I'm a jazz musician who has long been in awe of gospel harmony. You guys use the same basic building blocks as us, but achieve a totally different result. This video is simply phenomenal. Corey has managed to teach some very complex and subtle concepts in a clear and logical manner. I feel like I'm finally starting to get a handle on that beautifully warm and sweet gospel sound.
So true I have had a few Jazz musicians play at church and were kind of lost in a few of the chord changes. Even a few blues cats were lost as well. Not only the changes but the feel is different in both. Even Soul and R&b musicians get lost as well. I think Gospel music has elements of all 3 music styles and still there is more including the anointing something that can't be taught nor felt for any of the styles for that matter. I was a funk, soul R&B musician playing bass when I joined the church. I was completely lost. But I did finally learn the changes on bass. Then I started playing keys for r&b soul music and again started playing for churches and again I was lost except I did understand the bass hand. Only now after 15 years, I get it and I still have trouble playing some of the licks but I do know where they go and put them now. We have way more styles now including jazzy gospel soul gospel rock, pop hip-hop, trap neo-soul cinematic, and more...
Hey Marek! Welcome to the channel! I'm so glad to hear we are able to help! I definitely understand where you are. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. And that makes music interesting! Because there is always something more to learn. Be Blessed and Happy Practicing!
I “got baptized” into playing by ear in the exact same way! I was a classically trained teenaged pianist who began playing for a large Pentecostal church & was thrust into playing by ear. The most challenging part, by far, was learning to accompany the song director when he decided to just start singing. I would have to jump in there & start playing in whatever key he was singing in. Those were the days. 😂 Now I’m much older, & love to sit down to play any hymn or worship song I want, in whatever key I want. I simply need some fresh improv ideas. The great thing is that with piano, there’s always something new to learn. 😊
I've been watching, studying, and analyzing this video for months. This is beyond platinum for the music community as a whole. This 1 video can take you from a beginner to an advanced musician once understood, practiced, and applied. I really thank you for giving us way too much to work with!!! 🙌🏾
You are a wonderful teacher, and your content deserves so much more praise than I can give it. I hope your videos will be loved by others as much as they are by me
This is just wonderful, I have been playing bass for many years insipired to start playing by my hero James Jamerson. I was lucky to attend some church services in Michigan when I was in the States and it made such a profound impact. Thank you so much for this, it brings me right back into this rich harmonic world ❤
So many great players/teachers out there but not willing to really help people like myself learn greatness, Thanks for being open not holding back, may God continue to bless your ministry amazing lesson. 🙏🏾🙏🏾
You are a gifted musician in my opinion, your humbleness is a testament of it :). You can't emphasize it enough. You have to know all of the chords and inversions up and down the piano, with both hands. Do the boring but most important things first. This is what mastering your instrument is all about. Oscar Peterson once said that you should look at chords and scales like addresses. The chords are the addresses to the apartment complexes and the inversions are the apartment numbers. The scales and grace notes are the roads that take you there, get from one place to another and so on. Thanks for sharing!
I can't wait to pluck a Heavenly harp. Meantime, just getting a grip on how music works. Came into music very late (aged 50) but loving the learning. Thanks for the joy of music you share.
So much useful information here and I appreciate the way you’ve broken everything down. It makes it easier to understand. Really excellent presentation. Many thanks!
Been playing Gospel for decades but always basic stuff. My brain doesn’t work so good nowadays. I grasp some of this but remembering it will be a challenge, but I can always come back here for reference, so I thank you and honor you for sharing
I'm at either a solid low level 3 or a high level 2 of gospel harmony - my advice is to practice slowly & experiment - you'll discover things that feel like inventions but are actually discoveries of things that already exist Example: (LH - 3/ RH - 1,2,5,7) sounds so good you'll become addicted to the voicing
I'm a bass player looking at youtube to sharpen my gospel vocabulary, honestly i just stop at your video, all i say is that's it, it's also useful for bass player who already know harmony. You just explained 365 days in 1 single day. Wowww
So amazingly helpful! While still incredibly difficult, this all helps to make sense of so much that is going on in Gospel music. I've loved it my whole life but had no idea how to get that sound. I am still baffled how people learned how to do this before the invention of RU-vid tutorials! Maybe people just have a better ear than me.
