Intro to Piano Chords and Holiday Songs
Practice playing simple chords, inversions, scales, playing patterns, reading notes and songs while training your ear!
Description
In this lesson series, veteran musician and choral director Sarah Bonsignore will teach you how to play simple chords, read basic notation, and perform holiday songs and carols at the piano within a few lessons! Learn at your own pace. If you're a total beginner, watch each video as many times as you need before moving on, and hit pause to take a minute and think on it! Learn how to accompany yourself and others beginning with 3 simple chords, and get ready to surprise your friends and family at Christmas as you lead them in a singalong!! Practice reading the notes in both the bass and treble clef, rhythms and chord symbols, as well as developing your ear for harmony throughout the process. Put some tools in your music toolbox for improvising at the piano for fun, and become a better and more confident singer in the process! The lessons are appropriate for beginners, as well as advanced students who are interested in learning how to read chord symbols and improvise. By the end of the series you will be able to print out more simple holiday songs in C major (and G major;), and begin working out the chord symbols and patterns yourself!
What You Will Learn!
- How to play simple chords, inversions, arpeggios and chord patterns and apply them to many other songs
- How to accompany yourself and others in a musical way, learning multiple songs that you can sing and play
- How to read notes in the bass and treble clef, as well as chord symbols and roman numerals
- How to develop your skills for playing chords and melodies by ear while also working on sight reading
- How to play scales and broken chords, and also develop the ear for harmony and picking out chords and melodic notes that work
Who Should Attend!
- Motivated students of all ages and levels who love music and want to get better at playing the songs they know and love
- Students who want to be able to accompany themselves and others, building on skills from one lesson to the next
- Anyone who would like to lead a singalong or have a repertoire of songs that incorporate chord progressions that can be applied to many other songs
- Classically trained musicians who would like to learn how to play by ear
- Singer songwriters who play the guitar but would like to learn a few piano chords to expand their songwriting styles