Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Jun 12th, 2008
This is how you can play U.R.Y. using 3 fingers – 1 on your left hand, 2 on your right hand. And you need literally only 2 ‘chords’ on your right hand.
There are two parts in this song: the verse and the chorus. Duh.
The progression for the verse actually goes like this (if [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs on May 11th, 2008
This song by Chris Tomlin is a good example to illustrate our Chord Mixing trick (See “Chord Mixing (part 1)” and “Chord Mixing (part 2)” posts).
The whole song can be simplified to the following chord pattern:
I –> VIm –> IV –> V
That is, Chord I followed by Chord VIm, followed by Chord IV, and then [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Apr 10th, 2008
Basically there are 2 parts in this song – the verse and the chorus.
For the verse, the chords progress from Chord I to Chord V, then to Chord –I (minus-one), then to Chord IV. After that, simply repeat this chord progression (I, V, -I, IV) until you reach the chorus.
The chorus has a slightly different [...]
