Karleb:
Hi dramadiddy, pls how do you play your hymns? I play mine by playing the keys on my right and supporting it with the corresponding 1,4 & 5 chord on the bass but someone who seems to be professional has a problem with it, he says that's for amateurs and there is a rule guiding the playing of hymns.

Pls tell me if there's really an hymnal rule and how you play yours(hymns) as a professional?


PS: I'm not talking about classical music here o.

zbone:
@dramadiddy
pls take a look at this gospel cover of the song 'how great is our God'. the guy used some very nice devices in the song. i haven't scored it yet, but I think I'll get it. just in case I don't ? pls help look it up cheers!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv7PoSFjcTQ&itct=CDIQpDAYBCITCIjI7JeY-MICFVIvHAodbxAAFVIzaG93IGdyZWF0IGlzIG91ciBnb2QgZ29zcGVsY292ZXJzIGJ5IHBpYW5vY2x1YmhvdXNl&hl=en&gl=NG&client=mv-google

Dramadiddy:
lol please give me an example of the kind of chord you play.. Just one chord e.g left hand//right hand

Karleb:


I only play keys as in the hymns solfa on the RH but I play chords occaaaaassionally sha.

C E G// C
F A C// A
G B D// B

On scale of C.

Dramadiddy:
nooo its supposed to be the other way round.. Normally hymns have a progression they were composed on.. If u have the skill of re-harmoniation u can freshen it up, but u have to know the original progression on which the song was composed.. Checkk errr i think its cyberhymnal.org they have the original hymns in midi files.. If u have an app called midi sheet music u can load the midi file there and it will print out the hymn as a score in jpg format

Karleb:



Oh! I just got it, as in it's all making sense to me right now.


But what about the rules? Like playing a fat di-ad chord only on the bass and so on, tell me about them plss?

Dramadiddy:
you can but it depends on the kinda chrch ure in.. Some churches would want u to play the hymn as it was originally composed, and I don't understand what u mean by "di-ad"

Karleb:


Di-ad = two key chord, just illustrate how you play it so that I can develop my own ideas and styles, l'm sure going to download all the midi on cyberhmnal.


BTW, Can you give me sites that deal with songs chords?

Dramadiddy:
well they have 1-5 chords, 1-3.. There are hardly sites that do that.. Knowing song chords are one of the secrets of being a good musician.. So u lld nt likely see stuff like that on the net.. If u do, they ll prolly have price tags..the best way is to develop ur ears.. And that is by having the sound of notes stored in ur head e.g do di re mo mi fa fi etc, so that even if u dont know the full chord played, you would at least know that u heard a particular note and u can then use try and error to figure out the rest (that is playing any note u think is the note u heard and see if it matches with the note in the song)

Karleb:


... and then you add the unnecessary necessary extensions, alterations, suspensions blah blah blah right? I'll start scoring this January sha

BTW, thanks for your assistance, it was really helpful.

Karleb:


... and then you add the unnecessary necessary extensions, alterations, suspensions blah blah blah right? I'll start scoring this January sha

BTW, thanks for your assistance, it was really helpful.

zbone:

karleb do you listen to bass guitar players? if you do, can u figure out the notes they play, by ear. listening to them helps to get the progession of the song

zbone:

karleb do you listen to bass guitar players? if you do, can u figure out the notes they play, by ear. listening to them helps

Karleb:


Like that tye tribbett bless the lord's bass guitarist, give me five seconds on a piano and I'll decode it.

Dramadiddy:
decode the intro for me

Karleb:


D d m m d d m m
F f l l f f l l
M m s s m m s s
R r f f r r f f
D d m m d d m m

Oh, I didn't use keys!

Ok, it's not as simple as it seems sha.

Karleb:


Like that tye tribbett bless the lord's bass guitarist, give me five seconds on a piano and I'll decode it.

Dramadiddy:
I don't get...is this the intro on bass?

Karleb:


That's what you get when you play the intro the bass guitarist played on a keyboard although that's not everything and it's not hundred per cent neat.

It's more like a paraphrase.

Vicorolex1:
must say u guys r doin a great job here. im @ d intermediate level. all I've been doing all dis while is just 'following' d thread. Y? cos I ain't got no keyboard of my own. pls if there's any1 here Wu can help wit how I can get a good quality 2nd hand keyboard. I'll be grateful. pls I really need 2 be carried along in dis moving train. I await ur kind response

Karleb:
Dramadiddy, pls explain what is meant by WORSHIP/GOSPEL CHORDS. 10 Marks.

Karleb:
Dramadiddy, pls explain what is meant by WORSHIP/GOSPEL CHORDS. 10 Marks.

Karleb:
Dramadiddy, pls explain what is meant by WORSHIP/GOSPEL CHORDS. 10 Marks.

zbone: