This chord prep study provides beginning guitar students with a good exercise that trains their ears to hear basic chord progressions in the key of C. It also helps with note reading and fingerpicking.
A teacher can strum the chords while the student plays the notes or two students can alternate playing the notes and the chords.
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Here is a pdf of a piece that I created using MuseScore. This medley includes the melodies of Jesus Calls Us, Am I a Soldier of the Cross, and O For a Thousand Tongues.
Using MuseScore, it is simple to create such a document and to listen to what you have created to see how it sounds!
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Here are the melody and the chords for Nothing But the Blood in my format for guitar.
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Melody and chords for When I Survey the Wondrous Cross in my format for guitar.
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Melody and chords for Like A River Glorious in my format for guitar.
My sermon from Wednesday night: Honor God by Being Filled with the Holy Spirit
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Melody and chords for Spirit of God, Descend upon My Heart in my format for guitar.
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Here are the melody and the chords for Jesus, I Am Resting in the key of G.
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Elisha A. Hoffman’s What a Wonderful Savior! in my format for guitar chords and melody in the key of D.
The shaded number in the second line is how I notate a fermata.
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Learning to play ensemble music is a great way to develop many basic musical skills, such as rhythm and listening to both yourself and others as you play.
When I was teaching theory classes to young guitar students, I came up with a simple ensemble format for guitar music. In this post, the format provides the notes that are to be played for all four parts of the song God Is So Good.
Each part can be played by one or more students by paying attention to the Roman numeral that tells you on what string to play the notes for that part. Advanced students can try to play more than one part at a time.
Although the music itself is quite simple, working on it with one or more other guitarists can be a fun way to improve your guitar playing!
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This post provides a link to a PDF that has the melody notes, guitar chords, and the first stanza for Nearer, Still Nearer.
The melody is given with the fret numbers to be played on the second string of the guitar.
See also the audio and PDF of my guitar-cello arrangement for “Nearer, Still Nearer”
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Rajesh Gandhi holds a Ph.D. in New Testament Interpretation from Bob Jones Seminary; he's a long-time member of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Greenville, SC.
