‘Speak’, sound good, and actually be understood.īreaking chords up using patterns is your first step in going into deeper levels, as you’ll see that, like letters that sound consecutively, (and not at the same time) yet still form a word, also consecutive notes, still actually form a chord.
#Chords notes player how to#
Break ’em up, learn how to use different combinations of the above variables, DO, practice and start to actually ‘play’. Make them a little more difficult (learn and add some chord extensions, sus4, 7’s etc.) and learn to replace words like ‘dada’ with ‘father’. Then learn to use chords in as many different ways you can (inversions, different voicings etc.), combine different patterns and start building real sentences. Add (basic) patterns, imitate, listen and learn how to actually play, to ‘babble’, to ‘talk’. Learn chords that are the ‘outlines’ for playing music. Start with learning -and keep approaching- music through chords and harmonies. (As mentioned, guitarists already figured this out quite some time ago): So if this method works so well for learning something as auditive as ‘speaking’, could we maybe simulate this process to achieve the same for another very auditive concept like, say… music? Well, it seems to work pretty fine for … every one of us. Isn’t learning by imitating sounds, using words before letters and thus: first learning to play with ‘outlines’ before going deeper into the level of their building blocks, an irrational, illogical way of learning? Isn’t it strange that we do not start the learning process of ‘how to speak’ at this more basic variable of ‘letters’? It’s only after you know how to speak pretty decent, somewhere around age four, that you first get to know about letters, the sub-partials or ‘building blocks’ of those words.Ī seemingly more ‘basic’ variable then the actual words they together form, one might think. More and more.īetter and better, and as practice again proves to make perfect, you even start to actually talk. You play.Īs you imitate, you learn, you listen, learn some more and improve as you do more. Understanding ‘fully’ here, appears to be far from necessary to be able to ‘use’, to ‘play’, to babble.Īt first, playing with words might be a bit shaky of course, saying ‘daahaaa’ in stead of ‘daddy’ or even ‘father’, but you manage. You might also have to know a few synonyms and how (or even ‘why’) sentences are built the way they are, right? You’re not exactly an expert yet. For ‘fully’ understanding, you’d have to know what these ‘words’ are made of: ‘letters’ and maybe even how to use them to write. Being able to produce, to speak, to ‘play’, way before ‘fully’ understanding. 
You learn to use the ‘outline’, the structures, of words.
Slowly you start to recognise, ‘learning’ sounds. How we learn to ‘play’ with words (and can imitate the same process for learning how to play music).
It’s a perfect demonstration of ‘single note – chord relationships’ and the possibilities for creating an impressive piano piece ‘derived’ from chords and using patterns + remembering consecutive single notes by looking at them as chord notes.įor a proper introduction, I’m gonna ‘go back in time’ a little.īack to when you were still in your diapers, drooling on everything that entered your little baby-crib at age………. To see the methods as explained in this post in action (I highly recommend reading the whole post first), I invite you to watch the tutorial below that will teach you the intro of the song ‘Hall of Fame’ by the popular band ‘The Script’. Strange? Sounds a little “run before you can walk”-like? Read on and you might just change your mind (and learn some very cool stuff to play with it). In this post I’ll be talking about an unconventional approach that can help you both better understand music and learn it in a faster and more convenient way, by challenging a ‘piano-learning status quo’: Using the ‘single note’-approach as ‘the basics’ and first step in learning.Ĭould a ‘chords-as-a-first-step’-approach to learning music, only going to the next step: ‘extracting’ single notes from chords, AFTER learning and knowing your chords, very well be the best way to go, when wanting to learn how to play pop-piano?
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