Posts Tagged ‘guitar’

Playing Rhythm Guitar in the Worship Band, part 3

12, Jun 2009

In this final installment of this series, I'd like to quickly share another set of "cheater" chords, and let you know what some other worship leaders say they look for in a rhythm guitarist.
For this set of chords, start with your basic E chord fingering.

Now we're going to keep that fingering and slide up five [...]

Playing Rhythm Guitar in the Worship Band, part 2

8, Jun 2009

Here's the belated part 2 of Playing Rhythm Guitar in the Worship Band. In this post, I'll continue my previous listing of tips I've gleaned from my last few years of playing, and I'll also share some of my favorite chording "tricks."
Follow the leader. You've been doing this one since your were a little kid. [...]

Playing Rhythm Guitar in the Worship Band, part 1

4, Jun 2009

I've been playing guitar for around six years now, and five of those years I've been playing along on Sunday mornings with my worship band at our church. In this post, I don't claim to be a guitar guru, but I do want to share what five years of experience has taught me.
You won't find [...]

Review: Guy's Grids

20, May 2009

How often do you need to use a chord book? I'm sure for you advanced guitarists, the answer is "not very often." I'm nowhere near advanced, probably closer to the lower end of being a solid intermediate rhythm player. Often I find myself in need of chords, if not for the fingering of a specific [...]

Guitarpraise

16, Apr 2009

Found a site today that's been around a while, but is somehow completely new to me.

Guitarpraise is a great resource blog for all of us worship guitarists out there. They mostly focus on lead guitar, but there also quite a bit to be had for bassists and we acoustic players. I really like the "Shape [...]

Worship Ninjas at RussHutto.com

27, Mar 2009

Here's another great example of why this blogging/twittering/social networking phenomenon excites me in terms of its use among the Church. I love the fact that the people of God from all over the country and around the world can quickly and easily communicate and help one another out.

Russ Hutto has started a new feature called [...]

Luv me some exotic wood

5, Mar 2009

I've only been playing guitar a few years, and I absolutely love the experience. For most of the last few years I've been leading musical worship from behind my guitar. The experience is palpable—I feel like I'm more a part of the event from Sunday to Sunday because of playing along. There's an unquantifiable (to [...]

Worship Confessional: March 1, 2009

2, Mar 2009

A more "traditional" day than usual for yesterday. The total music package was smaller than usual because of additional events in the service. First, there was a video presentation scheduled that never materialized, and second we held a baptism segment—always great to see.
The day was both technically fun and frustrating for me. I bought a [...]

weekend

7, Feb 2009

Joy is at the BlissDom Conference through tomorrow, so things have been off schedule in the house this week. The kids have done a pretty good job of getting ahead on school work, so the schedule has been very light. I've had a lot of time on my hands to read and meditate and play [...]

A muse is trying to get my attention…

6, Feb 2009

Songwriting. I've always wanted to be a songwriter, but have never really disciplined myself to make any real progress in the art. Like any art, there is certainly a level of natural talent that comes into play, but unless pure heavenly inspiration strikes or you have the genius of Mozart, you have to work hard [...]


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