Every Player Needs To Learn The Diatonic Chords of A Key (Easy Theory)
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- Learning the diatonic chords of of the major and minor keys is a MUST for every musician, the chords made from the notes in the major scale and the minor scale. It helps you learn what chords will sounds good together, which chords are commonly used together in songs and get familiar with recognising and memorising them. It's a foundation you need to learn first before expanding into different kinds of chords progressions in the future. We also need this to help train to work out songs by ear!
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TIMESTAMPS/CHAPTER MARKERS
0:00 What are diatonic chords of the key?
1:41 Chords of C major, how it works
4:02 The Pattern for the chords of any major key
5:15 The PDF
5:38 Chords of F major
8:09 Using this knowledge
9:40 Chords of the Minor Key
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Also, not sure what happened but I must have slid my keyboard away whilst filming without realising which explains the weird angle!
I am a 69 year young piano newby. I love how you can take a seemingly overwhelming subject and break it down into bite size pieces that are easy to understand and remember. You always have AWESOME content in your videos. Keep teaching us the things we need to know to make a go at this huge 88 key behemoth. CHEARS! Thank you.
This is literally some of the best teaching for beginners that I've seen in years on TH-cam. Can't wait to sit at my piano soon!
Thanks, good luck!
No doubt one of the best explanatory videos about chords for beginners. I wish I had seen such a good and clear explanation like this many years ago. You have a special talent to explain and communicate concepts like these. Many thanks for sharing !!
Thanks, Miguel, glad it was useful
U are the best I have found on utube who explain so clearly for us beginners to learn. Thank u so much. 👍😍😍
Thanks! Glad it’s helpful
Yes that’s actually helps me a lot I am a beginner
@@PianoFromScratch thanks a lot for teaching us how to play by step by step
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Agreed. He has helped me tremendously. Though I'm just a beginner, PfS has helped me have a mastery of forming chords which is invaluable.
It's amazing how it all fits together. I played trumpet when I was a kid. Four years. I just read from sheet music. Didn't even know what theory was.
Then I switched to guitar. I just played root fifth interval chords and minor scales for years (hard rock haha!). Then a friend of mine who was a local pro jazz bassist showed me theory.
Since then I've been studying and applying. But although I've known the major key pattern for 20 years, I only just learned the minor key pattern today. Isn't that crazy? I also only recently started learning every single note on my guitar neck.
I'd recommend for anyone just starting as a musician to please be nice to yourself and learn theory. Learn as much as you can, because no matter what kind of music you play it will help you. Thanks for another great lesson! ❤
I went the other way ! 😎 been playing guitar for years but never did music theory but learning piano now at 63. Now slowly understand the basic music theory ( the diatonic scale … etc ) and the guitar now makes much more sense in chords etc …
Back to my diatonic scale ! Slowly ! …
Play-one-skip-one is the switch for my brain that makes it so obvious how to find these chords!
😲 Mind blown 🤯 That makes so much sense! It’s like everything just came together in my head watching this. Thank you so much! 😃
I promised you 3 months ago that I'd be back and I kept my word. You really have a great way of teaching.
Welcome back!
Thank was really helpful. I love that you also used a key with a black key in it to illustrate the theory. Everyone teaches on C major, and I know they have their reasons, but it’s good for this beginner to see how the theory works with more complicated key signatures. Thank you.
For old time's sake, I came back to watch this for the third time.
I've seen hundreds of videos on piano and your explanation of chords is the best I've seen on the internet. I saw that I had found your channel after 2 weeks, and saw this first. Right after I saw the video for chords and I felt much more accomplished. I had to change bank cards recently but I'll slip some money into your tip jar since I can't thank you enough for making the piano such a joy to play.
Thanks, Lawrence, much appreciated! Great to hear the videos can help people out
That was SUPERB - will be watching all of your lessons now. You’re a good teacher.
I just purchased the PDF for this lesson and printed the 11 pages. Was also sent an email with link to download in case I need to reprint. VERY easy and smooth process to order and print out. Thank you so much!!!! 🙏
What a great simple way of learning chords in scales. Never taught this way. So simple. Very grateful for tips. Keep it up!!!
I've been using many online sources and you and Josef sykora are very helpful organized and on point with each lesson. I feel I've been improving in my first month pretty well.
Very helpful. Thank you.
He asked at the end “I hope this was helpful” and I immediately said out loud “ This was BEYOND helpful!” Seriously. I’ve only been playing piano a year and I’ve never been able to understand this until now. Thanks
This is the best explanation of diatonic chords I have seen. Thank you SO MUCH!!!🙏
Thank you for explaining this for a better understanding.
Good, love how you explained it.
Super clear.
You're such a good teacher. Thank you ❤
Thanjs for your simple explenation
I'm jus so wanting to learn to figure the chords out.. more power to you❤️
Thank you for helping the beginner and I love your technique continuous blessings Sir.
Very well explained, and I agree once you know all the chords in the various keys, playing the piano becomes much easier, especially reading and playing from sheet music as you recognize chord patterns immediately instead of ploughing through individual notes. Good job.
this is a wonderful easy way to remember these cords, thank you so much, off to practise now !!!
Very relevant. Thanks.
Thank you so much!!
Im learning chord theory in music school and my teacher failed to explain this fundamental idea behind why we get some major and some minor and the dim. Straight away just told us to remember the pattern.
This understanding has helped me immensely!
Very clear for a total beginner like me, thanks, going to check your website.
So clear now. Thanks 🙏
No probs!
You are awesome as usual!!
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Brilliant !
Simple explanation, but so important for all music
Amazing teacher
Thanks so much !!diminished chords are great to play in Jazz
Great content. Just get a video from you recommended and you caught me immediately. Good job
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Thank you bro good explanation
Super video. Very helpful.
