How To Know What Chords Sound Good Together On The Piano

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[@rolando.imperial]

Oh wow! I was just trying to learn this for my first time last year. All this time I thought a Diatonic family was a group of 6 chords made up of 1-4-5 Major & associated Minors. (C Am | F Dm | G Em). Thanks for your insight. I can never get music theory straight in my head 🥴 Love your videos by the way!

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[@prodbygunter]

This helped so much😁 if I am going to be honest when I saw 1, 5, 2 for chord progression I had no idea what it meant. I have been playing piano for 2 years now. This is gonna help me a lot with beat making!!! Thank you so much.

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Oh my gosh, thank you!!!😁😁😁😁💖💖💖 I have also played many years, and never heard this term til TODAY! And I've been searching for the proper term for over a year, now!😂😁 I've been calling it a chord cycle, for lack of knowledge of the proper term, I don't know how I had so many years of piano, orchestra, choir, etc, and no one ever bothered to teach THIS concept, or relative major/ minor keys, ugh! I picked up guitar last year, and I swear I've learned more about music on you tube than years of teachers ever gave me!😁💖

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Yes, it may be short and sweet, but this video unlocks a lot if the principle is applied to every key signature. Thank you for doing this. So helpful.

[@demon3476]

Going to finally be buying my first MIDI keyboard very soon and this video has helped me immensely! This is going to be one of the first things I apply into the sounds I hear that will come when learning to play chords. To really hear what sounds good with what from the get go, and then learn all the different ways to mix and create music with them.

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The into hit right home. Playing piano since I am five, I am now 25 and no one has taught me about it!!

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I only today heard that chords can be out of scale, I searched google and found the term "diatonic chords" and had to search about it, and then I found this video, I'm watching because I already watch your videos

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This is excellent. That means I can practice changing chords within the same scale.

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[@guillaume83]

Hey! This is the second video where u mention diatonic chords importance and I thank you so much for it cause that REALLY helped me and I don't really get why this is not the one first thing beginners learn when they come to learn chords.... This is all about piano!! Though if I may - and maybe it's a choice you've made - I'm surprised you never mention the cycle of fifth that is so helpful so as to learn all these chords and the logic of their progression! Thanks a lot anyway I've been following your classes for a week and omg I've improved my skills so much!!!!!!! Cheers!!

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Thanks Guillaume!! We kept the Circle of 5ths out of this and the other video because we don't want to overwhelm new learners! We do have separate lessons on the Circle of 5ths. I'm so glad you're seeing an improvement!!! Keep it up!

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I really like the way yu are explaining sound by terminology I fully understand - sad, happy, uplifting....major/minor/diminished does not tell me much:), thank you!

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benson b Structure is key when starting out, it’s the foundation of playing. Start with scales, do 1 or 2 keys per session, then chord practice just in this video, then start learning your favourite songs hope that helps a bit.

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Especially in the beginning when learning a new piece start learning in small sections. I also would recommend Metronome Beats (or any other metronome app or device) as practicing with a metronome makes a huge difference. Enjoy your musical journey!!!

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Hi beson b! We have a free beginner course that is great! www.pianote.com/getting-started It is four free lessons that teach you the notes, your first scales and your first chords to play songs. If you like our KZbin videos you might like it. From there you can decide whether to keep learning online (hopefully with us:) ) or get private lessons. The biggest advice I would give is to find a course with structured lessons. So you know you are going step-by-step along the right path, and not wasting time jumping around to different videos. I hope that helps! - Scott

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ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO LISA ! THANKS FOR HELPING ME TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF DIATONIC CHORDS. I THOUGHT DIATONIC MEANT DIA = 2 AND TONIC MEANT TONES WHICH TRANSLATED IN MY SIMPLE LANGUAGE MEANS 2 TONE ( OR NOTE ) CHORDS ! ( LOL ! ). THANKS AGAIN LISA - I CAN NOW ENJOY CREATING MORE RELEVANT CHORDS IN MY SONGWRITING !

