I've been playing worship guitar for about 25 years, much of that time leading from electric, but I learned a LOT from this. The alternate chord voicings you explore in this video are things I wish I had known from the beginning! How this video has been put together, with plain explanations, clear graphics, and perfect pacing for following along, is just simple excellence. Thank you for what is clearly an excellent level of care put into this video lesson.
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years, and started playing with our worship team last year (Yes, I'm the "old guy" on the worship team!) I learned so much from this video! This showed up in my feed, and I'm so glad it did! Consider me subscribed!
YUP. Played in tons of bands and tons of gigs...but now in worship band thinking....."what pretty chords I never used in my entire life".....BUT always got to keep learning your instrument so it's a blessing!
@@yellowjacket1709 Assuming you are playing rhythm I would study this video and practice. There are plenty of videos demonstrating the exact songs you are likely playing both for rhythm and lead. Study those and practice.
This is one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen. You are perfectly summing up the ultimate collection of chord versions. These have taken me years to discover and implement. Wish I had this before
CJ Robby, your channel is literally an answered prayer for me. Our worship team has been struggling with issues and conflict lately, and I myself have been weary from my own lack of progress as a guitarist, and the words GIVE UP kept crossing my mind. When you shared Galatians 6:9 at the end of this video, it just hit me like a rock and I immediately felt encouraged to keep going, not to mention I learnt more than I ever have on music theory from this video. Thank you and God Bless! Please keep making these videos!
Hi Ron! I play guitar on the worship team at my church and I am not the greatest guitarist either. I do the best I can. I just don't have that "shredder" ability. I am playing better than I have ever played before. I even do some cool easy lead guitar stuff here and there.
Thanks for sharing! I understand the struggle that being part of a worship team can bring. I'm so glad you've found some encouragment through these vids! God Bless!
This is awesome. I dabbled on the guitar for years with no purpose but started playing bass with my small church and then guitar opened up. I'm the only guitarist and I'm playing electric. I hear these chords and i see them on sheet music, but I didn't know how to move through them. This is a God send.
Dude, this is exactly the video I needed a few years ago when I started playing in church! I had been playing guitar in rock and metal bands for so many years before getting into worship, and I never listened to worship music before playing at a church lol. So for me the transition to a worship guitarist was rough. I always wondered how they got such open and beautiful sounding chords I’d hear on the tracks and just had to figure it out on my own. This video affirmed what I learned over the years and more importantly filled in all the gaps. Thank you 🙏🏼
I unapologetically love worship music and the guitar style of the genre. I have watched countless videos in relation to the subject and this is by far the best content value I have ever watched. Thanks for your efforts and know they don’t go unappreciated. There are several members on my team I want to share this with. This is the first time I have ever taken the time to comment on a video, but I wanted to encourage you. God bless you brother!
I've been playing for 30 years and in church off and on for the last 15. I use a lot of what you're doing here, which I got to by just trying NOT to play what the acoustic was playing. Great content that I wish had been around years ago. Had to unlearn or ignore a lot of my classic rock/blues background but it still sneaks into my playing at church
I am so blessed by this. I have wondered, for so long when I write worship songs why they just didn't sound right. Thank you thank you. My playing has definitely leveled up discovering this.
This is a really good starting point. Of course once we are familiar with all of the triads and inversions we can play wherever we want without a capo, and also put the notes we want at the top of the chord voicing we're using (or anywhere else :).
Absolutely! The purpose of this channel (which I haven't explained well) is going to be focused on demystifying the music for beginner and struggling guitarists. Thanks for the comment.
Yo dude, awesome video! I love the all the ideas /variations. I play a lot in E and generally use most of the variations you showed already but there were a couple that made me go "whoa, must use!" Thank you so much!
Very nice lesson. Have been playing in a Worship band for the past 15 year. Prior to that, I played in bands doing all the usual rock and blues guitar driven songs. Worship music in particular is better served with chords like you've shown here in addition to the numerous triads that are available. Very few full barre chords are needed or even desirable in most CCM. Great presentation!
This is GREAT info!!! Clear, concise and tailored to worship style and then some! Also, you are a fantastic teacher, I’m looking forward to more videos!
This guitar channel is truly exceptional! As an worship music enthusiast, I’ve immersed myself in countless videos related to this genre. Without a doubt, this content provides unparalleled value. The information is crystal clear, concise, and perfectly suited to worship style. Additionally, your teaching skills are fantastic-I eagerly anticipate more videos from you!
