This is the chord progression in tonic solfa of “Alagbada Ina” by Nathaniel Bassey. It is suitable for pianst and guitarist.
doh
Alagbada Ina
fah
The one who’s clothed with fire
lah
Your voice resounds like thunder
soh
We glorify your name
doh
Alagbada Ina
fah
The one with eyes of fire
soh
Your name is full of wonders
doh
Come and manifest yourself
doh
You are the Holy one
fah
Dwelling in light so bright
lah
You made the sun and the moon
soh
But you shine brighter than all
doh fah
As we rejoice and call upon your name
soh
Please come and take your place
doh
And manifest yourself
fah
Mountains will flow down
lah
And darkness will flee
fah
Adversaries surrender
soh
At the sound of your voice
fah
Fire is burning
lah
Revival is here
fah
The nations will worship
soh
Jesus alone
We have different musical instruments and they have their various ways of accompanying songs. This tutorial will teach you how to play to praise and worship songs with bass guitar
The bass guitar is like the background of the music that acts as the foundation for all other musical instruments to to rest upon.
Therefore as a bass guitarist you need to workwell with the correct timing of the song and a regular groove.
how to play to praise and worship songs with bass guitar
1. Know the progression of the song
2. Improvise a suitable groove for the progression.
We shall take 5 Nigerian gospel praise songs to illustrate the points above:
1. Kosobabire, kosi bababire, koma solorun bire Igwe
f d s d
Now you can see that that song written above has the progression of fah doh soh doh
That is “Igwe” by mid night crew
Now that we have written the progression below the song and we know the progression of the song well. The next thig is to improvise a very good groove from the progression. How do we do that?
1. We would pick each notes of the progression one after the other
2. We would find suitable notes that corresponds with each of the notes of the progression
Illustration:
Let us pick the first note of the progression which is “fah”, How do we know suitable notes for it?
We can know them through the chord tone.
The Major chord for “fah” is fah lah doh
so therefore we can choose between “lah” and “doh”.
Left to me alone i would choose only “doh”
Now lets go to the next note of the progression which is doh
the major chord for “doh” is “doh mi soh”
Left to me alone I would choose only “soh” for my improvisation.
The Next note on the progression is “Soh”
The major chord for “Soh” is “soh tii reh”
I would choose “reh”
Note that you can choose your notes from the chords as you like, that is why it is called improvisation
Now let us go back to our song
Kosobabire, kosi bababire, koma solorun bire Igwe
f d s d
(f d f) (d s d) (s r s) (d s d)
Now instead of playing the usual progression, you have more notes to play, make sure you play them in a manner by which it follows with the timing of the song. Do we understand?
You can watch the video below and above for further explanation:
The remaining songs that we talked about are also illustrated in the video.
They are
2. Have you heard what the lord has done 3. Since I was born 4. Kabi oo, O sii baba, tire ni onise iyanu 5. Ohi ooooo. Sai
This is the tonic solfa of “If” by Davido produced and written by Tecno. It contains only the solfa notation of the first verse and chorus. Enjoy.
r r m r r m r r m l My money my body na your own
r m f m r d r d t If i tell you say i love you o
r r m r r mr r m l t d My money my body na your own o baby
m m r d d d d r d t Thirty billion for the account o
r m m r m l r r m l Versace, gucci for your body o baby
l s l s No do, No do
l s r r r r s m No do, Gararara for me
l s l s No do, No do
l s m s m m No do Senrere o
d l d l No do, No do
d l r r s r m No do, Shakara owe
l s l s No do, No do
l s m m m r m d No do, Gararara for me o, ehhh
m r t t t t Girl you’re beautiful too
r m r r t t t t My number one tuntun
m r l l l l Sip burukututu
r r m l l l For your love tutu
t t m r t t r r t I go chook you chuku chuku o
m r r m t t Biko obianuju
m r m l l l Shey you do me juju
r r m m l l l ‘Cause I’m feeling the juju
t l s Shake it io
l t l t l s I wanna catch it io
t t d t l You can have it io
t r t d t l You know I got this io
s s r r r t I love you, I love you
s s r r r t t t s s r I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you
l l m m m d There’s nothing above you
l l m m m d d d l l m There’s nothing above you, above you above you
t l s s Bridget eh
l t l t t l s s I like your mini skirt io
t d t d d t l l Oh girl you carry sense io
m r t t t t Girl you’re beautiful too
r m r r t t t t My number one tuntun
m r l l l l Sip burukututu
r r m l l l For your love tutu
t t m r t t r r t I go chook you chuku chuku o
m r r m t t Biko obianuju
m r m l l l Shey you do me juju
r r m m l l l ‘Cause I’m feeling the juju
r r r r r m r r d t And you know say nobody holy
r r r r m r d t But I no go tell you story
d r t t t d I gotta be your man
d r t t t d I gotta be your man
t l t l s Lemme talk to you
t l t l say a few things
d t d t l Girl I’m feeling you
d t d t l What is up to you
f m f m f m Shey you know I gat you
This post of “the Tonic solfa notation of 10 yoruba praise and worship songs” is dedicated to all the yoruba people all over the world. They are very common songs that we hear everyday in Nigeria. If you are Igbo or Hausa don’t feel left out because we would also bring nice packages for you too.
