FREE ONILNE LESSONS (Your Second Song - Step 3)

Now our left hand is going to play something more interesting (and challenging too!) as well.  We will play Broken Chords.  As the name suggests, we basically break the notes in the chord down by playing them one after another.  So now when you see the        chord, your left hand will not play C, E, G together at the same time anymore.  Instead, you will play the notes one by one: the C note with the little finger, followed by the G note with the index finger, and lastly another C note with the thumb.  Take a look at this:

Now you might be wondering what happened to the E note in the C chord? Do we not have to play it? Well. Lets just say we are giving that guy a break for now. So now when we see C chord, our left hand goes: C (little finger), G (index finger), C (thumb).