Popular Worship Songs on Guitar: Songs & Keys

It should be very encouraging to know that like Pop, Rock, and Country music, Worship songs are generally easy to play and very repetitive. It’s very cool that with only a few chords, you can play hundreds of popular worship songs on guitar.

The 1, 4, 5, pattern with a 6mi or 2mi and an occasional 7b or 5/7 pretty much sums up most of the modern songs on the radio. Ok so a 3mi maybe, but the diatonic chords of any major scale generally are used in our western music. Just take a simple “C” scale. “C Dmi Emi F G Ami Bdim C” We usually substitute a G/B for the 7th scale degree because diminished chords just don't sound modern.

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Easy Worship Songs For Guitar: Tips for Playing

Easy Worship Songs for Guitar

Most of the modern church friendly songs are 3-5 chord songs these days and are easy worship songs for guitar. The important thing in finding easy worship songs for guitar is finding a key that works for you as most “Worship Artist” are showcasing their range and ability on the recordings and even they lower the key for live to save their voice.

The other factor in doing easy worship songs for guitar is to pick a key the audience or congregation can sing in. For example, Chris Tomlin’s tune “How Great Is Our God” might have been recorded in Bb, but to make it more singable live and save the voice, he would do it in the key of A. It’s just a half step down, but it makes a big difference.

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Guitar Tuning: Best Methods, Options and Tips

In Guitar Tuning, A440 is the standard and most recognized pitch in Western music. That’s the first thing to remember as some tuners and or pitch pipes might not be perfect A440. We’ve used multiple tuners and it is possible that one of them might not be just right. Some of the foreign made tuners are just not calibrated right and there’s no way to adjust some of them.

There are several ways to tune your guitar. In this article, we will break down all the guitar tuning methods for you. For starters, you need your guitar strung properly. The small “E” or 1st string, then “B,” the second string, then “G,” then “D,” then “A,” and finally big “E.”

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Guitar Riffs and Guitar Licks: The Best of all Time

I’ve pondered this topic a while and looked at some other lists of awesome guitar riffs and guitar licks. Our favorites may not be yours, nor yours ours, so we’ll have to agree to just form a list together. If you’re new at this and wondering which guitar riffs and guitar licks should you learn, we’d say learn them all.

Here’s the deal, within all great guitar riff and guitar licks is knowledge and experience. There’s always a take away; eat the meat and spit out the bones sort of thing.

But, you’ll for sure find something you like about each of these classic guitar riffs and guitar licks. That is unless you’re so young and / or arrogant that you can’t be taught. Hopefully that’s not the case.

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Free Guitar Lessons: Best Websites & Apps

If you’re looking for free guitar lessons, you can find several options out there. So many that, in fact, it can be hard to find a great one amongst the useless pile of meh and so so lessons.

Not to worry, we’ve done some digging for you, bringing you top choices from YouTube, Guitar Lesson sites and apps for your iOS and Android devices. While different from one-on-one personal guitar lessons, and some of the best sites are paid sites, these free lessons should help to give you a taste of what online lessons are like and get you off to a great start.

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