Automatic Control of Chords

CORRECT practice IS INDISPENSABLE!

Your success or failure at the keyboard may well hinge on how quickly and accurately you can memorise a new chord. To be really efficient at this you must utilize your eyes, your ears, and the musculuses of your hands. You must larn a chord so that you can acknowledge and play that chord the adjacent twenty-four hours without
hesitation. Let me explicate how to drill to derive this three-way control.

VISUAL control - After playing a chord, take your hands off the keyboard. Then go back to the chord remembering visually where the fingers were positioned. Notice particularly the form that was formed by the black and achromatic keys and the location of the tune and root notes. (No two chords look exactly alike.)

Repeat this process at least four or five times to larn a chord visually. And, as you are playing the chord, state its name out LOUD. You must associate the name of the chord with the existent short letters you are playing, if the chord symbol is to have got any
existent significance later on.

TACTILE control - As you are playing the chord, seek to experience it muscularly. Play each short letter of the chord, one short letter at a time, so that you utilize the musculuses of the hand. You will develop a muscular memory for chords.

AURAL control - Listen to the chord. You'll desire to cognize its sound so you can instantly acknowledge and usage it later on ... "by ear"!

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