Down Up Dick
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I've always played one-note-at-a-time instruments before taking up the ukulele. I did start to learn the keyboard, but I found that I couldn't play chords and melody with both hands at the same time.
So now, I can play all the first position chords that I need, but I am confused about music with more than 5 or 6 different chords. I've always believed that a tune's chords came from it's key, but of course that isn't so. I have tunes in the key of C with F# chords and Bb chords, etc. Also, sometimes there's minor chords in major pieces. So where do the accidentals come from?
Most folk tunes just have chords from their key, and I can handle them. But I'd like to move on a bit. However, I'd like to understand what I'm dealing with to help me learn what I'm doing.
So what I wanna know is how does one decide what chords to use in a tune and can a player (me) just ignore the ones he doesn't want to bother with?
I've searched different theory sources, but I still don't understand the above. ld:
So now, I can play all the first position chords that I need, but I am confused about music with more than 5 or 6 different chords. I've always believed that a tune's chords came from it's key, but of course that isn't so. I have tunes in the key of C with F# chords and Bb chords, etc. Also, sometimes there's minor chords in major pieces. So where do the accidentals come from?
Most folk tunes just have chords from their key, and I can handle them. But I'd like to move on a bit. However, I'd like to understand what I'm dealing with to help me learn what I'm doing.
So what I wanna know is how does one decide what chords to use in a tune and can a player (me) just ignore the ones he doesn't want to bother with?
I've searched different theory sources, but I still don't understand the above. ld:
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