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Piano Chords for Non-Pianists
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Piano Chords for Non-Pianists

Learn to play any chord
Created byHein Van de Geyn
Last updated 10/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • You will learn to play chords symbols that you see in the real world.
  • You will be able to play any chord progression in a musical way.
  • You will develop the ability to understand and play any triad all over the instrument with 2 hands.
  • You will form a fundamental understaanding of time and rhythm.
  • Open any songbook and: play!

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Course content

3 sections • 21 lectures • 1h 25m total length

  • The names of all the notes6:09

    In this lesson you will receive they key to find any note on your keyboard.

  • The 3rd on top of C, F and G4:36

    In this lesson you will learn about a few methods how to build a major 3rd on top of the 3 important notes.

  • The 3rd on top of all white keys2:41

    Here you will expand the building of a major third to all the roots on the white keys of the piano.

  • The 3rd on top of all black keys2:52

    We now expand our insight and will be able to build, and automate the playing of a major third on top of any root.

  • The 5th on top of all white keys4:15

    In this lesson we work on building perfect fifth on top of all the white keys on your keyboard.

  • The 5th on top of all black keys3:52

    This lesson complete our ability to build perfect 5ths on any note.

Requirements

  • No playing skills are needed, the course starts from the very beginning.
  • The student will need to have a piano, or any sort of keyboard.

Description

In this course, you will learn how to musically play chords on the piano, or keyboard. A fun step-by-step series of lessons, accompanied by learning materials and backing tracks. This course will push you forward in a playful, yet solid way.

Every lesson is a clear step in the process of learning to get comfortable with playing any triad on the piano or keyboard. A PDF explains matters, and gives you a number of exercises. These exercises can be played with a backing track (provided).

It is important to realise you are acquiring a skill, not a bunch of information. Skills develop through repetition. By understanding the underlying principles it becomes easy to see the logic within the chord-symbol system and before you know it you will be able to play chord progression you will find in Song Books and Real Books.

The emphasis on presenting your chords in a musical and logical way is the goal of this course. We don’t want to learn some tricks that work for a specific song only, in order to impress our friends - no, we want to lay a foundation on which you can keep building in order to create more sophisticated chords at a later stage.

Play along with your favourite songs; open a piece of sheet music and play through it, play with a band, and even be able to write your own songs. They key all that is the ability to play chords.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone that is interested in accompanying themselves while singing, or any instrumentalist that wants to get closer to the chords of a tune they want to play, will benefit from this course.

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