Broken Chords in Piano Sheet Music

Video Transcript

"Hello! I am Annie Brunson on behalf of Expert Village. Today we’re going to make playing chords a little bit more interesting by breaking them up. We have learned our chords, so far, by playing all 3 notes together. What you can do is actually play 1 note at a time. If we were to play a C chord and a first inversion G chord, this is what it would sound like. It will be a C, G, E, G, and then if you want to go to the first inversion of the G chord, B, G, D, G. Now let us see how that sounds put together. Now if we make those eighth notes let us see how “Mary had a little lamb” sounds. Now it is sounding a little bit better. There are a couple of notes that didn’t quite work but now it is sounding like a real piece of music. You can also go all the way to the top. There are different ways that you can break up a chord. "