Outstanding teacher skills so easy to follow and understand very passionate about your music and this clearly comes across to students like me thank you so much
Very clearly explained and simplified, it's very helpful.
Great, glad it was!
Excellent advice
excellent explain .
Thanks a lot. Very useful
thanks for explaining it so clearly ! :)
I love good music. Thanks for tutoring me.
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you!
That was great, cleared everything up!
Glad it helped!
Thank you sir.
Very helpful video well explained thank you 👍🏻
Good graphics throughout!
Very well explained. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Oh i get it now. That was so easy. Brilliant!👍🏻
Thank you so much...
Your way of explaining makes it very easy to understand. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Learned today how transpose works 🥺💓
Thanks 😊
Diatonic chords are very well explained in your video., now I understand it . Thank you very much.
I just ordered your guides - "All 12 Major Scales" and "Chords of the Major & Minor Keys". These are just perfect! Just what I have been looking for to assist my learning of scales and chords. Thank you so much.
Ah great, thanks for the feedback. I’m currently revamping them so you’ll be sent a free update when they’re done
Nice graphics and explanations
Another great video, cheers dude!
No probs, hope it was useful!
Very good explanation - and loved the Star Wars analogy!
Very helpful, thank you.
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Thanks for this one in particular! I'm going to get it because of your clear and fluid style. Ace ;)
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Thanks! You beautifully laid this out for a layman like me. It was confusing to me when I tried to apply triads on other scale.. I couldn't work them same as C major scale. But, now it is clear! Thanks again.
No probs, glad it helped!
Hi. I cut and pasted your pdfs to make a personal reference in OneNote.
Super helpful!
Thank you very much for the very good lesson. Teşekkürler. Many greatings from Türkiye
U absolutely simplified both Major & minor keys n made it a whole lot easier to practice..most often used to get rather confused n d last change of min to Maj sounded awesome n very perceptable👍
U r such a blessing in disguise in d whole maze of white & black keys☺️
Happy to help, there’s a practice video coming next week on how to really get this stuff under your fingers
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Well explained, chords played same pattern way with the fingers no matter the key. 1 3 5 will practice these chords my diatonic chords. Thanks
Very simple tutorial 🥂
Thank you
Thanks for using a common sense approach to teaching. This is a method everyone can understand. It works.
Hope it’s useful for you
Nice tutorial.
This is good stuff
One of the best tutorials on TH-cam, but it’s worth noting the triad explanation skipped an important step and what I found to be fundamental to understanding how notes combine to make chords i.e tone, tone, semitone, tone, tone, tone, semitone for a major. This for me was a game changer when it came to understanding how notes combine to make a scale.
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watched 4 videos, its the simplest one ,thanks
This really helpful as a beginner
What a great channel!! I never had a lesson in my life, but I love piano, organ, synth, etc music. I have learned to play the "Ballad of Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater" - but only in the key of (I think) Bb.
lol, sick Star Wars ref to explain it :-). All those clicking sounds in my head. Amazing video
Best piano teacher on TH-cam. I wish I could take lessons from you
Thanks, glad the channel is helpful for you!
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Really useful, thank you! The minor scale chords were new to me. Now subscribed 🙂
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Really cool. I’m an advanced player however I enjoy all these it’s like a review for me.
I am learning a lot
Glad to hear!
This is one theory topic that takes out the guesswork from practical songwriting.
That’s a great way of putting it
Great video, I’ve just discovered your channel and the videos are great
Cheers, thanks for watching
Uh, after less than two weeks, this was a bit above my pay grade. But I wasn't lost, so I'll be back. Merci.
Wow! I just started to learn piano a week ago so I am a complete newbie. But I've been learning guitar for the last 10 months or so have have recently started to get into music theory with circle of fifths, chord families and beginning to play triads on guitar and looking at chord progressions. So with that bit of knowledge and seeing your video, I can pretty easily transfer this over to piano based on what you are teaching! And in my newbie mind it also makes playing the piano so simple......sitting down and actually implementing it on the piano is likely another story though...lol.
But the simple linearity of notes on the piano and repeating octave pattern down the keyboard seems to make it so much easier to learn than guitar with six strings with each string note pattern shifted up and down the neck as well as difficult chord shapes.
Please don't think I am saying playing the piano is going to be easy........just the understanding of things seems easier to me because of the linear keyboard layout. And your tutorial/video was pretty exceptional as far as learning how to play the chords for a particular key! Also, instead of just learning random chords, I can now learn the chords from the standpoint of chord families and various chord progressions (at least for major/minor keys and chords) which is fantastic! This really opened my eyes!
Thank you so much!
Wanted to thank you for a great vid. Helped a lot. I've been trying to get going in both soft soft and didn't get very far. TNice tutorials vid helped a
I love it...In my 50s and am learning!
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Hello there! Do you have a video going over all the notes in each individual scale? I really wanna learn the major and minor scales. Thank you for everything you’ve done so far. Literally the best video ever and the best teacher and explainer.
I wouldn't suggest going over the notes in each individual scale. You would want to practice it really well and get the idea and the spacing cemented in just one key and then when you transpose to another key all the rules you learned for spacing stay the same and you just change the names and the pitch of the notes but the basic rules behind the spacing stay the same. Cement the idea of how to build a major scale from a root note, then do the same for building a minor scale from a root note, learn how one minor is the same notes as in another major. (A minor is the same notes as C major). Then build chords off them using the spacing given in this video.
i've been trying to learn more about this subject, great video very clear, the first video i tried to watch on this subject started with the person slowly showing us how to write the word diatonic, i am not a young person with tiktok brain but it was a bit too slow for my taste
I'm very impressed that you were able to work in a Star Wars reference.
very interesting