How to play praise music on piano – part C

Hi folks,

In this post I touch briefly on Part C on praise music from my post. These are techniques you can master by following HearAndPlay’s Gospel Music 300 course.

In Part C you play a 7 3 6 progression, followed by a walk up from 3 to 5 (in half steps) i.e.

For the 7 3 6 progression, you can use any of the chords from our Cool Chords for Gospel Music page.

For example you can use
2 minor chord / 7
3 chord (#9 #5)
6 _min9 chord

In the key of A_♭, that would be:

B♭min / G (F B_♭ D_♭ / G)
C₇ (#9 #5) (E G_# A_# D_# / C)
F_min9 (E_♭ G A_♭ C / F)

Then, for the 3 4 ♭5 5 progression,

one way to play the walk-up is as follows:

A♭maj add9 / C (E_♭ A_♭ B_♭ C / C)

D♭min6 (E A_♭ B_♭ D_♭ / D_♭)

D_dim (F A_♭ B D / D)

A_♭ / E_♭ (A_♭ C E_♭ / E_♭)