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Chord Progression Tonic Solfa of “Glorious God” by Elijah Oyelade for Pianist and Bass guitarist

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This is the Chord Progression of “Glorious God” by Elijah Oyelade written in Tonic solfa .

The Intro part of the song has a chord progression played with a guitar of 

guitarist playing glorious God by Elijah Oyelade

m m f f f
m m f f f
as many times as possible

then the soloist of the intro playing the saxophone:

He went like this:

s……d r m l s
s……d t f l s
f m r; d m r; d l s

then the pianist played a lick to usher the singer

He was like:

d m s d t l s r f l s s


Now to the main body of the song:

Glorious God
s
Beautiful king
d
Excellent God, I bow before your throne
s                                     d

the progression of that part is:
s d s d

Now to the part of:

Bow before your throne
f
worship at your feet
d
Bow before your throne
s
You’re the Glorious God
d

the progression of that part is f d s d

Your name is Alpha, Omega, Ageless, Changeless
f           d            s            l
Almighty, Jehovah
f                   d
Glorious God I bow before your throne
s               r                                    d

Bass guitarist can improvise on these progressions.

Chord Progression Tonic Solfa of “We wait on you” by Steve Crown

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This is the Chord Progression in Tonic Solfa of “We wait on you” by Steve Crown. Enjoy

guitarist playing the progression of we wait on you by steve crown

Holy spirit you are welcome
m/d           r/t                   d/l
Fill this temple with your presense
m/d              r/t                           d/l

You can use
m r d
or
d t l

Then to the part of We wait on you

We wait on you
d
Lord We wait on you
f
We wait on you
d
Lord We wait on you
f

Then the piano solo part is

d r m f m r d r
d r m f m r d t d t l

How to play “African queen” by tu-face Idibia on the piano or guitar

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One of the easiest songs that was composed by Nigeria’s music legend Tu-face Idibia is his hit track “African queen” that brought him into the lime-light few years back.

 
I’m going to show you how to play the song as

 

guitarist playing african queen by tu face on the guitar

a guitarist or as a pianist. Music is Universal, what ever you you play on one musical instrument can be played on another musical instrument, it’s all based on the same principle.

The chord progression of the song is C  Aminor  F  G; using tonic solfas it is doh  lah  fah soh.
 
The pianist can just go ahead and play these chord progressions on and on and on, But the guitarist used arpeggios to play the progressions. On the guitar and piano its the same progression
 
C Aminor F G    or doh lah fah soh.
 
If you are looking for a guitar chord chart to get the chord for the following progressions written above, the links are provided below
To make use of open chords click here, by open chords i mean chords that you play at the neck of the guitar
 
To play the chords on any part of the fret board depending on where you have your root notes, click on any of the links below, because we have provided two different ways to do that.
 
The video would be available shortly. I hope this helps.

 

How to play movable chords anywhere and in any key on the fret board of the guitar. Part 2

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This is another way to play your major and minor chords(doh, reh mi fah so la ti do) any where on the neck or fret board of the guitar(take a look at the first way i explained here in the part 1). When many of us started to play the acoustic, we were only taught to play the open chords on the key of C, which is not good enough, because

playing your movable chords anywhere on the fret board of the guitar

its only on the key of C. Although many of us learnt how to use the Capo to play on other keys; but still that’s not still good enough. Many websites that you visit use letters to tell you the about the chords, but the way most of we Nigerian’s learnt music is by ear; and its pretty difficult for us to understand the chord patterns that the westerners upload unto their website.

So I’ve improvised some chords that you can play on your guitar;
they are the C, Dm, Em, F, G Am, B.
In other-words they could be written as doh, reh, mi, fah, soh, lah, ti.
In the chord diagrams that I am about to show you below, look at the doh chord carefully and take note of the root note. The root note is C(doh). Also take note of the fret number(whether its the 1st fret, 2nd fret and so on).
Also note that as you start playing the chords, they might not sound right, you would just have to keep rehearsing so your fingers would build the muscles to play the chords. After a few days, you would see that they would sound clearly.
The orange dots are the root notes(doh or C).

