Piano is Easy - Playing by Piano Chords

Learning the chord progressions used in piano music can make the difference between having to play note for note like the sheet music is written and having the ability to understand the chord base and knowing where the next notes can be played to make the music you play your own. When learning to play the piano in the traditional sense, you learn one note at a time. You first learn where middle C is located and then you add more notes from there.

The learning you receive allows you to see the note on a piece of sheet music and then be able to transform in your mind where that note relates to the piano keyboard and where you need to press a key to hear that note. What you are not learning is the idea that piano chords have a certain pattern and in order to hear an "A" chord you can only press certain keys and if you press any other, then it is not an "A" chord or does not belong in the "A" chord family and that these chords are repeated over and over again in each octave.

Learning piano in the traditional fashion, one note at at time, has made it difficult for some to learn how to play piano. When learning piano, if you can understand the chord structure and how they work in relation to the piece of music you are playing, you will enhance your knowledge in a very short time frame and be able to understand the piano and the way it works differently than when being trained in the traditional method. You start to understand flow and why the fingers end up on certain keys and not others, you start seeing the patterns.

Human minds learn best by being shown patterns so learning chord music is more natural than learning note for note. Just learning the piano chords is not the answer to playing piano in a day, or in twenty four hours like some books would like you to believe. It takes practice in order to become proficient at anything and piano is no different, but it does not have to be complicated. Once you start down the path of learning to play the piano, the music you get your fingers to play will hopefully be an inspiration to continue to practice and get better. Practicing is one of the joys of learning anything and being able to be good at it. I can remember crying at the piano begging my mother to let me get away from the piano. My mother made me take lessons at five years old. I can still remember banging my head on the keys wanting to get away. I really did not appreciate the ability I had been forced to learn until much later in life, but the piano really made an impact on me when I learned the piano chords.

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