{"id":309,"date":"2008-09-17T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/how-to-play-songs-with-just-two-chords-and-still-sound-good"},"modified":"2024-12-25T22:44:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T06:44:51","slug":"how-to-play-songs-with-just-two-chords-and-still-sound-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hearplaymain.wpenginepowered.com\/how-to-play-songs-with-just-two-chords-and-still-sound-good\/","title":{"rendered":"How to play songs with just two chords and still sound good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2chordsbig.jpg' class=\"videopic\" alt='2chordsbig.jpg' \/>For the last week or so, we&#8217;ve gotten deeper and deeper into minor scales.<\/p>\n<p>From the natural minor scale to the harmonic and melodic <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minor scales<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script>, we&#8217;ve covered a lot.<\/p>\n<p>We even delved into the corresponding chords that come from these scales (I&#8217;ll continue with the triads and sevenths of the melodic minor shortly).<\/p>\n<p>Today, though, I want to slow down and go the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>I wanna talk to my straight beginners in this post! I want to give you guys some hope that if you know just two chords, you can actually sit around the piano or keyboard and have fun with your kids.<\/p>\n<p>And if you don&#8217;t know already, those two chords are the 1-chord and the 5-chord.<\/p>\n<p>Let me briefly explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Every major key can be looked at using numbers. <\/p>\n<p>For example, the C major scale:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>C D E F G A B C<br \/>\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(For my newbies&#8230; these are played separately, one after the other.)<\/p>\n<p>But the scale has a ton of other usages.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ll help you to understand one of them today.<\/p>\n<p>See those numbers?<\/p>\n<p>If you take the 1st, 4th, and 5th tones out of this scale, you&#8217;d get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nC F G<br \/>\n1 4 5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And what we do is play <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">major chords<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> on each of these tones:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>C major = C + E + G<br \/>\nF major = F + A + C<br \/>\nG major = G + B + D<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(For my new readers, when you see me using the plus + sign to connect notes, that means to play them all together. Just my own way of breaking up each note of a chord. So the &#8220;C + E + G&#8221; would mean to sound all three of those notes at the same time, creating a C major chord. If you don&#8217;t know your major chords, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/welcome-to-the-beginner-musician-lessons\">click here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Moving on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>These are what we call <strong>&#8220;primary chords.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These chords will appear the most in your songs. In fact, most songs could be written with JUST these chords.<\/p>\n<p>Composers use other tones of the scale to make the music more interesting. For example, I could have a <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">progression<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> that just goes from C major to G major and that would be fine. But if I wanted to add more variety, I&#8217;d employ maybe the 2nd tone of the scale to push me to the G major chord (&#8230;but that&#8217;s another lesson).<\/p>\n<p>Now, primary chords are in every key. Just take the 1st, 4th, and 5th tones of any major scale and there you have it, the primary chords of that key.<\/p>\n<p>So you&#8217;ve got three chords and they&#8217;re found in just about every song.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s explore them:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 1-chord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1-chord is basically the same as the title of your major scale and key signature. If you&#8217;re in the key of C, obviously the first tone of the scale is C &#8212; therefore, the first chord is C major (since <a href=\"https:\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox\/141e8f273f72a2%3A14dcc288eb46dc\/5650082896543744\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">primary triads<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/my.leadpages.net\/leadbox-714.js\"><\/script> are major chords). This chord is most likely to begin your songs. It&#8217;s also most likely to end your songs. Even in the middle of songs when they tend to go back to the beginning (like the second half of &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221;), 1-chords are used. So when you feel like the song is at a permanent &#8220;home base&#8221; or even a temporary one (as in the middle of the song), most likely, you&#8217;re looking for  the 1-chord&#8230; in this case, C major.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 4-chord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 4-chord usually comes right after the 1-chord. The 1-chord finds itself always progressing to the 4-chord. It doesn&#8217;t happen all the time (of course) but it&#8217;s pretty frequent. And like I said above, if the composer doesn&#8217;t choose to go directly from the 1-chord (C major) to the 4-chord (F major), she&#8217;s probably using other tones of the scale that will eventually lead to the 4-chord. <\/p>\n<p>An example of this is in the beginning of &#8220;Amazing Grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;A-ma-zing grace how&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sweet the&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nF major ~~<br \/>\n(F + A + C)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sound.