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Creative Keyboard's DELUXE ENCYCLOPEDIA-
A Complete Study of Chords / How to Use Them
Creative Keyboard's
DELUXE ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
PIANO CHORDS
A Complete Study of Chords and How to Use Them
The Deluxe Encyclopedia of Piano Chords is a complete and thorough analysis of chords as
applied to the piano keyboard. This study encompasses chord construction, usage, scales and rhythm
patterns.
It is hoped that this text will enable the pianist or organist to effectively use and apply the full
diversity of chord possibilities in creating interesting, personal and colorful musical styles.
Dedication: To my Mother, Mabel M.,
and my Father, Elmer H. Kroepel;
music was a happiness in our home.
Bob Kroepel
0 1973 by Mel Bay Publications, Inc., Pacific, MO 63069.
All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured. B.M.I. Made and Printed in the U.S.A.
Piano Keyboard Diagram ............................
Intervals
Half-Step and Whole-Step ..........................
Accidentals
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Chart of Accidentals
Major Scabs
Scab Degrees ..............................................
Chords
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Chord-Tones
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Inversions
Construction of Common Chords
Minor Triad
Major Triad
Augmented Triad
Lowered Fifth Triad ......................................
Diminished Triad
Maior Seventh Chord
Dominant Seventh Chord
Minor Seventh Chord .................................
Maior Sixth Chord
Minor Sixth Chord
Diminished Seventh Chord
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Minor Seventh Lowered Fifth Chord
Seventh Augmented Fifih Chord
Seventh Lowered Fifth Chord
Seventh Suspended Fourth Chord
Major Seventh Flatted Third. Flatted
Fifth Chord ................................... .... .......
Mojor Seventh Flatted Third.
Augmented Fifth Chord
Major Ninth Chord
Ninth Chord
Thirteenth Chord
Thirteenth Flatted Ninth Chord
Seven Six Chord
Six Nine Chord
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Enharmonic Notation
20
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Numbering the Fingers ................................ 22
Explanotion of the Keyboard ....................
Diagrams and Annotation
.. 23
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Key of C Major. Scales and Chords
25
Key of Ob Major (Identical to C#
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Maior) Scales and Chords
30
Key of D Major. Scales and Chords .............. 35
Key of Eb Major. Scales and Chords .............. 40
Key of E Maior. Scales and Chords .............. 45
Key of F Major. Scales and Chords .............. 50
Key of F# Major (Identical to Gb
Major). Scales and Chords ...................... 55
Key of G Major. Scales and Chords ............ 60
Key of Ab Major. Scales and Chords ............ 65
Key of A Major. Scales and Chords ............ 70
Key of Bb Major. Scales and Chords ............ 75
Key of B Maior (Identical to Cb
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Maior). Scales and Chords
80
Range of the Bass. Chords and Melody ...... 85
Ninth Augmented Fihh Chord ...................... 16
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Using Chords to Play Popular Music
87
Ninth Lowered Fifth Chord
Minor -Ninth Chord
The Waltz Rhythm Pattern .......................... 89
Minor Ninth Augmented Fifth Chord
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The Fox Trot Rhythm Pattern
91
Minor Ninth Lowered Fifth Chord ................ 17
Seventh Flatted Ninth Chord
Alternating the Bars .................................. 94
Eleventh Chord
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Using Different Chord Positions
95
Eleventh Flatted Ninth Chord
Eleventh Augmented Fifth Chord ................ 18
Alternating the Alternoting Bars ................ 96
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Here is a keyboard diagram showing the white keys of the piano keyboard and their location on the
Grand Staff :
Trademark
Notice that the number of leger lines needed to locate the pitches of the piano on the Grand Stafl
increase towards the ends of the keyboard.
To make it easier to read music is often written with the symbol 8va instead ot the exact number of
leger lines.
8 ~ 1
means "octaver "Octave" comes from theLatin word "octava: meaning "eighth: An octave is the
same letter eight letters to the left or right of the original:
A
B C
D E
F C A
B
C D E
F
G
A
B
C D E F c
A
B
C.-*....-..
T
T
' octave
original
T
octave
8va written above a note means to play the note with the same letter name an octave higher:
Writ ten:
Played:
8va
IF
8va a b s o means to play the note with the same letter name an octave lower:
Written:
Played:
8va a baeeo
! 8-
means two octaves higher: 2 8va a b
o
means two octaves lower.
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In music an Interval is defined as the distance (in terms of pitch) between two notes.
The smallest interval on the piano keyboard is the klf- etep: a half -step is defined a s the intern1
between two adjoining notes :
half - half -
half -
step
step
S*P
Two half- steps equal one whole-atep:
whob-whole-
whole-
step
step
step
Musical symbols which alter the letter names of notes are called aceidentala.
Here is a chart which explains the symbols used for accidentals:
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Symbol
#
b
X!
bb
Name
Sharp
Flat
Double* Sharp
DOUM.-FI~~
Natural
Fu nc tion
raises pitch
a half-step
lowers pitch
a half-step
raises pitch two
half- s teps, or
one whole- step
lowers pitch two
half-ste s or
P
one who e- step
cancels a sharp
or a flat
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Example
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Major Scales.
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The musical alphabet is a continuum, repeating endtessly the first: sevt?fi letters of the English
language alphabet:
A
B
C
D
E
F
C
A
B
C
D
E
F
C
A
B
C
D
E
F
C
A
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A scale is a series of tones in an organized sequence.
A major acole is an eight-letter sequence of the musica1"aIpHrbet~
The first letter of the major scale is called the Qnic wt., or bymte: the last letter of the mior
scale is the same as the keynote but is called the O C ~ W .
Ex. C major wale
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-
- -
C
D
E
F
C
A
B
C
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Keynote
Octave
The tones of the major scale can be numbered:
The numbrs referring to the tones of a major scale are called ecale
