

Most simply put, if you play more than one note at a time you’ve got a chord. In this article I’ll tell you how to make piano chords, how to read chord symbols, and lots of ways to use chords to make your piano playing more amazing than ever.

But for folk, jazz, pop, and rock musicians, chords are the foundation of how they think about, play, and perform music. Although guitar players use chord symbols all the time, for many beginning piano students chords are a mysterious art. Have you ever seen those letters up above the staff in your sheet music and wondered what they are? Those letters are chord symbols.
