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Lyrics of “fi yin fo’luwa, fogo fo’luwa”

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The lyrics of the song goes thus:

lyrics of fiyin foluwa fogo foluwa

Fiyin fo’luwa
fogo foluwa
Ola re oo oga
Oto bi ooo eh eh
anu re ko la fi we

The interpretation goes thus:
Give God the honour,
Give God the glory
His adoration is high
His is so big
His mercies cannot be compared

How to play “Imaranma” by Eben

Video for this tutorial is coming very soon… Get the written version after the cut.

how to play imaranma by Eben

Intro: d s f m r m r d s
d s f m r m r r r s
d s f m r m r s
d f m r r d d

Verse:
d(12)
l s f
s f
s f
s f
s f

Chorus:
d f
d f
d f
s f

How to play “Ebezina” on the piano or guitar

This post explains how to play “Ebezina” by preye on the piano and maybe on the bass guitar. If you know how to play any musical instrument you would

how to play ebezina on the piano

agree that all you need is the chord progression. This post gives us you the chord progression of Ebezina by preye and the intro:

Intro:
d t s(2x)
l t d t s
s l r m f m r
d t d d
r r d t d d
r r d t d d

Chord progression:
Ebezina Doh
Chukwu nonso Fah
Ogininisobugi Lah
imala ni sa ti giye Soh …..

this video illustrates how to play “ebezina” on the piano. Watch the video below to get a better understanding:

 

Four thing you should be doing as a beginner guitarist everyday

As a beginner, there are a few things you should be doing on your guitar everyday to give you flexibility and also open your mentality into new

beginner guitarist reharsals warm up

dimensions when you play the guitar. Check out these written tutorials, they should be of a little help to you. Have fun.

5 basic stuff you must know about playing the piano

There are a lot of basic stuffs you must not forget when you are learning the piano, most-especially if you are a church boy like me, you must know how to play worship which is pretty easy, praise which most of the time it is either high-life or warror, hymns, and also not forgetting

basic stuffs to know about playing the piano

how to transpose on the piano. Don’t let anybody bambooze you that transposing on the piano is not a good thing or that it is for lazy people; Me i would tell you to learn to transpose and find yourself playing in a month. Its not possible for you to know how to play all the keys  of the piano in a short time, and we wouldn’t want to learn to play all the keys before we step into the show to play, so it’s better you get yourself familiar with a strange key and build your confidence with it before you move into learning to play another key. So I’ve gotten some little tips together for you to lay your hands on.

Easy way to play all major chords:

Basic chord progression for a few worship songs

A chord progression in what an instrumentalist plays to accompany a song or another musical instrument. It’s like it plays in the background. This post describes the chord progression of some few worship songs.

Knowing your chord progression is the foundation of knowing to play any musical instrument. Whether its the piano or the guitar; All you have to do is

basic chord progression for a few songs

know your chord progression. A chord progression is something that comes from within you. You have to get to understand your sounds and also get yourself familiar with the tonic-sol fa(solfa notations of 10 nigerian worship songs) of a lot of songs.

In fact the best way too get to know chord progressions is to listen to songs constantly. Another method is to join the choir and be faithful to your rehearsals and church services. The reason why I said so is because by the time you keep attending the church services, you are unconsciously registering the chord progressions in your brain, and that is why most instrumentalist get to play like the person they listen to consistently.

You cannot get to learn a musical instrument by just going for music lessons and coming back home to drop it. You have to listen to songs consistently, hum the progressions with your mouth, go to your musical instruments and play what you hum, that way you would be see yourself improving. I have prepared chord progressions for some 7 popular Nigerian worship songs. Click here to see them.

The Tonic Solfa Score Sheet of He never failed me yet (treble, alto and tenor)

Do you want to score this song(He never failed me yet by Robert Ray) and you want to have all the singers sing their respective voices whether treble

tonic solfa sheet for He never failed me yet

, alto or tenor; but you are not ready to start interpreting the manuscript. I have interpreted the manuscript here in tonic-solfa. Click here to see it

The Tonic Solfa Score Sheet of “Bless me Prayer of jabez”; tenor, treble and alto parts included

Are you willing to score “Bless me, prayer of Jabez”; don’t go too far, check out the score sheet here
which contains the treble, alto and tenor parts. click here to view

prayer of Jabez score sheet in tonic solfa

The original manuscript of music legend “Fela Anikulapokuti”

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Fela’s son Seun shared the photo on Instagram and wrote, ‘WhT u see here is a historical artifact of immense value.

music manuscript of fela anikulapo kuti

This is Felas original manuscript for the tenor lines in Music Against Second Slavery in his own hand writing.’

Secrets to becoming a successful musical instrumentalist

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Do you ever go to a church and see the band play and you wish to be able to play like them?, maybe because you feel that the ladies like them and you want to be the “ladies man” of the church.

Have you ever been to a live performance show, where the all the sounds are produced by members of a band on stage i.e the bass guitarist, lead guitarist, drummer, saxophonist, singer e.t.c

Secrets to becoming a successful musical instrumentalist

Do you ever wish you can play like them, Do you ever wonder how?

If you can stick to all these
principles below, I can assure you that in no time you will become a professional:

1. Listen to music constantly, try to focus on the way the instruments accompany the songs.

2. Have your own musical instrument.

3. Spend quality time practicing useful techniques with the instrument everyday (30-60)minutes. It requires self-control tho’.

4. Listen to musicians that specialize in playing your instruments and score a lot of their own songs.

5. Make youtube your friend, watch and download youtube videos of guitar tutorials or whatever musical instruments you want to play.

6. Join a band or a church choir, the church really helps in developing instrumentalist, especially those ones who feel they can never know how to play musical instruments. You would learn how to recognize and put sounds together in no time.

8. Call a few people together and let them listen to you while you play; and let them tell you how they feel about you playing, that way you are building your confidence.

7.  The last but not the least, be humble and be eager to learn new things. People love to teach humble people, if a professional sees that you have a good attitude, he could give you some secrets to improve in your playing.