 Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watching, or silent flocks by night Behold, throughout the heavens they shone Oh, go tell it over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born Hi guys, this is Jason Zach from Nathaniel School of Music In this lesson, I'm going to teach you how you can accompany yourself on the piano Basically that means singing and playing together at the same time Or maybe you can accompany or play along for someone else Another singer, friend, family, whoever or even a choir or even a band, why not? So let's learn 5 plus 1 bonus accompaniment technique in this lesson And we'll take the popular spiritual Christmas carol, go tell it on the mountain We are going to play the song on G major, a scale I like to play on So let's look at the scale So let's break down the chords first and to break down the chords We are just going to play it as blocks with inversions So blocks with inversions will allow us to move forward with all the other patterns And even playing blocks with inversions And not knowing any of the other 5 patterns I'm going to tell you Will pretty much be nice enough if you're a newcomer to the instrument If you're a beginner or if you haven't accompanied or played chords too often So before we get started, it'll be awesome if you could hit that subscribe button And turn on the bell icon for regular notifications And do consider getting yourself the notation as a downloadable PDF Including MIDI files of each accompaniment pattern in this particular lesson Let's get cracking So first off the chords, I'm going to play you the chords and sing the song So you can shift along pretty well And each of the chords will either last for 4 counts, which is an entire bar There, that first chord, the G, it lasts for an entire bar Okay, so there the chords are a bit different So I'm going to show you First of all, it's nice to maybe recap the chords of the G major scale That's G major, G, B, D A minor, A, C, E B minor, B, D, F sharp C major, C, E, G D major, D, F sharp, A E minor, E, G, B F sharp, diminished F sharp, A, C Back to your tonic So first chord in go tell it on the mountain For the whole line, whole bar is G major And I'm playing it like this B, D, G What we call as the first inversion of G major So go And how am I going to play it 4 hits here if the chord lasts for 4 2 hits here if the chord lasts for 2 And 1 hit if it lasts for 1 And the left hand will play the root of the chord Or the base note Or the true root of the chord if you will Unless it's a slash chord Which I'm going to also walk you through So first off we have G major In first position or first inversion So we go Go tell it on the mountain Okay so that's basically 2 bars of G Go tell it on the mountain 1, 2, 3, 4 2 rounds of G Go tell it on the mountain Let's sing that together Go tell it on the mountain And the left hand I'm just supporting With the root of the chord And if you can Octave as well would be nice Be nice and thick Go tell it on the mountain Now over the hills and everywhere Over the hills So that's D major in its second inversion A, D, F sharp Over the hills And every Come back to G But everywhere Wave You could do That's C major And then G major again but with a B bass So it serves as a passing chord It adds some tension to the music So go tell it on the mountain G Now Over the hills D And every G C, G over B C, G over B That's C bass B bass Let's do that again Go G major Tell it on the mountain G major Over the hills And G Every C, B, G Oh tell it on the G And that G Now the next part that Jesus Christ is born Go It's still Wherever you have Go tell it on the mountain We are in luck Just one chord Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born Now you can do this in a couple of ways Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born You can do This is the more Spiritual way of getting it That the traditional way That G That G Or where almost Every note in the melody is harmonized with some chord So That Jesus Christ is born So that will be C, G, D, G So That Jesus Christ is born So I am just going to walk you through By a strategy Which I think you will find useful I will sing the bass notes So That will allow you to get the chord changes better I hope And play along with me if possible I will do it a bit slowly So Go tell it on the mountain That's G Over the D And G C, B, G Tell it on the G That Jesus D, G So That Jesus Christ is born So C, G, D, G Okay Might as well Let's finish off the next section as well While shepherds kept their watching That's G O silent flocks by night So that's pretty much G for the whole bar Another bar O silent flocks That's D7 for a bar Four counts Silent flocks by night Four times So While shepherds kept their watching O silent flocks by night Now Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light What's that? That's an A7 The beautiful secondary dominant chord Which just creeps in from nowhere There shone a holy light That's A7 A7 The light D O Go back to Tell it on So I guess the first and the third lines Of both the A and the B sections Are pretty much just the G major chord So it's quite an easy song Okay let's do the whole thing again with singing And then I'm going to begin with the patterns Go tell it on the mountain D Over the hills and G Everywhere go G Tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born You can do D to G or That G G D is born Next part While shepherds kept their watching O silent flocks by night Behold throughout the heavens There shone a holy light O Go That's pretty much the song and the chords And we don't need to learn the melody on the piano We have to sing it in this particular tutorial There are a lot of tutorials in our Christmas playlist And on our channel where I cover a lot of popular songs Where you're actually going to play the melody In the right hand and accompany with the Left hand So now let's get to the patterns The first pattern is And I'm doing this video Primarily so that you can use this Lecture or this tutorial To not only play Go tell it on the mountain But hundreds of songs Whatever you want to play Hopefully one of these five patterns Will work for you As a singer piano player Or as a piano accompanist For a choir or a band Okay pattern number one is what I call Is the ballad feel And the ballad feel basically Just takes off from the pulse Which we did just now So you play Pretty much the same thing in your right hand With the same inversions In the left hand I'm just going to break up the pattern Slightly Like this Go tell it on the mountain Go tell it on the mountain Go tell it on the mountain Go tell it on the mountain Now you can play the right hand Either now that you're bringing in the ballad feel You're playing You can continue the crotchets Go tell it on the mountain But for the left hand to get active It shouldn't clash with the right hand So you could slow down the right hand And play Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go, three, four, one So the right hand can slow down And the left hand goes If you want or if you can You can break up the root and the octave Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Let's just do that one line So Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born And whenever the chords change pretty fast You don't have to do this offbeat ballad Extra thumb technique So Three, four, one, two Three, four, when it's slow enough Or when the chords are long enough So let's just do Go tell it on the mountain Just that one line Tell it on the mountain While shepherds kept their watching Behold throughout the heavens Those lines the G will work Go tell it on the Once you get this going And over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born That's the ballad pattern Now this will work for a lot of songs If you want it to swing You can now do You can do a kind of a broken chord In the right hand there Go tell it on the mountain Or if you're finding this a bit tricky Just play the right hand chords Back to crotchets And let's get the eighth note With the thumb And you don't have to add All the eighth notes You don't have to go one and two And three and four and one That's a bit too studious So Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born Okay So the ballad is just a kind of an extension Of what I told you earlier Where you just play blocks of the chords In the pulse Or slow it down Go ta-na-na-na If you want And bring in that Eighth note flavor in the left hand Or the quarter flavor If you're playing minims in the right hand You play quarter with your thumb Play crotchets with your thumb At the One, two, three, four Or you can swing the right hand By playing this nice broken pattern So you're taking the same chord And just breaking it Outside Inside More groovy Okay So that's what I'm calling as ballad chords So you'll find the notation to practice Maybe for later after you've kind of got acquainted With the chord changes And the melody and singing and so on So the next style which I think will work For pretty much any tune would be arpeggios And I have a pattern which I think will work Very well for this song and a lot more So it goes I'm just gonna show you on G major And this is literally stolen from the banjo This is pretty much what the banjo would do With three fingers I'm doing it with four So you take the G major chord But you go You do G major with the high G there So it's L, M, H, M Low note, middle note, high note, low Low note but played up the octave So the pattern is L, M, H, M, L, M, H, M, L, M, H, M L meaning the higher L sometimes It goes to the octave the second time So This is the pattern With the bass We can get a nice country thing going in the left hand Which is just like a double bass So Let's just do two chords G D and D and G Let's put it with the track On the mountain Over the hills and every... Because the chord changes are fast there I'm just doing... I don't have time to play the whole arpeggio So Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and every... Back That Jesus Christ is born again Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born And shepherds kept their watching Or siled flocks by night Same pattern Throughout the heavens There's shona, holy light So watch out for that A7 there There's shona, holy light There's shona, holy... Back Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born So that's about arpeggios Which could work for a lot of situations So in pattern number three We're going to play it in a very bluesy way Blues or rock and roll So if you want to spice things up And play one of the most influential genres of all time Let's get that done now So G major I'm going to simplify the chords We'll just