Learning piano

[JayLapointe]

Howdy folks.

Just wondering if anyone else there enjoys playing Piano. I'll be honest that I can't play, I've only just started learning how over the last couple months. It is fun though. If anyone was interested I put together a chart of the Major and Minor chords along with where the notes on the treble and bass clef line up on the piano keyboard relative to middle C. I know you can find this on a google search but I found most of what you could find where either blurry images, or links to folks trying to sell you copies. Figured this could be helpful to someone else. I set up the image to be printed on an 11" x 17" (Tabloid) paper size.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

I play some piano and was classically trained and was not,given this kind of information when I was learning. Lots of scales. Not chords.

I didn’t learn chords until I was learning jazz piano as an adult.

You will want to learn all the chord inversions too.

I’m only a middling player. I’ve been spending recent years on banjo and voice.

 

[UFO]

I remember this... General rule: Major chord is Base note, +4 half-steps for second note, and +3 half-steps for third note. Any further notes starts one octave higher from base note and repeat the count of half-steps (for example, guitar chords are often played with all six strings this way). Minor chord is Base note, +3 half-steps, +4 half-steps. I don't remember names for notes in the chord.

When I was at my late teens, I used to try to learn (both acoustic and electric) guitar and piano, but lost interest rather quickly (too clumsy fingers). I was better with piano as less finger strength and less good grip was needed to produce a clean sound. Not to mention that quality of guitar neck's build mattered a lot.

I tried to compose music of my own a little bit longer, but lost interest to that as well (no excuse for that).

 

[JayLapointe]

I play some piano and was classically trained and was not,given this kind of information when I was learning. Lots of scales. Not chords.

I didn’t learn chords until I was learning jazz piano as an adult.

You will want to learn all the chord inversions too.

I’m only a middling player. I’ve been spending recent years on banjo and voice.

I play other things so I've got my head around music theory already. I just find right now it's getting used to the left and right hand playing different things is the hard part. I decided piano would be my winter indoor hobby this year to help round out my musical awareness.

 

[TBRS1]

That is cool.

I don't play piano, but I almost feel like I could. I'm learning to play a harp, and everybody explains the harpsrings by saying "Imagine a piano keyboard..."

In harp music, chords are written as groups of notes played together, so they are taught that way first, and as "intervals" - the number of strings between fingers.

After that, one learns chord names so they can use a fake book.