Piano Cover of "Be Lifted"

"Be Lifted" by MOG Music is Nigerian-gospel praise where every beat is doing work. It moves. If you play this at the same energy all the way through, you are playing it wrong. Nigerian praise builds, resets, and builds again.

1. The key: A major

A is the second-friendliest worship key on the piano. Most of the naturals fall inside your hand shape. Scale: A, Bm, C♯m, D, E, F♯m, G♯m. Whole song lives in 1, 4, 5 and 6m.

2. The chord shape

Praise loop at tempo: 1 to 5 to 6m to 4. Choruses shift to 4 to 1 to 5 to 6m. You will feel where the changes want to happen. Trust that feel. The MOG Music recording is the tempo lock.

3. The Sunday-ready play

• Right hand: power voicings. 1 as A, C♯, E, A across two octaves. Wide. Bright. Clarity beats jazz.
• Left hand: octaves plus one push. Root on beat 1, root octave down on beat 2 upbeat.
• One move to add: on the return from chorus to verse, play a 2/7 to 5 to 1 (B7 to E to A). Secondary dominant. The 2/7 points at the 5 harder than a plain 2m would.

4. When the leader calls a different key

Praise songs move keys constantly. Numbers stay. Drop into Gig Mode for the letters.

Next step

Pair with Umuhle Baba to cool the room, or run the loop through the Reharmonization Engine.