Learn the shortcuts to play your favourite songs
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Aug 20th, 2008
You probably have noticed that I have not listed out the chord progressions that much for the songs I posted lately. The main reason is that these songs are quite popular and have been around for a while. Therefore the chord progressions, the music scores, etc. should be easily available elsewhere. What I intend to [...]
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I have simplified the playing of this song so that you only need to use 3 fingers to play it. In fact, in this case, it is even not necessary to learn what chords to play or what the word “chord” means! The notes to play are quite clearly shown on the video. [...]
It should be quite simple to just follow the video above. However, if you want to know more about the chords and chord progressions, please read on.
The verse may be divided into 2 parts as below:
(1) I –> IV/1 –> I –> I/M –> IV –> V4 –> V –>
(2) IV/M –> IV –> I/M [...]
Let’s start with the video illustration….
I did not include the intro to the song in this video, but if you are interested, the progression for the intro goes like this…
I –> IV –> I –> III4 –> III
The song is in the key of E. The above is translated therefore as:
E –> A –> E [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs on Jul 23rd, 2008
Before I go into a lengthy explanation of how I play this song, let’s watch the video illustration…
There are 2 parts in the verse. The 1st progression goes like this:
I –> V/7 –> VIm –> VIm/5 –> IV –> V –> I
Can you see the pattern in the bass? The bass simply walks down the [...]