Oba to joba lo
L l d s s s (2x)
M s s s m s l s m r
R r m d d d
Mi o se ni jo
D l d r r (2x)
R r m r m m d d l
L. s. l d d
Kabiesi re oluwa, Oba to fimole sa so bora
S s m l s m f r
D d m r d l d d d d
M r d l r r r r
D r m r d l d d d d
Ese Ese ese —-E seun oluwa
S ls l f s
M m m f r
S l s l f s
R r r m d
Morire(3x) Gba
S d tl t ls l f m
S m f f r r
M f r d
Eru Olorun Bami
D d m s m d m
D d m s m d m r
S s l l s r r m d l
D m r d l s l d d
Gbi gbe ga e he e he
M m r
D m d m(eh eh eh eh) m m r
D m s r m d l
D d f m r d
Ema seun wa Ema seun wa Ema seun wa
M d m m m R d r r r D t d d d S s m d D f m f r M d m m m R d r r r D t d d d
Ise Oluwa kole Baje oo M m f m r M m m s m M m f m r D d d m d
Oyi biri biri biri kan mi oo S s s s s s s m f r L l l l l l l s f m S s s s s s s m f r F f f f f f m r d
This is the chord progression in solfa notation of “Only you Jesus” by Ada Ehi. You can get the solfa notation of the “only you Jesus” here. Make sure you don’t forget to share this tutorial with your friends. I’m sure they would find it helpful.
Only You can do…
d f
What no man can do
s f
Only You can say!
d f
What no man can say
s f
Only You can Change
d f
Every Situation at all
s f
Only You are able
d f
Daddy so so You are Capable
s f
Just like You walked through the streets of galilee
d f s
Resp: You are doing the same today
f d
Call: And like You healed the sick and You raised the dead
f s
Resp: You are doing the same today
f d…….
This is a video tutorial below:
The progression continues like that in circles till the end of the song. d f s f
This is the chord progression in solfa notation of “My trust is in you” by David G. Please don’t forget to share, so your friends can also see it. You can also check our youtube channel for plenty song tutorials.
Lion of Judah
d
My trust is in you
fah soh
Ancient of days
doh
My trust is in you
fah soh
I am that I am
doh
My trust is in you
fah soh
Lily of the valley
doh
My trust is in you
fah soh
The song goes on and on like that following that same progression doh – fah – soh
Before we begin I want to get rid of this assumption:
1.That there is a particular pattern that can play all gospel praise songs.
There is no such pattern as this because a particular pattern is based on a chord progression; and you know that different songs have their different progressions.
And I also want you to note that, different songs have their own different progressions. So your ears should be at work whenever you are about to play. An easy way around this is for you to reharse with our chordprogression ebook.
I hear this a lot of times from beginners:
“I’m good in playing worship but my problem is playing praises”
The truth is you are not good in playing either of them. Most people make that statement because they have memorized playing a few worship songs, then they feel they can handle all worship songs. Go and listen to them play then you would know hear how horrible they sound. They sound horrible because they play the wrong progressions to songs.
1.You should be able to play the progression of any song by just hearing it. I know this would be very hard for beginners, you just have to train your ears to know the right chords that should accompany song. You should get this chord progression ebook of over 100 nigerian praiseand worship songs. The ebook would help you develop your ears as long as you practice.
2.You should be able to move swiftly between chords. This is very important. You do not want to be slowing down the rhythm simply because you are unable to sound each chord correctly at the right time. You should be able to go swiftly from “doh to fah”, or from “fah to lah” or from “reh to soh” or from “mi to lah” or from “doh to mi”e.t.c You can watch our chord progression series video for more lessons.
3.You should be able to play “accompany chords” on the left hand and play the notes of songs on the right hand. In other words you should be able to solo and at the same time accompany your solo with chords. It is very simple, for a start you can use hymns to practice.
Having knowing all these requirements,
How do you make all make your accompaniment of gospel praise songs more interesting.
This is the chord progression in solfa notation of “Imela” by Jumbo. The chord progression is writen on top of the lyrics against where they should come up in the song. Pianist, guitarist would find it helpful. Enjoy.
This is the chord progression in solfa notation of “You give me life” by Noel Robinson. Feel free to practice on your guitar or piano.I hope you are aware that you can use the basic major and minor chords.
doh d m s reh r f l mii m s t fah f l d soh s t r lah l d m tii t r f
