Piano Cover of "The Pillar"

"The Pillar" by Sipho Ngwenya featuring Tshepang is South African worship in G♭. Slow-mid tempo, contemplative, one of the more nuanced modern SA recordings.

1. The key: G♭ major

G♭ major. Scale: G♭, A♭m, B♭m, C♭, D♭, E♭m, Fdim.

2. The chord shape

Verse: 1 to 5 to 6m to 4. Chorus: 4 to 1 to 5 to 6m to 4 to 5 to 1. Standard worship shape at a patient tempo. The Sipho Ngwenya recording is the pace reference.

3. The Sunday-ready play

• Right hand: 4-note voicings with the 7.
• Left hand: whole notes.
• One move to add: a D♭sus4 to D♭ turnaround before every resolution. Suspended cadence.

4. When the leader calls a different key

Contemplative worship shifts keys. Numbers hold. Gig Mode.

Next step

Play Makabongwe next. Same G♭, Ntokozo Mbambo.