[header] How to learn music chords [title] Learn the major scale on the piano. [step] This is a generic form of any major scale read in terms of half-steps or distance from one key to another. To play any major scale find a root note, or the key that the scale is based off of. 
Then go two half-steps to the right. Example: start on c and go two half-steps to the right and you are now on d.