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 FINGERTHUMB FINGER FINGER ©2013 Little Kids Rock 11 3 5 JAM CARD™ #1b CHORDS: Minor 3 2 4 5 ® Minor chords sound sad. This minor chord "pattern" is the same as the major 1 chord "pattern" except for the middle note. The ROOTROOT gives the chord its name. ROOT NOTE ©2013 Little Kids Rock ROOT ©2013 Little Kids Rock FINGERTHUMB FINGER FINGER 1 3 5 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". THUMB FINGER FINGER FINGER 1 3 SHAPE 3 5 FINGER FINGER THUMB 1 2 SHAPE 2 5 ROOT ©2013 Little Kids Rock THUMB FINGER FINGER 1 3 5 SHAPE 1 ROOT JAM CARD™ #2b 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 FINGER FINGER THUMB 1 2 SHAPE 2 5 ROOT ©2013 Little Kids Rock THUMB FINGER FINGER 1 3 SHAPE 1 5 ROOT JAM CARD™ #3a 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. THUMB FINGER FINGER 1 ROOT 3 5 NOTE ROOT FINGER FINGER ©2013 Little Kids Rock 1 3 5 ROOT JAM CARD™ #3b 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. THUMB FINGER FINGER THUMB FINGER 1 3 5 ROOT THUMB FINGER ©2013 Little Kids Rock ROOT1 2 NOTE 5 ROOT JAM CARD™ #4a 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 FINGER 1 ROOT ROOT JAM CARD™ #4b SCALES: Minor Pentatonic 3 2 4 5 ® This is a scale. You play it one color stripe at a time. This scale has a sad 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 FINGER 1 ROOT ROOT 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 FINGER 1 ROOT ROOT JAM CARD™ #5b 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. ©2013 Little Kids Rock NOTE FINGER BLUE 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 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. 3. CThe blue keys will showDmi you what other keysEmi to play. F G Ami C D E F G A ©2013 Little Kids Rock 135 135 135 135 135 13 5 For corresponding keyboard curriculum please visit: http://www.littlekidsrock.org/thehang/keyboard-index/ JAM CARD™ #7a 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 THUMB 1 3 5 THE 5 CHORD ROOT 1 3 5 ©2013 Little Kids Rock 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 1 3 5 ©2013 Little Kids Rock ROOT THE 1 CHORD 1 2 5 ROOT THE 5 CHORD.