O For a Thousand Tongues is a classic hymn that is easy to play on the guitar. The following PDFs provide the music, chords, chord diagrams, and first line for the song in English and Spanish:
Both documents provide a chord diagram for each chord the first time that the chord occurs in the song.
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Learning to change smoothly among all the basic chords in a key is a vital skill that every guitarist must develop. To that end, I created the following charts for learning how to change from the main chord in the keys of Do and Sol to the other main chords in each key:
Chord Changes in the Key of Do
Chord Changes in the Key of Sol
These charts should help you learn to play well in these two keys!
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Praise Him, All Ye Little Children is an excellent children’s song that tells children to praise, love, and thank God. The song is easy to sing and easy to play on the guitar because it uses basic chords in the key of D.
This PDF provides the chords, chord diagrams, melody in my number format, and the words to all the stanzas. I’ve also added slashes above the chord symbols to show exactly how to strum the song!
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Feliz, feliz cumpleaños is a special song that every Spanish guitarist should know how to play. This PDF provides the chords, melody notes in my number format, and the first line of the song.
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Samuel J. Stone’s great hymn The Church’s One Foundation is a good hymn for beginning guitarists wanting to learn to strum and pick the chords in the key of C. This PDF provides the melody in my number format, the chords, and the first line of this hymn.
There are also many other PDFs of hymns for guitar in the Resources on my site in the Music section!
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To play the Spanish hymn Del Culto El Tiempo Llega in the key of Do, you only have to be able to play five basic chords: Do, La m, Fa, Sol7, and Re m. The melody is played on the second string.
This PDF gives you the chords, melody, and first stanza of this hymn.
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Here is guitar music (melody, chords, and lyrics for stanzas 1-4 and 6) for Isaac Watts’ beautiful hymn set to an ancient Irish melody: How Sweet and Awful Is the Place. This arrangement includes an introduction, instrumental interlude after the third stanza, modulation from the key of D to E after the fourth stanza, and an ending tag.
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All I Need by C. P. Jones is an easy-to-play hymn with a profound message: “Jesus Christ is made to me, All I need.” This PDF gives you the chords, first line, and the melody of the song in both standard music notation and my number format.
Because the song only uses a few basic chords in the key of D, this is an excellent song to practice strumming and picking in the chord of D!
With another guitarist, you can also play this song as a nice duet with the following variations:
1. One person strums the chords and the other person plays the melody
2. One person strums the chords and the other person picks the chords
3. One person picks the chords and the other person plays the melody
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Rostro Divino is a beautiful Spanish hymn that I recently discovered in one of my Spanish hymnals. This PDF provides the numbers to play the melody of the hymn on the first string, the chords to strum the song in C, and the first line of the hymn. You can listen to the hymn to learn the melody: Rostro Divino in C.
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Here are the guitar chords and the melody for Sublime Gracia in my simple number format (in the key of Sol).
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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.
