Here is a PDF that provides the guitar music for playing My Country, ‘Tis of Thee as a chord melody solo in the key of F.
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Abide with Me is a classic hymn that is easy to play on the guitar because it has only seven different melody notes. This PDF provides the melody notes, chords, chord diagrams, and the first stanza of the hymn.
This PDF also provides a new feature that makes playing the melody simple: circled numbers above each note that tell you exactly where to play each note! All notes are played on the fret of first string matching the circled number except for the notes with circled numbers 2.1 and 2.3, which are played on the first and third frets of the second string, respectively.
Here is an audio mp3 of the melody of the song. You can play along with the audio to learn the melody. You can also practice strumming the chords as the accompaniment to the song while the melody is being played!
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Praise Ye Our Father is a simple song that I wrote today for my guitar students. Even though it is easy to play, it has a profound message!
It is in the key of G and only uses four chords (G, D7, Em, and B7). Here are a PDF (notes for the melody, chords, and chord diagrams) and an audio mp3 of the melody of the song.
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You may use this song in a ministry context provided you do not change any of the words and you provide copyright information to anyone whom you distribute it. Please contact me for any other use of the song.
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Learning the shape of short chords is an important guitar skill because they are useful for playing slash chords (for example, Bb/D) and for playing chord melody solos. Short chords are played on only three strings instead of full chords that use four, five, or six strings.
To start learning short chords, a beginning guitarist should focus on treble-string short chords. Short Chords and Chord Shapes is a handout that presents the basic major and minor chord shapes for these chords.
1. Study the rows in the handout one row at a time to learn these basic shapes that are formed by connecting from right to left the three dots that show the notes in each chord.
Treble-string short chords (Major chords):
(Row 1) Root on 3rd string – checkmark
(Row 2) Root on 2nd string – arrow pointing down
(Row 3) Root on 1st string – up ramp to right
Treble-string short chords (Minor chords):
(Row 4) Root on 3rd string – diagonal right
(Row 5) Root on 2nd string – arrow pointing left
(Row 6) Root on 1st string – line
2. Use the blank chord diagram grids to draw and label three additional chord diagrams for each row.
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Holy Is the Lord by Charles H. Davis and Franz Schubert is a good intermediate level guitar song. This PDF provides the melody notes, first stanza, chords, and chord diagrams for the song in the key of D.
Here is an audio mp3 of the song.
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Un Santo del Rey is my latest Spanish song! Sung to the tune of A Child of the King, this song highlights that I as a believer am a saint of the King spoken of in a glorious heavenly song:
“And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.” (Rev. 15:3)
“Y cantan el cántico de Moisés siervo de Dios, y el cántico del Cordero, diciendo: Grandes y maravillosas son tus obras, Señor Dios Todopoderoso; justos y verdaderos son tus caminos, Rey de los santos.” (Apocalipsis 15:3)
The song is in the key of D and uses only basic chords in the key of D. This PDF provides the lyrics, melody notes, chords, and chord diagrams for the song.
Here is the audio for this song: Un Santo del Rey
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My Song is Love Unknown is a beautiful hymn in the key of C. This PDF provides the melody notes, first stanza, and guitar chords for this song, including every chord change that takes place in the song.
Learning to play all the chords, including the slash chords, is challenging and requires an advanced knowledge of guitar chords and the ability to play them well. If you find the song too hard to play with all the slash chords, you can simplify it by playing all the slash chords as just the chord without the bass (for example, play G instead of G/D).
Listen to the melody:
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This PDF provides the lyrics, melody notes, and chords for the song I Know a Fount by Oliver Cooke. The song is in the key of D and uses several advanced chords that should make it a good challenge for more experienced guitarists.
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I first began using Celebremos su Gloria by Librios Alianza/Celebremos about two years ago in a guitar class that I began teaching then at Iglesia Bautista Fundamental Tabernaculo in Greenville, SC. It is an excellent Spanish hymnal because it provides the following:
1. Music, words, and guitar chords (in both Spanish and English) for 652 songs that are divided into the following categories:
Nuestro Maravillos Dios
Nuestro Señor Jesucristo
Nuestro Divino Consolador
Nuestra Santa Biblia
Nuestra Grandiosa Salvaciόn
Nuestra Vida en Cristo
Nuestra Amada Iglesia
Nuestro Glorios Futuro
Nuestros Grupos y Ocasiones Especiales
Nuestro Culto
Having the guitar chords for all the songs in the hymnal makes this a uniquely valuable book among my hymnals because it is the only hymnal that I have that does so. This resource has been a great help in my teaching all my guitar students.
2. An excellent introductory section Disfrute Su Himnario that explains how to enjoy your hymnal by understanding these features in each song:
Symbolos; Pasajes Biblicos; Matiz; Transiciόn; Duraciόn; Punto Resaltado; Reconocimientos; Derechos Reservados; Versiculo Lema; Respuesta Musical; Acordes Para La Guitarra; Tonada; Tonalidad; Introduccion Instrumental
3. Many other innovative features designed to help you delight yourself:
Deléitese Con Estas Novedades: 32 páginas a color, poesías, reflexiones doctrinales, lecturas bíblicas integradas en cada secciόn, indices, gráfica de acordes para la guitarra, anécdotas biográficas y de inspiraciόn, música hispana y universal, e himnos y cánticos de ayer y hoy.
4. A very helpful explanation of symbols used in the hymnal: Explicaciόn de Los Símbolos. This section is excellent for learning many Spanish musical terms.
5. A Table of Contents that lists the ten sections of the hymnal (listed above in point one), the subsections in each section, and information about the subsections of section eleven Nuestro Himnario, an extensive collection of indices.
6. A superb ending section Nuestro Himnario that includes Informaciόn general and a collection of twenty-two indices that provides a vast wealth of information about the songs in the hymnal:
Dibjuos y fotografías
Índice de dueños
Índice de autores y compositores
Índice de notas biográficas
Índice anécdotas histόricas
Índice de lecturas antifonales
Índice de citas de lecturas antifonales
Índice de pasajes biblicos
Himnos basados en pasajes biblicos
Índice de versículos lema
Banderas
Índice de tonadas (melodías)
Índice de metros poéticos
Índice de cadenas musicales
Lecturas especiales y reflexiones
Índice de respuestas musicales
Índice de poesías
Música especial
Acordes para guitarra
Índice tópico
Índice general
Índice de cánones (rondas)
This superb hymnal is available for purchase online at amazon.com: Celebremos su Gloria. I praise God for leading one of my students to give me a new hardbound spiral copy of this hymnal last night in our guitar class!
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Oye, oh, mi voz is a prayer to Jesus Christ for salvation. It is sung to the tune of the song All I Need by C. P. Jones.
Confessing Jesus Christ as your God, you are pleading with Him to hear your voice that He would save you by His grace. Acknowleding that His salvation is righteous, you are confessing that your condition is serious. Believing that His redemption is great, you are pleading for Him to hear your voice.
Jesucristo, sálvame, oh, mi Dios, oh, mi Dios;
Por tu gracia, sálvame, oye, oh, mi voz.
Justa es tu salvación; grave es mi condición.
Grande es tu redención; oye, oh, mi voz.
This PDF provides the melody and the chords in the key of D to sing this song. I praise God for giving me this new song!
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You may use this song in a ministry context provided you do not change any of the words and you provide copyright information to anyone whom you distribute it. Please contact me for any other use of the song.
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