Song Learner Series for Worship Guitar Volume 1

Product Description

The Musicademy Song Learner Series for Worship Guitar Teaching contemporary worship songs in the context of 12-20 minute lessons which enable you to master appropriate strumming patterns, find easy shapes for complex sounding chords, cheats for quick chord changes, plus hints, tips and techniques which will further your playing beyond learning the song itself.

The Song Learner Series is ideally suited to students who have completed the Beginners Worship Guitar Course but are not yet ready for the more advanced teaching of the intermediate course. Song Learners build on the foundations of students' musical knowledge and teach how to play some of today's most popular contemporary worship songs properly. This is particularly useful where the most appropriate fingering and rhythm is not immediately obvious from a chord chart or music score.

Each lesson is significantly more than a quick run through of how to play the song. As experienced educators, we at Musicademy realise that students new to a musical principle need to have the information broken down, repeated slowly and then consolidated in the context of a song. The DVDs therefore show each new section of a song and play it through a few times before each element is bolted together in a step-by-step way. Using this methodology not only does the student understand the technique and how to apply to other songs, but also gets each sequence into muscle memory.

Each DVD has up to 2 hours running time and is coded Region 0 (will play anywhere in the world).

Volume 1

-Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
-Drone notes and augmented chords
-Strumming patterns for different song sections
-Slash chords with moving bass notes made esy
-How Great is Our God - Cash, Tomlin & Reeves Easy chord changes and a walkdown in G Add rhythm to your strumming by using bass and treble trings to mimic drum sounds
-When the Music Fades - Matt Redman Simple one finger chord changes in D A great 16th note strumming pattern that you can use with other songs
-I Could Sing of Your Love Forever - Martin Smith Useful open chords in E further up the guitar neck Great alternative cheat shapes for F#m and G#m without using a bar chord
-We Fall Down - Chris Tomlin One power chord shape with open strings for big sounds in E A generic slash chord shape that can be used all over the neck A sensitive strumming pattern that creates musical space but still sounds full
-Beautiful One - Tim Hughes Great cheat chord for Bm A 2-bar 8th-note strumming pattern for hte right groove with or without a drummer Palm muting to create musical tension and release
-In Christ Alone - Keith Getty & Stuart Townend One finger chord changes in D useful for songs and hymns with quick chord changes Set piece riffs that will help you play the complex parts of the song easily on guitar

Also see volumes 2 and 3 for more songs.