The Way to become an Pianist Part 5: Four-Note Chords

These past blogs, Norman Monath has taught me the basic concepts of the piano. Now, he changes the play style to more advanced, which is the Four-Note chords. Monath start with the sixth chords, For example, C6, in the scale of C, starting first note of C, 3rd note E, 5rd note G,  and 6th note A, because A is sixth note of C and that means sixth chord(Monath 82). I personally find it's very awkward at first with the fingering without knowing which fingers to use to play these notes. However, I read a little bit further, the author suggest using pinking, middle finger, forefinger and thumb is the most comfortable for all four-note chords (Monath 82). After messing with this style of fingering, I find it very easy to move around.

Next concept that Monath cover is the seventh chords, the most played and important four-notes chord of all. Forming an seventh chord would be playing first note, for example in a C scale, 1st note C, 3rd E, 5th G, and 7th B (Monath 84). Using the same fingering as I learned in sixth chords, help me tremendously and find it comfortable to play seventh chords. By using what I had learn from past lessons, I'm able to maximize my skills on these harder concepts, even though its not as difficult as I thought.

Overall, learning all the basic concepts and advanced by Monath have gotten me a better pianist after all. From knowing nothing about the keyboard/ piano, to playing a song that I never thought I would be able to play. Also help me as a violinist to be more accurate with tuning and knowing much more about music as a whole. There were times that's stressful because of difficult fingerings to remember or playing wrong notes, but I was able to prevail through tough times by practicing.

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