Back with another weekly clip from the Gospel Music Training Center. For more information on GMTC, click here.
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From GMTC: “We Offer Praise”
From GMTC: “Jesus Is Real”
Here’s another weekly Gospel Music Training Center clip from Jonathan Powell. This time, he’s playing “Jesus Is Real.” To learn the same chords and patterns found in this song, check out the Gospel Music Training Center.
From GMTC: “Expect The Great”
Here’s your weekly clip of Jonathan Powell from the Gospel Music Training Center playing another gospel hit, “Expect The Great.” Enjoy!
For more information on the Gospel Music Training Center, click here.
From GMTC: “Praise Him In Advance”
This clip comes from the Gospel Music Training Center. It features the “Professor of Phatness” (Jonathan Powell) playing “Praise Him In Advance.”
Here’s A Fancy Major 9th Chord In All 12 Keys!
If you haven’t heard, Instant Transposer is my new software tool that transposes chords and progression to all 12 keys in literally seconds.
And instead of teaching you this “major 9″ chord in C major alone, I’ve decided to kill two birds with one stone by showing you the power of Instant Transposer and giving you the chords in all 12 keys at the same time!
It’s All In How You Look At It (Sus4 and Sus2 chords)
Wayne Dyer said: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
It’s true in music too. Quite literally.
Take, for example, suspended chords.
If you ever see a suspended 4 chord (or “sus4″), it simply means to play the fourth instead of the third in a major chord.
James Wrubel Is Back! New 17-Minute Jazz Video Lesson Posted
I have a treat for you!
After being away for 5 years, I caught up with James Wrubel (from our jazz courses) and invited him to do some helpful lessons for you.
The first one is 17 minutes and available at: http://www.hearandplay.com/jazzlesson
How Blues Influenced Jazz
After getting an e-mail from a concerned student who bought Jazz 101 and was questioning why it focused primarily on the “12 bar blues” instead of “jazz,” I wanted to shed some light on blues’ connection to jazz and how there wouldn’t be jazz as we know it without blues.
This article by the “Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz” puts it perfectly.
Ask Jermaine: “Why Some Chords Break The Rules”
This question comes from Gospel Music Training Center member Larressa: “Hi Jermaine, my name is Larressa. I go by mrslsj in GMTC. I am a beginner. I am taking on the challenge of transforming the song “I Give Myself Away”-Take 1. However, after listening to JP I decided as a learning experience to transpose the chords to all 12 keys, which has been great. I have done this but I have a few questions…”
Ask Jermaine: “How To Create Those Fancy Jazzy Chords”
This edition of “Ask Jermaine” was posted by Ronald Verwer in our Free Lessons area. He writes:
Hi Jermaine, how fabulous the way you are explaining the composition of the various chords. Your flash cards are a great help. It becomes so easy to follow. By just sitting on the piano and practicing with the flashcards improves my playing tremendously. Even after 60 years of playing! You are a legend. The thing I want to know is how to create that Jazzy sound…
