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Chord of the Week​

3/20/2022

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«Understanding Chords on the Piano»                                       ~ Introduction part VI ~

 ​Practical Learning - Piano Chord Charts - Triads and four note chords
for ​Songwriters - Music Producers - Aspiring Composers

Chord of the Week
( Introduction part VI)

You can check out the link to my book under:
Understanding Chords on the Piano

 Introduction part VI of blog

​We will now continue with the 6th and last introduction of this blog. This
will be a summery and some more definition of chords.

Remember to go back in the blog if you miss out on something.

Before we start  «The Chord of the Week»

I would like some help from you to tell me on INSTAGRAM what chord we should start with. It can be your favourite chord, or any type of chord. I can't guarantee it
will be your chord that starts the whole thing, but if a chord
is mention more than other chords on instagram
I'll chose that one. 

Before moving on to chord
​of the Week

Moving on
Finally we are ready to move on to the piano chords in the book.
All theoretical information on the chord charts will be available on all of the chords, so remember to take the advantage of this. Learn the principles of chords, it will give you more flexibility and save you time in the long run.
More on chords and some 
​definitions:
Triads - chords made up of 3 notes stacked on top of each other.

Four Note Chords - chords made up of 4 notes stacked on top of each other. Four note chords are also called 7th chords, because the last note in a four note chords is the seventh degree of the scale as long as the chords are build in thirds.

Five Note Chords
9th chords - chords made up of 5 notes stacked on top of each other.

Six Note Chords
11th chords - chords made up of 6 notes stacked on top of each other.
(This is theoretical; the 3rd in an 11th chord is removed because it clashes with the 11’th degree of the scale. Not to worry, for the future…)

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Seven Note Chords
13th chords - chords made up of 7 notes stacked on top of each other.

Chord progression
A chord progression or harmonic progression is a succession of chords, or chords put after one another for musical context.

Chord Inversion
A chord inversion is a rearrangement of the notes in a chord, but a rearrangement of the top-to-bottom intervals of a chord, ending up with other notes than the root as the lowest note in a chord.
MUSICAL CONTEXT
It’s interesting to look at the connection between different chords and scales in a song. These connections will often give you information about where the song is going harmonicly, you could call this musical context. Most elements in a piece of music is connected, and that’s what we’re looking for. This also gives purpose and meaning to music; connection of harmonies and melodies, rhythms, arrangment, production, lyrics and musical form. When do we like a song or dislike a song? There are many levels of consciousness and subconsciousness that feeds in to our perception of music. I’m not getting into this here, but most people can probably relate to all or some of this. I will try keep it simple...  😅
Time to celebrate 
Time to celebrate, we are moving on! Now we are down to practising and learning chords. We will start with the C chords, all the chords with the root of C, then we will present some chords with other roots as well.

It will be the same with all the chords, same amount of chords with different roots. I will also start with chords with less flats (b) or sharps (#). In many cases keys with less accidentals (# and b) are more used, the same applies to chords. This will make the blog or the book even more practical for you.
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Some of the chords we will
​go through
Triads
major - minor - diminished - augmented -  sus4 - sus2
Than we will move on to four note chords:
​
7th chords
Major7th - 7th - minor7th - minor7th (b5)  - diminished7th - 7th sus4  - minor major 7th - 7th (b5) - 7th (#5) - major 7th b5 - major 7th #5 Than the bonus chords:

Bonus chords
There might even be some bonus chords coming your way, stay tuned...

Time to start, you’re on, follow my blog and enjoy the the madness of chords!  😅

​End of Introduction
​part VI

​That should be the end of all my «Introductions». Time to start, you’re on, follow my blog and enjoy the the madness of chords!  😅

​Thanks for reading!

Every week from now you will get one N E W  «Chord of the Week» , but first:

I would like some help from you to tell me on INSTAGRAM what chord we should start with. It can be your favourite chord, or any type of chord.
I can't guarantee it will be your chord that starts the whole thing,
but if a chord is mention more than other chords on
​instagram I'll chose that one.
Remember to follow me, comment or join the conversation
of chords on my Instagram, and to register on
​this website for free GIVEAWAYS.
Jml Songwriting Instagram
Jml Sheet Music Intagram

Stay ahead of the game​
My descriptive explanatory piano chord book is now available on sale
​for download here:
Understanding Chords on the Piano
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