How To Play Piano for Beginners, Lesson 16 || Broken Chord Exercises

Broken chords are an incredibly useful thing for pianists — they give us a way of creating movement, rhythm and musical interest on the piano keyboard, and they’re also a very handy warm up. In this sixteenth tutorial in my series on how to play piano for beginners we look at playing broken chords in right hand and left hand. They’re a great exercise, and also really handy for improving your hand control and chord knowledge.

A broken chord is exactly what it says: a chord that has been broken up, and its notes played (usually) one at a time, in time, and in a pattern. People sometimes confuse broken chords and arpeggios, but they’re not exactly the same thing: an arpeggio is a type of broken chord, in which all the notes in a chord are played from bottom to top (or top to bottom), one after another — in other words, they have a very specific order. Basic broken chord exercises of the sort we look at in this lesson are not arpeggios, because they don’t have that very specific order — but they’re an essential building block for playing arpeggios.

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