Chords for FRIEND OF GOD - Israel Houghton & New Breed (easy piano tutorial lesson)

_ _ Hi, this is TJ with Piano Clubhouse in Tannin.
Today I'm going to show you how to play
Friend of God by Israel Hogan.
Real easy song to play.
_ Fun, fun song to play as well.
It's in the key of E natural.
E has four accidentals.
Starts on E, F [G#] sharp and G sharp.
[A] _ A, B, [C#] C sharp [D#] and D sharp are your [E] other accidentals. _ _ _ _
Okay.
_ Song really only has maybe four chords in it.
[N] _ Let me show you those chords up front.
Jot them down, write them down on a piece of paper,
memorize them. _ _
After I show them to you,
I'll probably just reference the chords
just by their name from here on out.
That way I can kind of teach the song faster.
[E] Okay.
So first we have our E major one chord,
which is E, G sharp and B.
If I say one chord, I'm always going to say,
I'm always going to be referring to this chord right here.
And I like to add, and it's optional,
if you don't have to, if you don't want to,
but I like to add to my E major chord
the second note of the scale, [F#] which is F sharp.
[E] _ So when I say one [F#] chord,
this is the chord I'm referring to, okay.
[E] _ _ Next is going to be my [A] four chord,
which is an [C#m] A major chord.
_ [E]
E, [A] A and C sharp.
It's [E] inverted two times,
but I'm also going to [G#] add the seventh [G#m] note of the scale,
which is the [C#m] seventh note of the A major scale,
which is G sharp.
This makes, that makes this chord an A major seven.
Okay.
B, G [A] sharp, A and C sharp.
[C#m] _ _ _ _
[B] Next, I call this my two, five, one chord
[F#] only because it's the second note of the scale,
[B] the fifth note of the scale
[E] and the first note of the scale in [B] that order.
Two, five, one.
Technically it's a, you [E] can either call it a E sus two,
where it's the second note suspended, [B] E, F sharp, B,
or you can call it a B sus chord, B sus four.
_ Okay, but I call it my two, five, one
just the way I have it spread out. Okay.
_ _ So [A] let's start from the beginning of the song.
I think that's most of the chords. _
Anything else I'll go and spell out for you,
but for the most part, if you learn those,
you'll have the gist of the song.
Starting at the song, [E] it starts right on the chorus. _
_ [F#] One chord in the right hand, left hand is on E [B] and B.
Primary bass note [E] is E.
You can play this fifth if you want to.
I am a friend of God.
_ A pickup [G#] note here, G sharp, and then,
_ I am a friend [C#] of God, left hand goes down to C sharp.
The right hand, we're just [E] making one modification
to this E major chord.
We're just gonna drop this E [D#] down to D sharp.
Okay.
[B] _ _ So it starts out, [E] I am a friend of God.
_ [G#] Pickup note, [B] I am a friend [C#] of God.
_ _ [C#m] I am a friend of [F#] God.
Next, left hand goes to F sharp,
[C#m] right hand goes to that four chord, the A major seven.
I am a friend of God.
He calls me [E] friend.
Back to the one, okay?
[B] _
Again, [E] _ _ of God. _ _
[B] _ A friend of [C#] God.
You can add this fifth here to the C sharp.
[G#] You can add this G [G#m] sharp.
_ _ _ [C#m] _
Friend of God.
I added [C#] this fifth here as well to my left hand.
F sharp, I added [C#m] the C sharp.
_ Friend of God.
He calls [E] me friend. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Take this little lick you can do.
B, E, B.
We're just going to octave with this E in between.
_ B, E, A.
I'm sorry, B, E, B.
G sharp, F sharp, E.
Okay.
So verse _ starts out the same. _ _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ [C#m] _
[E] Okay.
_ _ So again, one chord over E.
_ _ One chord over G.
[G#m] G sharp.
_ _ _ _ Four [F#m] chord over F sharp.
[A] Now for the second time, it goes, it's [D] amazing.
We're going to shift down to a D major chord.
D, F sharp, A.
And if you remember,
I like to [E] add my second notes of the scale.
So D, [E] E, F sharp, and A.
Left hand goes down [A] to D and [D] A. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Goes back to the chorus.
I am a friend.
[E] _ Friend of God.
_ _ [G#m] _
_ [C#] Friend of God.
_ [F#m] Friend _ [C#m] of God.
He calls [E] me. _
_ _ _ Friend _ _ _ _ of God.
_ [B] I am a friend [G#] of God.
_ _ [F#m] I am [C#m] a friend of God.
He [E] calls me friend. _ _ _
_ [B] _ And now when they transition to go back
to the verse a second time,
they do a weird little chord here.
_ [F#] _
_ _ _ [E] Left hand stays on E.
Right hand _ goes up [F#] to _ _ F sharp major chord.
F sharp, A sharp, C sharp, F sharp. _ _
_ _ _ [B] And then back to the chorus.
So let's go to the.
I am a friend of God. _ _
_ Friend [C#] of God.
_ _ [F#m]
I am a friend of God.
He calls me [E] friend. _
_ Turn around. Turn around.
_ _ _ [A#] _ _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
Back to the verse.
_ _ _ Now, here's a couple of fun things that you can do
to kind of spice this up a little bit.
A lot to do with the left hand,
the left hand, the rhythm that the left hand is doing, okay?
_ _ _ I think when they go through the verse a second time,
left hand starts doing it. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay.
_ So what we're doing here is we're doing the fifth.
[B] B, E, [E] I'm sorry, E, B, and then we go to the octave.
_ _ And then we come back to the fifth.
And then the thumb is gonna walk up the scale two notes.
_ _ E, [F#] F sharp, [G#] G sharp.
[E] Go to the octave first, octave from this note. _
_ _ Octave, [F#] F sharp, [G#] G sharp, okay?
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#m] _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [D#] _ [F#m] _ [C#] Same thing.
So what we've got here, _ C [G#] sharp, play [G#m] that fifth,
G [C#] sharp, [G#] C sharp, G [D#] sharp, D [E] sharp.
_ [G#] _
_ [E] _ _ [G#] _ We [F#m] go to F sharp, same concept.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _