Chords for This is How I Fight my Battles Upper Room Music Piano Tutorial

_ _ _ _ Hey guys, it's Nina [F#] Nevsky from Worship Piano Tutorials and I want to show you how to play
this song, This is How I Fight My Battles by Upper Room Worship.
So the introduction is just like this.
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [B] _ It's very simple and it starts off [F#] with just an F sharp and then you go into [B] a B and I'm
playing an inverted one.
So this is an inverted B. _
_ And if you want to know a little bit more about chord inversions,
I have a lesson on that on [F#] my website.
So feel free to check it out.
[B] So that's just how I play it.
With my left [F#] hand I'm pressing on the bass once and B.
[B] _ _ _ [F#] So really simple.
Right hand is just [B] playing the triad chord.
You go into the verse.
[F#] This is how I fight my battles.
[B] This is how I fight my battles.
This is how [F#] I fight my battles. _
And you can sing that once through.
Really simple.
[F#] Fight my battles.
[B] This is how I fight my battles.
[F#] This is how I fight my battles. _
[B] And so then you go into.
You look like I'm surrounding.
And that part you go into different chords.
So here you're going to be switching chords faster and you have your F sharp.
And you're going to go to B [B] again.
And then you're going to go to C sharp.
[C#] _ _
[D#m] And then D sharp minor.
[B] So you just saw how I did an inverted of B, [C#] inverted of C sharp.
So here's the original C sharp.
I'm doing the inverted.
Then again if you want to see a lesson on that, go ahead.
It can get kind of [D#m] confusing.
And then you have a D sharp minor.
Here's the original chord.
I'm going to play it like this.
Just because I don't want this high key over here.
I kind of want it to be like on the low.
So [F#] those four chords.
The F sharp, B [B] inverted, [C#] an inverted C sharp, [D#m] and inverted D sharp minor.
[F#] So it may look [B] like I'm surrounded, [C#] but I'm surrounded [D#m] by you.
[F#] It may look [B] like I'm surrounded, [C#] but I'm surrounded [D#m] by you.
[F#] It may look like [B] I'm surrounded.
You want to build up during this part if you want, right?
Just [F#] change the music up a little bit.
So I recommend just pressing on the triads a bit more.
Maybe adding a little more bass.
It may look like I'm [C#] surrounded, but I'm [D#m] surrounded by you.
[F#] This is how I fight my [B] battles.
This is how I [C#] fight my battles.
[F#] This is how I fight my [B] battles.
[C#] This is how I fight my [D#m] battles.
So [F#] those four chords actually repeat the rest of the song.
So when you're starting out, you're starting out with just those two chords.
And then the whole entire song, you're just doing those four chords.
So even when you go into the bridge, the chords stay the same.
So it's the F sharp, [B] B, [C#] C sharp, [D#m] D sharp minor.
So [F#] nothing [B] is [C#] as strong as your [D#m] blood.
_ _ [G#m] Nothing [C#] is as strong [D#m] as your [F#] blood.
So it pretty much just repeats, the chords repeat.
And obviously there's a beautiful spontaneous part there that you can learn.
And the chords just kind of keep repeating over and over again.
And this song is just really a great open-ended song where you can just end it wherever you like.
And just to show you a little bit of how I would build up in this song when I want to
be the loudest.
So I'm going to do with, it may look like I'm surrounded.
So I would start off with really quiet like,
It may look like [B] I'm surrounded, but I'm surrounded [D#m] by you.
_ [F#] _ _
[B] _ _ [C#] So [D#m] then I would build up, [F#] right?
It may look [B] like I'm [C#] surrounded, but I'm [D#m] surrounded by you.
So notice my left hand.
It may look like [B] I'm [C#] surrounded, but I'm surrounded by you.
[D#m] So my pattern [F#] with left is _ _
[C#] _ _ [D#] Right and then with my right hand just didn't try it [B] _ _
_ [C#] _ [D#m] and then as I build up I'm gonna have my left hand go even more [F#] so
_ _ [C#] _ _ [D#] So I can either go lower or higher.
I like going lower when I'm doing really loud stuff.
So for example
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _
[C#] _ [D#m] _ _ [F#] _ _ [B] _ _ [C#]
I'm surrounded [D#m] by it
It make me [B] look like I'm [C#] surrounded
I'm [D#m] surrounded by it
I'm surrounded by it
So see how the bass really makes it loud
Obviously if you're playing with a band you won't need to worry about that
But if you're just playing piano and it's your main instrument, you do want to add the bass to just pick up the volume and
This is [F#] how I fight my [B] battles
This is how [C#] I fight my battles
[F#] This is how I fight my [B] battles
This [C#] is how I fight my [D#] battles
[F#] Oh, it looks like
Anyway, so just keep playing it through it's really nice and loud and then you go back to quiet, right? _
[B] _ [C#] This is how I fight my [D#m] battles
And you really you could even you know, make up your own spontaneous worship during this song.
It's so powerful
I mean, it's been shared on social media like so many times.
I [F#] can't even count like by my own friends.
It's crazy
Anyway guys, it's a really short tutorial because the song is really easy to grasp
The only thing is that it has black keys.
So for beginners, it might be a little difficult, but otherwise
Really easy.
I want to remind you that I have lessons up on my website
Feel free to learn about improvising how to make up melodies for songs and about scales
You can see