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When it comes to leading worship, the right electric guitar can make or break the song. The sound, durability, and dependability of an electric guitar are all important considerations when performing in a worship setting. If you spend much time with an electric guitarist, you’ll find out quickly how important finding the right tone can be! Let's take a look at how to choose the best electric guitar for worship. 

Playing worship songs on the guitar is one of the most effective ways of leading others in worship and connecting with God. This blog post will walk you through the fundamentals as well as advanced strategies for playing worship songs on guitar. We’ll cover some basic guitar techniques, playing worship songs on guitar, and a few advanced techniques.

Christmas gifts for the guitar player are covered! I’ve listed all kinds of accessories as well as actual guitars from lowest to highest price. I own most of these products or have at least used them a good bit.

For acoustic guitars, there are a few things to consider when buying a guitar, and it mainly depends on your budget. I think of new acoustic guitars in terms of price tier. Each tier unlocks different options in a guitar. 

Over the past year I’ve been hard at work making an online worship training resource for both beginner worship leaders as well as seasoned ones. I’ve been teaching worship guitar lessons online now for a decade, so I wanted to offer something with a different angle that will help worship leaders with their week-to-week.

In my last article, I talked about the 5 Ways Nashville Numbers Will Change Your Life. So, if you don't even know what numbers are, start there. Otherwise, let's look at the basics of the system. Almost all music is a clever arrangement of 7 notes. Pick almost any song you can think of, and you'll hear a group of 7 notes that are used to create chords, melody lines, harmony parts, guitar solos, etc. Just 7 notes! It's pretty amazing really. This grouping is called a "key". So, you have the key of D, the key of G, etc. 

I remember sitting in a Nashville studio helping a friend track his record. We were working with a 9-time Dove Award winning producer who asked me if I could read Nashville Numbers. My immediate thought was: "uh-oh." I had heard about numbers but never really learned what it meant to read them. The other Nashville session players, of course, knew them inside and out. I, however, was just fortunate to have played the songs enough....

Once the guitar bug has bitten you and you know you're going to stick with it, it's inevitable that you're going to want to upgrade your beginner guitar. Depending on your situation, you may want to upgrade to a great guitar.  

I recently partnered with a church in NC and joined them for a trip to Prague. We had a few objectives while we were there. The main objective for the music team was to perform in schools and hostels in order to open some doors for a church plant in Prague.

After reading the reviews on this, I couldn't help but try it out and see what I thought. Over the years, I've seen all sorts of capos. The trick with the capo is to have it put the correct, even pressure on the strings, to be quickly accessible, and finally, easy to apply. Of course there is something to be said for looks.

Many times songs are so fast that it's necessary to only play down strokes (like an eighth note groove) for a particular song.

Martin Smith is the front man of the band "Delirious?" and has written songs like "I Could Sing of Your Love Forever," "History Maker," "Shout to the North," "Lord You Have My Heart," and more. He and the members of "the Parachute Band," had a Q&A with local worship leaders.

So you have a friend's bass and want to hook it up to your amp? The short answer to this is yes, but with a few warnings! You'll only want to do so at low volumes.

The first step is to define the scale that you want to learn in terms on intervals without a guitar. In other words, a major scale's intervals are whole, whole, half, whole, whole, whole, half.

There are all sorts of guitar shapes, and each has a particular function. The first step is to identify the sound you are looking for, and then you can correctly identify the shape guitar that is best for you.