Another superb video, CJ, thank you. I've been playing guitar for 40 years but only really moved to electric ten years ago. Your tips on economy of movement and voicings that sound great but also easy are just priceless!
Great video. I’ve been playing worship on and off, mostly on, for the last 24 years. As I got more confidence, I would play chords the way I wanted to, sometimes doing chord substitutions, as long as they worked out and fit what everybody else was playing. One of the greatest things about especially electric guitar is how you can move some fingers and not others, creating great color tones in chords. Very Phil Keaggy and Alex Lifeson. You are helping out a lot of people here and expanding their musicality by teaching them this. This is great.
I honestly just found your channel yesterday and between this video and your "Powerful Electric Parts" video, you have unlocked new parts of my brain. Your 7 chords of the Major Key chart is extremely helpful. I am a youth pastor and with one of the worship leaders, we have a worship band made up of youth group students. There is a constant flow of new members with every new school year, but we also lose the most experienced every year. These videos will definitely be a tool that we use in aiding new students coming into the band. I can't wait to see how much this channel grows in the future! Thank you so much for the hard work you are putting in. The seeds you are planting have roots that run for miles. God bless you! Jesus loves you!
Hey man, I‘m a working as a professional guitarist since decades and still can learn from this lesson. Not so much the single voicings, but the concept behind it. Great job! 👍👍👍
Wow! Great job. I can’t imagine how many hours of work it took to put this together, you did a great job … thanks. I set the guitar down for about 15 years because I got board as I was not learning anything new and just recently picked it back up to help our worship leader. He is a young guy and knows a lot so I’m learning like crazy. He taught me about the worship G chording positions and I wanted to learn about C, D, E, and A. Another youtube taught me about figuring out how to use my capo, know where to place it for the key I want, and what chord shapes to use to play in that key. It’s very empowering. I’ll be going over this video several times to pull out all of the information so thank you very much. To my ear with the anchor notes, it just sounds like drowning at times, like a pad. It sounds good for a few songs but when it’s every song … especially if the whole worship set uses the same chord shapes, it really takes away from the fullness and differentiation of the song. With a full band you could literally just play the anchor notes and nobody would know the difference. In fact, just play the anchor notes and strum a rhythm and you could get away with just that because the one other note that is added is often drowned out by the anchor note(s). Ok, soap box put away … :^) All that being said, I love learning new stuff and will not purposely do anything that doesn’t fit with what my worship leader wants or needs so this video is very helpful. It’s more tricks in the bag for me to pull from.
Glad it was helpful! I do agree about the droning sound of the anchor position. I teach these positions to guitarists as an easy place to START to add value to their team but def not a place to STAY. Ultimately our chord voicings need to support the melody. I think someone can get stuck just playing these chords or just playing cowboy chords never growing because they don't understand the greater purpose of the voicings they're using! Hope this continues to help! Thank you
Dude this guy needs some more love. Ive played guitar (in general) for over 13 years and seeing these other ways to play in the key of E (I use power chord variants) this was fun to use today for worship, i suprised my guitar bro's on band 🤣
Fantastic video. Thank you so much for it. I am the sole electric guitarist at my church, (and a novice, at that), so this has been incredibly helpful in aiding me to move on from barre chords. You've earned my sub!
Thank you very much Sir. This will help me a lot for my guitar playing. I remember this when I was in the band our keyboard player taught me a chords on 1 st position,2 nd position etc. so you don’t need to jump from one place and come back. Make sense. I’m just basic on guitar. But same concept. Thanks again.
Great content. I will be tuning in as you develop the channel and will definitely be recommending it to budding new worship guitarists. Thank you for your time and effort.
Love the Tiger's hat... It makes everything everything just that much better. Thanks for the tips on the E chord family group. I needs must work on that one. congrats on this new channel
I've learned a ton from your content! I play lead/rhythm in a worship group and I see myself as kind of the "fill-out guy" in that I seek to fill in gaps and make the song fuller and more interesting. Your lessons go a long way toward that! I've gone from being a, "guitar player" to a musician who happens to play guitar.
Best worship guitar channel ever! Thank you. Full of things to add value to a worship team! Please post your video you talked about on thirds. Your video on fifths was amazing. God bless! So helpful.
I don't think music used for worship has to be any certain style or genre - as long as it's edifying. The reference to "modern worship music" as referenced in these videos is speaking to the musical characteristics of songs found mainly in the CCLI Top 50.
