Chords for Yahweh | Official Acoustic Guitar Tutorial | Elevation Worship

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Hi, my name is Chris from Elevation Worship,
and I just wanted to show you an easy way
to play the song Yahweh,
and just on an acoustic guitar,
show you what chords we're using,
so hopefully it will serve you as you lead it
at some point if you choose to do so.
_ The chord structure,
it's got a good bit of movement in the song,
but I'm starting with my capo on the second fret,
and then I'm playing in C shapes.
So the song is in the key of D,
but I'm gonna play like I'm playing in the key of C.
_ So the intro [Abm] of the song just moves [Bb] between an F [A] chord
and a C over E [D] chord.
_ So all the C over E [Ab] really is is just [D]
a C shape,
a classic C shape,
but just with [Gbm] your open E string [D] there.
So it's a C chord over [Gb] an E note.
[D] And _ [D] then the F chord I'm using is like an [Gm] F2,
so I'm leaving, got my thumb wrapped right here,
[A] and then leaving this G string open.
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So that makes it actually pretty easy.
My [Bm] fingers are just all set in place
to go right to [D] the C over E.
So the intro is, _ _
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_ _ _ _ [A] so then [B] the verse [C] starts similar,
but I'm gonna actually add,
do a more classic F chord without the open G string,
so it's not gonna be an F2.
So [G] the verse is this.
It's a [D] F, C over E,
then [A] G, _ [Bm] _ A minor seven.
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_ _ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ Great.
So singing through that, it looks like this.
[Bm] ♪ Spirit [G] of _ [D]
Jesus _ living _ [A] _ [Bm] within us _ _ _ [G] ♪
♪ [D] Hail, oh [G] _ _ [A] _ forsake _ _ [D] unending promise ♪
Your C over E.
♪ Heaven [A] and _ [Bm] _ Zion's _ whispers [D] the sound of [G] your [A] _
name ♪
Cool?
And then so right into the chorus, _
it looks like this.
So you're gonna start,
I'll just play through [G] the chorus
and then walk you through it.
♪ _ Holy, holy [A]
is [Bm] the Lord ♪
♪ [A] Worthy to [D] be _ praised, _ _ now [G] and ever _ ♪ Cool?
So your chorus chords are [A] starting here on the F chord.
♪ Holy, holy, walking up to the [A] G is to an A minor, the [Bm] Lord ♪
Then you're gonna move to a G over B.
♪ [A] Worthy to ♪
So I've got the two bottom strings covered right here
with my pinky and ring finger.
And then I've got [C] my pointer finger
on the second [E] fret of the A string.
[A] _
♪ Worthy to be ♪
And then a C [D] chord.
♪ Praised ♪
And then you go to a C over E.
[Gb] ♪ _ [G]
Yahweh ♪
So it's actually pretty simple.
It's got a [Bb] lot of passing chords in [Abm] it.
So one more time, I'll go through [E] it slow
and sing through the chorus [G] just like this.
♪ Holy, _ holy [A] is [Bm] the Lord ♪
♪ [A] Worthy to [D] be _ _ praised, _ _ _ [G]
Yahweh _ _ _ ♪
Up to more.
♪ _ Fire _ [A] rising in [Bm] my soul ♪
♪ All [A] _ [D] consuming _ pain, _ _ _ _ [G] _
Yahweh ♪
_ _ _ Cool?
So then we're gonna move to [Bb] the bridge of the song
and you're gonna [E] start on a G chord
and I've got it shaped [C] like this.
So just these [A] two fingers
and I'm muting my A string right here, by the way,
with my ring finger.
So I'm hitting the G note down below,
but _ no [Bb] sound coming from that [A] string
and then _ so the [Ab] chord structure goes like this
for the bridge.
♪ He who was and is [Bm] to come ♪ A minor.
♪ [D] Is the one who lives ♪
C over [G] E, F.
♪ Great [D] I am ♪
To a C.
_ ♪ _ [A] Yahweh ♪
Back to a G.
_ _ So G to an A [Bm] minor, seven,
[D] and then that C over E that we started with
_ _ and then [G] the F chord.
♪ Great I [D] am ♪
Classic C chord.
♪ _ [A] Yahweh ♪
Finish with a G and start with a G.
So the bridge all the way through one more time.
♪ He who was and is [Bm] to come ♪
♪ Is [D] the one who lives [G] in us ♪
♪ Great [D] I _ am, _
_ _ _ [A] Yahweh ♪ _ _ _
And what I did right there,
I just suspended the G chord on [Gb] Yahweh
to finish out the bridge.
So you can do that.
Sometimes I do it, sometimes I don't.
But so,
♪ Is [D] the one who [G] lives in us ♪
♪ Great [D] I am, _ [A] Yahweh ♪
G suspension to resolve it.
[G] So that's the three different sections for the [B] song Yahweh.
Hopefully that's been helpful for you
and I hope you enjoy leading it.
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