Piano Cover of "Awesome God"

"Awesome God" by Michael W. Smith covers a Rich Mullins classic. Congregational worship, simple and hymnal, one of the most-sung American praise songs of the last thirty years.

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 4 to 5 to 1. Chorus: 1 to 4 to 5 to 1 to 4 to 5 to 6m to 1. Simple by design. Watch the Michael W. Smith recording.

3. The Sunday-ready play

• Right hand: open triads. G♭ as G♭, B♭, D♭, G♭.
• Left hand: root, fifth, root pattern.
• One move to add: a D♭sus4 to D♭ turnaround before every 1. Simple suspended cadence.

4. When the leader calls a different key

Praise standards travel. Numbers hold. Gig Mode.

Next step

Play Jesu Uyalalela next. Same G♭, IsiZulu.