Chords

Welcome
After today's class...
- You know how to use the chord ruler
- You know the difference between major & minor
- You know how to play a chord on a piano
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This lesson contains 21 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 1 video.

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Welcome
After today's class...
- You know how to use the chord ruler
- You know the difference between major & minor
- You know how to play a chord on a piano

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Slide 2 - Slide

Akkoord
  • A chord is three tones melted together as one sound
  • They melt together if you play them on a piano / guitar whilst accompanying a melody

Slide 3 - Slide

Why can't you play a chord on a recorder (=blokfluit)?
A
A recorder is not meant to play in popmusic.
B
You can play one note at a time on a recorder.
C
The sound of a recorder is too high to play a chord.
D
A recorder is not a real instrument.

Slide 4 - Quiz

Chord
A chord exist out of 3 tones, but every chord has it's own 3 tones.

We start from a scale. A scale is all the notes from one note to the next note with the same name. 
Which notes are in a scale of C?


Slide 5 - Slide

Chord
  • To make a chord it's always the 1st, 3rd en 5th of the scale
  • So if we make a chord from C.. (which notes are below 1, 3 and 5?)


       1             2          3          4           5          6          7         8           

Slide 6 - Slide

Chord
Deze 3 tonen hebben ook nog een eigen naam:

1. Root = is the name of the chord and the chord symbol (C)

3. Third = makes the chord minor or major

5. Fifth 

Slide 7 - Slide

Major & Minor
Major
Minor
5 steps (big third
4 steps (small third)
'normal' 
+ letter M

Slide 8 - Slide

This chord is minor or major?
C
A
major
B
minor

Slide 9 - Quiz

This chord is minor or major?
Dm
A
major
B
minor

Slide 10 - Quiz

This chord is major or minor?
Bb
A
major
B
minor

Slide 11 - Quiz

This chord is major or minor?
F
A
major
B
minor

Slide 12 - Quiz

chord ruler
Not every chord is with white keys and not every minor chord has a black key in it.. So how do you know which notes you need..?

Chord Ruler

Put the letter of the root next to "Root" on the other paper
Check if you need a minor or major third
See which notes you need!

Slide 13 - Slide





Vul je antwoord als volgt in: grondtoon - terts - kwint (dus een spatie en een streepje tussen de letters)
To check: Which notes? F

Slide 14 - Open question

Which notes?
D

Slide 15 - Open question

Which notes?
Am

Slide 16 - Open question

Chord progression
A chord progression is a succesion of chords.
If you put a few chords together, you get a chord progression.

A lot of popsongs are based on a four chord progression.
And that's exactly what we're going to learn!

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Example of a chord progression
C     |     G     |    Am    |    F    |

How do you play these chords? 
(which keys of the keyboard do you need to play?

Slide 18 - Slide

Slide 19 - Video

(bass)guitar
How do you play Tab?
bassguitar > guitar skip the bottom strings (see through ones)
Every string has it's own line
So first note = second string, the third fret

Slide 20 - Slide

End of class
Please put the chord ruler on the piano on stage
 Hand in sheet music with: 
-> your names on it
-> the correct chords on it

Slide 21 - Slide