do the 1 and the 5 for the most part Along with the 4 sometimes So the right hand is going to comp the chords And the left hand is going to play this line So every time you play G major You're playing this line in the bass 1, 5, 1, 6 1, 5, 1, 6 In swing And the right hand can just pretty much hold the chords Alongside this Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere You don't have to do that That's quick change, don't want So go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born So that's the pattern Okay, another nice style Alongside the blues would be A bass line G, B, D So intervallically 1, 3, 5, 6, 5 Okay, now let's make the right hand also bluesy The left hand is bluesy with two styles This one If you're finding it difficult to play this in double With quavers you can always simplify it by doing Crotchets Quaver Up and now the bass line Let's just A, B, all of these with the melody Just line 1 Go tell it on the mountain Versus go tell it on the mountain Versus go tell it on the mountain Okay, this is the pattern And as it changes the chords It's gonna flow Okay, do check out our notes It's written down with each and every movement So go tell it on the mountain Now what we're gonna do in the right hand Well you could hold the chords that would still be bluesy But let's do a bluesy thing there In the left hand and a bluesy thing in the right hand Let's do both and see how it works So the right hand pattern would be 1 and 2 So we call this rhythm as the Charleston rhythm Music, Charleston is a blues musician Who really popularized this groove So it's nothing but 1 and 2 and 1 and 2 and Now you can do the Charleston in two ways You can do long shot Long shot 1 and 2 and remember you're hitting it At the end of the tour right 1 and 2 and go down the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go Or you can do the Charleston this way Staccato, legato Over the hills and every Okay, so now let's bring that phrase In the right hand, the Charleston phrase With the blues bass pattern Tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Oh yeah, blow Tell it on the mountain Where Jesus Christ is born Okay, you can also vary the Charleston Slightly by maybe By just displacing it So the gap between beat 1 And 2.5, 1 and 2 and is 1 to 2.5 So that's 1 and a half beats That's a dotted crotchet Why not start at beat 1.5 Which is the end of beat 1 And then land at beat 3 That will still be a dotted crotchet And it will make the Charleston rhythm A lot more jumpy or a lot more groovy Let's see the two Charleston rhythms 1, this is the traditional 1 Over the hills and everywhere Now 1 and Oh tell it on the mountain Over the tools and everywhere Oh tell it on the mountain That's a displaced Charleston Tell it on the mountain Oh oh And by the way, the Charleston rhythm Will also work with the bass pattern Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus cries in bone So almost like a horn section in the right hand And a bass guitar Or a walking bass system in the left hand So it's a very powerful pattern If you can nail it on the piano And don't be upset if you can't sing along to this It's an accompaniment style So if you are the singer and the player Well and good, if you don't like singing Or if you want to outsource that job to someone else I'm sure you will have a friend or a family member Who can deliver the goods So jam with people It's always good as an accompanist To work with other musicians Because their timing and their choice of scale There are a lot of other logistics Which a singer or a group of singers might have So it's always encouraged to work with them And I've done quite a few accompaniment videos So do check some of them out At least after this video is over We'll link some in the description So we've done three patterns now We've done the ballad style We've done the arpeggio style Now the blues Let's move forward to something more modern More dance friendly I'm calling it the thresio pattern Or the dance pattern So for the dance pattern to happen You have three hit points One e and a two e and a three e and a four e And so one e and a We first of all have a dancey music We tend to want to divide the beat into four units So one e and a two e and a three e and a four e And similar to a lot of dance songs out there It's about all I can play Before someone takes down the video But anyway So the dance pattern will be One e and a two e and a three e and a four e And one e and a two e and a three e You know what I'm talking about right Almost every song today Seems to have this pattern So why can't the old spiritual Go tell it on the mountain Also be given that opportunity to dance So very 2023 Go tell it on the mountain So you may want to sing it a bit faster Change the tempo a bit Or keep the old tempo No tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere What I like about this pattern is It'll teach you some good comping Comping or syncopation between the two hands The left hand and the right hand We are trying to now Have a conversation with each other Unlike the earlier patterns that I've taught you So the left hand now goes The pattern now goes L, R, R, L, R Left, right, right, one e You're distributing the work Between the two hands Left hand can be more legato And the right hand can be staccato So you can even count it by singing And to get this