Course Information
Course Overview
Complete, beginning-to-master guide to playing piano & keyboard by chord! All our courses combined in one place!
Playing the piano doesn't need to be complicated. All you need is to learn the building blocks.
Get ready to learn the basic building blocks of all music: chords.
Experienced instructor Nathan Lawrence guides you step by step through the process of learning to play piano by chord. Many online piano methods teach you what you need to know, but in an impersonal way. You might be able to see the piano and what to play, but there’s no human being there to make it feel like you’re learning in a personal lesson setting. That’s why this course has a fundamentally different approach. Every lesson is taught with a simultaneous view of both your teacher and the keyboard, as if you’re looking in a mirror.
Piano Building Blocks uses one-of-a-kind, shape-based approach to chord learning. All 24 major and minor chords are taught in intuitive groups by hand position shape, with memorable descriptions like “mountain” or “valley” to help you remember how to place your hand.
This complete course includes:
- The 24 Most Common Chords (one of the highest rated piano courses on Udemy, included free)
- Chord Additions & Variations
- Chord Inversions (parts 1 & 2)
The only way to reach your goal is to take the first step.
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Hear what people are saying:
"I loved the course. You are a great teacher and I found your shape-based way of teaching chords to be really helpful to me. I now understand how chords are constructed which is amazing as I never thought I would learn it so easily. This will help me with both my piano playing and guitar playing. I have started writing songs so this knowledge will help me to bring more variation into my compositions. Your course was brilliantly done. Thank you so very much for doing it." - Amanda
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Course Content
- 18 section(s)
- 40 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introductory Concepts
- Section 2 Plains Chords - C, F and G
- Section 3 Mountain Chords - A, D, and E
- Section 4 Minor "Plains" Chords - Am, Dm and Em
- Section 5 Minor "Mountain" Chords - Cm, Fm and Gm
- Section 6 "Valley" Chords - Ab, Db and Eb
- Section 7 Minor "Valley" Chords - C#m, F#m and G#m
- Section 8 The "Slope" Chords - B, Bm, Bb and Bbm
- Section 9 The Rare "Plateau" Chords - F# and Ebm
- Section 10 Introduction to Chord Additions & Variations
- Section 11 "2" Chords
- Section 12 Brief Introduction to 7th Chords and Chord Inversions
- Section 13 Introduction to Chord Inversions
- Section 14 Inverting Plains Chords (C, F, G, Am, Dm and Em)
- Section 15 Inverting Mountain Chords (D, E, A, Cm, Fm and Gm)
- Section 16 Inverting More Difficult Chords
- Section 17 Inversions in the Left Hand
- Section 18 Inversions of Chords with Additions & Variations
What You’ll Learn
- Play and improvise on virtually any popular song where chords are provided.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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IIsidro Trevino
Explained very well
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AAli Bekkozhin
All of these chords, keys and stuff are just IMPOSSIBLE to remember.
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RR Dhingra
I took this course to learn best ways to move smoothly when playing chords and I did get many tips that I was looking for. Great course work for other beginners as well.
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EEmmanuel Ojetunde
great teacher