Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs

 

Learn to play worship music by ear

Previously we told you a little about our new Play by Ear and Understand Chords DVDs which are now available. Click through to buy from the webstore.

We thought you might like to see a break down of the chapters and lessons – You’ll learn about:

Keys, notes and scales – the basic building blocks of playing by ear

• Finding and understanding keys
• The major scale
• Three types of minor scale
• Improvising

Chords – learning their notes, sounds and construction for ear training

• Major, minor diminished and augmented chords
• Suspended, add9, & power chords
• Extended chords
• Inversions and slash chords
• Other chords that come up in songs

Ear training in worship

• Hearing diatonic and chromatic intervals
• Hearing the sounds of different types of chord
• Hearing chord progressions & bass lines
• Hearing chords outside the key
• Playing songs by Ear

Transcribing worship music

• Working out a song by ear without sheet music
• Songs in both major and minor keys
• Songs with chords outside the key

Transposing worship music

• Putting songs into other keys by ear
• The Nashville numbering system
• Key transposing for orchestral instruments

Arranging worship music

• Chord Substitutions
• Developing chord knowledge for Song writing

Over 8 hours of lessons, tips and backing tracks demos and tests on 4 DVDs – Suitable for guitar, bass, keyboard & orchestral players, even singers!