Piano Chords for Beginners 3: Learn Carol, Good King Wenceslas, with four basic chords Play

In these Piano Chords for Beginners articles, we have been looking at the most common chords and using them to make easy beginner piano music for some famous old Christmas carols.

We started off with two carols that only require Major chords, Silent Night and Away in a Manger. For Good King Wenceslas, we will need to add a different type of piano chord to our repertoire: the Minor chord.

Major and Minor Chords

To construct a Minor Agreement:

Look at the accompanying agreements;
It does not change the first or the last notes of this agreement, but
Find the middle note of the chord and the lowest by a half step or semitone. This is the key next adjacent black and white, use the middle note.

Away in a Manger in our article, we learned that:

- The major chord is: DF # and A

Then:

- The minor chord: DFA

The chord symbol of the string in D minor: Dm.

Good King Wenceslas:Three chords and a Major Minor Chord

For this we need the following Christmas Carol piano chords:

F Major:

- Note: FAC

- Chord symbols: F

Bb Major:

- Notes: Bb DF

- Landmark agreement: Bb

C Major:

- Notes: CEG

- Chord symbols: C

D Minor

- Note: DFA

- Symbol Agreement: Dm

Practice these four agreements in the two octaves below Middle C on your piano until you're familiar with theirpositions of the fingers and can quickly find.

Melody Good King Wenceslas

The tune of Good King Wenceslas to the beginning of the first note F above middle C. Start playing with the fourth finger of his right hand. The [] notation symbols represent in my bar lines to separate the bars. There are four beats of quarter notes or crotchets in every bar in this track.

Good King Wences -] las [looked out []

FFFG] [FFC []

for the feast of] [Ste-phen, []

DCDE] [FF[]

When the snow was] [about], [

FFFG] [FFC []

Deep and crisp and] [e-bass: []

DCDE] [FF] [

Glittered] [moon that night, []

C Bb AG] [AGF] [

Although the monarch was]] [Cru-el, [

DCDE] [FF] [

When a poor man] [came into view, []

CcDee] [FFG] [

Gath'ring winter] [Fu - u - el []. []

C AG Bb] [F Bb] [F] [

This practice until you can play from memory.

Good KingWenceslas string accompaniment

Now here are the piano strings to the tune of Good King Wenceslas. Play chords with your left hand on a regular rhythm, while the melody with his right hand to play:

Good King Wences -] las [looked out []

F ------- ------- Dm] [F ------- F -------] [

for the feast of] [Ste - Phen []

Dm ------- C -------] [F ------- F -------] [

When the snow was] [about], [

F ------- ------- Dm] [F ------- F -------] [

Deepand crisp and] [e - ed: []

Dm ------- C -------] [F ------- F -------] [

Glittered] [moon that night, []

C -------- C -------] [F ------- F --------] [

Although the monarch was] [Cru -] EL, [

------- ------- Bb Bb] [F ------- F -------] [

When a poor man] [came into view, []

------- ------- F Bb] [F ------- C -------] [

Gath'ring winter] [Fu - u - el []. []

------- ------- CC] [------ ------ Dm Bb] [F ------] [

The next article in this series will introduceseventh chords nice if you play a simple accompaniment for singing old, Oh Christmas Tree.

To really make progress in the accompaniment of piano strings playing, you have the ability to master two essential elements:

- You must learn to read musical notes on staves, and

- You must learn the chords of accompaniment from chord symbols represented in the books of popular music to play: for example, C, CM, C7, Cdim, etc.

With the investigation at thisskills can be easily obtained and satisfaction in the world could start playing the piano popular music with ease!

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