Keyboard, Piano, Chords and Inversions

by Aidan
(Bedfordshire )

Hello. I'm new to keyboards. I've bought a yamaha E463. As you'll know it can be a piano but also can provide auto accompaniment. I want to learn the piano and am doing so using tutorial books. The first left hand chord I learned was C using the notes C E G on the octave to the left of middle C. Great.


But when I use Kenneth Baker's Complete Keyboard Player it tells me to use different chords. See photos. I understand that the electronic keyboard chords are inverted chords but I really want to use the chords that I'm learning for the piano. In other words I don't want to learn inversions until I'm more advanced. I hope I'm making sense.

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by: Anonymous

It sounds like you are using a keyboard tutorial book that is showing you inversions of chords, but you would prefer to learn the chords in their root position (with the root of the chord in the bass). This is a common question for beginner keyboard players, and it's definitely possible to learn and play chords in their root position.

To play chords in their root position on a keyboard, you can follow these steps:

Find the root of the chord (e.g. C for a C chord, F for an F chord, etc.)

Add the third of the chord above the root (e.g. E for a C chord, A for an F chord, etc.)

Add the fifth of the chord above the third (e.g. G for a C chord, C for an F chord, etc.)

For example, to play a C chord in root position, you would play the notes C-E-G in the left hand. To play an F chord in root position, you would play the notes F-A-C.

I hope this helps!

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