Preacher chords in E nat and F nat

[joshuag]

I'm glad to hear that both of you are benefiting from these lessons! Well, here we go with the second part of this lesson!

Another TIP with using seven chords the way we're using them is they are also a form of diminished chords!

A diminished chord is formed by flatting the 3 and the 5 in a major chord: like this...

E Major chord:  E-Ab-B

E Diminished chord: E-G-Bb

Now here's the E Diminished Scale:

(1)E  (2)F#  (3)G  (4)A  (5)Bb  (6)C  (7)C#  (8)D#

Now for our right hand we're gonna play Dim7 chords. So, it looks like this

E-G-Bb-C#
1-3-5-7

But we're gonna play the third inversion which is also called Bbdim7...Which looks like this

Bb-C#-E-G
5-7-1-3

TIP  One thing you should know about Diminished chords is that they are perfect chords. Meaning, there are only three versions of it! So, if you were to walk down half-steps with the dim chord you'll see at the third step you back at the same chord that you started on, just inverted! And that's what we are gonna do for the right hand in this lesson!
 
It looks like this using the 6-2-5-1 progression again:

FOOT/LEFT HAND/RIGHT HAND

(6) C#/F-B/B-D-F-Ab

(2) F#/E-Bb/Bb-Db-E-G

(5) B/Eb-A/A-C-Eb-Gb

(1) E/D-Ab/Ab-B-D-E

Again, learn this in every key! Like I said before, the best way to learn progressions in every key is to learn your scales in every key!  These are just basic progressions for backing up a preacher! They're are also the building blocks. So, practice these and when you've mastered these we'll move on to some more advanced chords and progressions!

thank you t-jazz this is one of the easiest to follow, i have been looking for someone to show me how to use my left and right hand on the organ... Please keep your lessons coming

[Mintdakid]

So in what [rogression would you normally play this nice tritone?

Sorry   I meant 2nd inversion (Ab,C#F)

I Play that as my 1 .......   so from there i would go to Bb(4) then B (diminished) C (RH E, Bb   LH  Ab 2nd Inversion) and then back to that 1 

Im' not at my board but I think those are right

[CESharp]

T-Jazz thanks for responding.  I'm going to take this info home with me and study it to see if I understand how ya'll come up with what choices to make when playing chords in both hands