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@Pianote Long story short - My understanding of the music theory -> If a song is written in just one key (and i suppose most of them are written this way), and it is said "This song is in C Major", that means that ALL the notes (ALL OF THEM) played in that song need to be in The C Major scale (CDEFGAB). Am i right? If it includes other notes (like for example a D#), it means the most fundamental rules are broken and the person who composed that song was lacking some knowledge. Maybe there are songs which have this kind of mistakes, but they are mistakes and it would be nicer if they wouldn't be there. This is my understanding of the music theory, as a beginner. Am i right or did i misunderstood? Now comes the question. Cubase has a "Chord track" feature which helps you create chord progressions (it suggests the next chord based on the previous one). Now, if my first chord was C Major (and my song is supposedly a C Major song), why does Cubase suggest me D Major chord as one of the best choices for the second chord in my chord progression? D Major chord contains the note F#, which is NOT in the C Major scale. Isn't that a BIG and fundamental mistake? To make the things harder still, Cubase names D minor (a chord which has all its notes in the C Major scale, and, by my understanding, should fit closely into my chord progression, next to C Major chord) an unlikely match and puts it on a distant row, far away from my Initial C Major chord, to let me know that i should not use it. Do you see my puzzle? If you can see it, that means you also see where my understand of music theory stops working. Can you, please, put me back on track and help me understand what is happening? Thanks in advance!

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Wow great question, thank you! Yes if a song is written in one key (which most are) then all the notes "should" be from that key. However, music is art. It is not so strict that rules cannot be broken. So if a song in the key of C has a D# it's not necessarily a mistake and the composer is not lacking knowledge. These notes that are outside the key are called "accidentals" and they can actually make the sound sound incredible! Listen to any jazz piano song and it will be full of them :) So from a basic standpoint you are correct, but as with all things the more you learn about the rules the more you learn that they can all be broken haha

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another reason why d major sounds good after c is because in the key of g major, c maj and d maj are the 4-5 which resolves nicely back to g major

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I didnt get that switch from playing only white keys to playing the black keys as well. Why was that?

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Play only the keys in that particular scale. C scale has all white keys, D scale has white and sharps keys.

[@PianoteOfficial]

Hi ed, as Mick Hyde says, that was because we changed keys from C to D. The D scale has two black keys (sharps). We wanted to show people how this looks in a different key. I hope that helps! - Scott

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Until you get a piano, try sketching the keys and figuring out the chords and building a mental picture. Do the same with the circle of 5ths. I often sit here in the evening doing this and I'm slowly building my understanding of the relationship between chords without even touching an instrument.

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So in picking out a melody of a pop song, should the chords in that key work best with it or are there other related chords I could use? I played the melody to “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” by Diana Ross and found that it was in E flat major. Some of the chords in the scale worked, but others sounded a little off. Are there other associated chords I could use or am I getting ahead of myself? (LOL ) This is just so exciting to me that I am able to play like this after years of not knowing how. Thank you SO MUCH for your simple, clear explanations, Lisa!

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[@perisemiotics3204]

I'm guessing the term _diatonic_ refers to the collection of the two tones - major ("happy") and minor ("sad") - within one key signature?...

[@EgeVeKlavye]

"di" in "Diatonic" does not refer to "two" but the word comes from dia- (greek for "through") and -tonic: Meaning through the tone, notes coming only from one key (in this case of C major, only white keys). You got some strong guessing skills, never thought about that perspective though :)

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@@EgeVeKlavye Yeah... that was what I had in mind too, _dia_ (as in diathermy , diaphanous, etc.) with the sense of Latin _per_ i.e. _through_ as you put it - I guess my phrasing wasn't good enough. Thanks for the elaboration, though!

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As a learner of the English language, diarrhea makes a whole lot more sense to me now

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Does the 7th chord of any key resolve nicely when you play the 8th chord (the tonic chord)?

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