After constant mental bugging to finally teach myself how to play chords on the piano, I’ve finally done it and the result: a miracle. I’ve never heard myself play the piano this well. Thanks to the help of chords, I am now on my way to learning songs by ear. I’ve been dying to learn how to play by ear since I’m getting really lazy to have to print out a piano piece each and every time I hear a fantastic song. Why not, I just play it by ear? It’s the perfect solution to by darned lazy bum and it’d be quite the experience! I’ve always admired people who had the talent for playing songs by ear. They’d pick up the tune and then off they go to the piano in a flash! I’ve always wanted to do that. After hearing a fantastic song, I’d rush into the piano and play it perfectly. But that dream is still very distant due to the fact that’s I’ve only pushed myself to play NOW. If I’d taught myself how a long time ago, I would have no biggy on playing by ear…. and now that school’s about to start once again (Kill. Me. Now.), I can’t do as much practicing on the chords as I should have had if I just taught myself…. EARLIER…..
But away with my blasphemous regrets, I don’t think it should matter anyway since I’ve already learned how to play some chords. And I’m feeling very accomplished for it. 
I wouldn’t wan to ruin the moment any further….. Well, I’ve only learned a couple for now. A, Am, A7, Am7, G, D, Bb, and F. I’ve yet to play a bagillion more chords….. And those chords I’ve just played are either minor or major and those are JUST within the category of two types of chords which are out of 25 “most-used” chord types! Here, I’ll enlighten you with the 25 “most-used” chords….. and note: most-used, hardly everything.
1. Major
2. Minor
3. Diminished
4. Augmented
5. Diminished 7th
6. Major 6th
7. Minor 6th
8. Major 7th
9. Minor 7th
10. Half-diminished 7th
11. 9th
12. Flat 9th
13. Sharp 9th
14. 11th
15. Sharp 11th
16. Suspension
17. 13th
18. Sus 7th
19. Aug 7th
20. 9th/Major 7th
21. 6th/9th
22. Add 2nd
23. Add 4th
24. Flat 5th
25. 7th with flat 5th
SEE. Those are the infinite looking bunch of chords. I don’t plan on memorizing them at all since I’m only interested to learning the more ‘mainstream’ ones since it’d probably take up my whole life to learn every single one! And I still have a childhood to live, dammit. However, I’d at least want to learn one chord out of each of the 25 most-used types. That’d be mighty fun and it could be very useful if I ever plan on going into anything “music” on my later career. You know, I’ve always wanted to be an architect or a writer (not anymore) but I’ve never actually seen a light to being a musician. I mean, I do love music very much but I’ve just never thought of it till now. And playing chords just makes me happy and accomplished. It’s not considered a job to “learn by ear” of course but maybe one day, if I keep this up, I could probably compose a beautiful song piece. I have the ideas in my mind, it’s just that I don’t know how to put it on piano. But when the day comes that I do, I will be composing all the way and it will be EPIC. I’m not going to drop off my dream of being an architect though, that dream will definitely go on. It’s my heart’s pathway to success and I damn well know that God’s also calling me to be in something architecture. YES.
I’m sorry for letting you in on my aspirations and dreams, I couldn’t help it. I sound quite foolish right now haha.
So getting back to my chord playing miracle, I’ve tried playing some song (sadly, not by ear YET) and I am moronically clapping for myself right now because I’ve learned how to play Save Me by the magnificent, all AWESOME band, Queen!! I’m going to cry right now if you don’t mind…. the song’s just so beautiful and learning how to play it on the piano is all the more… beautiful. I can’t say how proud enough I am of myself for learning this glorious piece. The lyrics are written by a genius who’s name goes by Brian May and it’s sang by the very very incredible Freddie Mercury. This song’s very dear to me for some reason, I know I’ve never gone through any break up of some sort but the way it’s written just translates to anything anyone’s ever felt when they’re down or they’ve lost someone. You could search up the lyrics if you want, and you could see it’s hardly in any situation I’m through but if you hear it with Freddie’s singing, you could just imagine what I’m talking about. Sometimes, I interpret this song as someone who’s far away from God…. feeling lost and empty…. I change up the lyrics to some parts though since it’s really about “lovers” and sometimes too, I’ll interpret it as someone losing someone through death. Like how I lost my mother….. And there’s still a lot more ways interpret this song. It’s just really beautiful and I’m extremely happy with my first song to play with chords. Here’s my favorite video of Freddie performing Save Me. Truly beautiful….
That should sum up this whole post. 
Hope you enjoyed a listen to that song and thanks for reading! Come again!
