Great Is Thy Faithfulness: These Progressions Will Blow Your Mind [Intermediate Players Only]

Our focus in today’s lesson is on chord progressions to the hymn “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”.

Although we’ll not be covering the chord progressions of entire hymn song, you’ll love the section of the song we’ll be exploring. Let me show you the section:

Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
*[Morning by morning new mercies I see]*
And all I have needed Thy hand hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness
Lord unto me

I’ll be showing you some classic chord progressions that can help you walk through the section that says “morning by morning new mercies I see”.

“These Chord Progressions Will Blow Your Mind…”

Before we get into the progressions to the hymn song Great is thy faithfulness, it’s very important for us to take a look at the melody.

Keep in mind that all the examples will be given in the key of C major:

The Melody

Using the upper tetrachord of the major scale:

…you can play through the entire melody of the section of the hymn we’re focusing on.

“So, Here’s The Melody Of The Song”

Mor:

…ning:

…by:

…mor:

…ning:

…new:

…mer:

…cies:

…I:

…see:

Note that most of the chords in the progression we’ll learn will have the melody note.

The Chord Progressions

Alright! I’ll be showing you the classic chord progressions that you can play over the section of the hymn that says “morning by morning new mercies I see”.

“Here You Are…”

Mor:

…ning:

…by:

…mor:

…ning:

…new:

…mer:

…cies:

…I:

…see:

I hope you enjoyed playing through the chord progressions.

Final Words

When hymns are approached using classic chord progressions like we did in this blog, they sound very original and traditional.

We’ll learn more about hymns and explore other chord progressions in a subsequent lesson. Until then, it is recommended that you transpose these chords to other keys.

Feel free to comment, ask questions, make suggestions and contributions using the comment section.

All the best!

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Chuku Onyemachi

Head of Education at HearandPlay Music Group

Onyemachi "Onye" Chuku is a Nigerian musicologist, pianist, and author. Inspired by his role model (Jermaine Griggs) who has become his mentor, what he started off as teaching musicians in his Aba-Nigeria neighborhood in April 2005 eventually morphed into an international career that has helped hundreds of thousands of musicians all around the world. Onye lives in Dubai and is currently the Head of Education at HearandPlay Music Group and the music consultant of the Gospel Music Training Center, all in California, USA.

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