From The Piano Keys.

If you’ve ever wanted to play your favorite songs without relying on sheet music, chord charts, or endless YouTube tutorials… this is the video you’ve been waiting for.

In this lesson, I’ll teach you a simple, reliable method for figuring out the chords to almost any song — even if you’ve never done it before and even if you don’t know much music theory

As a classical pianist who was trained to depend completely on sheet music, I wasn’t taught how to understand music — only how to read it. When I finally decided to reclaim my musical independence, I discovered a practical way to look at a song, understand its key, and map out the chords myself. That’s the exact method I’m sharing with you today.

In this video, you’ll learn:
✔ How to find the key of a song (the starting point for almost all chord decisions)
✔ The basic chords that naturally come from that key
✔ How to map out triads first before moving on to more complex chords
✔ Why the dominant 7th chord matters and how to find it
✔ How to match chords to the melody — even if you’re not “playing by ear”
✔ A simple system you can use to get the right chords without looking anything up

This approach works whether you’re playing pop, rock, ballads, hymns, or classic standards — and it gives you the musical freedom most of us were never taught to have.

📌 Want the left-hand accompaniment pattern I mentioned in the video?
Watch this next: 3-Finger Left Hand Pattern for Any Song

📌 Want to learn more about major and minor scales?
Watch this next: Master Major and Minor Scales In Seconds

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00:00 You can add chords to songs without sheet music or tutorials
05:03 How to find the key of a song
12:50 Mapping out the chords in a Major key
20:47 Mapping out the chords in a minor key
27:40 How the melody tells you which chord to choose

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