How Great Is Our God
May 11th, 2008 by admin
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 by Chord V.
In the C key, that means:
C –> Am –> F –> G
To make the progression above interesting, however, let’s play the 4 chords by mixing them with their corresponding chord pairs that we have learned in the “Chord Mixing” posts.
That means, we will play (I hope you already know what chords to mix them with in your head straightaway, as that familiarity will help you A LOT!) the following:
C (+G) –> Am (+G) –> F (+C) –> G (+F)
Here is the illustration on video…
If that chord mixing skill does not come automatically to you, then you will have to learn it the hard way, by following your music score or chord chart strictly, which will probably read something like this…
C2 C C2 C G/A Am G/A Am F2 F F2 F F/G G F/G G
Doesn’t that look very complicated? But really, let me say it again, you only need to know the 3 basic chords! 
this video can not play now…could sent to my email?
Really? Thanks, jo, for alerting me. I will check. If that’s the case, I will probably do a new one, or just leave it as that. I am afraid I didn’t keep that video myself, so I can’t send any to you now. :b
hey sorry but i cant view the video because it says it is violation WMG copyrights. do you mind doing another video? thanks so much bro
Sorry moofie, I’ve been busy catching up with the new requests that I hvn’t got time to come back to re-do this video. Will try to do it some time. :b
can you send “how great is our god” video to me because it does not play on here.
For some funny reason, I also don’t have a copy of this video. I will hv to redo it before I can send to you. Will try.