Can YOU Play All The Major Chords in 3 Seconds or Less?

    

Can YOU Play All The Major Chords in 3 Seconds or Less?

     Did you have any idea how easy it is to learn ALL the major chords (there are 12 of them)

and be able to play them in seconds -- not hours or days or weeks or months or years?

Some people go through their entire lives not being sure about what such and such a major

chord is -- and it's all so unnecessary, because you can memorize them in just a few

minutes, and learn to play them in 12 seconds or less - one second per major chord.

I have had many private students over the years who could play them all in as little as 5

seconds -- one little gal (she was about 12 at the time) had particularly fast hands, and

could play them in - believe it or not - 3 seconds! I have slow hands with fat fingers,

and yet I can play them in something like 5 or 6 seconds. So if I can do it with little

fat hands and chubby short fingers, you can too.

     First, here's what the major chords look like on the staff: I hope you noticed that 3 of

the major chords were made of all white keys: C F G. And I hope you noticed that 3 of the

major chords were made of white keys on the outside, with a black key in the middle: D E

A. And did you notice that 3 of the major chords were like an Oreo cookie? Black on the

outside, white on the inside? Db Eb Ab. That only leaves 3 major chords, one of which is

all black, and one of which is white, black, black, and the other the reverse -- black,

white, white. Gb (all black) B (white, black, black) Bb (black, white, white). And that's

it..

     Practice playing the first 3 major chords over and over until you can move between them

smoothly and quickly. Then practice the next 3 major chords -- then the next 3 -- then

the last 3. After you can play them by 3's, practice playing the first 6 without

stopping. Then practice the first 9 without stopping. Then finally practice playing all

12 without stopping.

     There's no particular virtue, of course, in playing them quickly, except for the fact

that it makes you confident you can find them in a hurry when you need them in a song.

But you'll find that as your confidence grows, your enjoyment and competence in piano

playing will grow commensurately.

     For a sight-and-sound lesson on the 12 major chords, please go to:

Major chords
 

Duane Shinn is the author of over 500 music courses for adults including "Pro Secrets: Piano Playing Secrets Of The Pros”.  http://www.piano-playing-by-ear.com   He is also the author of the popular free 101-week online e-mail newsletter titled “Amazing Secrets Of Exciting Piano Chords & Sizzling Chord Progressions” at www.playpiano.com  with over 61,400 current subscribers

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