I always tell my students to lift fingers two and four as high as they can without being uncomfortable, just to keep them out of the way. It’s very common for beginning piano players to press down with all their fingers (two and four included) which can create a pretty nasty sound if you’re not careful. The Eb piano chord is created by pressing down on the Eb, G, and Bb at the same time. The key difference between a chord and a note or melody is that instead of playing a melody, where you play multiple notes in succession, a chord has multiple keys played all at once. Here’s a diagram to help you visualize it: Go ahead and try to line up your fingers on the keyboard or piano and let them relax, just to get a feel for the hand position. The thumb, or “finger one” according to the image above, is going to rest on Eb, finger three (middle finger) on G, and finger five (pinkie finger) on Bb. We’ll need fingers one, three, and five for this chord you’ll find that for most basic chords in root position (with the bottom note of the chord being played by finger one on the right hand), these are the fingers you’ll rely on the most. To start, we’ll assign a number to each finger to make things simple: Learning fingering is an important step of learning any new instrument it’s like a roadmap for your fingers to keep you on track, especially when you start to play multiple chords in succession or more advanced melodies.
Now that we know where we’re going on the keyboard, let’s look at the fingering. It’s easier to learn how to play an E flat chord on the right hand first because of how the fingers fall on the keys, so lets’ start there we’ll move on to the left hand later. One key to the left is the rule regardless of black or white keys.
For now, all you need to know is that a flat (b) makes a note one half-step lower than the lone note.įor example, Eb is the key directly to the left of E, which is one half-step, and Bb is the key directly to the left of B, which is also one-half step. The concepts of sharps and flats is a little more advanced than the things you need to know as a beginner. I’ve labeled two of the black keys in the above diagram only because those keys are necessary for the Eb chord. Here’s a diagram to show you which notes go where on a piano:įor beginning players, the white keys are the primary keys you’ll use. To start, let’s figure out which keys we need for the E flat (Eb) chord.įor those of you who don’t know how notes on a keyboard or piano work, all you really need to know is that notes in music are assigned letter names that can range from A to G and repeat from there. How to Recognize an Eb Piano Chord in Music.How to Play an Eb Chord: The Right Hand.
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