Play Chord Piano Fast With This Easy To Use Technique!
Techniques. Some of them are more useful than others. Especially when it comes to piano playing. What you’re about to learn is a special way of forming chords at the keyboard that will have you playing chord piano in no time.
It’s called the open position chord and it’s exactly what its name implies - a chord structure that covers more than 2 octaves of the keyboard and uses both hands right away.
The open position chord (or OPC for short) is not an easy chord position to master at first, but once you get it in your hands, you’ll be well on your way to playing chord piano.
Let’s take a look at how we might go about learning this new technique.
...that way but this is the area of the piano I naturally gravitate towards when sitting down to play. Of course, I do and have used most notes available on the piano and it would be a shame not to. ...
Now take a look at the keyboard diagrams and familiarize yourself with this chord. Once you get a feel for this chord structure you’re left with how to use it. This is the fun part! What I did in the lesson “Reflections in Water” is simply to play the OPC’s and improvise melody using notes from the C Major scale. That’s it! That’s all that’s required to create your own unique music.
You see, learning the
...keyboard. Let's find the middle C on the piano.The middle C is often called C4 as it is in the fourth octave of an ordinary upright piano or grand piano. It is sometimes called the keyhole C as it is ...
Even the audio part where I just play the chords is musical. Many of you want to learn how to play piano using chords. I suggest starting with the OPC because it gives you instant satisfaction on the keyboard!
Edward Weiss is a pianist/composer and webmaster of Quiescence Music’s online piano lessons. He has been helping students learn how to play piano in the New Age style for over 14 years and works with students in private, in groups, and now over the
...was a guitar player and the thought of actually making music at the piano seemed way out there. In fact, the whole idea that anyone could make heads or tales of all those keys always amazed me.But, I did enjoy ...