Tunes, Chords and Techniques in all Styles
You can easily create six more chords from the diatonic chords of the previous Piano Hack.
The formula was
You can create minor chords from major chords by just lowering the major third by a half step, and major chords from minor [...]
You can very quickly create 6 of the most common chords from the C major scale. Simply take the chord shape of the C major chord and move it up the C major scale from steps 1 to six.
This way you form 6 chords:
C major
D minor
E minor
F major
G major
A minor
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Just as major chords, minor chords consist of three notes stacked upon one another. You can create it by playing the root, adding the minor third, and the fifth.
In the key of C, these would be C, Eb and G. So The notes are almost the same as those [...]
This Piano Hack is about intervals or the distance between two notes. On the piano you can easily count this distance by counting the keys between two notes. The distance between C and the next E to the right, for example, is four half-steps. It is called a major third.
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