A Good Place To Start Your Keyboard Learning

A Good Place To Start by Rockmaster

A Good Place To Start Your Keyboard Learning

For those of you who would like to play piano accompaniment – with no desire to become accomplished, professional musician – this is a good place to start.

When you get comfortable with these changes you might even want to learn some music theory and improve your technique.

A Good Place To Start F1

Nice music doesn’t have to have complicated chord structure. Case in point, Canon in D has only 5 diatonic chords – 3 major and 2 minor.

A Good Place To Start F2

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This piece uses five of the seven diatonic chords in D Major. The other two chords are Em (II), and C#dim (VII). You may use the VII chord as a triad substitution for the dominant chord (V7). C#dim/A = A7.

A Good Place To Start F3

Piano For Beginners

Chord Fingering

Here are some songs that you can play using 3 chords.

Latin

La Bamba

Guantanamera

Caribbean– Calypso, Soca

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

Jamaica Farewell

Sloop John B

Michael Row the Boat Ashore

Children

Alphabet Song

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

How Much is That Doggie in the Window?

If You’re Happy and You Know It

This Little Light of Mine

You Are My Sunshine

Reggae

Lively Up Yourself

Too Experienced

Rivers of Babylon

Stealing Love

Gospel

It Is No Secret (What God Can Do)

Amazing Grace

Lift Me Higher

Close to Thee

Down by the Riverside

Jesus Loves Me

Kumbaya

Nearer My God to Thee

The Old Rugged Cross

Take the Name of Jesus With You

Sweet Hour of Prayer

What A Friend We Have In Jesus

What A Mighty God We Serve

Rivers of Babylon

Country

Blue Bayou

I Can’t Stop Loving You

Cold, Cold Heart

Crying Time

Before the Next Teardrop Falls

Help Me Make It Through the Night

For the Good Times

I Fall to Pieces

Jambalaya

Margaritaville

Wolverton Mountain

Singing the Blues

Folk

Blowin’ in the Wind

Puff, The Magic Dragon

The Last Thing On My Mind

This Land Is Your Land

Blues

Kansas City

See See Rider

Frankie and Johnny

12-Bar Blues

Christmas

Silent Night

Away In A Manger

Feliz Navidad (Verse)

Rock & Pop

The Lion Sleeps Tonight

All Shook Up

Angel of the Morning

Another Saturday Night

Bye Bye Love

To Love Somebody

Cruisin

Donna

Groovin’

Hang On Sloopy

A Hundred Pounds of Clay

If I Were A Carpenter

King of the Road

Knock Three Times

The Last Thing On My Mind

Memories Are Made of This

My Elusive Dreams

Ob-la-di Ob-la-da

Ramblin’ Rose

Save the Last Dance for Me

Sad Song (Say So Much)

Sea Cruise

Since I Met You Baby

Spanish Harlem

Tide Is High (Blondie)

Things

Try to Remember

Wonderful Tonight

Piano For Beginners

Three Chord Songs