Single-finger chord functions

For some people, chords are difficult to learn and remember therefore making a hobby out of playing the piano hopeless. To solve this problem, the single-finger chord function is featured with every keyboard to give a helping hand to people who are having difficulties. This function allows the musician to assign major and minor chords to a single key to make playing the piano easy. For example, to play a C major chord, you would just have to press the C note, for a D major chord, press the D note and repeats for all the chords. Of course, this is a clever feature to help beginners, however, the single-chord function made its debut not on the keyboard, but on home organs.



Before digital keyboards were created, people who could afford it had their own home organs to practice on and play songs on them for a hobby but some find it difficult to use chords in songs which they found disappointing. However, some organ models such as the Hammond Chord Organs came with a series of buttons on the left hand side of them which allow musicians to play chords with just one finger. This made playing chords very easy for beginners to play songs instantly and learn the proper chords when they are ready. Today, most keyboards come with this feature and popular music programs also have the function built in such as Cubase, Reason and Logic.



Newcomers to playing piano are not the only people who use this function either. Some more experienced musicians use the function to speed up creating their own music and so they dont have to concentrate as much when playing. In conclusion, both beginners and experienced musicians use the single-finger chord function to their advantage as both a learning tool and as a simpler option to avoid confusion.