Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged shortcuts, cheats, how to play, piano chords, chord progressions, simplified, shout to the lord, hillsongs on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
This song is in the A key. I have simplified it such that you only need 4 chords on the right hand to play the whole song. This 4 chords are the 3 basic chords of the A key, i.e., A, D and E chords; and the G chord.
There are basically 2 different chord [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged "amazing grace", chord progressions, how to play, piano cheats, piano chords, piano shortcuts on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
The following video illustrates how this song can be played with 3 fingers, while one sings along. The whole purpose is to make it easy to play for adult learners especially.
I used only one finger for the bass (left hand), mainly because that way, it’s easier to fit into the camera view. [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged chords, shortcuts, cheats, how to play, keyboard, on piano, U.R.Y. by Hillsong on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This is how you can play U.R.Y. using 3 fingers – 1 on your left hand, 2 on your right hand. And you need literally only 2 ‘chords’ on your right hand.
There are two parts in this song: the verse and the chorus. Duh.
The progression for the verse actually goes like [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged cheat, chris tomlin, how great is our god, mixing, piano, play, priase, shortcut, superposition, worship on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Church songs, Songs, tagged arise, cheat, chords, how to play, music, on piano, pattern, paul baloche, piano, progression, shortcuts on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Basically there are 2 parts in this song – the verse and the chorus.
For the verse, the chords progress from Chord I to Chord V, then to Chord –I (minus-one), then to Chord IV. After that, simply repeat this chord progression (I, V, -I, IV) until you reach the chorus.
The chorus has a slightly different [...]
