Playing for Church
ARTICLES
Many times, church pianists feel extremely comfortable playing songs in 4/4 time, but they aren’t completely sure about the best way of playing songs in 6/8, 9/8, or 12/8. In order to deal effectively with these kinds of songs, you first have to clearly understand the way these time signatures work...[read more]
Improvising pianists have long used runs (sometimes called fill-ins or diminutions) to embellish the distance between notes...[read more]
The term seven-note chord does not mean a chord with seven different notes. (For example, the G major triad contains three separate notes, G, B and D. The G7 chord contains four separate notes, G, B, D, and F.) Here, we are not speaking, then, of a chord with seven distinctly different notes. Instead, we are referring to a chord that is played with both hands...[read more]
If you mastered the information and techniques covered in the first volume of Hymn Playing, you learned (a) how to tell the difference between hymns and gospel songs, and (b) how to play in the basic hymn style...[read more]
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