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Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… Jonathan Powell from hearandplay.com teaches how to think outside the box, using fat passing chords. These two hand chords voicings are hidden secrets that many musicians don’t share. Enjoy! Visit http for more… Discover: How to make your chord voicings sound full. Most musicians forget about this missing element. How to effortlessly make your left and right hands work together. The Do’s and Don’ts of playing contemporary gospel music in today’s church. Why musicians fail to get to the next level in their playing. I am thrilled that you’re are interested in learning gospel piano playing! In fact, it let’s me know many things about you. First and foremost, I know that you’re serious about improving your piano skills. Secondly, it let’s me know that you acknowledge where gospel music is headed (…or should I say “where it has arrived”). It’s true. All you have to do is pop in the latest record of your favorite gospel artist and you’ll hear the type of contemporary, modern, and “urban” flavor I’m talking about. It’s everywhere. Now, that’s not to say that traditional music is outdated. Never that. You’ll always have churches singing the hand-clapping, foot-stomping praise songs or the worship classics that we’ve all grown accustomed to. They never get old. In fact, we have courses dedicated to teaching each of these styles, step-by-step. What is happening, however, is that churches are incorporating more and more contemporary …

Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… Jonathan Powell from HearandPlay.com shows you how to enhance your playing by using well-known west coast contemporary chords, progressions, licks and tricks. Discover How to make your chord voicings sound full. Most musicians forget about this missing element. How to effortlessly make your left and right hands work together. The Do’s and Don’ts of playing contemporary gospel music in today’s church. Why musicians fail to get to the next level in their playing. And much more… Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… “What You Don’t Know, CAN Hurt You!” The Do’s and Don’ts of contemporary urban gospel playing. It’s all about placement. Play the right chord the wrong way and you’ve just changed the mood of the progression (for the worse). Create TONS of full-sounding chords by using a minimal amount of notes. Many people think that every finger must be occupied to play a “full-sounding” chord. This isn’t always true. You can literally sound like a pro with only 3 notes pressed down on your right hand! The key is the left hand. Master over 77 two-hand chord voicings that can be found and heard in some of the hottest gospel hits in the industry today! Maximize the many ways these chords can be played by inverting them. One hand will remain the same… the other will invert. Once you get this trick, you can add it to virtually any chord pattern you know. Learn the secrets behind one-note pivots and how just a few little changes to …

Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… Jonathan Powell from hearandplay.com reveals many hidden secrets that advanced musicians don’t share. These chords are used in todays top gospel songs! Visit http for more… “Perfect Practice Makes Perfect!” You can: 1) Practice things right. 2) Practice the right things. While both statements are extremely important, I personally prefer the second option over the first. It’s very easy to get sidetracked and focus on the wrong things in your practicing. Make an effort to first practice the right things… then make sure you practice those things right rather than practicing the wrong things right. Sounds tricky. Just read it a few times. It’s actually applicable to many things outside of music as well. Some of you may relate to me on this next point… Have you ever felt stuck in the same ole’ place? Playing the same chords? The same patterns? The same progressions? The same runs you learned in the 90s? I’ve been there too. Trust me. I think every musician has… …Until they decide to make a change. All the information one needs to excel in their playing is out there in one form or another. Either stuck in the heads of a select group of musicians (who don’t want to share it) -or- in courses like the GospelKeysTM Series. Not to get deep or anything but energy is neither created nor destroyed — merely transferred or converted. Brought to musical terms: Basically, all the chords… all the progressions… all the movements …

Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for much more… Jonathan Powell from hearandplay.com takes you step-by-step and by the hand, teaching you hidden secrets that will enhance your playing in seconds! You will explore many fat chords, licks, tricks and more… Visit http for much more… Never Beg For Tips And Tricks Again! Implement a host of simple tricks that are guaranteed to instantly add that well-known west coast flavor to your playing (like Jason White and Mike Burrell) Beef up your playing drastically by adding these small little grace notes, slides, and fill-ins to your chord transitions. Jon utilizes this trick at least 80% of the time and he spills the beans on exactly what to do to “own” it. How to master the art of passing chords so that your chord progressions and songs never sound dull or “predictable.” As you’ll learn in the course, the goal is to be “unpredictable.” That’s when you know you’ve arrived. Learn the ways of the west coast and how to contemporize your playing by using countless numbers of “stu●pid ” chords, movements, and accidentals! (Note: Please don’t be offended. This is real terminology in the gospel musician community). How to play tons of opened and closed chords and how to use them at the right time. “What You Don’t Know, CAN Hurt You!” The Do’s and Don’ts of contemporary urban gospel playing. It’s all about placement. Play the right chord the wrong way and you’ve just changed the mood of the progression (for the worse). Create TONS of …

