{"id":2542,"date":"2026-10-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zapiano.com\/?p=240700"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T19:20:31","slug":"a-major-chord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zapiano.com\/en\/a-major-chord\/","title":{"rendered":"A Major Chord"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How to play an A major chord<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Would you like to know how to play an A major chord on the piano? I’ll show you how. Look down at your keyboard and take your right hand. Place your thumb on the key A. Put your middle finger on the black key just to the right of C, and your little finger on E. This gives you the A major chord (you can find a detailed explanation here<\/a>) in its simplest form, the so-called root position. Now remember this basic pattern, and you can play the chord in other places as well. The piano is laid out so that the notes repeat again and again in blocks. That means I can play A major in many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More possibilities<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You can also play the chord with your left hand. If you want to go a little further and get a few more variations of this A major chord, you can do the following: I start with the root position in the right hand and then play the A one octave higher. This gives me the first inversion of an A major chord. Then the same again \u2013 simply move the lowest note up \u2013 and I have the second inversion. The same once more brings me back to the root position. So now we have three different ways to play A major:<\/p>\n\n\n\n