Major Chord Mini-Makeover for Pianists
Play Great-Sounding Major Chords Every Time
Sign up for this free mini-course to take your first steps towards getting the beautiful music you hear in your head gracefully down to your fingers, and then out into the world.
With this mini-course, you'll soon be playing major chord voicings that sound great in all 12 keys, even without sheet music.
Using a simple arrangement of "Amazing Grace" with 3 major chords, you'll learn how to add solid right hand chords and inversions to a melody, and create rock-solid, harmonic foundations in your left hand that also keep things moving.
Not only that, our Skill Practice section gives you several exercises to help get the major chord inversions and left hand accompaniment patterns into your hands in all 12 keys without sheet music.
Major chords are the most basic and most frequently played, and once you master them you'll have gained a critical skill for any pianist and have opened up all exciting new possibilities for self-expression and creativity in your piano playing.
This course is for you if:
- you play at an early intermediate level (minimum) or above
- you get anxious if you have to play the piano without sheet music, either 'by ear' or from a chord chart
- you sit down to "play around" on the piano and you're not satisfied with what you sound like
- you struggle to quickly form all 12 major chords and their inversions
This course is NOT for:
- pianists comfortable forming all 12 major chords and their inversions
- pianists comfortable creating left hand accompaniment patterns
- skilled improvisers
- pianists with a jazz harmony background
- pianists unwilling to practice to master these techniques
Your Instructor
With multiple books of jazzy hymn arrangements and Christmas music for piano published by companies like Hal Leonard, Alfred, and Lorenz Music, arranger and pianist Craig Curry knows a thing or two about creating interesting music at the piano. He also teaches at Friends University and regularly creates spontaneous accompaniments for gospel-singer Earnest Alexander.