The Musicarta Basic Music-making Position makes finding chords at the keyboard easy.
This Music Chords web page was originally Lesson Two of Musicarta’s ‘Pyramids Variations’ series of creative online keyboard lessons, now available as an e-book digital download/data-CD. Click through to the Pyramids Variations home page to learn more, or jump right in and
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Some of the series learning material is being left here on the Musicarta site to show you how the Pyramids Variations will give your repertoire and keyboard know-how a massive boost – explore using the series navigation links in the right hand column. (You are currently on the ‘Lesson Two’ page.)
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A progressive build-up to guarantee progress
Every lesson in the build-up to the Pyramids Variations Concert Performance adds a little to what went directly before – there are no big surprises and no yawning gaps. The result is that you can build up to an impressive performance much faster than you could with conventional teaching.
Here’s the build-up so far…
In Lesson One of the Pyramids Variations, you learn how to use the Basic Music-making Position to play chords at the keyboard, and how to use chord symbols to find the eight chords in the Pyramids chord sequence. Here’s what your Lesson One performance sounds like:
In Lesson Two, a simple left-hand-over technique adds an introduction and an ending, making this pretty chord study:
'No-one gets left behind!'
Now look how the Pyramids Variations makes sure you can find your easy music chords at the keyboard. This diagram shows the new feature in the Lesson Two performance – the ‘left-hand-over pattern’.
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In the table underneath the illustration, you see the reference number of the accompanying audio file, Pyramids_L2_A4. When you play the file, you hear this:
The audio file shows you exactly how the music is supposed to sound.
MIDI support and MidiPiano
The other file number in the table under the illustration – Pyramids_L2_A4 – is the MIDI file for the example.
All the musical examples in the Musicarta Pyramids Variations pdf have MIDI files which you can play on MidiPiano, the Windows ‘virtual keyboard’ included in the Pyramids Variations digital download.
Here’s a video of MidiPiano – with it’s intuitive ‘Piano Roll View’ pane working – playing the MIDI file which demonstrates these ‘left-hand-over’ patterns. See if you can spot four of them.
You see that the Musicarta Pyramids Variations goes all the way to ensure you find your chords and learn how to play them!
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You can continue your exploration of the bare-bones Musicarta Pyramids Variation pages using the links in the series navigation table, right-hand column
Other Music Chords material on Musicarta
Musicarta can make piano chords easy for you in lots of other ways. If you click on the CHORDS tab in the site navbar (left), you’ll find links to fifteen web pages dedicated to giving you a solid understanding of what chords are – from the simplest to the most complex – and how to build them, practice them and play them.
Popular music is built on chords and the modern keyboard musician must know them inside out! Make Musicarta your regular chord tutor and companion!
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