BASIC GUITAR CHORDS SHEET
reading piano chords in worship music?
Hi. I play guitar and used to play the piano. I know most of the basic chords on the piano.
In church, i serve on the worship team and usually the song sheets are just the lyrics with chords printed above them. yet the piano/keyboard player manages to play a piano part. i was wondering what they do. any help would be appreciated.
thanks
The ability to play and improvise with chords (’chord method’) is definitely a skill and something that many classical pianists never learn to do with fluency. Worship and jazz pianists can usually play with chords.
I’m worship leader at my church (though I don’t play piano for my church) and my pianist is amazing at this!
A basic way to begin:
Play the chord in your right hand (middle C area). With your left hand, play the bass note, 2 octaves down. So, with a C chord, play the chord and a bass C. You can also try playing a bass note that’s one of the other notes in the chord (E and G). Repeat the RH chord with the beat while leaving the LH bass note down until the chord changes.
To spice things up, you can:
Play bass octaves. Play 2 C’s at the same time, with your thumb and pinky.
Add the 2. In your RH chord, also push your pointer finger (2 finger in piano, also the 2 note of the chord). This is a cool-sounding chord and much more interesting than a plain chord.
Rock your RH with the beat. Alternate playing 3-5 (top half of chord, E and G) with 1 (C). Rock back and forth like a seesaw, in time with the music.
From there, you just need to start growing your knowledge of chords, and practicing. The more you play, the better you get! The more chords you learn, the more you understand how they relate to each other, and how music works. You’re actually learning music theory via chords.
Check out Duane Shinn’s chord stuff – he has a free email course with 101 free chord lessons!
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