I am trying to find a good book to teach me guitar chords for praise and worhip music. I have been playing for many years and know all major, minor, seventh, and some barre chords, some suspended chords and a few others that I don't even know what they are. That's my problem. I have a hard time memorizing some of these chords such as Asus2, G/F ,D/C, Gsus, Bb2, Eb2, etc. I think you get the picture. I don't read music, so I play mostly from listening. I don't think I will ever remember all these chords. I'm hoping to find a good book with diagrams. Really appreciate some input.
Thanks!
There aren't really any chords specific to worship music. What you may want is a video like homespuns Gospel guitar lessons.
We don't have this sort of thing in the UK - unless I'm looking in all the wrong places. My local shop has nothing for those looking to usetheir guitars for sacred music.
Not that I'm buying, Nick, but do you have the publisher's details?
A :-)
"Be good at what you can do" - Fingerbanger"
I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
Wedding music and guitar lessons in Essex. Listen at: http://www.rollmopmusic.co.uk
Alan, the "Ye olde sign o' the beast music shoppe" probably wouldn't have any.
That means you must have been there too.
There must be some value in having this kind of info permanently available, or is it already on the site somewhere.
A :-)
"Be good at what you can do" - Fingerbanger"
I have always felt that it is better to do what is beautiful than what is 'right'" - Eliot Fisk
Wedding music and guitar lessons in Essex. Listen at: http://www.rollmopmusic.co.uk
Takamine,
Try http://www.higherpraise.net/MusicMidi.htm
they have Lyrics and chords for a lot of traditional and contemporary gospel tunes.
As an aside, Nick's comment got me to thinking. There are no chords that are specific to worship music. But there was a time when certain disonant chords, and some progressions were disallowed by the church. I don't recall the specifics, but the gist of it was that the church recognized that music is an incredibly powerful medium for evoking emotion, and therefore they felt it their obligation to regulate it. This was the same church that forbade Galileo to suggest that the Earth might not be the center of the universe, and the same church that disallowed the number zero from being used for quite a while. The church wasn't alone in recognizing the power of music though, Aristotle believed that all music theory taught to students should be regluated by the state in order to maintain a balance in their education. (They thought too much music would make the students effeminate, whereas too much athletics would make them overly aggressive.)
Well, that's probably way more than anybody wanted to know, but I thought it was interesting when I saw it.
-- Scratch
