Globally, there are millions of people that play the piano. Which three are leftover? The one that’s all black, G flat and then the two chickens, B and B flat.The piano has long been a mainstay in music around the world, and that trend doesn’t seem to be letting up. Which three are like Oreo cookies? D flat, E flat and A flat. Which three have a black third? D, E and A. It’s kind of like a duck, white, black, black, black, black, white, white, black, black, black, white, white. One is the B chord that I made reference to earlier, which is white, black, black, and B flat which is black, white, white. I’ll call it G flat, OK? The G flat is all black. We can call it F sharp, by the way, because that note is both G flat and F sharp. You’ve learned three quarters of all the major chords there are all ready. Which chords are like Oreo cookies? D flat, E flat and A flat. Which chords have the black middle note, third? D, E and A. What were the three chords that had a black third? D, E, and A. What are they? D flat, E flat and A flat. See the Oreo cookies here, black on the outside, white on the inside. They are D, E, A, too, but D flat, E flat and A flat. Now, there’s three chords that are like Oreo cookies: black on the outside and white on the inside. Which major chords had a black third? D, E and A. Which three major chords were all white? C, F and G. What are they? C, F, and G, OK? There’s three major chords that have a black third, a black middle note. There’s three major chords that are all white. That’s how we develop runs, that we’ll talk about later. You don’t have to put them in root position, but you can turn them upside down like that or you can break them up. Not only that, you can play them upside down. You know you can play them anywhere on the keyboard. Henceforth and evermore you know three major chords, don’t you? C, F and G and you know they’re all white. That’s a C major chord, the F major chord and the G major chord. Every other white note up from the bottom note, called a root. The F chord is all white and the G chord is all white. We’re going to learn twelve major chords quickly and inside five minutes you’re going to know them all by memory, because three of them are all white. Let’s get down to learning those chords quick. If that’s the scale of B and it is, and if I take the root, third and fifth of the major scale, that’s the B major chord. It may seem confusing at first, but you catch on real quickly. You see how I figured that out? By the rule, whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. If I start on any other note then, I have to go up a whole step from that note, don’t I? I can’t go there because that’s half step, so my rule says go up a whole step. That’s a whole step, that’s a whole step, that’s a whole step, and a half step, so quickly you know the formula now for a major scale, don’t you? Whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half. Hopefully not too much dust, or I’ll get in trouble with my wife. That’s a half step because that’s nothing but dust in there. You see, that’s a whole step because it’s got a black key in between. The formula for a major scale is a whole step, not a half step, but a whole step, then another whole step, then a half step, then a whole step, then a whole step, then a whole step, then a half step. Then once you learn that, you’ve got it made. Let’s learn the formula for a major scale first of all. Now, if I build a chord on any other note, then I have to know that scale. If I take the root, the first note, the third note and the fifth note of the scale, that makes the major chord for that particular note. The word scale comes from the Latin word “la scala” which means the ladder of notes the runs from the root up to the octave, the octavo, the octopus note. The twelve are very easy to learn because chords are made out of scales. OK? There’s only twelve major chords because when you get done with those twelve, you just play the same chord an octave higher or an octave lower, so they’re the same thing. Twelve roots, twelve basic notes that you can build chords on. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. I know you don’t believe me at this point, but you really will because there’s only twelve points on the keyboard that you could learn chords. Seven minutes from now, you’re going to know all twelve major chords. Good morning, this is Duane and today we’re going to learn the twelve major piano chords in seven minutes or less. Major Piano Chords – Do You Know All Of Them?
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