Worship Guitar Small Group

Here’s some other chords in the key of G that I use A LOT when I play with a band. I use these chords for slower songs - they only sound good when you pick them. Strum them, and they sound terrible. Pick them, and they sound fantastic. There are two main reasons I use them as much as I do when playing with a band: They utilize another ‘anchor’ with my fingers. Two fingers never move with all the chord changes. They sound absolutely fantastic on guitar when you are playing with someone else Here’s the chords:           G (1)                            C (4)                                D (5)                          Em (6)                     NOTE: The ring finger and the middle finger NEVER MOVE with any of these chords            The picking pattern is simply picking from lowest to highest strings paying attention to the 1 string that should not be picked (the triangle) Notice the anchor (my middle and ring fingers) is the same as my Em.           

Guitar Basics  II First let’s review... 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. Our little graphic now has 4 common guitar 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 D scale D E F# G A B C# D A scale A B C# D E F# G# A E scale E F# G# A B C#m D# E As a reminder, 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. I’ve intentionally switched the order of the scales up in the chart above. We’ll talk more about that later, however notice one curious fact…. When comparing the notes from one line to another, most of the notes are the same, they’ve just shifted 3 places to the right.