmaj7 F#maj7 Gmaj7 A maj7 E maj7 Emaj7 Fmaj7 Cmaj7 D maj7 Dmaj7
156 Piano for Beginners Chords and scales Jazz your songs up with some m7 chords Minor seventh chords Minor seventh chords (m7) use the flattened seventh note that we have seen in dominant seventh chords in addition to a flattened third note found in basic minor chords. So Cm7 would contain C, Eb, G, and Bb. E and B are the third and seventh notes respectively of the C major scale, and they are both flattened here in order to create the m7 chord. Am7 B m7 Bm7 F#m7 Gm7 G#m7 E m7 Em7 Fm7 Cm7 C#m7 Dm7
Piano for Beginners 157 Add subtle variations with suspended patterns Suspended chords So far, all of the chords that we’ve looked at have featured the third note of their corresponding major or minor scale. Suspended chords (sus) don’t, replacing it instead with either a second (sus2) or a fourth (sus4). So Csus4 would feature an F (the fourth note in the C major scale) instead of the E found in a major chord. Here is a list of sus4 chords. Asus2/4 B sus2/4 Bsus2/4 F#sus2/4 Gsus2/4 A sus2/4 E sus2/4 Esus2/4 Fsus2/4 Csus2/4 D sus2/4 Dsus2/4
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