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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 Read More...

28 Ways to Make Great Segues, Segue #8

IntroSegue #1-3Segue #4Segue #5Segue #6Segue #7 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. Hope Read More...

28 Ways to Make Great Segues, Segue #7

Read the previous 28 Ways...Read the previous 28 Ways...IntroSegues #1-3 Segue #4  segue #5segue #6 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 Read More...

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 Read More...
Author: Jon Nicol
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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 Read More...
Author: Jon Nicol
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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 Read More...

10 Teach your guitarists how to play something other than Stairway to Heaven. 9 The guitar has between 15 & 22 playable frets. The average guitarist uses only 4 of those. 8 Your more experienced guitarists will gain tools to help them train other guitarists. 7 You Read More...

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    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 Read More...

Jazz Christmas CD & Book

Each of these products 50% Off from now till ChristmasPrices adjusted in the checkout cart...   Joel Claypool Christmas A couple years ago, I got to know Joel, a young 17 year-old who dressed like Sinatra and sounded like Michael Buble. We decided to do a project together. So in a whirlwind o Read More...

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