How Great Is Our God

This song by Chris Tomlin is a good example to illustrate our Chord Mixing trick (See “Chord Mixing (part 1)” and “Chord Mixing (part 2)” posts).

The whole song can be simplified to the following chord pattern:

I –> VIm –> IV –> V

That is, Chord I followed by Chord VIm, followed by Chord IV, and then by Chord V.

In the C key, that means:

C –> Am –> F –> G

To make the progression above interesting, however, let’s play the 4 chords by mixing them with their corresponding chord pairs that we have learned in the “Chord Mixing” posts.

That means, we will play (I hope you already know what chords to mix them with in your head straightaway, as that familiarity will help you A LOT!) the following:

C (+G) –> Am (+G) –> F (+C) –> G (+F)

Here is the illustration on video…

If that chord mixing skill does not come automatically to you, then you will have to learn it the hard way, by following your music score or chord chart strictly, which will probably read something like this…

C2 C C2 C G/A Am G/A Am F2 F F2 F F/G G F/G G

Doesn’t that look very complicated? But really, let me say it again, you only need to know the 3 basic chords!

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