3 Essential Gospel Harmony & Theory Concepts in C Major

[Music] foreign [Music] what's going on Gifted Hands Family it is Elijah here bringing you another lesson and today we're going to be talking about three gospel Concepts that you can use in C major that is going to make your playing sound more advanced it's gonna make it sound like you actually play gospel music so whether you play r b Blues Country classical whatever just follow and use these three simple Concepts and you're gonna get that gospel sound alright so let's dive into it thank you so first things first let's uh just make up a random progression okay let's say we got oh see hey I'm already adding and too many gospel movements let's do one three four five let's do one three four five [Music] this is all right here right all right so that's gonna be our progression one three four five so what can we do to make this progression sound more gospelified gospely whatever word you want to use okay so what we're gonna do first is going to be to embellish the chords that were already given right that's the first step embellish is just a fancy word for adding some extra notes to the chords okay so if we got one three I can play my three chord instead of playing like a one over three I can play a chord like this which is really a instead of like a C major over e it's like a C Major seven over e or C major nine I could even think of it that's C major nine so when we embellish something we're usually just going to extend the chord right or alter the chord one three four five one foreign [Music] all right and then um we're playing like a four as a major seven or a major nine so we're extending our four chord as well as when we get to the five chord I'm gonna embellish that not necessarily by adding extra what I actually do that extra Notes too so I make it like a G9 or G add two chord right uh but I'm gonna take a step further and actually invert the chord as well right so instead of playing Just G with the root in the bass I'm gonna actually move the bass note to a b why because there's a rule of inversions that we use and all it says is that if I have any chord whatever the chord is doesn't matter in this case this is G it's a G major chord I can use any of these notes that are in this chord for the bass note okay so instead of playing G in the bass I can play B in the bass or maybe instead of playing B in the bass we play D D in the bass bass note is going to give us a different sound a different feel but they all work together theoretically all right so now we got one three four five [Music] all right so just by embellishing the chords we didn't change really any of the chords the harmony is still functionally works the same we're just adding just some color really we're adding color to the progression okay so that's step one step two another way that we can make any progression sound more gospel fied I know I'm making up words today but we can add passing course all right so that's the second thing we can do we can embellish the chords first second thing we can do is add passing course so instead of just playing what's written or playing the chords that are given to you in a song we can add on top of that and that's a lot of times what gospel musicians do is if we have one three four five like just that much right there I added a bunch of passing chords which passing chords is simply if I have a chord that I'm trying to get to right instead of going directly to that chord I'm gonna add in an extra chord or an extra progression even a temporary progression that's going to help me transition from one place to the next cool so like there's tons and tons of options but I'll give you just one super common passing progression or passing chord that's used in gospel is dominant chords right and so if we're we're on the one say we're on the one we're going to the three right four five so if I want to get to the three let's say I want to get to the three I can throw on a passing chord that's a fifth away from this e which is our three chord right so I could throw in like a B dominant chord why because this is a fifth away from our three chord and a dominant chord wants to resolve down a fifth that's the rule of secondary dominance right so I play a B dominant chord it wants to resolve to eat all right so one [Music] three uh we gotta passing chord to the three four and I can even throw in a passing chord this one dominant C dominant wants to pass to F so I can play C dominant as a passing chord to get to F major all right so we got one three four five and then even to get back to the beginning of our progression the beginning the progression starts at one right so to get back to the beginning of that what we can do is we're already on the five um I think I switched it up and played it as like a suspended chord uh we can add in a five dominant because this chord wants to pass back to the one right so let's do one three pass to the four [Music] five and this is a dominant chord right or we could play like this this is a dominant chord to pass it back to the one so one three pass to the four five and ready to five [Music] all right so that's the second thing we can do and finally one other thing that you can do to make your playing sound more like gospel to take some gospel tricks um and add them to your songs is going to be to Simply add walk-ups add movement to your plane so instead of just staying on one chord right we're I mean we've already talked about adding passing chords [Music] what you can do also is we're in C major right so I can connect chords not just by adding dominant chords but I could also walk up the major scale or walk down the major scale to get from court to court so if we're going one I could do something like that we could do one two and let's even go chromatic [Music] to get to the three so one passing to the three dominant chord to get to the four [Music] five one [Music] and even that one was a little bit simple one two three dominant chord to pass to the four oh right so something like that would work which would be just uh four or four for six five over seven to the one right and that's just another little movement that we can do walking up the major scale to connect chords so all together those three steps [Music] thank you [Music] last time here we go [Music] all right and I said that's three ways that you can um add some nice gospel Theory to your playing and get a more full more complex more gospel sounding piano all right see you in the next lesson [Music] thank you [Music]

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Thu May 04 2023