Chords for Help Me To Hold Out - James Cleveland - Piano Tutorial

[Am] _ [D] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _
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_ This lesson will cover a song titled Help Me To Hold Out, [Ab] recorded by James Cleveland
in the key of A flat.
_ [Ebm] _ [Gbm] _ _
_ [Bbm] _ [Db] _ [Eb] _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
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_ _ To begin the song, your right hand is going to play a few chords by itself.
[C] _ _ _ _ [Ab] Inverted A flat chord, E flat, A flat, C.
[Bbm] _ _ Then your right hand is going to a F, B flat,
and a D flat.
_ [C] _
When your right hand hits that third chord, the G flat, C, and the E flat, [A] your left hand
is going to hit an A.
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_ [Ebm] Left hand goes to [Bb] a B flat, right hand goes to that last [Bbm] chord,
F, B flat, D flat.
[Ab] _ [Bbm] _ [Gbm] _ _ _ _
[Bbm] _ [Db] _ _ [Eb] Left hand drops down to an E flat.
Right hand is on a D flat root position [Db] chord, D flat, F, A flat.
Then I add that C on top.
[Eb] _ _ _ [Db] Do some single notes in your right hand.
Right hand hits that B flat to the A flat.
_ [Eb] _
Then my right hand chord changes to a D flat, [Db] F, [Eb] G, and a B flat. _ _ _ _
Right hand chord changes again to a D flat [Db] chord, root position, D flat, F, A flat.
Then I like to add that E flat in there. _ _
_ [Ab] _ Then I resolve it out on an A flat in my left with an A flat inverted chord in my right.
C, E flat, A flat.
And then I bounce back up to that last chord.
_ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _
[C] _ _ [Db] _ [Eb] _ [Gb] _ [Ab] _ _ [C]
To lead in where the chord says, Lord help me to hold out, you can hit all C's, [Db] D flats,
[D] D, [Eb] E flat, [F] F, [Gb] F sharp, [G] G, [Ab] then A flat in the left with the inverted A flat chord in the right. _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ The last chord that we ended on started the Lord help me to hold out section of the choir.
So after you do that last walk up, [D] _ [F] _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ A flat's in your left, inverted A flat chord in the
right, C, E flat, A flat.
_ [Db] _
You can bounce back up on that D flat chord that we did earlier, [Ab] adding that E flat in there.
_ [Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [G] _
[Ab] _ _ Help me to hold out, [Cm] A flat chord, inverted, C, [Ab] E flat, A [Bbm] flat.
_ Then your right hand goes to a D flat, F, B flat.
[Bbm] _ [G] _ _
Right hand is now on an inverted G chord, _ D, G, B, [Ab] _ [G] _ [Ab] _ _ _
inverted A flat chord, E flat, A
flat, C.
_ Then you invert it again by taking this C down here.
_ _ [Db] _ [Ab] _ _
_ [Gm] _ _ Now [Bb] your left hand goes over to a B flat.
_ Right hand is on a D, [Gm] G, [Ab] A flat, and a [Gm] C.
_ _ [Eb] _
_ Left hand is on a E flat.
Right hand is on a [Db] D flat, F, [Eb] G, and a B flat. _ _
_ _ _ _ Those same right [Ab] hand chords, _
[G] _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ [Am] but your left hand is going to move from this E flat over
to the A flat.
_ [B] _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _