Lesson 31 · All 12 keys

Now Behold the Lamb — Song Trainer

Play Kirk Franklin's gospel classic "Now Behold the Lamb" exactly as arranged for solo piano — right-hand chord comping, left-hand bass, unaltered — in every one of the 12 keys. This is real gospel-piano harmony in action: alongside the familiar major, minor, dominant 7th, minor 7th, major 7th, and 6th chords, this arrangement leans heavily on the add9 and 6/9 chords (Lessons 26 & 30) and introduces the sus2, sus4, and dominant 7sus4 chords (Lessons 27-29) — four chord types this app didn't teach before this song motivated them. Listen closely around the two-thirds mark and you'll also hear the whole arrangement modulate up a whole step for its final section, preserved in every key this trainer plays.

Two hands, exactly as played

This lesson changes nothing about the original piano arrangement — only its key:

  1. Right hand — the chords. The arrangement's own comping, note for note, straight off the original piano MIDI.
  2. Left hand — the bass. The arrangement's own bass line, note for note.
The source arrangement is written in C major (modulating up a whole step to D major about two-thirds of the way through — see the chord chart below) and leans on gospel-piano color chords far more than the hymn arrangements in earlier Song Trainer lessons. Alongside the familiar I, ii, IV, V, and vi triads and the dominant 7th and minor 7th chords, you'll hear four chords new to this app: the add9 and 6/9 chords (rich, "no 7th" tonic and subdominant colors — see the Add9 and 6/9 lessons), and the sus2, sus4, and dominant 7sus4 chords (open or leaning substitutes for a plain triad or V7 — see the Sus2, Sus4, and Dominant 7sus4 lessons). This song's harmony is exactly what motivated adding those four lessons to this app.

The chord chart

A harmonic analysis of every chord the two hands sound together in the unaltered arrangement, in order, for whichever key you're practicing in — 168 chord changes across the whole 6-minute arrangement. Gold = major-family (major, add9, 6th, 6/9, sus2, sus4, major 7th, major 7th♯11), orange = dominant-family (dominant 7th, dominant 7sus4), blue = minor or minor 7th, purple = diminished. Roman numerals shown in lowercase with no ° mark are a plain minor triad on that scale degree; degrees outside the current section's major scale show no roman numeral at all (chromatic/borrowed).

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About the song

"Now Behold the Lamb" is a modern gospel classic written and recorded by Kirk Franklin, built around the refrain "Now behold the Lamb, the precious Lamb of God" — a favorite for communion and Good Friday services in churches worldwide, and a staple of the contemporary gospel-piano repertoire this lesson's accompaniment is drawn from.

Pick a key and press Play to hear the full two-hand arrangement — right-hand melody and left-hand accompaniment together — through the built-in synth or a connected MIDI device, highlighted on the keyboard as it plays.

Right hand (melody) Left hand (accompaniment)
Key of C
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Chord chart in this key

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