CHORDS APPLICATION IN MOVEMENT

A table was given last post showing possible applications of chords to different notes at the breaking of a song. The following hints will make you to understand it better.
• Most of the time when a song break at note “l”, you strike the 4th chord “f l d”.
• If the song breaks at “t”, you use the 5th chord “s t r”.
• Most of the time you start and end major songs with the 1st chord “d m s”.
• If a song breaks at note “d” within the song, you have several options of chords to use. At your level you can either use 1st chord “d m s”, 6th chord “l d m” and 4th chord “f l d”.
• If a song breaks at note “r”, we will use two chords at your level depending on the style you are using. We use 5th chord “s t r” and 2nd chord “r f l”. At later post, other complex chords will be introduced.
• If a song breaks at note “m”, you either use 3rd chord “m s t”, 1st chord “d m s” or 6th chord “l d m”.
• If a song breaks at note ‘f”, you can either use 2nd chord “r f l” or 4th chord “f l d”.
• If a song breaks at note “s”, you can either use 1st chord “d m s” or 3rd chord “m s t” or sometimes 5th chord “s t r”
Assignment: Continue the assignment given in the last post. Write down familiar songs in your area, play the tonic solfa on your keyboard and learn the progression to the different songs using the hints given above.
Next post is going to be more explanatory as I will be given you some examples of how to play to some songs. See you.

Learn how to move to different songs: Progression in Music

Movement is how to move or play to a song. You apply primary chords to move to songs. Movement is also known as progression. The assignment giving in the previous post is different types of some possible progression we have.
To move to songs, you must know the tonic solfa of the songs. For example, the tonic solfa of the worship song ‘Father we declare that we love you ’ is F f f m R ; d r M r D; r m F f f l d T, l t D.
The breaking of the song will determine the chord you will strike i.e. the breaking of the song above (written in capital letter) is f, r, m, d, f, t, d. You play the 4th chord for the 1st breaking ‘f’, 5th chord for the 2nd breaking ‘r’, 3rd chord for the 3rd breaking ‘m’, 6th chord for the 4th breaking ‘d’, 2nd chord for the 5th breaking ‘f’, 5th chord for the 6th breaking ‘t’ and 1st chord for the 7th breaking ‘d’. The table below explains the chords to use when a song break. Note that more than one chord can be used to a note.
CHORDS APPLICATION
d:m:s d or m or s
r:f:l r or f (mostly) or l
m:s:t m or s or t (rarely)
f:l:d f or l or d
s:t:r t or r or s (sometimes)
l:d:m d or m or l (sometimes)

ASSINGMENT3: to be done for at Two weeks
Learn how to move to 50 songs both worship and praise.

NOTE: We have different types of styles in playing music. Different people and tribe play keyboard differently using the same chords either in melodic or harmonic.

Movement on piano or keyboard

Hello friends, how was the training? I believe you are catching up? This week training will be majorly based on movement. I will be giving you simple assignment which you are to learn for 4 weeks. An example is giving below.

Learn the following movement
a. 1st chord→4th chord→5th chord→1st chord for a week
Here you have to start with d: m: s, then go to f: l: d, then to s: t: r, and finally to your root chord d: m: s. Take it easy as you learn this movement. Make sure you reduce the tempo to the one convenient for you. Play this movement using different style (according to your tribe and country's style) either in harmonic or melodic.
Now practice the following movement using the format above. Drop comments if you have any question.
b. 1st chord→4th chord→1st chord→5th chord→1st chord for a week
c. 1st chord→5th chord→4th chord→5th chord→1st chord for a week
d. 1st chord→4th chord→2nd chord→5th chord→1st chord for a week
e. 1st chord→4th chord→5th chord→3rd chord→6th chord→2nd chord→5th chord for a week.

