Playing the relative minor

Hi there! Today I want us to look at a song that starts with a minor chord. The movement we will look at is as follows:

6-4-2-7-3

This will be repeated over and over, but we will cover different ways of playing this movement. If you are a beginner, I would recommend you look at my previous article where I started out explaining minor chords.

This lesson is for the intermediate and more advance student. So I've created a simple song as an example which you can watch as well as the breakdown of the chord movements which is separate. For those who love to read, the chord movements will follow after the video lessons.

First the song:

5 ways of playing the 2-5-1 progression in C

Hi there

Today I want to look at 5 different ways of playing the 2-5-1 progression. This movement can be applied whenever a song is ending.

The first two ways is for the beginner without a bass player and the others are both hand chords for when playing with a bass player. Have a look at the video lesson here or continue to read for the chord breakdowns:

How great is our God in the key of A

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Today we are going to look at the song "How great is our God". It is in the key of A and this is not a beginner lesson. This is for when you as keyboard or piano player, plays with a band where the bass notes gets played by a bass player.

So here is the video lesson which covers the whole song, but I added the breakdown in an article below, for those who love reading!

1-2-3-4 Movement in the key of Eb

Hi there!

Today we will look at a very popular movement within the Gospel genre. The movement goes from 1-2-3-4. This movement you can hear on one of Juanita Bynam's songs-hearts desire. It's a very simple movement, but sounds really sweet when you accompany a singer.

So let's look at the movement!

Talk music in the key of G

Hi there!

Today we will look at the concept called talk music. This is basically something you do while someone is speaking in church and you need to back them up or during collection of offerings.

So let's look at the movement!