Hello all! This is my first post. 
My preacher likes to key up in E and that seems to be a difficult key for me to play preacher chords in. I don't play a lot on the organ yet, so I don't have much practice in, but when we go out of town and the main organist cannot go, I am the one that plays. Anywho, my pastor keys up in E, goes to F and then to F#. The main organist is a major transposer so when the pastor keys up in E the organist puts him in Eb and if when he goes up to F or F# the organist can play in those keys so he follows him. Most of the time the organist does not feel like following the preacher so he will keep playing in Eb no matter how many times the pastor may modulate.
Can I get some help!
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Okay, Be Blessed.
Here's a lil trick that most organists already know! However you still need to know a lil' bit about progressions and chord structures to do this.
Here is a quick crash course on
"SEVENTH PLAYED WITH YOUR LEFT HAND WITH 6-2-5-1 PROGRESSIONS"SEVEN CHORDSFirst the E major scale: E,F#,G#,A,B,C#,D#,E
aka: 1,2, 3, 4,5, 6, 7, 8
(numbering the notes in the scale is important for learning progressions which we will do in this lesson)
Now there's an E major 7 and an E7.
An E major 7 looks like this
E-G#-B-D#
Now a an E7 chord looks like this
E-G#-B-D (D is the seven) The 7 is flat
"WE ARE GOING TO USE THE E7 CHORD"
Now to use this in organ form for your left hand here's the chord again:
E-G#-B-D
1-3-5-7
Take the 3 and the 7 and play them as a chord with your left hand and use the 1 on your foot pedal. So, you'll have something like this:
FOOT/LEFT HANDE/G#-D
IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!{Note} *You will need to practice this in every key before you can continue on to the progressions part of this lesson*
NOW FOR PROGRESSIONSWe're gonna do 6-2-5-1 progression for this lesson
here's the E major scale once more:
(1)E (2)F# (3)G# (4)A (5)B (6)C# (7)D# (8)E
Of course we are starting on the 6. As you can see the 6 is C# , so it would look like this
FOOT/LEFT HAND(6) C#/F-B
(2) F#/E-Bb
(5) B/Eb-A
(1) E/D-Ab
As you can see your left and is just moving down half-steps while your foot is moving through the progressions.
Learn to do this in every key. I've already given you the tools to do so. The best way to learn progressions in every key
is to learn your scales in every key. We'll incorporate the right hand in the next lesson, but right now you got some practicing to do!
LET ME KNOW IF THIS HELPS
BLESS GOD