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;That saved a wretch like&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Me&#8221;<br \/>\n_______________<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(What chord might you guess here?)<\/p>\n<p>You see how that works? We basically played the whole beginning part of Amazing grace with just the 1 and 4-chords. And where I left you off, the 5-chord would have come next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 5-chord<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 5-chord tends to come in the middle of the song or verse. It&#8217;s that thing that connects you back to the 1-chord. But if you think about it, the 1-chord usually comes in the beginning of a song or at the end of the song (or in the middle of the song when it appears to have start all over). So, if that&#8217;s the case, the 5-chord is that feeling that tells you the song is about to end or about to go back to the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you feel that in the middle of Amazing Grace?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;A-ma-zing grace how&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sweet the&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nF major ~~<br \/>\n(F + A + C)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Sound.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;That saved a wretch like&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C + E + G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Me&#8221; <\/strong><br \/>\nG major ~~~<br \/>\n(G + B + D)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When you sing &#8220;me,&#8221; that is the the middle area I&#8217;m talking about. That is the part that lets you know something is about to repeat.<\/p>\n<p>That is where the 5-chord is best used. Of course at the end of songs too.<\/p>\n<p>But you know what?<\/p>\n<p>Most songs you can play with just the 1 and 5 chords. Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Mary Had A Little Lamb&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Ma-ry had a lit-tle lamb&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C+E+G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Lit-tle lamb&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nG major ~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(G+B+D)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Lit-tle lamb&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major<br \/>\n(C+E+G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Ma-ry had a lit-tle lamb, her&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(C+E+G)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Fleece was white as&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nG major ~~~~~~~~<br \/>\n(G+B+D)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Snow&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major<br \/>\n(C+E+G)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Wheels On The Bus&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nG major (either you can play a G major here or you can play no chord here and come in on &#8220;wheels&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Wheels on the bus go round and round&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Round and round&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nG major ~~~~<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Round and round. The&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~<br \/>\n(note: you can play a Gmaj chord on &#8220;the&#8221; if you want or you can leave it alone)<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Wheels on the bus go round and round&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;All through the&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nG major ~~~<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Town&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nC major<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"productinfo\">So try this:<\/p>\n<p>Try to pick out your favorite nursery rhymes by just using the 1st, 4th, and 5th chords of a major key. It&#8217;s about trial and error in the beginning. If the 4-chord doesn&#8217;t sound right, just move to the 5th chord (and vise versa). Do this until you&#8217;ve mastered a good 4-5 songs. They all work the same way, trust me!<\/p>\n<p>See how many you can do!<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"productinfo\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/new\/assets\/images\/hp702.jpg\" alt=\"hear and play\" height=\"200\" width=\"157\" class=\"videopic\"><\/p>\n<h2> Hear and Play 702: Piano By Ear For Starters <\/h2>\n<p>The Hear and Play 702 Audio Series is a 2-hour, 2-disc set that specializes in taking you from the VERY beginning all the way to playing basic songs (popular ones at that). You&#039;ll study everything from the notes on the piano, scales, and basic chords to melody, harmonization, and even progressions!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#039;re a newbie and want to be up and playing in less than a few days, you can&#039;t afford to miss this opportunity at this incredible price. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/playbyear.html\" target=\"_top\">Click here to learn more<\/a> | <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/orderhp702\">Buy now<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Until next time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I want to slow down and go the other direction. <\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.hearandplay.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/2chordssmall.jpg' class=\"videopic\" alt='2chordssmall.jpg' \/>I wanna talk to my straight beginners in this post! 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