Chords for HOW TO PLAY GOSPEL MUSIC- GOSPEL CHORD PROGRESSIONS

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_ _ _ _ In this mini course, I'm going to show you how to make your chords sound rich and full
sounding.
_ _ A lot of you beginners, the way you play, is that you may play, let's say, a C major
chord, and you'll play like the [C] bass note with your left hand.
Sometimes you might play the octave.
_ That's okay starting out, but [B] if you want more of a rich, full sounding _ type of progression,
you will need to add some more notes to your left hand, to your bass, which would be the
one five, which means you'll play your bass note, your root note, and then you'll play
the fifth degree of that [G] note.
For instance, if your bass [C] note is C, [F] then the fifth of C is G.
One, [E] two, three, four,
[C] five.
Then you'll play G, then you'll play along with C, then you'll play your _ _ chord.
Let's try another chord.
Some of you may know advanced [N] type of chord.
Let's try the seven, three, six progression.
I'm going to do [Db] that in the key of C sharp.
Let's say you're playing in C sharp, and you're playing [B] this progression.
[C] _ _ _ [F] _
_ _ [Bbm] _ One [C] more time.
Okay, C bass, _ [Db] _ F bass, [Bb] _
then you got your B flat [Eb] bass.
That [Ab] sounds good in your right hand, but it'll sound more rich and full sounding, and that
can give you more of a fat sound if you add the one five.
For instance, play those same chords.
Okay, I'm playing C [C] bass.
_ [G]
I'm playing a one.
[C] I'm going to play the fifth of that in the octave.
_ See, I'm playing F.
[F] _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
See how nice and rich and full sounding that sounds?
What I'm going [C] to do, I'm going to show you, I'm going to give you all the bass notes,
and I'm going to give you [E] the fifth degree of those bass notes.
Okay, so we know it's 12 [Eb] bass notes, but it's 12 keys on a piano, but they just repeat itself.
I'm going to give you all 12.
You're playing [C] the C bass, then you want to [G] play G along with that, [C] and C, _ _ _ _ [Bb]
F, C [Db] sharp
bass.
We're going to [Ab] play A flat along with that.
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[Gb] In this segment, I'm going to show you how to not _ _ only use [C] the one five, _ but sometimes
in certain _ progression that you use, you may have to use a one [Ab] and [E] a sharp five.
[C] Okay, so the one five don't work.
The one [Gb] five is pretty much universal, like I said, in all keys, pretty much the standard _ _
note that you'll use to fatten up your bass note, but sometimes the one five you have
to use, but sometimes, I mean, the one and sharp five, but sometimes the one and five don't use.
Let's say, for instance, I'm on a certain tone of the scale.
Okay, let's say, for instance, [Db] I'm playing the key of C sharp, and I'm on a seven, six.
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _
Okay, now watch this.
The progression is [Bb] going to be B flat, [C] _
[Db] C, C sharp.
Okay, _ _ _ [Bbm] _
_ _ [Ab] _ _ _ [Db] _ [E] now I'm going to try to fatten it up with a [Db] bass note.
Okay, _ _ all right.
[Bb] Now, I don't want to go down here, because that's just going to be too muddy.
So what I want to do is take the bass note, if I want to add another note to it, is take
it up a [Db] notch.
So _ now watch this.
[Bbm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ [Bb] So I got B flat, [F] but then I have F, which is the fifth of that, and I said you could
use that, but [Em] sometimes it's a second to the root, depending on what type of chord that
you're playing in your right [Db] hand. So watch.
_ _ _ [Bbm] Okay, see, that don't sound right. _ _ _ _ _
_ You're approaching to a minor chord, you can play a minor 11th chord, which will give you
a [Ab] nice rich and a nice fat sound, and you use that one and that ninth, one, five, and a ninth.
_ So this is a minor 11th.
_ _ [C] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ [Cm] _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ Okay, you can just play around with a minor [C] 11th chord, once you learn it in every key.
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_ _ So you could use that as top music.
[Dm] Okay, you can start from F, minor 11th, [F] _
_ _ _ _ [Eb] then you go [C] to _ C, minor [D] 11th, D like I said, [Bb] _ and B flat.
So you can go all over the place with these minor 11th chords.
[N] You can play them as, like I said, top music.
Happen is, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
now what I want to show you is how to _ play solo type of music, I'll say worship
music, with a nice flow.
_ And worship flow is very, very important when you're playing.
And if you're playing a worship song or a solo song, your chords shouldn't be choppy.
They should be smooth.
In other words, you should be transitioning from one chord into the next chord very smoothly.
_ Okay, and what I'm [A] going to show you in the left [Ab] hand, using a 1-5 or a 1-5 or a 1-7,
I'm going to show you how to use them as passing tones.
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