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 fin...

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 ri...

I won't have a big post this week as I've actually been working on pages for you.  I'd like to draw your attention to the links on the left: Song/Video Listing Chords for Songs in Key of E Chords for Songs in Key of G I've put a bunch of songs with video links and given some short instructions on how you can play with those songs as some of them require capos to play with the video.  I hope you enjoy practicing to those. I want to show you one more chord.  Its called A minor and I have 3 variations of it (I like this chord too) A minor                                        Am7                                  Another Am7                  

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...