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I get tons of e-mails everyday and from experience, I find that one of the hardest things for musicians to do is play chords on both hands.
It takes a lot of getting used to, especially when you’re used to playing chords on the right and single bass notes (or power chords like the “1″ and “5″ notes on the left).
Don’t get me wrong… this is fine if you’re a solo musician and have to hold down the chords and bass.
Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about this so-called gospel musicians’ “secret.” In fact, this “secret” is suppose to be the ONE thing that connects every “big name” gospel musician together. They all know what it is. Heck, they’ve even learned how to manipulate it so much that it can literally evoke any kind of emotion when used properly.
“The Shouting Chord” (More information at: www.gospelkeys.com) I ALWAYS (I mean always) play this chord at church when playing during a jubilant period of the worship service. It’s simply a dominant chord with an added “flat 5th” tone. Now … the trick is that you don’t play all the tones of the dominant chord. JUST [...]
By now, I doubt I need to go over the individual scale tones and corresponding chords, as we’ve covered these basic fundamentals in the last two month’s of lessons. If you haven’t read January and February’s newsletter, scroll above to get the link to the newsletter archives, where you can view all 2004 newsletters. Meanwhile, [...]
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