Gospel musicians are surrounded by the music and culture from an early age, so they almost don't have a choice but to pasty it and understand it. Not so much a better ear, just surrounded by it.
i caar you well and the piano very well. i just started today and it;;s fantastic. I LIVR HERE IN THE PHILLIPPINES WITH MY WIFE. I'M HAPPY BEING ON YOUR SITE TO LEARN THE PIANO.
Thanks So Much for your contribution to better worship Jesus. I pray that God pour more and more wisdom of worship in your music ministry for his Heavenly kingdom. Stay fully bless.
You are so welcome! Listen if you want to know more, I’m currently working with a small group of musicians teaching them the ins and outs of Gospel music. I would love for you to be part. If interested, send me an email at ctaylor@skilledmusician.com
I am a vocal music teacher. I never had the confidence to play keys for church. I played bass. I then moved to guitar. At my school this year, I played keys for a Veterans Day program (lots of 1-5-1-5 in the left hand). I have spoken with my church’s worship leader about doing a second set of keys for non-piano sounds. For the style of music in my church, I will mostly be doing diatonic triads; however, I plan to use this video to learn the Gospel style. I have been learning a little jazz from RU-vid, so I have seen much of what you are teaching as far as the building blocks. The difference is application. Jazz totally reharmonizes; but, Gospel enhances and colors existing harmony.
Thanks so much for this. I love guys like Richard Tee, Billy Preston and George Duke and always knew that part of the reason they got their sound was because of the environment they grew up playing in. With no real access to the gospel scene over here, your videos at least help me scratch the surface of what’s going on! So clear and well presented, will have a look at your website. Thanks again! I’m gonna have this video on repeat for a while
Toronto, Canada I have been playing for 8 months! I really enjoy your channel I know I will be able to grasp more in the upcoming years but I'm glad to see all this great content that you already have! God Bless You brother!!
Beautifull! Bro, dont stop! I want to hear you more more and more!!!! Want play, like you!!!!! Your music, like fill of my Soul!!! I like your musical language!!!
I’ve learned a good portion of music theory in my life and I have to say that as a young dude I always learn a lot from your channel. You explain things very well and it’s clear. I love u know theory but also understand it from an in depth advanced Gospel perspective. Barry Harris is another one I always learn more from as well
I’ve been playing keyboard since about 83” and I’ve been working on different kinds of styles Iknow and understand the number system but find it difficult to find these chords but I’m waiting for my first piano lesson that gives me my aha moment but thank you anyway
This was so useful. I don't know anything about gospel and I don't play the piano but I love to learn more about music! Thank you from The Netherlands!
You definately are skilled, sounds great! Last teacher I had only showed off the music he wrote...refused to teach me 1 thing! I also play guitar n clarinet, have 20 plus instruments
Cool deal! I'm sorry to hear about your last teacher. I definitely would love the opportunity to work with you. Is there anything specific you would like to learn? Maybe I can create a video for you...
@@SkilledMusician Show us why u r using the different voicings in the right hand and the left. Its greek to me and im 1/2 greek but still dont understand. You lost me, brother. thanx f/responding though
The short answer is that it is all one big voicing. So some of the notes of the chord are in my right hand and others are in my left. And together they make the chord I need...
I've never seen the chords classified into tonic, subdominant, and dominant groups with substitutions within those groups. Lots of interesting stuff in this video. Thank-you from Montreal, Canada.
Thx for this awesome work!! God is creative. The music that praises Him should also be creative. Gospel music has been simplified to accommodate musicians with little theory education. My dream is to see music education come back to the church…where it started hundreds of years ago. Churches teaching music theory. That’s my dream!!
Thnx man!. I hope to hear and see more of these videos. You sprinkled some tasty sugar on my keys!. Also using love you love you as a lead sheet, explains a lot of the gospel harmonisation to a white guy! . Beautiful and so touching the heart. That's where it is all about. Hope to see more soon.!
I'm having a hard time understanding half of the content of this video, I think it will take me a full month or two to absorb all the knowledge provided through this awesome video. I have still had a long way to go as I'm a beginner player. Thank you for the video
