When you learn your piano chords whats the point of learning the tonic, dominant, subdominant ect…?
Hi Jonah, Excellent question. Here’s the answer … Once you familiarize yourself with these chords you get to learn something that most composers have know for centuries and that is certain chord progressions have tension and other’s don’t. To play piano by ear, you need to learn the most frequently used chord progression and that is the 1-4-5 progression. To put it into chord terms it’s simply the C Major chord followed by the F Major chord and then the G Major chord. Knowing these 3 chords will help you play piano by ear guaranteed. How? Because these chords are used in almost ALL the music here in the west! Which is to say, most pop songs use them. and many, many classical compositions use them. They are the bedrock of modern western harmonic theory. You may be asking yourself why these chords are so important. You see it all has to do with the scale! When you play a C major scale you are defining the chords that can come from it. When we construct triads using this scale, the chor
