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There’s More to Playing the Piano


Chapter 14 - The Good Chords

As well as being a reference tool for key signatures and scales, the Cycle of Fifths is also a great way to understand chord relationships (harmony). The last chapter mentioned relative major and minor chords. The other closely related chords are the dominant (clockwise around the cycle) and the subdominant (anticlockwise round the cycle) In the key of C: In the key of Am: * In...

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  • There’s More to Playing the Piano (Home)
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 - Note Values
  • Chapter 2 - Naming Notes
  • Chapter 3 - Sharps and Flats
  • Chapter 4 - Rests
  • Chapter 5 - Bars and Bar Lines
  • Chapter 6 - Clefs
  • Chapter 7 - Intervals (Part 1)
  • Chapter 8 - Key Signatures
  • Chapter 9 - The Cycle of Fifths (Part 1)
  • Chapter 10 - Major Scales
  • Chapter 11 - Chords
  • Chapter 12 - Traffic Light Diagram
  • Chapter 13 - The Cycle of Fifths (Part 2)
  • Chapter 15 - Chords and Cadences
  • Chapter 16 - Ties and Dots
  • Chapter 17 - Simple Time Signatures
  • Chapter 18 - Compound Time Signatures
  • Chapter 19 - Tuplets
  • Chapter 20 - Switching Time Signatures
  • Chapter 21 - Beaming
  • Chapter 22 - Intervals (Part 2)
  • Chapter 23 - Minor Scales
  • Chapter 24 - The Chromatic Scale
  • Chapter 25 - Transposing
  • Chapter 26 - Ornaments
  • Chapter 27 - General Knowledge
  • Chapter 28 - Style

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David Hall

David Hall is Director of Music at Twyford School in Winchester and Musical Director of Finchcocks Piano Courses. He is a graduate of Cambridge University and a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.

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