We All Want to Play Gospel Piano Like This

[00:00:03][music] [music] [music] [music] >> Okay. [music] So, this is in the key of F sharp.

[00:00:46]Okay.

[00:00:46]Uh, let's get started with the breakdown.

[00:00:56]>> [music] >> Okay. So, >> [music] >> Yep.

[00:01:15]So, let me show you the notes.

[00:01:27]And I will explain what she's doing after this.

[00:01:46]>> [music] >> So, she's starting on the one.

[00:01:53]F sharp major and she's going to change the chord quality on the one making it a dominant seventh.

[00:01:59]Okay? With seven on the base and then to the [music] sixth E flat.

[00:02:04]Which is also voicing out as a dominant [music] chord but with the flat nine.

[00:02:09]Okay.

[00:02:11]Passing to the two.

[00:02:13]Actually, she's using the sus four uh the sus dominant technique [music] on the E flat.

[00:02:21]This is sus four. Taking your three to the four and bringing it back, okay?

[00:02:25]So.

[00:02:29]That's the basic idea. So.

[00:02:31]She's using the the sixth movement to resolve [music] that.

[00:02:35]Or you could have even done >> [music] >> Okay? Resolve to the one instead of the flat nine.

[00:02:43]Or instead of a sixth movement, you could have even do a seventh movement.

[00:02:47][music] So.

[00:02:53]>> [music] >> This works in our under cross under [music] cross.

[00:03:03]Yes. [music] So, the next part I want to talk about is this thing she did here.

[00:03:19]Uh Yeah.

[00:03:25]>> [music] >> Um First of all, let me give you two exercises maybe for you to incorporate this. Okay? In your muscle memory. What you could do is we're going to harmonize the the F sharp diatonic scale where we just start from um up down. So.

[00:03:42]So, we can do [music] >> [music] >> Yeah.

[00:03:54]So.

[00:03:57]The idea is just to play melody and dramatically [music] uh walk down the semitone downward with the diminished chord. [music] So All right. Now, if you notice she did uh uh This is what [music] she did here. So, this is another style as well of exercise you can do because the exercise we did on this melody we had this. We didn't [music] have this. So, what you could do now is this is a result of I I don't want to turn this in terms of chord quality because I'll go to I'll just I'll just explain a lot. I don't I don't want that. So, just you can just take this exercise and practice it. So, maybe practice it all keys. Yes, advisably. So, what we're going to do now is we're going to start from here.

[00:05:06]We're still going to do harmonize the F sharp diatonic scale up to down up down then uh instead of starting from here this diminished we'll start from here. So uh So, [music] you can take it now.

[00:05:37]Play this low.

[00:05:46]uh No.

[00:05:58]>> [music] >> In terms of application, it depends on what chord you're passing to.

[00:06:07]And then what chord you want to use as a passing chord. If I take this shape, um >> [music] >> Okay. You see that we're going from a diminished full diminished seventh to a half [music] diminished. If I put this B flat here, you can see it.

[00:06:21]Okay.

[00:06:23]It's a half diminished or minor seventh flat five.

[00:06:27]But if I do this, you see that we're going from a dominant to a diminished seventh.

[00:06:34]So, it depends. Um Let me see if I can use the same Uh let me see. Okay, anyways.

[00:06:41]>> [music] >> Let me use this first. So, >> [music] [music] >> My I'm trying I'm I want to approach this [music] minor seventh flat five is an extension of the A flat dominant. [music] This is an addition of the ninth. What is You can look at it as an A flat dominant, which is two dominants.

[00:07:18][music] So, where I had a I wanted to play it this, but instead I just >> [music] >> because that's the note I'm targeting, okay?

[00:07:29]If one thing you could do is you could even do I don't want to give you guys too much, but I'm starting [music] from that um dominant to the diminished seventh to the half diminished. Okay.

[00:07:46]So, this could [music] have also served as an exercise for you. And I'm going to upload this exercise for all 12 keys so that you can be able to take it through all 12 keys on my website. So, if you're on those sites, you definitely get that very, very soon.

[00:07:58]We could also have the dominant seventh resolving to the diminished seventh. So, we could have something like a >> [music] >> Smile, Jesus loves you.

[00:08:11]Smile.

[00:08:14]>> [music] >> Smile, Jesus loves you.

[00:08:27]>> [music] [music] >> If you notice on that same movement, I did two variations. I did this.

[00:08:37]I didn't I didn't resolve [music] that E to E-flat, okay? So, there are a lot of variations, and I'm going to be giving a lot of exercises for these variations on all 12 keys on the site.

[00:08:48]Uh >> [music] >> I didn't resolve it.

[00:08:52]Okay.

[00:08:53]I just want to resolve it. Also, this I resolved the the the bass notes already before I approached.

[00:09:04]And this is a good [music] movement.

[00:09:06]Oh, learn this. Okay, so >> [music] >> Okay.

[00:09:27]So, um >> [music] >> All right. Let me show you the notes.

[00:09:43]So, uh She's going to the top.

[00:09:51]>> [music] >> Seven.

[00:09:55]Six.

[00:09:58]Seven. Three. Sorry. Three. Say six.

[00:10:00]>> [music] >> To the six.

[00:10:05]One.

[00:10:07]Oh, and this.

[00:10:11]And then to the four.

[00:10:15]Uh You could say more than [music] to change what she does actually the four there.

[00:10:24]Okay. Uh so, let's see uh Seven. [music] This is a good exercise you can practice on all 12 keys. You could do something like uh let's say >> [music] >> And take it through all 12 keys. Maybe continue the progression like that. But that's something uh good practice you can add um to your practice section.

[00:10:54]Another thing I'd like to talk about is this stuff she did here. Um uh So, the idea is actually playing the [music] two dominants with with an upper structure of this.

[00:11:09]So, yeah.

[00:11:14]Yeah.

[00:11:19]>> [music] >> So, that's that B flat major.

[00:11:28]Okay.

[00:11:30]She's voicing her dominant with >> [music] >> rootless on the left with the three, flat seven, and two.

[00:11:36]Okay.

[00:11:36]>> [music] >> I want to play with my little movie.

[00:11:48]>> [music] >> Yeah, that's it.

[00:11:51]Anyways, so on the two there, you could use your dominance.

[00:11:57]There's so many ways you could structure it, maybe even without a third.

[00:12:05]Without the third.

[00:12:07]Without this.

[00:12:09]Yeah.

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