Playing guitar chords on piano is totally possible. Just because a song is written for one instrument doesn’t mean that it can’t be played on another with ease. If you play guitar, it’s natural to want to move on to another instrument and keep things exciting.
Have you ever been to one of those gigs where you see a musician switch from guitar to piano, and vice versa, with ease? Sometimes musicians even switch in the middle of a song. That’s always pretty cool, right?
In rock and pop music, moving from playing the guitar to playing the piano is seen as something of an evolution. The Beatles did it. John Lennon went from singing songs with his acoustic guitar to writing famous songs like Imagine sat in front of a piano.
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There are some similarities in the world of guitar and the world of piano. This means that converting guitar chords on piano is definitely possible. Unfortunately, the way the two are played is quite different. The way the strings interact on the guitar can make a couple of aspects of the piano quite difficult to get your head around, certainly when you are just starting out.
In this guide, we’re helping you to work out the differences. You can work out how to play guitar chords on piano. If you’ve written a song for the guitar and want to be able to play it on the piano, or you want to turn a guitar song into a piano ballad, it doesn’t have to be too difficult.
Playing guitar chords on piano is very similar in theory. Try to think of each of the strings of your guitar as one of your fingers on the piano.
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Fender.com offers a description of how chords are made up: “The major chord contains the 1st, 3rd, and 5th notes of a major scale. For example, below is a C major scale. The notes of a C major chord are the 1st (the root note), 3rd, and 5th notes, which are C (the root note), E and G. Notice that the octave (the 8th note) is also part of the chord.”
On piano, when you play a C chord, you are playing the C note, E note, and G notes on the guitar. The same is true of the guitar.
When you play the same chord on the guitar, the notes you are playing are, from low to high, E, C, E, G, C, E.
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You can choose whether you strum all six strings or just the highest five. The key is that those three notes, C, E, G, make up the chord. The sound may be a bit thicker due to the fact that you are introducing more notes, but you can do the same on the piano, using two hands or introducing another E or C note within your E chord for a wider sound.
If you’re a beginner, you might be wondering if guitar chords on piano are the same. Do they have the same names? The answer is “yes”.
If you buy one of those guitar songbooks, the chords that are listed will be the same, whether you are playing them on guitar, piano, violin, or accordion! How you play them is different, but chords and notes within scales are a universal language.
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Whether you know all of the guitar chords or you have to do a bit of research, by learning the guitar chords you can learn what notes make the chord. All you need to do is play the corresponding notes on the piano.
Knowing the notes on the fretboard is the best way to work out a chord. Check out this helpful graphic from Anyone Can Play Guitar
If you know the notes of a D chord, you can work out that you are playing an F#, D, A, and D when you strum in this chord position. Want to turn this into a piano chord? All you need to do is to work out where these four notes are and play them in succession. In fact, if you want to play the chord as a triad, all you have to do is play the D, F# and A, and you’re there!
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This works with any chord on the guitar. You’re effectively just working out the building blocks that make that chord and recreating them.
Please note that when we’re discussing these sort of transitions, we’re discussing standard tuning. If you’ve delved into alternate guitar tunings, you need to go back to the standard tuning of E-A-D-G-B-E.
If you go into the bedroom or studio of any aspiring musician then you will probably see some charts up on the wall! Chord charts can be incredibly useful and helpful when you are working out how to play any instrument.
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There are a few options for getting your hands on a chord chart. We definitely think it is worthwhile buying a chart rather than going for one of the “print it yourself” option. There are some charts online that you can freely print out, but on your home printer they might not look great. We recommend a much bigger print if you want to make sure that you can see from your position, sitting and playing your instrument.
Chord charts don’t necessarily show you every single chord. There are different chord variations that may not be displayed, but for the majority of songs you won’t need the variations. An Asus2 chord is only going to crop up once in a while, and you can always Google it!
A piano chord chart poster tends to be much bigger, and this means you can put in on your wall and see the chords whenever you need them. If you are watching a tutorial and it tells you to play an A Major chord, you can!
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This chart is awesome, and it also comes with a piano scales chart, which is inevitably very helpful. It’s A1 in size, so no sight issues!
Similarly, guitar chord charts can be purchased to do the same job. Not only are these good for working out how to play things on guitar, but you can use this as a basis for the technique mentioned above, and work out the piano chord by establishing all of the notes and recreating it on the piano.
If you go to see a piano concert, there’s every chance you see the musician flick open their sheet music and be ready to play. Reading music, or “sight-reading”, is an incredible skill.
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The good news is, that not all piano players need to be able to read music. If you are brand new to the piano then you can get away with not knowing how to read music.
This is a subject we’ve discussed a lot here on the blog. Some people start the academy and they want to be able to read music perfectly. Others don’t really care. Fortunately, in the modern age, you can do things however you want to.
A lot of people have never really considered why sheet music exists. Before the days of recording, we couldn’t listen to music for reference or watch a tutorial. If we had been able to, the system for reading and writing music probably wouldn’t exist, or it would be very different. Sheet music is a way to communicate every aspect of a piece of music, from the tempo to the length of the notes in a solo. You don’t need a recording for this.
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Make no mistake, being able to sight-read is incredible. This means that you can pick up a piece of music and play it, regardless of whether you have heard it before. Impressive…
It’s totally up to you whether or not you want to learn how to read music. Plenty of successful musicians never learn how to read music. You can even still understand music theory without the ability to read music at all.
Similarly, if you’ve got ambitions of becoming a classical pianist, or being able to do anything like Tom Brier did in the video above, it’s a good idea to learn how to read music.
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If you are a guitar player already then you probably don’t need me to tell you anything about ultimate guitar. It’s an amazing resource. The community creates guitar tabs for pretty much any song you can imagine. Even bands that aren’t particularly mainstream may well have songs on Ultimate Guitar, and you can use the tabs or chords listed to work out how to play in a matter of minutes.
Although Ultimate Guitar can be hit and miss (the site relies on users uploading their own content), there is a pretty robust reviews system. The tab itself is reviewed so that the cream rises to the top.
Let’s use Happier Than Ever by Billie Eilish as an example. If you go on Ultimate Guitar and check out the chords, it will automatically bring up the guitar chords. Ultimate Guitar often shows other information like the tempo and strumming pattern too.
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If you want to, you can simply switch to Ukulele or Piano mode by clicking the buttons above. This will show you the same chords and how to play them on the
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