Piano chords
All 119 piano chords on Alviena, grouped by family. Every chord has its own page: the diagram, the notes it is built from, the shape in detail, and the charts on the site that use it.
Major
Minor
Dominant sevenths
Major sevenths
Minor sevenths
Diminished
Augmented
Suspended
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The same chords on another instrument
Where to start
These are the chords that come up most often in the charts published on the site. Learning them on piano before the rest opens up the largest part of the repertoire: the figure says how many charts each one appears in.
These 10 chords are enough to play a good share of the catalogue. The rest of this page groups them by family, from the most common to the rarest.
The instrument
No neck, no fingering to work out: a piano chord is a stack of notes, and the keyboard shows it. Each page gives the exact notes to press, in the most common inversion. The same shape transposes by sliding the whole thing up or down as many semitones as needed.