CHORD AND ITS FINGERING

Good day friend; how was your day? How has been the exercise? I believe you are catching up? It’s all about believing that you can do it. Join me this week again as we explain chords and his fingering.
Chord is a combination of notes. Examples are d: m: s, d: r: s, d: f: s etc It might be melodic or harmonic. Melodic is playing the notes one after the other while harmonic is playing or striking the notes together.
Triad is a chord that comprises of 3 notes. Primary chords are triads. We have 7 of them.
1st chord d: m: s (Major chord)
2nd chord r: m: s (Minor Chord)
3rd chord m: s: t (Minor Chord)
4th chord f: l: d (Major Chord)
5th chord s: t: r (Major Chord)
6th chord l: d: m (Minor Chord)
7th chord t: r: f (Diminished)

PLAYING CHORDS ON THE KEYBOARD
Your right hand presses the 3 notes (triad) together while left hand only presses the 1st note i.e. to play 1st chord; right hand presses d: m: s while left hand press d.
CHORD RIGHT HAND LEFT HAND
1st d: m: s D
2nd r: f: l R
3rd m: s: t M
4th f: l: d F
5th s: t: r S
6th l: d: m L

FINGERING FOR PLAYING CHORDS
Right hand
Your thumb plays the 1st note of the triad; your 2nd finger plays the 2nd note while your 4th finger plays the 3rd note of the triad.
Left hand
Your 4th finger plays the lower note while your thumb plays the upper note i.e. d: d
ASSIGNMENT 2: (to be done for a week)
1. Learn how to strike the primary chords (triads) with the correct fingers. Don’t forget primary chords are d; m: s, r: f: l, m: s: t, f: l d, etc
Join me next week as we learn some movement of these chords.

Major scale and its fingering

Alphabets “A” to “G” are used to represent white keys on the keyboard. Black keys are represented by sharp (Ħ) or flats (Þ). Sharp will always increase by a note while flat will decrease by a note.
We have 12 minor (m) keys and 12 major (M) keys on the keyboard i.e. C, CĦ, D, DĦ or EÞ, E, F, FĦ, G, GĦ or AÞ, A, BÞ, B.
We will start with major keys; CM is the simplest. Its tonic sol-fa (major scale) is all white key i.e. d, r, m, f, s, l, t, d. When you run a complete tonic sol-fa, an OCTAVE is complete. Most keyboards (Yamaha and Casio) have 5 octaves while keyboards like Korg and Roland may have more than 7 octaves.
FINGERING
Fingering is the correct way of using your finger to plan any giving music piece on the keyboard.
To run the tonic sol-fa or the major scale with your right hand; your thumb presses ’d’, 1st finger ‘r’, 2nd finger ‘m’, your thumb ‘f’, 1st finger ‘s’, 2nd finger ‘l’, 3rd finger ‘t’ and 4th finger ‘d’. Having played the note “m” with your 2nd finger, you will shift your thumb to play the note “f”.
While
To run the major scale with left finger; 4th finger presses ’d’ , 3rd finger ‘r’, 2nd finger ‘m’, 4th finger ‘f’, thumb ‘s’, 2nd finger ‘l’ 1st finger ‘t’ and thumb ‘d’. Having played the note “s” with your thumb, you then shift your 2nd finger to play the note “l”.
Note: keys C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C is represented as d, r, m, f, s, l, t, d with C as the root note.

ASSIGNMENT 1: Learn how to run the major scale for a week.
Join me next week as we combine these notes (tonic sol-fa) to form chords!

INTRODUCTION TO KEYBOARD: PLAYING KEYBOARD IN THE SIMPLEST WAY

The keyboard in a layman definition is a musical instrument used in accompanying songs. It can also be used for entertainment, fun and refreshment. Keyboard however is complex than that. I have just taking the pain to explain how to play the keyboard in a simplest and the easiest way. If you can follow the steps carefully explained in detail in this blog which is normally posted every week, you can be sure that within few weeks you can start to play the keyboard for your church, in a show and for pleasure in your house. You can be sure that keyboard is a musical instrument that you can’t resist. If you must know how to play any musical instrument such as bass guitar, solo guitar, trumpet and saxophone, drum sets etc, you must then start with the keyboard; hence this blog is strongly recommended for you. All you need is to keep visiting this blog every week or better still, subscribe so that you can be receiving the newest posts in your email as I post them each week. I guarantee you that as you do this, you will soon become the next guru in keyboard.
Note that as we go on, you will be introduced to various music languages. See you next week!