Worship Blog : guitar lessons
WorshipQ Interview: Jason Houtsma of WorshipArtistry.com
| March 15, 2013 On this installment of the WorshipQ Interview, I talk with Jason Houtsma, co-founder and creative director of WorshipArtistry.com...
Free Christmas Song - MP3, chart, video lesson & how-to
| December 7, 2012 Merry Christmas from WorshipTeamCoach.com! Here's a free MP3 and chart/instructional guide for you...
Slash Chords: Why Guitarists Should Play the Bass Note
| October 25, 2012 It's time for guitarists to reclaim the bass note. Find out a little more why the note on the right of the slash matters...
Learning Worship Guitar May Be Easier Than You Think
April 12, 2012 A guest post from GuitarZonline.com founder John Sizemore...
Understanding Riffs and Fills
| January 23, 2012 What's the difference between solos, riffs and fills? You'll learn the difference in this guitar lesson.
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Making Sense of Relative Major & Minor
| January 10, 2012 We guitarists love the minor pentatonic. But unfortunately, if the song is in the key of A, we can't play the A Minor Pentatonic. Well, we can. But it won't sound good...
Meet the Blues Scale
| January 3, 2012 The minor pentatonic is to a lead guitarist what a sequence jumpsuit is to an Elvis impersonator.
Escape the 1st 4 frets...Triads 432, Part 2
| December 24, 2011 In this guitar lesson, we'll continue to explore how to escape the first four frets by using triads. This free video training will show you how to move triads up the neck with simple shapes...
Video Lesson: 4-3-2 Triads, Part 1
| December 15, 2011 Here's another way to utilize triads to escape that muddy middle of the lower 4 frets. This guitar lesson uses the intro to Hillsong's Hosanna to show how triads are used worship music.
Beginning Guitar Lesson, 2
| December 5, 2011 After watching this video, you'll be about two-thirds the way to rock star status. Once you learn the G and C chords in this lesson, pretty much all you'll need to learn next will be "the windmill."
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Jazz Guitar Training - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
| November 21, 2011 A study of jazz chords using an arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. Free PDF and instruction sheet available to download.
Jazz Guitar Training - Hark the Herald Angels Sing
| November 14, 2011 A study of jazz chords using a fun arrangement of Hark The Herald Angels Sing. Free PDF and instruction sheet available to download.
Groovin' an Old Hymn
| July 26, 2011In this video, I demonstrate and walk you through a new arrangement of Blessed Be The Name. You'll learn some inversions, some walking bassline stuff and how to use the "Jimi Hendrix" chord in church. You can download the leadsheet here. And ta
Beginning Guitar Series: Lesson #1 - A, D, & E
| July 19, 2011 In this beginning guitar lesson, you'll learn how to read chord diagrams, and create three basic open chords: D, A and E. Not only will you learn how to play the chords, but by the end of the video, you'll know how to connect them without losing your place on the fretboard.
Beginning Guitar - An Introduction
| July 19, 2011 Are you a novice guitar player, an absolute beginner, than this guitar lesson (and this series) is for you. You'll learn the basic parts of the guitar as well the three sets of numbers you need to play. If you've got a few chords down already, this video might be too basic for you, but then again, you may learn something you missed.
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14 Ways To Escape the First Four Frets - #11: The Major Scale
| June 28, 2011 In this video lesson, I dive into Position Scales - specifically G Major. "Position Scales" is an approach to playing scales by which we build a new "shape" or position scale from each note in the key. So this first G major scale is built on the root, or G. After this, you would move to the A on the 6th string (5th fret) and play the G major scale from there, and so one.
3 Notes Per String Scale
| June 18, 2011 Jon introduces 3 notes per string scales as a alternative to major position scales. This segment was actually cut from Jon's "Lead: Step One" training video...but it was too good leave on the cutting room floor. So it crawled to YouTube...
Chord of the Week - F#m7(4)
| May 18, 2011 You'll also see this chord written as F#m11, F#m7add4, etc. This is my "go-to" chord for most songs calling for F#m7. It works best in the key of A (6m) and the key of E (2m)...
Emulate Vs. Duplicate
March 27, 2011To keep things consistent, I try to use a specific arrangement for each song in my team's repertoire. So, for example, on Everlasting God we use the Lincoln Brewster version. For Today is the Day , we opt for Paul Baloche's version of it. (Except we sp
Creating Inner Movement
February 4, 2011Here's an excerpt from Chord Voicings for the Advancing Guitarists . It shows how to create inner movement within open movable chords.
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 9
December 29, 2010Escape #8: The Ubiquitous D Shape (Part 9, Way to Escape # 8. I know, it's confusing. Just go with me here...) OK, I barely know what ubiquitous means. I've just always wanted to use it ever since I heard Steve Taylor sing " as a slave to that ubi
Top 10 Reasons to Host a Worship Guitar Workshop
September 5, 2010//TEN// Teach your guitarists how to play something other than Stairway to Heaven. //NINE// The guitar has between 15 & 22 playable frets. The average guitarist uses only 4 of those. //EIGHT// Your more experienced guitarists
Live Events
September 5, 2010If you're near a live worship guitar workshop, you're not going to want to miss the hands-on practical training that happens in these smaller group settings. Here are the scheduled events. Click on the city to get more information. Marque
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 8
August 30, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 8: Escape #7: Power Chords (and not just the ones your aging, AC/DC-junkie uncle uses...) Picture it: A Peavey Bandit amp sitting on my unmade bed. I plug in my shiny new, dark blue Carvin DC200 wit
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 7
August 8, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets: Part 7 [Escape #6: The Sus2 Chord] The Sus2 chord is a major triad's cooler cousin and a power chord's more sonically interesting step-sister. A Major Triad is a: Fifth Third Root The Third is a "major 3r
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 6
July 31, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 6 Read part 5 [Escape #5] Open Movable Chords There's nothing new under the sun. But sometime in jr. high, circa 1988, I slid the open E chord shape up to the 6th fret I thought I had foun
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 5
July 28, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 5 Read Part 4 [Escape #4] In much of life, theory precedes (and is often far easier) than practice. I can tell you the basic theory behind a internal combustion engine. Fuel, sparks, pistons, expl
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 4
July 26, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 4 [Escape #3 continued] ... need to read the first half ? We're in the middle of exploring barre chords as a way to escape the first four frets. If all we knew was what we discussed
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 3
July 24, 201014 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 3 Read Part 2 [Escape #3] I've always said the "F" chord is aptly named. For beginning players, it's a wall that seems surmountable. Up to this point, the newbie player has figured out how to c
14 Ways to Escape the First Four Frets, Part 2
July 22, 2010Read Part 1 The second way to escape the first four frets is, well, gonna suck. You're not going to like this one. Let's just get that out of the way right now. The best we can hope for is that feeling you have running your tongue over your tee
