Practicing these Right Hand Finger Exercises will help you to play the guitar better by improving the coordination of your right hand.
This chart provides four exercises to practice. Each exercise begins with the right thumb resting on the sixth string and all four fingers of the right hand close to the first string. Start out slowly and build up speed gradually in each exercise.
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Guitar chords, melody notes (on 4th string), and first stanza in my guitar music format for playing and singing the hymn Begone, Unbelief.
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I Will Praise Him! in my guitar music format that provides guitar chords, melody notes, and first stanza of the song.
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A key aspect of playing guitar well is to know the major diatonic chords in each key. This diatonic chord chart lists the main chords in each key by degree number. The chart is formatted according to the Spanish system of referring to keys (Do, Re, etc.). Using this chart, a guitar player can become very skillful in playing many songs, especially if he has a good ear.
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Updated on 3.19.16 – I am not currently teaching any of these classes but would be interested in resuming such classes if there were enough people interested in taking such classes.
I am teaching four guitar classes for people interested in ministering with the guitar to Spanish people. The classes meets on Tuesday nights from 7:15-7:45 pm and 7:45-8:30 pm and on Thursday nights from 6:50-7:20 pm and 7:30-8:30 pm. All the classes are at Iglesia Bautista de La Fe here in Greenville, SC (2129 Poinsett Highway).
The four classes are for beginning (T 7:15 pm), intermediate (Th 6:50 pm and 7:30 pm), and advanced (T 7:45 pm) students, respectively. I would, however, be able to accommodate new students at all levels because I am teaching a new method especially geared for training people to minister with the guitar.
I have been teaching these guitar classes for more than a year now. There is no specified length of the course; the classes are open-ended and designed to take students as far they are able and willing to go.
No specific equipment is required other than a guitar (you will also need to bring your own music stand if you come to the Thursday evening class). The classes cost $10 per class.
There are no baby-sitting options at this time; however, families could possibly come with a student and take care of the kids while the student takes the class.
I speak Spanish at a basic level, and there are also current students who would be able to help students who do not speak English. It would be best if a prospective student speaks at least some English.
Space is limited; I could probably take at maximum 6-7 more students in each class. Please contact me if you or someone you know might be interested in learning guitar for Spanish ministry!
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Learning the chromatic scale is a good way to start learning to play the guitar. I recently came up with this new handout to teach it.
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For several years, I have been working on developing a new guitar method that trains students to be able to play hymns in multiple parts straight from a hymnbook. This week, I had an exciting breakthrough in my own playing that reinforced to me the value of this approach for Christian musicians who want to use the guitar for ministry.
While practicing playing several hymns in two parts, I decided to try playing the SAT for Grace Greater Than Ours Sins. Encouraged by how well I was able to read all three parts and play them on the guitar, I decided to try playing all four parts of the song.
To my great delight, I was able to play measure after measure of the song! Although I played it much slower than it would be sung, just being able to make it through all 32 measures and play every note exactly where it would be sung or played on a piano was a huge encouragement and confirmation of the usefulness of this method.
I praise God for answering my prayers for enabling me to develop a method that should be able to train highly skilled guitarists who want to glorify God by playing hymns in multiple parts in church services!
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Here is When I Survey the Wondrous Cross in my bass clef solfeggio method.
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Understanding typical progressions in music helps a guitar player become more skillful, especially with learning to play music by ear. This chart, Progressions in a Major Key, diagrams the typical progressions that often occur in Western music.
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I recently revised a guitar handout that I originally made a number of years ago for a guitar class that I taught. This revised version, Primary Strumming Chords Handout, provides the I, IV, and V7 chords in the keys of Do, Sol, Re, La, Mi, and Fa, which are some of the main keys used for guitar music in solfeggio format for Spanish musicians.
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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.
