Basic Piano Hymn Playing

Master the art of playing beautiful piano hymns with our basic course, perfect for solo performances or church accompaniment.

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Brief Summary

This fun piano course teaches you to play beautiful hymns solo or with a group. It focuses on improvising using broken chords, making your playing sound richer and more lovely. Perfect for those who already know a bit about piano and chords!

Key Points

  • Learn to play piano hymns beautifully
  • Improvisation using broken chords
  • Suitable for solo or group settings
  • Focus on basic chord knowledge
  • Famous hymns demonstrated

Learning Outcomes

  • Ability to play popular hymns like 'Amazing Grace' and 'Silent Night'
  • Understanding the difference between fixed and broken chords
  • Skills to improvise simple accompaniments
  • Improved confidence in solo and group performances
  • Knowledge of basic chord structures and transitions

About This Course

Learn how to play beautiful piano hymns. Suitable for solo playing or accompanying a congregation.

This is a basic course on piano hymn playing.

Learn how to improvise simple piano hymns using broken chords. The playing of broken chords sounds much better than playing 4 part hymn arrangements which are found in many hymnals.

This course is intended for those who already know basic piano playing and how to play basic chords.

The playing of the following piano hymns will be demonstrated:

  • What A Friend We Have In Jesus

  • Amazing Grace

  • Jesus Loves Even Me

  • He Leadeth Me

  • Near The Cross

  • Silent Night

  • There Is A Fountain

  • The Haven Of Rest

  • The Lily Of The Valley

  • Learning On The Everlasting Arms

  • To God Be The Glory

  • Hold The Fort

For many free piano mp3 hymns,visit hymnpod dot com.

  • Identify Chords

  • Playing of fixed vs broken chords

  • Improvising the left hand accompaniment

Instructor

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Christopher Tan

I am a classically trained pianist who loves to play the old hymns. Hope you like my playing and explanations. I attend True Life Bible Presbyterian Church and also the Far Eastern Bible College in Singapore. I work as an IT Manager and enjoy creating media related to e-learning. I hope that you like my courses on Udemy. Thanks.

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ui-avatar of Bo Sanders
Bo S.
5.0
2 years ago

Easy to follow. Very instructive

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David
3.0
4 years ago

I was hoping it was more than just watching someone play - it would ave been more helpful to explain (slowly) more technique and more information on how to identifying chords

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Janice P.
4.0
4 years ago

I enjoyed taking this course. I love hymns and it gave me a different way to play the hymns, which is using chords instead of just playing the notes from the hymn book.

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Brenda C. J.
5.0
4 years ago

Good course. Good chords

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Mary B.
5.0
5 years ago

Great piano technique.

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ui-avatar of Willena Flewelling
Willena F.
5.0
5 years ago

I love the simplicity of your playing. I'm a church pianist, but have very little formal training. I can read notes, so I'm able to learn new hymns on my own, but once I know the melody I play by ear. I play running chords with the left hand, and melody only with the right, simply because I don't have the dexterity to play two- or 3-part harmony with the right hand. I took the course for tips on how to expand on what I'm already doing -- and your is perfect for me. It just takes practice on my part. Thank you so much!!!

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ui-avatar of Victoria Wang
Victoria W.
1.0
5 years ago

The demo of broken chord along with the melody is not clear

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Jan S.
4.0
5 years ago

Yes, this course is spot on!

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Nancy G.
3.5
5 years ago

I agree with one of your reveiwers, it would be good if I could slow this down. He added some right hand notes in that he didn't explain. I think they were non-chord notes. It's hard to keep track where he is. Would love to see it written out, but perhaps that would defeat the purpose. Why add a G minor between the F major and the C7 major

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Victor E.
5.0
6 years ago

Yes; .but I wish I could slow down the video. Any sugesions?

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