How to play movable chords anywhere and in anykey on the fret board of the guitar. Part 1

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This is how to play your major and minor chords(doh, reh mi fah so la ti do) any where on the neck or fret board of the guitar. When many of us started to play the acoustic, we were only taught to play the open chords on the key of C, which is not good enough, because

playng chords on any part of the fret board on the guitar

its only on the key of C. Although many of us learnt how to use the Capo to play on other keys; but still that’s not still good enough. Many websites that you visit use letters to tell you the about the chords, but the way most of we Nigerian’s learnt music is by ear; and its pretty difficult for us to understand the chord patterns that the westerners upload unto their website.

So I’ve improvised some chords that you can play on your guitar;
they are the C, Dm, Em, F, G Am, B.
In other-words they could be written as doh, reh, mi, fah, soh, lah, ti.
In the chord diagrams that I am about to show you below, look at the doh chord carefully and take note of the root note. The root note is C(doh). Also take note of the fret number(whether its the 1st fret, 2nd fret and so on).

Also note that as you start playing the chords, they might not sound right, you would just have to keep rehearsing so your fingers would build the muscles to play the chords. After a few days, you would see that they would sound clearly.

This is a video illustartion of how you can play it, dont forget to use this post as a guide too:

The image above is the doh chord, the orange color depicts the root note which is C(doh).
The second image above is the reh chord.

The third image above is the mi chord, all you have to do is to shift the reh chord by two semi-tones; as you can see that it is the same shape, i just shifted from the second fret to the fourth fret.

The next image above is the fah chord starting on the second fret.

The next image above is the soh chord; as you can see again, its the same shape with the fah chord, I just shifted from the second fret to the fourth fret.

The next image above is the lah chord.

Then the ti chord is just the same shape with the lah chord, I just shifted it from the fourth fret to the fifth fret.

Read part two here

How to get the bass line of a song from the chord progression as a beginner

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A lot of guys ask me to give them some bass-lines that they can use for praise and worship. I simply tell them to know  their progressions very well first before they start thinking about bass-lines. Chord progression is the rudiment of bass lines and, if you know your chord progressions very well, bass lines would be something you can improvise as you play to any given song.

getting the bass line of any song from the progression as a beginner

Lets take a look at this song sang by Lara George for example; “hallelujah”.

The chord progression of the song is

F      C      G      C
fah    doh  soh    doh

To get the bass line out of this progression, there is something we call “chord tone”

A chord tone is a note that can be played along-side a chord that would give a meaningful sound.

For example:

The chord tones for the 1 chord(C or doh chord) can be:
C,E,G i.e d,m or s
They are the chord tones because they are one of the elements of the 1 chord(C or doh chord).

Another example: What are the possible chord tones for the 4 chord(F or fah chord):

Tip: just bring out all the elements of the F chord:

They are F A C
f  l   d

Now lets get back to business

How do we get the bass lines from the progression since we now know their chord tones

The chord tone for G is    G B D
s  t   r

lets start with F

We can choose to rearrange the formation of the chord tones in an order that suits us and that suits the timing of the song; we are free to even repeat some particular notes too

Now for the fah chord the bassist used     f f l d f
for the doh chord he used                 d d m s d
for the soh chord he used                  s s t r s
for the doh chord he used                 d d m s d again

but if you are not comfortable with that shape on the guitar as a beginner, you can start with the very basic method by using the chord tones directly as they appear in the chord, see an illustration below:

f l d f l d
d m s d ms
s t r s t r
d m s d m s

Now that’s how you improvise, just make sure you are following the timing. The video is coming soon.

 

Chord Progression solfa of “you are great” by steve crown

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choir singing the progression of you are great by steve crown


If you want to know how to play “you are great ” by steve crown on the piano, this post should be helpful. This is the chord progression in solfa notations of “you are great” by Steve Crown. It also includes the guitar solo. You can get the full solfa notation of “you are great” here for solo instrumentalist like trumpeters, saxophonist e.t.c


              doh
you are great, yes you are,

        fah/lah
holy one,

doh
Walked upon the sea,

                soh
raised the dead

doh.
Reign in majesty,

            fah
mighty God,

            lah                        soh         doh
Everything written about you, is great



                       doh
you are great (Response)
fah
you are great (Response)
doh
you are great (Response)
soh
you are great

the guitar solo is:

d r m
r m f: d l
d r m
r d t d r

d r m d l
r m f d l
l s : f m r t d 

Minor chords to add to your playing of praises and worship

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In one of my piano lessons(this is the link to the lesson where I talked about minor chords), I revealed a formula that you can use to derive your minor chords. Unfortunately most of us don’t want to take our time to read through. A lot of people want to know more about minor chords of certain notes so they can use it to play praises and worship.

So I’m going to shed more light on how to

adding minor chords to your praise and worship skills

get your minor chords of each notes using a simple formula. Click here to get the parameters to the formula

The formula to get minor chords is

Root + minor third + perfect fifth (get the meaning of minor third and perfect fifth here)

The root is the note in which  we are looking for the chord

at the same time: note that a minor third is three semitones from the root note
and that a perfect fifth is seven semitones from the root note.

C  C#  D  D#  E  F  F#  G  G#  A  A#  B  C  C#  D  D#  E  F  F#  G  G#  A  A#  B  C
d   de   r    re   m f   fe   s    ze   l    taw t    d  de   r    re   m f   fe   s    ze   l    taw t    d

We can continue on and on like that….
Now let us derive the chords from the formula:

let us find the chord minor Chord of C, this means that C is the root.

So from the formula

Root + minor third + perfect fifth

the root is C

recall that minor third is three semitones from the root note; so if we count three semitones from C, we have D#

recall that perfect fifth is seven semitones from the root note; so if we count seven semitones from the root note we have G

Therefore, the minor chord for C or doh is C D# G, which is equivalent to D re s

I hope you understand.

Now use this same principle to find the minor chord of D, E,F,G,A,B i.e r m f s l t d

Check your answers below if it is correct:

C  D#  G          d re s        doh minor chord
D  F  A             r f l           reh minor chord
E  G  B            m s t         mi minor chord
F  G#  C          f ze d        fah minor chord
G  A#  D         s taw r       soh minor chord
A  C  E           l d m          lah minor chord
B  D  F#         t r fe           ti minor chord
C  D#  G        d re s          doh minor chord

So now, get back to practice and try to apply them to your worship and praise songs. God bless you.

Chord Progression solfa of “I Love You” by Tye Trybbett

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Some one requested that I make this post on the chord progression solfa of “I love you forever” by Tye Tribbett

instrumentalist playing I love you forever by tye tribett
   Fah(F)
I love you forever
   Lah(A) – Soh(G)
I love you forever
   Fah(F)                doh(C)
I love you forever Lord
                                Fah(F)
We give                   Glory to God
                                Soh(G)   Lah-Soh
                                Glory to God
                                FAh                           Soh
Glory to God Forever

Chord progression solfa of “Intentional” by Travis Greene

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Intentional

Someone requested that I should post the chord progression of this beautiful song by Travis Green, the name of the song is Intentional.

instrumentalist playing intentional by travis greene

 

              Lah(A)
Oh Oh Oh
                         Doh(C)
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
       Reh(D)
Oh Oh
  mi-fah(F)
Oh Oh
Lah(A)                                      Doh(C)
All things are working for my Good
          Reh(D)                        mi-fah(F)
It’s Intentional
Never failing
Lah(A)                                      Doh(C)
All things are working for my Good
Reh(D)                                  mi –fah(F)
All things are working for my Good
(It goes on and on like that with the same (L D R m-fah)
Lah                                                                         doh
I don’t have to worry cos it’s working for me
                                                                                Reh
                                                  It’s working for me
                                                                       Mi – Fah
                                                  It’s working for me
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