This website con­tains in­for­ma­tion about the book series  Play­ing Pia­no Chords.

About “Play­ing Pia­no Chords”

With these books, you can learn to accompany songs on the piano smoothly. You don’t need to be able to read mu­sic. In­stead, you learn the chords with ima­ges that are easy to un­der­stand, like the following:

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With the pic­tures you can quick­ly mas­ter the chords. you'll be ready to accompany your first song after just half an hour

Each les­son will take about 30-45 min­utes (de­pend­ing on your skills of course). Part I contains thirty-six lessons and Part II contains another thirty-six. So in total there are seventy-two lessons. In each block, you’ll learn new chords and new songs to play. Here are the table of contents of part I.

Songs

This app fea­tures count­less songs from ar­tists such as Ed Shee­ran, The Beat­les, Alic­ia Keys, Queen and The Black Eyed Peas. The songs are from dif­fer­ent styles and pe­ri­ods. These songs have all been hits, so you’re prob­a­bly fa­mil­i­ar with most of them.

Of all the songs on­ly a part is treat­ed, in or­der to keep the les­sons con­cise. Most­ly the chorus is shown, be­cause that it is the most rec­og­niz­able part of the song. How­ev­er, in some oc­ca­sions anoth­er part is cho­sen.

In these les­sons you will learn among oth­ers: ma­jor and mi­nor tri­ads, sev­enth chords, ma­jor sev­enths, ninths, sus4 chords, sixth chords and slash chords.

Buy

You can order the book from Amazon, for example on www.amazon.com (Part I and Part II) or on www.amazon.co.uk (Part I and Part II). The books are available as paperback, hardcover or eBook.