Knowing piano chords can be the difference between playing the piano just by reading the notes in a piece of sheet music and being able to improvise your own arrangements of most any song.

The mistake most people make is to try to take “too big a bite” when they are learning chords. The key is to take it slowly and really master each type of chord as you go along, because knowledge builds on knowledge in any field.

Here are links to tutorials on most of the chord types you will need to learn, such as major chords, minor chords, diminished, augmented, 6th and 7th chords.

Major chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/3-major-chords.htm

Minor chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/4-minor-chords.htm

Augmented chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/7-augmented.htm

Diminished chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/6-diminished.htm

Inversions of piano chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/5-inversions.htm

6th chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/8-major-6-chords.htm

7th chords: https://www.playpiano.com/101-tips/10-7th-chords.htm

Of course there are also minor 6th chords, minor 7th chords, plus 9th, 11th, 13th, suspensions, alterations, and so on, but we will cover those in some later post.

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