The Ultimate Piano Chords Course - for Piano & Keyboard

Practice identifying sharps and flats on the piano keyboard through quick note-naming prompts, first with the black keys (sharps) and then with flats.

Explore how three-note chords are built from intervals, detailing major and minor triads and how major and minor thirds form each chord.

Practice chord knowledge by applying it to the course's chosen songs, then skip to lectures on finding your own songs and learning from other songs.

Join a quick chord test by finding chords like B flat major, E minor, A major, and A flat minor on the piano, then compare with the instructor's playback.

Master chord inversions by reshaping root-position triads into first and second inversions, moving the lowest note up an octave, and identifying inversions with roman numerals in piano playing.

Engage in a chord inversion exercise, identifying major and minor triads in first and second inversions across piano positions, with timed listening prompts and self-checks.

Learn how suspended chords replace the third with a fourth or a second, forming sus4 and sus2 chords, with examples and fingerings using the first, fourth, and fifth fingers.

Explore You Raise Me Up chord progression, sus chords, and resolving progressions with Bm, G, and D from A to major while practicing counts and left-hand notes to a beat.

Learn how to modify chords by adding intervals like the major second (add2) and the major sixth (add6) without changing existing notes, with C, G, and D examples.

Build finger strength and dexterity with a Hanon one octave pattern exercise that trains coordination, technique, and warm-up readiness for both hands, while maintaining a relaxed wrist and arched hands.

Apply a high energy rhythm to the opening chords of all of me by John Legend, mastering F minor and C sharp major in first and second inversions.

Learn to play the scientist by Coldplay with inverted and sus chords, using a simplified step-by-step approach, featuring d minor, b flat first inversion, f major, and left-hand patterns.

Explore the left-hand kick drum rhythm to energize a simple piano rhythm. Play left-hand accents on the end after the fall while the right hand hits every beat.

Apply a left-hand kick drum rhythm to the Don't Stop Believing chorus using the C–G–Am–F progression in position. Practice with a metronome, layer singing, and vary tempo for accuracy.

Master waltz time by grouping beats in threes and sixes, with accents on the first beat of six, and apply this rhythm to songs like Feeling Good, Perfect, and Hallelujah.

Develop your sense of rhythm by identifying timings and beats per bar through ear training, clapping along, and exercises that teach two, four, three, and six-beat groupings.

Learn to form major seven chords using C major seven as a model, applying the rule by moving the top note up an octave and down a semitone.

Explore augmented chords by expanding the major triad with a raised fifth and semitone steps, then extend to augmented seventh chords and practical card-building practice.

Practice identifying and building diminished and augmented seventh chords using card-name prompts, playback checks, and a stepwise two-two process to find positions.

Explore diminished chords and minor seventh inversions in stay with me, analyzing a pushed beat and the core progression of a minor seven, F13, and C second inversion.

Apply an alternate 3 or 6 time broken chord pattern to the falling riff by Alicia Keys, adjust inversions, and practice bottom–middle–top sequences with left-hand support in piano chords course.

Learn to add the ninth (and 11th) to chords like C7 to form C9, and explore easy left-hand or octave-shifted right-hand options.

Find free online chords for your favorite songs using trusted chord sites like Ultimate Guitar, choose top reviewed versions, print chord sheets for piano, and transpose keys as needed.

Learn to use song lyrics and your knowledge to cue chord changes and time the accompaniment. Trust instinct over counting when following chords with the lyrics.

Learn how secondary dominants create passing chords that color chord progressions, with examples moving from c to g to am to f and using d seven to c seven transitions.

Master the major and minor scale formulas using whole and half steps to play any major scale, and apply the patterns to chords, progressions, passing chords, and extensions.

Apply the natural minor scale formula using whole and half tones. Compare it to the harmonic minor by sharpening the seventh note to form the common variant.

Master a left-hand arpeggiated color pattern in four beats per bar using G major, E minor, A minor, and D major triads for a flowing accompaniment.