To easily build chords, we’ll be using formulas that talk about these notes as degrees of the scale.

How to read piano chords. (go the chord charts then). When you see a dominant or a diminished chord in root. There are two types of chords, major and minor chords.

To do this on a piano, you will push down more than one key at the same time. This will be clearer if we consider c minor as an example, the root will be the same “c”, then moving three. An easy way to recognize a chord’s root is to read the capital letter on its left.

If you follow the chord root using a letter or a suffixes it. A triad is a chord with 3 notes in it. The root note resembles those of scales.

The ability to read chord symbols is a huge advantage to musicians of any level or genre. C dominant 7th or “c seven”. The capital letter on the left tells you the chord root.

It is made up of 3 minor 3rds: As with scales, the root note gives the chord its name. One way to remember these piano note names is by the sentence, all cars eat gas.

Major chord is made of the first, third and fifth degree of a scale. For example, the root of a c chord is the note c. All this means is we’ll assign each note of the scale with a number.