O Holy Night! is my favorite song of all time. Recently, I have had the privilege of ministering that song in a guitar-cello duet for two church services.
Lord willing, tomorrow morning I will be ministering Santa la noche, the Spanish translation of this song, in a guitar-cello duet for a Spanish service. This PDF provides the guitar chords and the first stanza for ministering this wonderful song.
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Here are PDFs of the guitar chords and first lines for eight spanish hymns in my guitar format! If you have friends who play guitar and like to sing Spanish hymns, please let them know of these new resources on my site.
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I have added PDFs and mp3s for two hymns (Estoy Bien, Noche de Paz) and for another study of sixteenth note rhythms:
Noche de Paz – PDF mp3 mp3(slower)
Sixteenth Note Rhythm Study – PDF mp3 mp3(slower)
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Here are the melody and guitar chords for Cristo Me Ama in my chord-solfeggio format for Spanish hymns.
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Learning to play sixteenth notes is often difficult for beginning guitar students. To help make this important skill easier to learn, I have created this simplified version of the melody of the hymn Standing on the Promises.
You can listen to the audio of this version at three tempos: 41 bpm; 51 bpm; and 60 bpm. The audio begins with one measure of silence and then two measures to set the tempo. These three measures are designed to give you time after starting the audio to get ready on the guitar.
Count each measure as follows: 1 e & a; 2 e & a; 3 e & a; 4 e & a. When you understand how to count the piece and when each note is played, practice playing along with the audio. With consistent practice, you should be able to play sixteenths notes well!
Note to my guitar students: I have transposed the song from Bb to C and simplified the rhythm. You can see the original melody in the following hymnals: Hymns of Grace and Glory (214); Himnos Majestuosos: Edición Revisada (439); and Celebremos Su Gloria (273).
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A Dios el Padre (O God Our Help in Ages Past)
Oh, Dios es bueno (God Is So Good)
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You can now listen to and practice along with the melodies of the following Spanish hymns:
Cristo me ama; Sagrada es el amor
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La escala cromática es una escala básica de guitarra que cada guitarrista debe aprender. La escala se toca en las seis cuerdas al aire (a excepción de la segunda cuerda) y en los primeros cuatro trastes de cada cuerda.
La escala comienza en la sexta cuerda abierta. Después de tocar las notas en los primeros cuatro trastes de la sexta cuerda, la quinta cuerda se toca abierta, y así sucesivamente.
La imagen de la derecha muestra la escala cromática en el diapasón. La imagen izquierda muestra la partitura de lo que toque cuando toque la escala (la escala comienza con el tercer compás, después de dos compases iniciales).
Usted puede escuchar la escala tocando y práctica junto con él: La escala cromática (en el audio, dos compases iniciales proporcionan el tempo para la tocar de la escala).
Por favor, hágamelo saber si usted tiene algún problema escuchando el audio de la escala.
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By using various capabilities of BibleWorks 7, Microsoft Office Word 2007, and Microsoft Excel 2007, I recently created a unique resource that should prove helpful for learning the Spanish vocabulary words with marked accents that occur 50 or more times in the Reina-Valera 1960 New Testament (R60NT).
Using BW7, I generated a list of the 25,733 words that occur in the R60NT and their frequencies. Pasting that list first into Word and then into Excel, I created a spreadsheet in Excel that listed all the words in one column and their frequencies in the next column.
Sorting that list by frequency, I produced a list of the 1186 words that occur 50 or more times. Using various macros that I created[i] in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.5 in Excel, I then identified the 259 words that have a marked accent on them.
Each word was then analyzed to determine the following:
—Length of the word
—Syllables in the word
—Diphthongs in the word
—Which vowel was accented and its exact location in the word
—Final letter, final two letters, final three letters, and final four letters of each word
By sorting this data, I produced the following listing of the words that categorizes and alphabetizes[ii] them by number of syllables, word length, accented syllable, vowel accented, and final letters (1-4, as applicable), respectively:
Analysis of Words with a Marked Accent That Occur 50 or More Times in the R60NT
One Syllable:
| Letters | Words Alphabetically by Accented Syllable, Vowel, and Final Letters |
| 2 | dé sé mí sí tú; él |
| 3 | más |
Two Syllables:
| 2 | oí |
| 3 | acá noé iré qué así oyó; día mía oíd mío río oír aún |
| 4 | judá allá dará hará será dirá está daré haré seré josé esté allí leví sacó echó dejó tomó miró juró pasó mató cayó huyó jehú; cuál amán cuán joás amén país león amón saúl; días míos ríos sólo cómo; ésta éste |
| 5 | habrá podrá quedó mandó llegó habló halló llamó reinó entró sentó llevó; labán harán serán verán dirán basán están jamás demás harás serás dirás atrás rubén quién belén botín simón varón según algún jesús; dónde; ángel árbol éstas éstos |
| 6 | saldrá pondrá tendrá vendrá pondré; jordán moisés hebrón ningún; cárcel |
| 7 | tendrán vendrán pondrás tendrás |
Three Syllables:
| 4 | aquí esaú oído |
| 5 | caerá josué subió salió abrió hirió murió envió; había hacía decía tenía venía maría impío aarón; seáis elías caído; oídos |
| 6 | tomará estará lavará comerá morirá vivirá jehová traeré jericó durmió cubrió volvió habitó apartó; canaán caerán además efraín cabrío faraón simeón nación visión; hagáis estáis habéis sabéis tenéis haréis seréis habían decían tenían josías traído judíos impíos cuándo; líbano límite músico número; ídolos |
| 7 | llevará volverá enviaré neftalí entregó levantó comenzó; estarán comerán jonatán capitán satanás tomarás también manasés después porción reunión absalón salomón corazón; prójimo; cámaras cántico séptimo jóvenes púrpura; ángeles árboles |
| 8 | engendró preguntó destruyó; benjamín; tendréis; príncipe |
| 9 | destruiré; príncipes |
Four Syllables:
| 6 | isaías |
| 7 | edificó sucedió; alegría todavía oración |
| 8 | extendió; profecía posesión; comeréis jeremías zacarías; altísimo espíritu; imágenes ejército |
| 9 | levantará descendió respondió; jerusalén aflicción bendición expiación maldición salvación; levántate; ejércitos apóstoles |
| 10 | discípulos |
| 11 | destrucción |
Five Syllables:
| 8 | ezequías |
| 9 | aconteció; sabiduría; sedequías; acuérdate |
| 10 | generación; tabernáculo; primogénito |
| 11 | congregación |
| 12 | levantándose |
Six Syllables:
| 11 | abominación |
I hope that this resource will help me and others to master the vocabulary of the R60NT and thereby in some way better minister to Spanish-speaking people!
[i] These macros are revisions of macros that I had originally created (with much help from my brother-in-law, Dr. Satya Narimetla, to whom I am very indebted for his help with that project) several years ago in a similar study of all the accented words in the Greek New Testament.
[ii] The words are alphabetized in this “reverse” way: by the last letter, last two letters, last three letters, and last four letters, respectively (as applicable), and then by the starting letter.
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I have been studying Spanish musical terms and resources fairly intensely for several weeks now. My latest Spanish guitar piece provides the melody of Oh Dios, socorro en el ayer in my revised number format. The song and an explanation of my revised format are available in this PDF.
I would appreciate feedback especially about any errors that might need to be corrected in the Spanish explanations of the format of the piece.
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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.
