Make sure you stick around to the "+1" section - it's important to make sure you remember these FOREVER. Get the cheat sheet here: bestpianoclass.com/chordscheat 00:00 Intro 00:20 Chord Shape 1 01:32 Chord Shape 2 02:10 Chord Shape 3 03:40 Big Beginner Trap!!! 04:52 Chord Shape 4 05:31 How to Remember Them FOREVER Happy practicing!! -Zach

Love your content, just one thing, I play with my headphones on so not to annoy my family with practice. I am impressing myself....and that is enough. Learning to love playing.

@bruderjr

5 ай бұрын

me too!

I am Loving your lessons Thank you so much I Got A new keyboard coming this Week !!!!!!!!!

Great video Zach. Your shared knowledge and videos are appreciated. Tks for everything you do.

@becomeapianosuperhuman6765

5 ай бұрын

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it

WWW (Straight) C Major F Major G Major WBW (Triangle) D Major E Major A Major (If you use fingers thumb, pointer, and ring or 124 the gap between 2 and 4 is closer to eachother. 2 will be farther from 1, if your using your right hand) BWB (Inverted Triangle) Db Major Eb Major Ab Major (How to tell if you press wrong middle key? Its not right if it sounds depressing and, its correct when it doesnt sound sad. When it sounds sad, its actually a minor) Minor Chords Just move down the middle key of a Major Chord down a key, which applies to all chords. Wildchords Gb Major - BBB (get Gb, skip, get, get) B Major - WBB (get B, skip a black key, get the 2 black keys) A#/Bb Major - BWW (get A#/Bb, Middle white inbetween of 2 black, get 1st white key where the other section starts) [Some tips were what I learned and observed)

Awesome Brother

I appreciate the apparently simplistic approach, but focus on the key colors in reality over complicates it all. I have found the very best thing is to just know that a major chord starts on any root, count 4 keys (white and black) and then 3 (white and black). Then you don't have to memorize note colors, and you can make a major chord at any note. Learning the other chords from the major is then a simple rule for each. Drop the middle not one step for a minor; diminished is dropping both the middle and top a step; and augmented is a major with the top note raised a step. They are much simpler rules and they don't depend on what key the chord is in to learn.

Great.. m gonna learn it... Thanks...🇮🇳

Sweet

Dziękujemy.

@becomeapianosuperhuman6765

5 ай бұрын

Thank you!!

i’m a little confused on something, could you specify how to find the top part of a 3rd major. For example you said to find the middle, count 3 from the top. But how exactly do you find the the top? And by the way i do not play piano so i have no idea if i’m just being dumb or if it’s actually a good question. So please don’t hate on me i just am here to learn!!!

Thanks!

@becomeapianosuperhuman6765

5 ай бұрын

Welcome!

Omg total GENIUS!! Thank you so much for total beginners like me! You're my 1st go to MUSIC teacher!

@becomeapianosuperhuman6765

5 ай бұрын

Love the attitude :) thank you!!

@eirysepoet

5 ай бұрын

@@becomeapianosuperhuman6765 I always wanted to learn and be as optimistic as tou do with your students 😁

Can you make a software program that teaches your method? Then the software could teach us. You know like we could connect our midi controller and then practice along with the program??? You could have a monthly subscription you know like the Melodics App but actually teach us piano instead of just popular songs.

Hey Ted, thank you very much for the video. I thought about your complete course but I really dont have alot of time to dedicate to this. and at 66 years old, well, trying to impress people is not high on the priority list. I have a long history of playing the guitar, so years ago when I decided to throw playing keyboard in there and know base 3rd and 5th helped out there. Then over the years I have progressed but when you take months off between, well, advancement doesnt happen quick, I watched your jazz vid where you move two fingers down the scale and its sounds pretty good, Probelm is getting the right hand to sound good hasnt worked out. But then, I have only been at this for a couple of weeks. Oh yea, I can already play by ear. Thanks again.

Play the chords around the circle of fifths and you're good to go!

@connectbyrvg8344

5 ай бұрын

How

Could you do Narcissist Piano Version by Avery Anna sometime soon?🙏

I got to say your method is tougher in practice as compared knowing the count method. I did not forget them either.

Learning the "basic" major/minor chords might be "easy," but transferring/applying them quickly to the piano is the tricky part for me personally! There is so much hesitancy on my part in hand/finger placement; I know: PRACTICE!! Ha!! Any source of song suggestions, in addition to practice? Thanks!

Wow. This tutorial was amazing.

I'm new to piano, teaching myself. I'm still not sure if I should be using my 1 3 5 fingers for chords, or more like how you did it, 1 2 4. 1 3 5 feels super awkward for me and my pinky keeps hitting the wrong notes.

