Worship Guitar Small Group

New Strumming Pattern and Alternative Chords I've got a new strumming pattern for you this week.  It goes along with 2 songs I've already given you. These songs are: How He Loves Who You Say I Am Here's a link a soft printable copy of this sheet Generally, most worship songs have beats that can be counted in and/or divided by 4 beats (4/4 time signature). The first strumming pattern we discussed goes with those kinds of songs. For review it looks like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 A A A A A A Accents (hard strums) are on counts 1, 4, and 7. There are however, a number of songs where the beats can be divided by 3 (in 6/8 time signature). The songs above are like this, and I would say that this strumming pattern is something of a natural pattern for playing the guitar. It looks like this: 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 A A A A Accents (hard strums) are on counts 1 a...

New Songs: Everlasting God Key of G Happy Day  Key of G If you don't have a tuner, you can tune to your low 'E' string by following these steps: Tuning Without a Tuner Note (no pun intended) that only two strings are ever played when you’re tuning using this method - the string your finger is on, and the string directly below it (from a direction perspective).  Try and match the tone of the string you finger is not on to the tone of the string that your finger is on      Tuning A string                                                                     Tuning D string                     ...

Hi Everyone, Welcome to the Worship Guitar Small Group Blog! I thought that since we'll playing songs and learning about guitar and a bit of music theory and things, it might be handy to have everything available for you on the web - so here we are! Here's links to chord charts for the songs we went over (or we'll be practicing in the future) My Redeemer Lives - Key of E How He Loves - Key of E How Great is Our God - Key of G Open the Eyes of My Heart - Key of E Lord, I Need You - Key of E Guitar Basics ( link to this info below in a document) Common musical scales have 8 notes.  Most popular songs, including worship songs are written using 4 chords that are built off of certain note numbers in these scales.  Those note numbers are: 1, 4, 5, 6. Put together in a little graphic with two common scales as examples, it looks like this: Note # 1 2 (minor) 3 4 5 6 (minor) 7 1 or 8 G scale G A B C D Em F# G E...