But there's a catch: you'll have to know how to read the sheet music for the chords, and most volumes have hard-to-understand regimes and complicated diagrams that allow you to find, at length, EVERY chord.
But now, with the PIANO CHORD DICTIONARY, you need no special knowledge of sheet music to play even the most complex chord.
All you have to do is put the numbered and lettered stickers on your keyboard, and you're ready to start playing the chords from popular sheet music.
Presented in easy-to-find book format, our dictionary will lie flat on your piano music stand, so you can have it right alongside the sheet music you are trying to play. Try that with those bulky "chord charts" and other volumes intended for experienced professionals.
PIANO CHORD DICTIONARY is specially designed for beginning pop pianists who need the basic knowledge to get started playing the chords from popular sheet music, and need to know which simpler chords to properly substitute for the more complex chords that usually are too difficult for beginners to play fluently.
Plus, we give you a strategy for learning BASIC LEAD SHEET STYLE: first you learn the chords in what is called "root" position, so that you have a firm foundation for going further into the complex world of popular sheet music chords when you have gained solid experience with the basic knowledge of "root" position.
Put simply, "root" position is an arrangement of notes in which the name of the chord, say C, is the lowest, or furthest to the left, note in the chord.
CHORD SUBSTITUTION
In addition, we give you exhaustive references for chord substitution: suppose you see a symbol for a complex chord that is unplayable for the beginner? Perhaps not unplayable, but so complex that it will slow down your performance and enjoyment of that song to the point that you have to stop and lose the thread of the music altogether.
In most methods, you have to follow impossible directions or omit that chord completely!
But not with the PIANO CHORD DICTIONARY!
We give you exact, acceptable substitutions for all complex chords that will allow you to play the song you want in a satisfying way without going beyond the skills you need as a beginner.
For example, suppose you see a symbols that requires C11, or C13? These are complex six and seven note chords that require difficult explanations and notations to explain properly.
But did you know that each of these chords is easily substituted for with the simple C7 chord, a perfectly acceptable substitute to use until you have learned BASIC LEAD SHEET STYLE and have a firm enough foundation to proceed further into the world of chords beyond the seventh chord (C7, for example.)
The biggest mistake made by beginning players attempting to play popular sheet music is to try to play every chord, no matter how complex!
WRONG!
Learn the basics, that is, root position of all chords up through the seventh chord (C7) for example, and when you have mastered that, THEN set out a program to learn more complex chords.
Walk before you run, and you'll have success playing the chords of popular sheet music!
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