If I hear 7-3-6 one more time..Just one more time!!!!

[ltljake]

When you hear 7-3-6 in a gospel song, you have to hit someone you love in the shoulder really hard. Im not responsible for you getting hit back.    When I teach gospel. Its the first movement I teach. How do you all make it more interesting or are you just plain sick and tired of it... Flame on!!!! 

[nessalynn77]

LOL, I just recently found out how prevalent it is in a lot of gospel songs.  I learned it on one song, and then as I was playing other songs, I was like, wow, that goes there, too.  I'm just getting to where it's all starting to make sense.  The little light in my head pops on a lot more often...

[Fenix]

I wish I could find a tutorial or sound clip of this progression with just the most basic chords, not all the fancy jazzy stuff.

What do you want to know? I mean, its a pretty simple progression. THe complexity comes when you decide to add extended notes and alterations.

When I play it on guitar, I play it this way:

C Major:

B dim 7- This is the 7

E7 #9- This is the 3

Am7 or Am9- This is the 6.

[Mysteryman]

I don't get tired of it but I don't play it all the time for the sake of the audience. I can sit and play mindless drills for hours but that's just me. I still feel like I'm progressing because my hands are getting stronger and I'm learning the keyboard pretty well. I could play a 1-4-5 progression for hours in every key when I do practice.

[nessalynn77]

Good practice tip, MM.

[c3hamby]

My music minster and I used to look for places to put this chord progression in. Sometimes they worked sometimes not. It was a great exercise and fun to do, everytime we did it we would start laughing and no one in church knew what it was about.

One song we put it in was Mcalister's 'Give Thanks', which makes that song much more interesting to play. So now, whenever I play a song, I can hear where it should go.

[T-Block]

I don't get tired of it but I don't play it all the time for the sake of the audience. I can sit and play mindless drills for hours but that's just me. I still feel like I'm progressing because my hands are getting stronger and I'm learning the keyboard pretty well. I could play a 1-4-5 progression for hours in every key when I do practice.

That's me right there. Mindless drills are what got me to where I am today. You can call it boring if you want, but it WORKS doggonit!