Practising arpeggios is a great way to develop overall dexterity as well as increasing familiarity with the notes in a chord and where they're located across different octaves of the keyboard. Inversions allow you to string chords together smoothly so your hands don’t have to leap all over the keyboard when playing a progression.Īrpeggios are where the notes of a chord are spread out and played individually, often in a run up and down the keyboard through multiple octaves. Root position indicates that the root note of the chord is played at the bottom of the stack (lowest in pitch or furthest left on the keyboard), first inversion places the third at the bottom and the root at the top, and second inversion places the fifth at the bottom and third at the top. Inversions are chords where the notes are played in a different order.

Songs with a combination of major and minor chords - which to be fair is most of them - will not only teach you how to swap between major and minor shapes from a muscle-memory point of view, but will also serve to illustrate how using both types can affect the overall sound and mood of a chord progression. This way, you’ll be able to play whole songs with only a couple of chords under your belt. So to begin with, when finding songs to practise, it makes sense to seek out tunes that contain relatively few chords. Once you've mastered playing triads, you'll be able to attempt a basic version of pretty much any song there is.

Triads are the basic, three-note chords made up of a root note, a fifth and a minor or major third in the middle. How much cooler would it be if you were able to incorporate scales into the context of playing an actual song? So try looking for songs whose melodies are made up of runs up and down the major or minor scales to make practising them a bit less of a chore. Everyone knows that scales are an important part of the keyboard learning process, but practising them isn't the most exciting thing on earth.

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