
One cool thing about these collections of notes, is that it doesn't actually matter what order they're played in on the piano. Now, anyone in the world can say "C major!" and anyone who knows chords can play EXACTLY what they're thinking! We name these chords and suddenly we can refer to a collection of notes with a singular name! The chord I just said, C/E/G, is called the C major chord. Actually they don't even have to sound GOOD, they just have to sound. Ignoring all of the theory behind them, that's what they are! C, E, and G sound REALLY good together. When I first introduce the topic of chords to my students, I describe them by saying that a chord is just a selection or group of notes which work well together. OnaZ's comment is great, but just for the sake of being thorough I'd like to offer a more basic description of chords which you may like. So that's my recommendation, find someone to teach you. I'm guessing you don't have a private instructor? It's always a HUGE help to have a private teacher or at LEAST take a class. Now, this is all stuff that can get REALLY confusing and complicated. And chords are a selection of degrees (notes) of a scale, which we refer to using intervals. Intervals are distances between keys in a scale (and outside of it too with modification). Scales are a succession of halfsteps and whole steps. These topics build off of each other in that order. Intervals depend on the scale you're working with so you have to learn them after scales)

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