thresio very well It's good to go one e and a two e and a three And a four e and a one e and a two e and a three So go tell it on the mountain Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watchin' And if you want to make it even more salsa Like really some intense dancing You can go one five in the left hand And adapt according Over the hills and everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born You may not have the bandwidth to Play all those fancy passing chords Which I taught you in ballads and arpeggios But nevertheless it's more than enough Check this out, so let's revise it Let's do it slowly I'm calling this the dance pattern Or the thresio pattern Because the pattern is officially called Thresio in salsa music Go tell it on the thump One two three four So the pulse is now in the left hand Earlier the pulse was in the right hand We've brought it now to the left hand In this variation Go tell it on the mountain One e and a two e and a three And a e go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born You're probably changing the vibe Of the song a lot Well, I hope there are people Who like this vibe Maybe you can slow it down Go tell it on the mountain Now it's a bit more traditional But still has that modern salsa effect That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watchin' All the silent flocks by night May hold out the heavens They shone a holy night Oh go tell it on the mountain What's the idea? To get this dance pattern It's always nice to have a drummer Flowing through you somehow So maybe a drum groove like If that can kind of stick some dance groove Or you could practice along with a backing track If that might help you further So we can't conclude this lesson Without a genre which is probably My favorite reggae So reggae it's very simple You need to slow it down Continue to swing it But here's how it goes Very easy it's just left right Left right left right Left right it's just You're marching between the two hands Left right left right left right And when you play the bass Do a toggle between the root Fifth root Fifth go Tell it on the mountain And to get a nice reggae feel You can make the fifth staccato And the root legato Go Everywhere go Tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born While shepherds kept their watchin Oh silent flocks by night Behold throughout the heavens They shone a holy light Oh go tell it on the mountain There we go Slow that down and if you can't Get that ghost note as we call it Sometimes in music You can just go left right Right left right Right left right wait Right left right wait Right left right wait Right left right rest Ranji the badum pakt If you can get the ghost It'll be more the reggae flavor And everywhere go Tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born So that concludes the five genres For go tell it on the mountain However if you are from the subcontinent Or if you are an Indian learner As a lot of people on our channel are Let's get some Indian vibes Into the equation And again to make something sound Indian you just have to count triplets It's very easy Whatever the pulse is One and a two and a three and a four And a one and a two and a three And a four and a one and a two And the pattern I have for you One and a two and a one and a two And a left right right It's almost like a thresio but A triplet version Go tell it on the mountain Over the hills Tuck it duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck Could count it like that Pretty much make anything sound Indian this way If you want for additional flavor One and a two and a three and a One and a two and a three and a Any triplet hit point would make things Sound very Indian Or very very traditional To this part of the world I guess So to get that Indian flavor All you have to do is divide by three Find some hit points in there One and a two and a three So one and a two and a three and a Four and a one and a two and a three And a one and a three and a four And get those hit points Into your rhythm pattern So let's try and give this a go Over the hills And everywhere Go tell it on the mountain That Jesus Christ is born It's a bit tricky to sing and play this actually So I hope you guys found All of our patterns useful And try to apply it for this song As well as any other song And I'll be happy to hear your rendition of it You can find me or you can find Nathaniel's school on Instagram That's a great way for us to connect And for me to notice your playing Because right now I'm just looking at a camera It'll be nice to see what you are doing And how you have A lot of you send in emails But if you use Instagram That would be very easy You can upload it on your own profile And tag one of us and We'll be happy to listen to it And also share it as well That will be fun And again all of this notation And my hand written notes for this lesson And many more are waiting for you On our Patreon page Do consider getting yourself a copy And don't forget to hit that subscribe button Hit that like button as well If you want Leave us a comment With what you thought about the lesson And feel free to share it With your friends and family Thanks a ton for watching the video Again this is Jason Zach From Nathaniel's School of Music And here's wishing you And all your loved ones Merry Christmas And a happy and prosperous New Year Cheers