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Piano: The Chord Based System - Learn To Play As The Pros Do

Name: Piano: The Chord Based System - Learn To Play As The Pros Do
Rating: 4.5 (174 reviews)

Learn to play piano using beautiful-sounding, embellished chords. Quick & easy from a pro with 40+ years entertaining.

Created byStan Prentice

Last updated 1/2026

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What you'll learn

Name the notes on the piano keyboard, including all naturals, sharps and flats.
Understand the relationship of the steps of the musical scale to form chords on the piano.
Play any major, minor and seventh chord on the piano.
Play on the piano with both hands in an effective way to accompany a singer or another instrument.
Play the common chords that make up most songs in the popular, rock, folk, blues genres.
Move from one chord to another easily and quickly using inversions.
Play from popular piano sheet music.
Play extended chords with a bigger and richer sound than the simple, basic three note chords.
Play embellishments, such as fills and arpeggios to make your playing more impressive.
Put all the elements together to be competant at playing popular music on the piano.

Course content

9 sections • 39 lectures • 2h 28m total length

Why Professional Pianists Don't Bother with Music Notation7:11

Hand Position3:19
In this lecture you will learn the most effective hand position for playing chords and maneuvering over the piano keyboard.
Major Triads3:06
Build major triads by selecting a root, reaching a major third (4 half steps), then a perfect fifth (3 half steps) in keys like C, D, F, and G.
Minor Triads2:17
Augmented Chords2:12
Explore augmented chords by raising a major chord's fifth by a half step, learn common symbols like C+, C aug, and E-flat augmented, and apply this to piano playing.
Diminished Chords2:25
Suspended Chords2:36
Explains that suspended chords replace the third with a fourth, forming sus4 and sus2. Illustrates with C suspended and C7 suspended, and notes they usually resolve to the regular chord.
Section 4 Review1:00

Left Hand With Major Chord3:59
Master left-hand accompaniment by playing the root two octaves down and the fifth, while the right hand voices the C major chord, and practice across other chords.
Left Hand with All Major Chords5:07
Move the left-hand root and right-hand chord pattern through all major chords up the chromatic scale in every key; practice daily for two weeks to remember chord notes.
The Left Hand with Minor Chords1:48

The 7th Chord4:23
The 9th Chord4:21
Learn how the ninth chord extends a dominant seventh by adding the ninth, forming G9 and C9 with root, third, fifth, seventh, and ninth, including flat nine and inversions, cadences.
The 7/6 Chord4:20
The 7/6 Chord Graphic1:00
The 6/9 Chord6:11
Explore building a six nine chord from a C major triad by inverting the root, adding the ninth on top, and raising the fifth to deepen sound in 1–4–5 progressions.
The 6/9 Chord Graphic1:00
The Flat 10 Chord5:23
The flat 10 Chord Graphic1:00

Playing a song - Georgia On My Mind2:53
In this lecture we will apply the chords and techniques we've learned to playing a popular song.
Adding The Left Hand3:41
In this lecture we will discuss the left hand in Chord Style Piano.
Left Hand Technique11:06
Further discussion of left hand technique.
Melody Over Chords17:46
In this lecture we will see how the right hand can play both melody and chords, while the left hand is playing a bass line.
Fills - Embellishing the melody11:16
In this lecture we learned to fill up the empty spaces in the music with embellishments.
One-handed Arpeggios5:06
In this lecture you will learn to add arpeggios with your right hand, while your left hand continues playing a bass line.
Final Thoughts and Thank You2:20
In this final lecture, we wrap it all up and thank you for being a part of this course.

Requirements

Students will need a keyboard with more than two octaves (24 keys.)
It is helpful, though not necessary to be able to read the Treble Clef.

Description

LEARN THE PIANO CHORDS THAT PROFESSIONALS USE. NEWLY UPDATED!

This course is designed to teach you to play piano using chords, even if you can't read music. I show you exactly how professional piano players do it; why they don't bother with reading sheet music, and yet are able to play any song easily and quickly, sounding as if they have practiced the song for weeks.

See the simple tricks that I have used as a full-time pianist and keyboardist for the past 40+ years.

Master chord-based Popular Style Piano in a matter of hours

Whether you want to play just for fun, play for friends, at parties, or become a professional, this course will give you information to help you achieve your goals. You will:

Learn to use the piano as an accompaniment instrument
Learn how to build major chords easily in any key
Learn how to create a minor or dominant 7th chord
Learn augmented, diminished, suspended and major 7th chords
Learn how to play easily with both hands
Find out how to read chords from sheet music without reading the notes
Learn in two hours what takes years for most
Discover the secrets to turn simple, basic chords into beautiful, full-sounding Jazz, Rock, and Gospel chords.

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Learn quickly and efficiently how to sound skilled on the piano

If you want to make beautiful music on the piano without years of grueling, expensive lessons, this is the course you want.

I do not teach note-reading in this course. If your goal is to play Beethoven, Bach, or other classical music, this course is not for you. It is a course in popular piano playing.

I spent years taking weekly lessons as a child, studying music in school and college – but when I became a full-time, professional piano player 45 years ago, I discovered that most of what I learned did not apply to what I was trying to do. I wanted to play popular music in night clubs, cabarets, casinos and show rooms. I learned more from working with other professional musicians than I ever did from teachers, either privately or in school.

What I show you in this course are the things that I learned to make music easy, effective and fun. It's how the pros play.

In addition, you have an unconditional,no questions asked, 30 day, money-back guarantee. Nothing at risk!

Who this course is for:

This course is for people who would like to play Popular Style Piano without having to learn to read music, note-for-note. Whether you have little or no musical training, this course will bring you up to speed, and give you the skills to sound like a professional piano layer.
This course is probably not for you if you are accomplished at playing basic accompaniment on the piano, and already know how to form all major, minor, and dominant 7th chords using both hands.

Piano: The Chord Based System - Learn To Play As The Pros Do

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 7min

Keyboard Tour4 lectures • 11min

Note Relationships5 lectures • 17min

Building Chords7 lectures • 17min

Adding The Left Hand3 lectures • 11min

Inversions (Move easily from one chord to another.)3 lectures • 9min

Rhythm1 lecture • 3min

Extended Chords8 lectures • 28min

Section 9 - Playing a song7 lectures • 54min

Requirements

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