GospelKeys Organ 350 and 450 Video Training Package (Digital Version)
Praise, Worship, Shouting Music
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GospelKeys Organ 350 2-hour DVD is specifically designed for any church musician who's ready to take their organ playing to the next level by playing those toe-tapping, foot-stomping praise songs!
Similar to the five parts taught in GospelKeys 300 (but on the organ, which is a totally different "beast"), we show you a system that'll enable you to play tons of praise songs by ear. We're talking about praise and devotional songs like "Bless that Wonderful Name of Jesus," "This Little Light of Mine," "Have You Tried Jesus," "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah," and dozens more! If you want to know what it takes to get down on the organ, then this course is for you!
GospelKeys 450 "Advanced Worship Chords & Voicings" 2-hour course is for anyone ready to explore tons of two-hand, fancy worship chords on the organ!
Step-by-step, you'll explore: Extended chord voicings, polychords, inversions, two-hand combinations, worship movements, contemporary chords for every tone of the scale, passing tones, transitional chords, "couples," real-life examples, modernized hymns, and more!
By the end of this course, you'll have a fresh perspective on playing worship organ by ear forever… and you'll be playing real songs!
Together, these courses will equip you with the knowledge and strategies necessary to hold down a full praise and worship service!
GospelKeys Organ 350
- How to play uptempo praise songs using my award-winning 5-step process and tons of bass lines, right-hand chordal movements, "runs," "licks," and more!
- How to incorporate the "third element" into your playing to produce the sound of a full band, especially if you're the only musician!
- Discover the secrets to playing hundreds of "call-and-response" hand-clapping praise songs in all 12 keys just by knowing a few well-known organ patterns!
- Learn how to play common progressions and turnarounds like the "1-4," "7-3-6," "6-2-5-1," and how to apply them to your favorite congregational songs like "Bless that Wonderful Name of Jesus," "God is a Good God," and more!
- An "over-the-shoulder" and "behind-the-foot" look at how to combine the power of the foot pedal, left hand, and right hand and what it takes to play all three of these components in sync.
- Over 40 bass runs, chords, progressions, and fill-ins to apply to your organ playing right away! After learning these things in all 12 keys, you'll instantly have over 480 chords to add to your gospel playing toolbox.
- Discover the simple secrets to effectively using the drawbars, percussions, and settings to obtain the contemporary sound that you desire.
- Learn the proper techniques to playing the bass pedals cleanly and smoothly. If you're not familiar with the "toe-heel" technique to double the speed of your bass-walking, then you're missing out!
- How to get away with playing advanced "phat" chords (...that are normally used for worship) during high tempo praise songs. The combination of these contemporary chords during a fast praise song is explosive!
- Learn the way of the west coast and how to contemporize your praise & devotional songs using "west coast" chords, movements, and runs!
- The secrets behind one-note pivots and how just a few little changes to the way you play chords can totally transform your sound on the organ. Remember: The way you approach the organ is not the same as the piano.
- Several left-hand/right-hand combinations that can be used interchangeably to create dozens of chordal variations. For example, you can use the left-hand chord from set #1 with the right-hand chord or fill-in from set #3. You'll learn a variety of sets and various things to do on both hands.
- How to master 8-note bass lines (traditional) and even modern 16-note connecting bass runs (...this has never been taught before)! This is one of those things you pull out of your bag of tricks after you've repeated a praise song several times.
- Learn how to power up your left hand by forming a variation of the chord you're right hand is playing. This strategy alone will make your praise songs differ from the next musician tremendously.
- Discover 3 ways to syncopate the rhythms of your praise songs and how to provide multiplicity to the way you play them! Playing by ear means having options so you never have to play anything the same way twice!
- How to borrow chords from your praise song to accompany (...back up) a preacher during high points in the sermon! Believe it or not... preacher accompaniment follows the same exact patterns as praise songs (just slowed down).
- Chromatic "chord-sliding" techniques that can be integrated with any praise song ending to provide variety during long repetitive vamps.
- The use of tritones and how they are the heart & soul of organ praise song mastery! I've never met a professional organist who could play a full song without utilizing tritones --- they're that important and you'll get several examples of how to use them.
- Slow motion break-downs of advanced fill-ins and right-hand chordal movements so that you never miss a single beat!
- How to include 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, and several altered chords to spice up the sound of your praise songs!
- How to apply the same 5-part praise song process taught in GospelKeys 300 to the organ. This concept, alone, has allowed musicians to play hundreds of praise songs on the piano. Now you'll have what it takes to play these "A-B" and "A-B-C-D" songs on the organ!
GospelKeys Organ 450
- Discover the secrets to playing worship music by learning chords and voicings for every tone of the diatonic scale. Once mastered, you'll be able to seamlessly connect multiple advanced worship chords together to play full-sounding songs.
- How to play monster chords and how to voice and invert them in non-conventional ways!
- Explore major, minor, dominant, diminished, sevenths, ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, and altered voicings from every scale degree, even tones that are not a part of the scale (transitional chords).
- How to pick the best inversion of a chord based on your melody and how to use your left hand and bass pedal to support what your right hand is playing.
- The power of polychords: How two separate smaller chords can creatively come together to form larger "fancy" chords.
- Tons of "opening" and "closing" chords to pull out of your treasure chest at the right time! With your increased chordal vocabulary, you'll never begin and end a song on the organ the same way twice because you'll have dozens of options to choose from.
- Learn the same exact chord patterns that are used in some of the most popular worship songs today! Songs like "Lord You Are Awesome," "I Need You," "Like the Dew," "Lord I Lift Your Name On High," and more!
- Fancy dual-note movements to add to your 1-chords! These are the same movements you hear the pros using on some of the most popular gospel albums out there!
- Beginner's beware: This certainly isn't a course for someone who is struggling through our basic dvds because we introduce tons of advanced chords that'll have you sounding just like the professionals (...the 'practicing' part is up to you)!!!
- How to provide instant "phatness" to common chords by using basic triads on the right hand. What most musicians don't understand is that "triads" (3-fingered chords) aren't basic unless you use them by themselves! But if you know the secrets to embellishing your chords, you'll never sound dull again!
- How to acquire the "west coast" worship feel by using lead-in tones, grace notes, transitional chords, and modified open & closed voicings on the organ!
- Learn to use quartal chords in key areas to enhance the sound of your voicings!
- The key to building up your left hand independence! Hint: One major hindrance to getting to the next level is the underdevelopment of the left hand! Once you can successfully mimic exactly what your right hand is doing (...but all on your left hand), you've arrived!
- How to mix "churchy" dominant chords into your worship chord progressions to instantly change up the mood!
- How to apply my famous "couples" principle to the organ, using dozens of chords from all seven unique tones of the major scale.
- Enjoy studying over 50 worship chords (which translates into hundreds of voicings and inversions) , and how to apply them in real-life situations!
- Put it all together by spicing up old favorites like "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," "Jesus Loves Me," "As the Deer," and more!
- An up-close look at how to approach chord progressions differently and how to think creatively when it comes to combining different chords from various scale tones. Songs are built on recurring patterns within the scale tones --- so if you can master this concept, you can learn any worship song out there!
- Learn how to apply my "3-4" principle to the organ and how to predict what chords will come next by using my simple mathematical model to count up and down the scale.
- And much more!