Chords for ♫ How to play "NOTHING BUT THE BLOOD" TRADITIONAL HYMN (piano tutorial lesson)

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Hello, I'm Rick Barclay and I'm with Piano Clubhouse and today we're going to learn the song Nothing But The Blood.
It's written by Robert Lowry back in the mid 80s and _ _
this is a very popular song that is used for
_ _ for doing, you know, the Lord's Supper and communion and things like that.
_ So let's just dive in.
It's in the key of E.
E is this.
E, [G#] F sharp, G sharp, [B] A, [C#] B, C sharp, D sharp, E. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [E] _
Okay, it is in 4-4 and there's basically two sections to it.
So it's kind of like a A-A-B-A type format. _
_ So let's just dive in. _
_ _ So basically in the right hand what's going to happen is we're doing an E chord and the melody is this.
E, E, E,
[B] F [G#m] sharp, G sharp,
_ _ B, G sharp,
_ _ [E] _ E, _
[F#] _ _ [G#] F to a G, _ [F#] _ _ F [E] sharp, E.
So very, very simple melody.
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[G#m] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _
_ Okay, so let's fill it in now.
So what's going to happen is basically it's an E triad and your
_ left hand face is going to basically ride on an E for two measures.
So [B] E's and then a B if you want to have that to [E] help fill it out.
_ And then G sharp, B and E. _ _
_ [A] _ Then [E] I'll count three.
You're going to go to basically this A over E.
[A] So an A, C [E] sharp, E,
[B] _ _ on count four, it's going to be B over E.
So again, E's on the bass, [B] B, D sharp, F sharp.
_ [E] Next measure, back to an E triad. _
Different inversion now.
So E's again on the bass, B, E, and G sharp. _ _
_ And then we back into root position, E, G sharp, B, and then back down to the second inversion. _ _ _ _
Okay, so those two measures again. _
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] _ And then on count four, we're going down to basically a B over D sharp.
So D sharp's [B] in the bass, B, D sharp.
If you want to add the F sharp, you can. _ _
_ [C#m] Now here's the next measure.
_ It was the E's on the top.
So the C sharp [C#] minor, C sharp in the bass, [C#m] C sharp and E.
One and two and, and that's a D sharp, F sharp.
One and two and three.
_ So those are just kind of like [C#m] passing tones.
So all over the C sharp.
One and two and three, _ four.
So it's a C sharp minor in root position.
C sharp, E, G sharp.
_ _ One and two and three, [F#m] four. _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ Okay, so [F#m] that measure right there is an F sharp minor.
F sharp, A, C sharp, F sharp.
And then there's [B] a little kind of a passing chord, [F#m] if you will.
One, [B] _
two, on count two, it's a B, B, D sharp.
And you hold on to that F sharp.
Because you're [F#m] basically, when you're singing, you'd be holding on to it.
_ [B] _
_ _ [E] _ _ Back to an E major.
E's, G sharp, B, _ and E.
Okay, and that basically gets repeated again.
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_ _ _ Okay, so the E's, [A] _ [B] A, [E] B.
_ One, two, [A] _
[B] three, [E] four.
One, two, three, [D#] _ _
on count four, there's that walk down.
[C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F#m] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ Okay, and what you do during this, if you just want to hold on to the E,
you don't have to necessarily do a bunch of movement. _
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _
See, I'm just kind of striking and one, two, and three.
Kind of just keeping a pulse going. _
If it's a very poignant type of _ moment,
then maybe just doing whole notes down there.
_ _ [A] _ _ [B] _ _
[E] _ _ Striking again. _
_ [D#] _ _ _ [C#m] _ _
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[F#m] _ _ [B] _ _ [E] _
Okay, so here's the bridge, or sometimes they call this the chorus. _ _ _
Okay, so melodically, it's B, [G#] G sharp, F sharp, [G#m] G sharp, B, _ C sharp.
[E] _ _ _
So that's all of the, basically an E chord, triad.
E's, E, _ G sharp, B. _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ _ _
And you can do an E with that as you're going on the F sharp in the bass.
So again, you're just kind of striking and one, two, three, four.
And again, it kind of clashes a little bit because we're resolving [Bm] down to an F sharp minor.
[E] _ One, two, [F#]
three, _ four.
So F sharp, C sharp, F sharp, [G#] and then now it's a [G#m] _
G _ _ sharp. _
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