INSTRUCTION DVD: Urban and Contemporary Worship Play by Ear Volume 2 is an amazing extension to our most popular Urban Worship Play by Ear. Now that you have a foundation established as it relates to the number system, chords, and progressions, it is now time to take your playing to the next level. Now its’s time for you to learn the fundamentals of making your playing sound more full, phat, and flavorul. In Urban and Contemporary Worship Play by Ear Voulume 2 you will learn the secrets behind alternate voicings, substitutions, and advanced progressions, grace notes and most importantly, a ton of passing tones. All of these tools and concepts are the hidden secret tricks that differentiates one musician from another. You ever see a musician seem to play the same chords you play, but for some reason his playing sounds more full? Or have you ever heard a musician back up a singer and he was able to play all kinds of embellishments and chord changes that sound really phat? Well, that is because that musician built a vocabulary of chords in which to pull from. Your problem is not that you cannot play, it’s that you need more chords in your vocabulary. That’s what Volume 2 is all about! This DVD will build your vocabulary of phat chords, progressions, and passing tones in order to help you sound more professional and more phat. As a special treat, we will begin to introduce you to the tritone as well. Once you have the vocabulary, you will be able to pull from a plethora of …

Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… Jonathan Powell from hearandplay.com shows you that sweet chord progressions are easy to play. He takes you step by step on how to turn simple sounding chord progressions into super fat contemporary chord progressions. These chord progressions are essential in playing some of the top gospel songs today! Visit http for more… “Perfect Practice Makes Perfect!” You can: 1) Practice things right. 2) Practice the right things. While both statements are extremely important, I personally prefer the second option over the first. It’s very easy to get sidetracked and focus on the wrong things in your practicing. Make an effort to first practice the right things… then make sure you practice those things right rather than practicing the wrong things right. Sounds tricky. Just read it a few times. It’s actually applicable to many things outside of music as well. Some of you may relate to me on this next point… Have you ever felt stuck in the same ole’ place? Playing the same chords? The same patterns? The same progressions? The same runs you learned in the 90s? I’ve been there too. Trust me. I think every musician has… …Until they decide to make a change. All the information one needs to excel in their playing is out there in one form or another. Either stuck in the heads of a select group of musicians (who don’t want to share it) -or- in courses like the GospelKeysTM Series. Not to get deep or anything but energy is neither created …

Visit www.GospelKeysUrban.com for more… Jonathan Powell from hearandplay.com shows how to subsitute and alter passing chords to give them a fat contemporary sound. Visit http for more… The “Secrets” Are Out! Learn In 5.5 Hours What It Takes Musicians Decades to Pick Up! How to play tons of PHAT (that is, “FULL”) urban chords off every tone of the scale using the award-winning, step-by-step, “GospelKeys” approach to learning! Tons of voicings, left-hand techniques, right-hand triad tricks, “runs,” and more… that you can outright claim as your own! How to incorporate the “padding element” into your playing to help give the melody a much smoother sound! Very important. Discover highly-used (but rarely talked about) “unofficial shortcuts” that allow you to add “good” dissonance and tension to your playing at the right time. Believe it or not, having a certain level of dissonance present is good when you know how and where to incorporate it. Learn how to shift your thinking from the right to the left. Learn full chords on the left and what to do on the right hand to accompany them. This is certainly a closely-guarded secret that’s going to be completely exposed. Never Beg For Tips And Tricks Again! Implement a host of simple tricks that are guaranteed to instantly add that well-known west coast flavor to your playing (like Jason White and Mike Burrell). Beef up your playing drastically by adding these small little grace notes, slides, and fill-ins to your chord …