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Dr. Watts Chords
« on: May 01, 2006, 03:26:45 PM »
I dont' know theory and I dont' know minor scales.  but I need to learn how to play them old Dr. Watts

I  love the Lord He heard my cry

Father I stretch my hand to thee

I hear minor keys but dont' know the changes.

Thansk!
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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2006, 04:01:20 PM »
Any music theory tips  on how to play these?
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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2006, 11:41:26 AM »
These songs in their most basic form can be played in a Major key, the only minors will be when the song lands on one of the minor notes.

Let me explain a little theory.  (We'll use C as an example)

C D E F G A B
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

The progression is as follows:
1Maj 2min 3min 4Maj 5Maj 6min 7dim

You never leave the C scale when playing any of these chords.

CMaj=C E G   Dmin=D F A  Emin=E G B  FMaj=F A C   GMaj=G B D   Amin=A C E  Bdim=B D F

At this time there is no need to go into a minor scale because these songs are played in a Major key, not a minor.  They do at times use minor chords, but the notes used are all the same.
Understand the difference between a minor chord and a minor key.

A minor chord is 1 3b 5.  Take the 3rd note in the major scale and move back 1/2 step (also called flatting it).  So Cmin is C Eb G
For minor key, the scale is 1 2 3b 4 5 6b 7b .  So the Cmin scale is  C D Eb F G Ab Bb.


(You would also need to understand diminished if you are trying to approach a song with theory.  dim = 1 3b 5b so Cdim = C Eb Gb)

These are just the basic rudiments of triad (or three note) chords.  Unless you understood a whole lot more than this, taking a theoretical approach to learning a song is one big headache.  You'll get there in time, but for now concentrate on getting the notes involved and put theory to it later.

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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2006, 11:50:49 AM »
Thanks Smalls85.

This really helped!  Here I am thinking it's in a minor scale.

Ok so can you give me some example of when to play that minor chord.

so
Lead
Father I Stretch my hand to thee  maj

Congregation
Fa -maj   aaaaa    ther is this the minor
Iiiiii  maj   stretchhhhhh

to thee I do the 7 to the 1

thanks
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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2006, 08:48:44 PM »
Here it is in it's "simplest" form.  I'm using the number system so you can play whatever key you wish.  (Majors are capital, minors are lower case)

Fa    - V
ther -  I
I    -  IV
Stretch   - I
My
Hand   -   IV
To   -   V
Thee   -  I

No   -  V
Oo   -  I
ther help -  vi
I Know   -  V

If thou -   I
With  -   vii
Draw  -   vi
Thyself -  IV
From
Me  -  V

Whe  -  I
ther shall  -   IV
I   -  V
Go   -  I

You can use a lot of Walks (meaning play the notes in between where you are going) in a song like this since there is so much time.
Also try some arpeggios to fill the song up.

You probably hear people play this using a Blues kinda feel.  For that you would need to first learn it the basic way, then learn to play the blues scale, then learn some of the tricks they use.  

Blues scale is: 1 3b 4 4# 5 7b
Just play around with it and see what happens. Most people play it backwards to get back to their I chord.

Hope this helps

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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2006, 09:11:21 AM »
Oh Yea!

Smalls you are awesome.    I was doign it all wrong  :-)

Thanks for taking the time to educate me on this. 
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Re: Dr. Watts Chords
« Reply #6 on: May 23, 2006, 04:15:05 PM »
The therory was excellent.  Thanks for taking the time to educate a lot of us!
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