You might call it a hymn, or a song. For me, it’s a song. The music was not originally written for the organ, but for guitar and drum, and keyboard / piano, most likely in that sequence of primacy of musical instruments. That does not mean it should be played on such musical instruments; the point is that this song is one of many ‘songs’ that have become ‘standard repertoire’ across many churches (ie, across denominations, languages, regions, countries) that when it was needed to be used, it probably matter less what instruments were used. There is a different line […]
Piano accompaniment ideas
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One idea to provide some variations to piano accompaniment in supporting singing voices is on the bass line. The following is an example, being the end of song, or a section of the song, closing with a dominant 7th to tonic. The chords are in first (root) position. The melody flows largely in 1-step motion, except in 2nd bar a 2-step motion from A to C#. The bass line for the second bar, D to A is ok too, but there’s a slight hint of all harmony moving in the same direction which I would keep an eye on – […]