Hi Ted, a colleague of you made a tutorial on this concept two years before you did. I´m not sure but I have the impression he´s the spiritual father of this concept (remarkable: the layout of your thumbnail is exactly the same as his). Wouldn't it be fair to at least give him credits in your video?

@chexnfx7161

5 ай бұрын

Woopsie

@paulphillips701

4 ай бұрын

Is there a link 🖇️🔗🖇️?

@paulphillips701

4 ай бұрын

Is there a link 🖇️🔗🖇️?

@crisadrianabrea754

3 ай бұрын

its Piano From scratch here on YT

@kentnolley9378

22 күн бұрын

Hell yeah

Or, you can just say that every major chord is made up of a major triad (2 whole steps) with a minor trade (1 and a 1/2 steps) on top. Reverse that for the minor chords (a minor triade with a major triade on top) There's nothing random about any of the chords. They all follow the same pattern.

@ursulinekairson4372

5 ай бұрын

Zach's way is much simpler.

@jackroberts1733

5 ай бұрын

​@@ursulinekairson4372So your argument is that memorizing SIX DIFFERENT SHAPES that look exactly like the same exact shapes used for OTHER types of chords (Major and minor and diminished use many of the SAME EXACT SHAPES) is easier? Rather than learning a bit of the very basics of music theory, your intervals? All you have to know is the difference between a Major 3rd and a minor 3rd. Then it is ONE FORMULA for all 12 MAJOR chords. One formula for all 12 minor chords, one formula for all 12 diminished chords and one formula for all 12 augmented chords. Or you could do it the stupid way and memorize different 6 shapes for Major chords and then be all confused as to why those same exact shapes also make minor and diminished chords as well. As a piano pedagogy major that has been playing piano for close to 30 years and teaching for more than ten, this is the dumbest way I have ever seen someone try to "confuse" their students into learning chords. Clearly this guy is a guitar player and not a pianist. Because pianists don't think of chords like this. GUITARISTS do. You can learn chords by shape on the guitar because of the way the fretboard is laid out. But on piano this method is clumsy, misleading, confusing, and inaccurate. I teach 4 formulas and my students get 48 chords and no confusion over why some chords look like other chords but sound different.

A bit like how phoebe was teaching joey how to play guitar😂

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How do I get the cheat sheet?

@cedricol

5 ай бұрын

Link is in the description

Inversion

Great Video, but i strongly dislike any "woosh" transition sounds - just wanted to get that out, i know it's a matter of taste , haha :D

I've watched the rest of it. You're gay. Cheers for the allright effort. Hamurger beats me, but wtf, it's your vid ;)

Buy a janko: Problem solved.

You just copied this from the piano from scratch video

@goodeedsonly23

3 ай бұрын

Can you share that vid?

@deityoffilth

3 ай бұрын

@@goodeedsonly23 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Ymqk266midaTYco.htmlsi=5wtfqmvse86_95KU

are you a gay or zee? starting with counting three notes down instead of four up?

This is *not* the fastest or the best way to learn chords. This is how a guitar player who doesn't play piano very well would teach chords: by S H A P E. So you have to memorize 3 or 4 "shapes" to learn the Major chord? LMAO. Ignore this guy. Learn your INTERVALS. Then once you know the difference between a minor third and a Major third...the formula for a Major chord is Major 3rd on the bottom minor 3rd on top. That is ALL 12 MAJOR chords. Done. There is a simple formula for minor, diminished, and augmented as well. My students learn how to create FORTY-EIGHT CHORDS in ONE LESSON by memorizing 4 simple formulas (12 chords of each type times 4 equals 48) None of this "memorize 4 different shapes that look exactly like other shapes that make totally different chords just to know ONE type of chord when it happens to have one of these three specific roots..." C Major and C# Major and D Major and F# Major and Bb Major and B Major ALL HAVE DIFFERENT SHAPES and they are ALL MAJOR. Learning chords by shape is S T U P I D and a waste of brain power. There is ONE FORMULA that applies equally to ALL MAJOR chords. Would you rather memorize one simple formula for 12 chords or memorize 6 confusing and misleading "shapes" on very specific notes to learn those same 12 chords? And you hamburger analogy...so that white note shape can be used for MAJOR, MINOR, and even DIMINISHED triads. I'm sure that will confuse the mess out of many people once they realize that using SHAPE to determine chord structure is the most slow, clumsy, and inaccurate way to determine chord quality imaginable. There are some great videos teaching music theory and piano technique on KZread. This is not one of them. This video is an example of the traps and pitfalls on KZread of someone not knowing what they are talking about and spreading basically what amounts to misinformation to unsuspecting new students who do not know any better. The people who know better learn nothing from this video and the people trying to learn LEARN THE WRONG THING.

@chexnfx7161

5 ай бұрын

Slam dunkaroonie