First Post & Get Together

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)



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 scale
E
F#
G#
A
B
C#m
D#
E


If you were playing a song in the key of G, you’d find that the majority of the chords you were using were G, C, D, or Em
              G                                    C D                                     Em
                     


                       

If you were playing a song in the key of E, you’d find that the majority of the chords you were using
were E, A, B, or C#m
              E                                    A B                                     C#m
                       


               


Strumming:
Simple strumming for most songs also goes to a count of eight down-strokes/strums.  Accents (hard strums) are on counts 1, 4, and 7, like this:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
A


A


A

A


A


A

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  1. UnknownSeptember 19, 2019 at 8:03 PM

    Perry, thanks for your leadership yesterday! And it was definitely enjoyable meeting a great bunch of fellow Journey-ers. I'm looking forward to next week!

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