Items Tagged with "Guitar"
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Please Practice: 8 Tips to Give Your Team
Of all the players that I've had in worship teams, the ones that practiced the most came out of the bar band scene. If any of them came to rehearsals unprepared, they apologized before they even pulled out their guitar. The players with church backgrounds, yeah...not so much. Why is this? That's fod
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #8
Segue #8 - The "Lingering Four Chord"Sometimes during worship you want to move from one element to the next quickly. But other times in worship, you just want to stay in the moment, in that place where people are meeting the risen Jesus. Hopefully you've had those moments when it would just feel wro
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28 Ways to Create Great Segues: Segue #7
Segue #7 - Finding a "Chord Trail" to the New KeyThe gist of this segue is finding a "path" of chords that lead to the new key. Here's an example:Key of C to Key of Db (1/2 step up) Moving back to F chord created a smoother transition to the Bb chord (because they share two common keys),
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Jazz Guitar Training - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
If you want to take a few of your Christmas songs down a different route this Advent, consider using some jazz influenced arrangement. Or if you just want to learn some basic jazz guitar stuff, check this out. The 18-minute lesson shows you how to play the changes to this jazz arrangement of God Res
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A Letter to Me (the Guitarist) [rewind]
To close out rewind week, I had to save the best for last. Remembering what a dufus I was as a young guitarist, I decided to write a letter to my self in hopes of helping younger guitarists be less annoying than I was.I've had worship leaders request permission to make physical copies of this post s
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11 Deadly Sins of the Worship Team, Part 1
I know—I should have stopped at seven. But if you’ve been a part of worship teams for more then 10 minutes, you know that we perpetrate far more than seven.We’ll be talking about the 11 Deadly Sins as part of a bigger series, Turning Your Team into a Band. We won’t tackle all
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New Electric Guitarist Struggles With Last Minute Changes
Here's a question for WorshipQ:What should I work on with the electric guitar to be able to get to the point where I can get the chord sheet 5 minutes before service starts and still be able to play along without it being a complete wreck? What sort of things would allow me to play along with ju
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Worship Mixing: Guitars & Basses...
Life went a little sideways these last few weeks, so blogging frequency is down considerably. But I had the opportunity to be a part of a friend's podcast called The Plugged In Church. So I thought I'd share that with you.Eric Frisch and Josh Howey talk each week about sound issues that average-size
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Teach your guitarists how to play something other than Stairway to Heaven.
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The guitar has between 15 & 22 playable frets. The average guitarist uses only 4 of those.
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Your more experienced guitarists will gain tools to help them train other guitarists.
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Products
Worship Guitar Workshop:DVDs & Training ToolsLearn some great guitar techniques and tricks with WGW DVDs. If you're just starting out, there's also a training tool just for you.
Books & Ebooks
Grace Waits BookGrace Waits is a eclectic c
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Jazz Christmas CD & Book
BIG FAT JAZZ SALE!Get the MP3 Album for only $3.79!Get the Guitar Book (Digital Download) AND MP3 album for only $4.99!
Like something you can touch? There are a few physical copies left of the Christmas Guitar Book...
Joel Claypool Christmas A couple years ago, I got to know Joel, a young
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