How to Construct ANY Chord (Piano Quickie 8)

In the eighth installment of the Piano Quickie series I'll show you a really neat system for constructing pretty much any type of chord you encounter: triads, 7th chords, 9th chords, diminished, augmented, major, minor, sus4, sus2, add2, add9 - you name it, this tutorial has it covered! Have you ever seen those big chords such as C13#5, Dm9maj7, Gmaj7add2, and wanted to know if there was any system for building them? Well, there is, and we're going to go over it.

Click here to download a useful chart that also appears during the video (if you type in the address manually make sure to note lower/uppercase letters):

www.assaftal.com/ChordConstructionChart.pdf

This chart might look confusing at first, but don't worry, it's fully explained in the video and you'll find that it's extremely useful, so print it out, keep it around and make sure to watch the chord construction video tutorial to the very end.

Also, to follow the current lesson properly you will need to know how to construct major scales on any note. If you're not sure or need a refresher, check out the piano quickie tutorial that deals with it:

   • Piano Quickie 4: Scales - How to cons...  

The Piano Quickie series is aimed at beginning musicians who want to get a grasp of the fundamental points of music theory: notes, intervals, chords, chord inversions, scales and so forth. Made of short but richly illustrated piano lessons and tutorials, this series is ideal for teaching the basics of piano theory and playing without becoming overwhelming on the one hand, or too slow and boring on the other. You can find the rest of the Piano Quickie series here:

   • Piano Quickie: Bite-Sized Piano Lessons  

========= What is a Chord? ==========

From Wikipedia:

A chord in music is any harmonic set of three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously (...) The most frequently encountered chords are triads, so called because they consist of three distinct notes: further notes may be added to give seventh chords, extended chords, or added tone chords. The most common chords are the major and minor triads and then the augmented and diminished triads. The descriptions "major", "minor", "augmented" and "diminished" are sometimes referred to collectively as chordal "quality". Chords are also commonly classed by their root note so, for instance, the chord C Major may be described as a triad of major quality built upon the note C. Chords may also be classified by inversion, the order in which their notes are stacked.

Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_%2...

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