Chords for ♫ How to play "OH HOW I LOVE JESUS" (Traditional Hymn) piano tutorial lesson

_ _ Hello, I'm Rick Barkley and I'm with Piano Clubhouse and today we're going to learn the traditional
hymn, Oh How I Love Jesus.
It was written back in
1855, the words were
by Frederick Whitfield and then the music it's just considered traditional American melody
kind of the origins are unknown at this point and probably always will be so
Again, they consider this a traditional hymn, Oh How I Love Jesus.
Okay, so let's get started
It is in the key of G.
G is this G [B] A B C D E [E] F sharp G
_ [B] _ _ [G] _
Okay
It's in hymn format.
It basically are verses.
It's in the strophic song form is what most of the hymns are written as and
the
_ Verses there's three verses and then there's a refrain which is the Oh How I Love Jesus.
Oh, I love Jesus
So it's a little bit different than some of the other hymns that are pretty much, you know, just straight through of okay
Here's here's the melodies and the chords and there's nothing ever that gets
repeated over lyric wise and
In a traditional chorus sense of what we think of these days as verses and choruses.
So that's kind of the format
so what I'm gonna do is show you the melody in the
Verses if you will first and then I'll add some chords and we'll go to the refrain.
Okay
Starts on G.
Oh it also it's in six eight.
Okay, one two, three, four five six
Six eight six beats in each measure eighth note gets to be okay starts on G which is on count six the pickup _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [G] _ Okay, so those notes are G B B B A B G G
G G [E] A
A A B [G] A B D
[B] C B B B A [G] B G G G
G A B [B] C
B [Gm] A G
Okay in that last part
[Bb] _
_ [G] That's how the rhythmically it goes, okay, so it's all based off of a G chord here for the first two measures
So
G and your bass and then [Gm] I'm gonna do a D and a G here which starts [G] off _ _ _
Okay, so in those notes there the left hand G's
D and the thumb with the right hand and your melody up there what I just showed you so _ _ _
_ _ [D] Okay, so those [G] first two measures are basically that so I'm keeping that D as I'm changing the melody up in the top
It's staying as a constant part of that G chord.
And then what I'm doing my left hand
I'm kind of rocking back and forth doing arpeggio type [G] stuff with the G D and G _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Okay, that goes to a D chord so D a D F sharp and a
_ _ [D] And again, I'm using that D primarily but occasionally I'm putting that F sharp in there
_ _ [G] Back to a G.
So G's _
G
Excuse me, that's D G and B
one two three four and then
Invert the triad.
So this is in second inversion
I'm going to go to root position of a G triad G B and D and that's on
Four five six and then on six four five and then six is the
C that leads us into the next measure back to a G bass _ _ _
_ _ [A] Okay at this point right here, it's an a minor so a a
A [Am] if you want to do like that where you get the C in there you can but you're gonna [C] have to come up here to
Do the C and the [A] melody so that's why I'm in this position at this point sounds open fifth ish if you will
[Am] But then once you get to that up there then it's definitely a minor at that point so one two three
[A] Again, I'm keeping my thumb pretty consistent with playing
In a way not really pedal tones, but a [Eb] consistent
Alto part if you [Am] will
Okay at this [G] point now on four five six
It's going to be four or five is a [D] G over D
So G's these in the [G] bass and then the G chord up here
So D G B B is a melody [D]
and then that's a D on count six
still D's down here D F sharp [G] a
back to G triad G D G B
D G okay, so I'll do all that again _
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