Try playing the two-chord riffs in E minor with D major, G minor with F major and B minor with A major.Ĭlick through to Broken Chord Patterns 2 for more patterns to work on and more ready-made broken chord riffs to play, or just click through and bookmark for study later. Easy piano songs tend to have a simple accompaniment in the left hand that uses single notes or a few basic chords. Most of the time, your right-hand plays the melody and your left hand adds accompaniment. These are much more challenging for the hand – you will find you have to play much further up towards the back of the keys, and ‘climb over’ the black keys that are ‘in the way’. Hand independence is all about getting your hands to do different things at the same time when playing the piano. This module has dealt only with the simplest patterns in white-key-only chords - the ‘Group One’ chords on the Musicarta Chord Generator.)Ĭommitted students will go on to transpose the patterns into Chord Generator ‘Group Two’ (one black key) chords – D, A and E major and C, F, G and B minors. The benefits for your song-writing, arranging and playing are enormous. The purpose of these Musicarta Broken Chords series modules is to persuade you to practice broken chord patterns regularly and creatively.

The fingering has been adapted at the end of the first line, and the first three notes of the repeat will also need re-fingering 2–4–5.

Do your own TRL analysis and tap it out, then mime it with the fingering as before.

Here youll find a reference chart of those notes as well as learn how to figure them out yourself (if ever you need to). They dont often get memorized because they arent used all that often.

Going back to the example of C major, a simple 12-bar blues progression can be built using C, F and G major chords. If you’re totally new to making music with chords, the 12-bar blues is a great chord progression to start with. Check to see you understand this – combining half of one thing you know with half of another is a powerful way of making new music. Finding the piano notes above and below the staff usually takes a lot of counting. We have an official Between The Bars tab made by UG professional guitarists.Check out the tab. If you’re totally new to making music with chords, the 12-bar blues is a great chord progression to start with. The bass is new again – a bar of line four and a bar of line three from the previous diagram.A glance at the overall shape should tell you it’s the same pattern as in A minor, but one note down – one key to the left.

Don’t spend much time reading those G chord leger lines (second line).

Take a minute to ‘just look at it’ before you try to play it.

Between the bars piano chords