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One thing I hear musicians complain from time to time is its inability to "crossover" instrument to another easily. Moreover, is that many are already very proficient in his main instrument. What I found is that there just are not number enough guides out there that can help TRANSLATE music and communicate fully all the instrumental break. We call it the barrier of "music" and a time to learn to cross that limit, you can easily map one instrument to another. How can this be accomplished? With the building blocks of songs, plays music and the harmonies and melodies that you hear every day - strings!
Translation Piano and Guitar Chords
My special focus for this article is to translate between guitar chords and piano. I played both instruments for the same number of years and take pleasure in the songs were written for one instrument to another. One thing that you first need to understand is that the piano is inherently "linear" - note that each team can be run in tandem right piano. The guitar, on the other hand is a more "three dimensional" (horizontal instrument frets and strings vertical) - You can walk up to the frets a 6 string guitar in and then you can actually jump to the sequence of 5 to continue until the staff. You can even play the same exact tone in the same exact eighth the same exact time, but with a small snippet of the toes!
By breaking the strings into their component parts and mapping of each sound of the guitar to its equivalent Piano, have broken the barrier of music. Here we go!
Chord Openings:
In order to provide the simplest method to translate between the chords of the guitar and piano, we must first discuss Voicings - the arrangement of notes in a chord. Chords are usually played in a position "root", or when the bass note is the name of the chord. For example, a C Major chord in root position would have a low grade of C Major as the lowest note.
Piano is a little different, since there is no real way to that, organize the tones in a chord, it can be very subjective based on the piece. As such, I will base all the strings that are translated in Guitar voicings. Another reason that I will base our Piano chords on the guitar is expressing because the tones of the guitar tend to be more difficult to wrap your hands around (literally) when they are more scattered as Piano strings are capable of being.
Guitar Piano Chord Mappings:
Now that we understand gaps, it is time to begin to map out some chords! First, we use a E9 chord as an example. Each of the five fingers is given a number - from the little finger of his left hand have 5, 4, 3, 2 with the thumb being 1. The right hand reflects left with the thumb with the 1 and 2, 3, 4 and 5 at pinky. Thus, the left hand touches the left 5, 2, 1, while the right side controls the largest 1, 3 and 5.
Spelling this chord on the piano keyboard (see a chart of keyboard tone for positions on the keyboard), we have E (5), B (2), D (1), Ab / G # (1), D (3), Gb / A # (5).
Guitar, Piano and Staff Notation:
Now, let's translate this on the guitar:
The treatment includes a guitar chord of each of these same notes - E, B, D, Ab / G #, D, Gb / A #.
For the guitar the index finger is 1, 2 middle finger, finger 3 and 4. Thumb is also sometimes used, and is commonly referred to as a T or P. Follow this through an E9 chord (see chart of a guitar string to the position of tone on the fretboard). Now you're playing the exact same chord played on the piano, the guitar!
Conclusion:
That's all there is to it. Our rule of fingering the piano can be transposed to any chord, just follow the standard 5, 2, 1 - 1, 3, 5 format. Remember, the piano is much more "loose" when it comes to betting patterns, some chords do not require all six fingers, so take one of them wherever feel more comfortable and natural. Practice chords to play with these three fingers on each hand and it will come more naturally when it's time to feel a new chord.
Above all, have fun with it! See which songs you can translate between guitar and piano. Maybe some sound better on another instrument, or you can find ways new and interesting to play them, given the difference in tone between the two instruments.
Keep playing, practicing and communicating the language of music!
Scott R. Evans: info@stringtheorychords.com
http://www.StringTheoryChords.com
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