JAM the Card Behind the Keys of Your Piano / Keyboard

JAM ON KEYBOARDS TODAY! ® more at www.littlekidsrock.org Root Key on C C Major Chord USING JAM CARDS

1. JAM the card behind the keys of your piano / keyboard.

2. Line up a ROOT key with any note for the desired chord or scale.

3. The blue keys will show you what other keys to play.

For corresponding keyboard curriculum please visit: http://www.littlekidsrock.org/thehang/keyboard-index/ JAM CARD™ #1a

CHORDS: Major 3 2 4 5 ® Major chords sound happy. Play these three color stripes anywhere on the piano and the "pattern" you are playing is a major chord. The ROOTROOT gives the chord its 1 name. When the ROOTROOT is on "C", you are playing "C major" ROOT

Minor chords sound sad. This minor chord "pattern" is the same as the major as the major is the same "pattern" chord This minor sound sad. chords Minor

chord "pattern" except for the middle note. The ROOT gives the chord its name. the chord gives The ROOT note. the middle except for "pattern" chord ROOT ® 1 THUMB

FINGER

ROOT NOTE JAM CARD™ #2a

CHORDS: Major in 3 Ways 3 2 4 5 ® All major chords have three "patterns" and each major chord can be played three ways. Knowing the three "patterns" makes changing chords easier. The ROOTROOT still 1 gives the chord its name, no matter where it appears in the "pattern".

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CHORDS: Minor in 3 Ways 3 2 4 5 ® All minor chords have three "patterns" and each minor chord can be played three ways. Knowing the three "patterns" makes changing chords easier. The ROOTROOT still 1 gives the chord its name, no matter where it appears in the "pattern".

THUMB FINGER FINGER 1 SHAPE 3 3 5

CHANGING CHORDS 3 2 4 5 ® Changing chords is easier when you know and use the three different chord patterns from Jam Card™ #2. If you put the rst ROOT stripe (the one on the left) on "C" and you move 1 between the top pattern and the bottom pattern, you will be playing "C" major to "F” major.

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CHANGING CHORDS 3 2 4 5 ® Play the top chord pattern rst, then the bottom one. Notice how your nger stays on the color stripe with the picture of an anchor for both chords. This 1 makes changing chords easier. The ROOTROOT gives each chord its name.

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SCALES: Major Pentatonic 3 2 4 5 ® This is a scale. You play it one color stripe at a time. This scale has a happy sound. You can use this scale to make up little patterns or melodies. Musi- 1 cians call this "soloing" or "improvising." The ROOTROOT gives the scale its name. ©2013 Little Kids Rock ©2013 Little Kids FINGER

JAM CARD JAM ROOT ROOT Pentatonic Minor

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cians call this "soloing" or "improvising." The ROOT gives the scale its name. the gives ROOT The or "improvising." this "soloing" cians call ROOT ® 1 FINGER JAM CARD™ #5a

SCALES: Major 3 2 4 5 ® This is a scale. You play it one color stripe at a time. This scale has a happy sound. Most of the songs we sing use the notes of this scale. This scale is like the Major Pentatonic scale on Jam 1 Card™ #3 but it has two more color stripes or notes. The ROOTROOT gives the scale its name. ©2013 Little Kids Rock ©2013 Little Kids FINGER

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SCALES: Blues 3 2 4 5 ® This is a scale. You play it one color stripe at a time. This scale has a sad or bluesy sound. 1 This scale is like the Minor Pentatonic scale on Jam Card™ #3 but it has one extra color stripe called the "blue note" The ROOTROOT gives the scale its name.

1 ROOT ROOT THE SCALE CHORDS JAM CARD™ #6a ROOT MINOR ® ROOT MAJOR

ROOT MAJOR

ROOT MINOR 2 3 4 5 ROOT MINOR 1 ©2013 Little Kids Rock ©2013 Little Kids ROOT MAJOR SIX CHORDS THAT ROCK JAM CARD™ #6b Root Key on C C Major Chord TheUSING other side JAM of this CARDS Jam Card™ has 6 chords that sound great together in any order. Here are pictures of what those 6 chords look like if you put the rst1. JAM theROOTROOT card behind stripe the keys (the of your one piano on/ keyboard. the far left) on C. 2. Line up a ROOT key with any note for the desired chord or scale.

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PROGRESSION: 1, 4, 5 3 2 4 5 ® These three chords are all major and have been the three most often used chords in Pop Music for decades. 1

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THE 5 CHORD ROOT

THE 4 CHORD ROOT

1 3 5 ROOT THE 1 CHORD JAM CARD™ #7b

SHORTCUT: 1, 4, 5 3 2 4 5 ® These are three chords using shortcuts to make changing chords easier. The anchor shows which note stays the same when changing between chords; when switching from 1 to 4 the 1 bottom note stays the same, but when switching from 1 to 5 the top note stays the same.

THUMB 1 3 5

ROOT THE 4 CHORD

ROOT THE 1 CHORD

1 2 5

ROOT THE 5 CHORD