dimensions when you play the guitar. Check out these written tutorials, they should be of a little help to you. Have fun.
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.
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
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.
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
, 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
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
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
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.
This is the solfa notation of 10 common Nigerian praise songs.
Do you ever dream of playing the solo of a song you are hearing for the first time. It’s pretty easy. All you have to do is to train your mind and ear towards achieving it. How do you do that? By scoring out the solfa notation of almost every song you know; take these ones below as examples:
d m m d
d f f m
s m m d
m r t d
s s m m f f
s s r r m m
s s m m f f
s s r r m m
s s s m d:::d d s s l l
f r t:::t t t t d d
s l s===d
m m d r
f f r m m m d r : r : r : r
f f r t t r r d d d
Since I was born
d m f s
s d
m m l l s
m m s s
f f s f m m
s s s l s m
m s f l m s r f m m s s
f f s f
m m
Father to you oooo
s s s d s
m s f m r r s s s l s
r f m r d d
My Praise
m r m r d
m r m r d r r m
m m r r d d t t d
s m f m r
f r s f mr re
s m f m r m f
m m r r d d t t d
We lift your name higher
s s m s d d
s s m s f f
f f m r s s
s s d r d d
Hallelujah na your own ooo
s s l l m m f r
r f m
m m f f d d r t
d r d
Baba!!!!! mi loke Baba
d d s s l l f f r l l s
s s
mrd mrd
l r d t d d
Firstly the numberings on the images signify the fingers used to play the notes.
1 is the pointer finger
2 is the middle finger
3 is the ring finger
4 is the pinky
I want to teach you on how to play all over the fret board of a guitar using the pentatonic. Pentatonic as the name implies means five-tonic,
which is C D E G A, it does not matter whether you start from C or D; in fact in this lesson we are starting from A on the first fret.
Yes we are running from the first fret down to where we want to stop. So A C D E G A and so on and so forth, that is what we are going to keep doing.
I prefer to call the notes by their solfa notations, it makes it easier for me to recognize sounds e.g L D R M S L D.
So in the image above, starting from the sixth string we have A C D E G A C D E G A C, using solfa notations I would say L D R M S L D R M S L D.
Now this is the second pentatonic shape which is interwoven with the first pentatonic. For this shape you would just place you middle finger where your pinky was(in the first shape). this one says C D E G A C D E G A C D, using solfas it says D R M S L D R M S L D R.
The third pentatonic shape starts with the middle finger, It is also interwoven with the second pentatonic shape, Its notes are D E G A C D E G A C D E, using the solfas, it is; R M S L D R M S L D R M.
The fourth pentatonic shape starts with the pointer finger, It is also interwoven with the third pentatonic shape. Its notes are E G A C D E G A C D E G, the solfa notations are M S L D R M S L D R M S.
The fifth pentatonic shape is the one I like the most, it is interwoven with the fourth. Its notes are G A C D E G A C D E G A, it’s solfa
notations are S L D R M S L D R M S L.
NOW LET US TAKE A LOOK AT ALL THE NOTES USING THE SOLFAS
L D R M S L D R M S L D
D R M S L D R M S L D R
R M S L D R M S L D R M
M S L D R M S L D R M S
S L D R M S L D R M S L
If you look at the begining of the notes above respectively, you wil see that they are arranged in a uniform manner in which they are arranged in music [ L D R M S]; likewise too, if you look at it from the ends of the notes respectively going down [D R M S L].
That’s exactly the ways it looks on the fret of your guitar. I hope this post was helpful.
If you can get to play all the following basic chords without touching the other unnecessary strings and holding the right strings firmly, you are good to go, you will be able to play almost any song on your guitar that you hear today. It might take a while to get it right, but if you keep practicing, your hands will develop the muscles that you require and with time you will be good to go
.
This is a video illustration to playing all the open chords below:
Firstly the numbering on the images signify the fingers used to play the notes.
1 is the pointer finger
2 is the middle finger
3 is the ring finger
4 is the pinky
