How to Play Piano: Chords

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Chords let us begin learning some chords to play with your left, hand or right hand. But for now let us just use our left hand to accompany your right hand scales (piano playing)
I will be showing you diagrams of the keyboard with the notes you should play colored in gray. You will also see the notes of the chord written down in the bass clef, the lowest set of two five musical staff lines used in written music (piano playing). The written bass clef is generally playing by the left hand, but the keyboard diagram of course plays just the same and played by either hand in any octave.

An interval is basically the vertical distance between two notes which is easier to visualize when seen written down as musical notation. When these notes are played together at the same time it creates a harmony. (Piano playing) the mood and sound that is created depends on the selection of notes used when to make up the chord (piano playing). So, the intervals of the chord can be called harmonic intervals (piano playing).
If you play this note one after the other in sequence you are creating a melody, rather than a chord.



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