Kauflin On Keys

The Piano in Contemporary Worship, Part 3 (original posting)

Posted by: Bob Kauflin In: —Music Theory|—Musicians & Vocalists|—WorshipGod Conferences

Last month I posted two sessions from the pre-conference workshop I taught at WorshipGod11 on the Piano in Contemporary Worship (Part 1 and Part 2). We finally finished editing the third session. This one took a little more time to edit because people were regularly walking past the window of the door in the video, which is a bit distracting. My good friend Dave Mackenzie performed his video wizardry and edited the movement out.

In this session I deal with many of the specific questions I’ve been asked over the years. Those include:

• chord coloring
• inversions
• playing hymns
• developing your chord vocabulary
• introductions
• transitions
• playing behind someone speaking
• modulations.

Along the way I also talk about some of the musical influences that have shaped the way I play.

You can download the outline for all three sessions here. Because Part 3 is close to 90 minutes long, and you may not have time to watch this in one sitting, I’ve provided time markers below for the different sections.

00:00:00 Chord coloring
00:00:41 Open 5ths
00:05:12 Add2
00:14:35 Add4
00:18:43 Major 7
00:21:13 Major 9
00:23:06 Inversions
00:28:46 Hymns – Melody driven
00: 33:26 Hymns – Feel-driven
00:48:10 Developing your ear for new chords
00:54:21 Developing a new chord vocabulary, Bob’s musical influences
00:59:20 Introductions
1:03:00 Transitions
1:09:55 Playing behind someone speaking
1:17:10 Modulations
1:19:20 Q&A

If you missed it, I recently posted MP3 downloads and outlines for many of the other seminars at WorshipGod11 here and here.