Channel: Bill Hilton

Category: Music

Description: There are hundreds of chords and thousands of ways of playing them on the piano or a keyboard — so how do you learn them all? In this tutorial I’m going to take you through a step-by-step method of learning all the chords you need to know. You don’t need a ton of stuff, and it doesn’t involve any boring drills. This is all about learning your chords by making music. In the tutorial I also touch on the importance of good chord voicing, which, if you’re playing piano or keyboard (or producing music direct into a DAW) is JUST as important as knowing the chords themselves. Chords never exist in isolation, but always as part of a wider musical structure, and its really critical to get a good, instinctive understanding of how one chord relates to another. In particular, it’s important to avoid successive “jumps” between chords: whenever you improvise or compose at the piano, your music will sound much better if you pick chord shapes and voicings that fit naturally together. MY BOOK BUNDLE: billspianopages.com/bundle MY PIANO PACKS: billspianopages.com/pianopacks BILL’S SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: fb.me/billhiltonpiano​ Twitter: twitter.com/billhilton​ Instagram: instagram.com/billhilton TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Aarrghhh, how do I learn chords? 00:25 What do you need? 00:46 Songbooks are awesome 01:13 Piano-vocal score is awesome 01:57 Step 1: work out the chords 02:37 Get stickin' 04:06 Step 2: work through the chords 04:55 Chord voicings MATTER 06:46 Step 3: play through in time 08:16 Step 4: change the chord shapes 09:15 The #1 piece of advice... #chords #piano Photo credit: Сергей Лабутин/Adobe Stock