3 Piano Pro Techniques Every Ambitious Pianist Should Learn

You have been passionately playing the piano for some time now – probably for years. Whenever you listen to yourself playing the piano, it just sounds like you playing. On the other hand, when you listen to some of the pros playing the piano, they seem to have some magic they use to make their music sound so tantalizing. The piano is the same, the music piece may even be the same, but there’s something totally…different! Well, there are secrets they use to differentiate their piano playing from the usual. These secrets are in their technique. There are so many different piano techniques that pianists can learn. One of them is using chord inversions while playing the instrument. The following article describes what chord inversions are and how to go about them: Chord Inversions – The Key To Smooth Playing Chord inversions are simply different ways to rearrange a chord. Some believe root position (how the chord is normally played with the keynote or title on the bottom) is not an official “inversion.” Others don’t make that distinction. I’m more with the latter perspective and prefer the easy definition: The number of notes in the chord equals the number of inversions (or ways you can play/rearrange the chord). Simply put, if the chord has 3 notes, it has 3 inversions or ways to rearrange it. If it has 4 notes, it has 4 inversions. 5 notes, 5 inversions. Via Hear and Play Chord inversions give you several different ways of playing the same chord, and that offers a vast number of ways to play the piano. You already have a lot of discovery to do with that secret. However, before you try it out, read on to see what other techniques the pros have in their tool boxes. Another technique that is employed in piano playing is the use of suspensions. Chord suspensions are described in more detail in the post below: HOW TO PLAY SUSPENDED CHORDS I don’t want to create expectations, but I find suspended chords fairly simple to learn and play. They’re usually just 3-note chords, and require only one note change from your average major or minor chord. The two most common chords are your “suspended 2”, written “sus2”, and “suspended 4”, written “sus4”. So let’s take a really easy, basic chord like C major chord, which you’re probably all familiar with. C major chord has a C, E and G. If we were to give each of these letters a number, we would number them 1, 3 and 5. Why? Because if you were to play those notes in order, like a scale – CDEFG – C would be the first note, E would be the third note, and G would be the fifth note. Via Piano TV You can see from the explanation above that suspended chords can be learned quite easily, and you should be on your way to great piano playing by incorporating them into your practice sessions. Suspended chords bring a sense […]

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