Finger picking is a great way to play more intimate songs, or if you just want to have a completely different feel from flat picking. In this lesson, you’ll learn the basics of fingerpicking – how to place your hand, which fingers to use and your first basic finger picking pattern. It starts with your…
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The F chord is typically the first hard chord that many of us love to hate. You typically play it using a barre chord shape, but there are easier ways to play it. Here is the basic F shape that we’ll use in this lesson: The F Shape How it works The black circle on…
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Man of Sorrows is a great song for Easter, spanning both the death and resurrection of Christ.
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Most of us learned how to play a D chord very early on in our history of playing guitar. You can actually use this shape all over the fretboard to create interesting sounding chords and melodic lead playing. The D Shape How it works The note where your third (ring) finger is on the B…
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This song is covered by several artists, but the Matt Maher version is probably my favorite. Very congregational song.
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This song is a ton of fun to play and a great opener. Four chords on repeat the whole way through.
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[button link=”http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/boss-rv-5-digital-reverb-effects-pedal” size=”large” window=”yes”]Purchase an RV-5[/button] Nick demos the Modulate setting on the Boss RV-5 Reverb, and it sounds delicious. This is by far our favorite setting on this pedal, and where we feel it really shines. Perfect for swells and ambient sounds.
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[button link=”http://www.musiciansfriend.com/amplifiers-effects/boss-rv-5-digital-reverb-effects-pedal” size=”large” window=”yes”]Purchase an RV-5[/button] The RV-5 is a great sounding and very versatile reverb. In this demo, Nick walks through the Spring, Plate, Hall, Room, and Gate modes. In Part 2, we’ll show you the beautiful Modulate setting. Our favorite setting of these modes is the Hall setting, but they all sound pretty…
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[button link=”http://www.worshiptutorials.com/pads/” size=”large”]Purchase Pads here[/button] In the above video, I walk through the process to set up ProPresenter to play any audio file (specifically Pads) during a song or any other service element. How to set it up The process if pretty simple and straightforward. Import the Pads (or other audio) into ProPresenter in the…
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If you play guitar long enough (and if you use a capo), you will inevitably run into people who tell you that you shouldn’t use a capo ever. Or they’ll scratch their heads and ask why you’d ever use one in the first place. The most common things I’ve heard are this: Why not just…
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A mini review of the three different capos that I’ve owned. Kyser Quick Change Capo (~$15) [button link=”http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/kyser-quick-change-capo-6-string” size=”large” style=”tick” color=”green” window=”yes”]Purchase a Kyser Capo[/button] The Kyser is probably the most widely used capo that I’ve seen – you even see real working professional musicians using these all the time. Seems like everybody has one…
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View all our guitar lessons here Introduction The Key of B is not a super common key to play in – especially on acoustic. Usually you just see people play key of G chords with a capo on the 4th fret or key of A chords with a capo on the 2nd. One of the…
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