Well, how timely! Thank you CJ for this lesson. I'll be applying these techniques right away (playing next Sunday). I mostly cover rhythm electric guitar as I don't know the fretboard well so chords are very important at this time. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers from Canada!
One starting recipe: Fast song: palm mute these chords on verses, open it up for the chorus. Slow song: finger pick these chords on verses and open it up for the chorus!
I have watched this video 3xs and i finally understand the anchor positioning!!! wow love it. And i was really angry at your key of E voicings. but now i love it
I really learned so much from this lesson. I'm definitely a beginner, so this will help me in so many ways. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing this to us.
Pete Townshend chords right there my friend. He played all his open chords in this way, muting the third etc. Nice lesson. I like your guitar. really nice looking instrument and tone.
I have been playing guitar for a long time but I am very new to playing with a praise and worship team, and this video plus your power of fifths video are invaluable lessons for people in my situation. As you said, the traditional chords we have all learned are not usually the best fit for worship songs. Especially with me being the 2nd or even 3rd acoustic on stage at times, I am very conscious of wanting to add value and not muddying up the sound. Thank you very much for posting these videos, I have subscribed and I look forward to what you share in the future!
Wow, this was unexpectedly helpful for all of my playing, any genre. I feel kinda dumb for not seeing this earlier and feel thankful for your time and effort sharing it.
I’m a late starting guitarist & like others notice the don’t give up message. I’ve been at it for about 4 years and have had minimal music theory, but you just helped explain why it is important. I’ve used Chordify since I typically play alone but noticed the chords are typically different from how the actual musicians play. It seems focused primarily for acoustic guitar although strumming and or tabs are absent. I have often wondered how do you know which position to start. I learned a lot today. The tips about finger pressure was excellent. Also, thanks for the chord charts, keys and graphics ,voicings, and capo usage. I think too many tutorials end up being someone rushing through too quickly while also showcasing their skills. Your style is excellent.
This video is a huge time saver! I’m an advanced acoustic guitarist but I’ve never had to use the Nashville number system until now. I was thinking how long it would take to learn all the chord numbers for all the keys, but it only took this video!
Loving your videos so far - thank you for putting this content out. I've been playing bass for a couple years. Now I am trying to get to a level where I can be "tolerated" playing guitar and these lessons have helped a lot. Hope to move up to "tolerated" and then quickly pass onto "helpful" or maybe even "needed" quickly....
What a blessing this video is, what is fascinating is a lot of what you explained i have been doing instinctively, using my ear to hear the voicings,plus years ago i noticed Chris Tomlin using the "anchor "notes on most of his chords,the ironic thing is many of my more accomplished guitar friends poo pooed the idea that modern worship was a style/genre all on it's own
Thanks for the feedback! I’ve heard that same push back regarding style. It’s helped me a lot to understand the Style conversation less as an expression of frivolous preference and more as communication strategy. Style should serve the story we’re telling through the song and be something that makes sense for the people in our local church.
That's like a bunch of overpriced online guitar courses and 2 years of music school condensed in ONE video! My mission now is to get all of those shapes in my psychical memory. God bless you, brother, your work is excellent!
Great video brother. Super appreciate the theory at the end (I'm a theory nerd in the making). I've been playing guitar for a little over a year (electric exclusively), but just started playing live and with our worship band a few weeks ago and stuff like this is super helpful. Keep 'em coming. Subscribed!
I always strive for that Hillsong united sound, you've given me so many great options now with this video sir, i wanna learn and nail all of them! 😁 Thank you, much appreciated from South Africa! ❤🇿🇦💯✅👌
I'm a recovering Christian who still believes in Christ but leaning toward the Mystical, spiritualist, scientific side. I still listen to worship sometimes but regardless, I've been playing guitar 14 years now and always appreciate guitar lesson that go over the key of E. It's beautiful and so easy to instantly sound more melodic
I’ve been down your road and see that it’s great that you’re seeking God. I had a journey a few years ago where I had come to a point where I questioned my beliefs, as a scientist, and had to ask myself i I truly believed in God and Christianity or whether it was indoctrination. I got into many mystical practices, chakras, hoodoo, divination, drugs, etc… you name it, searching for the truth. Ultimately, I returned back to the Bible after coming to the end of myself and asking God for wisdom. I can tell you from that most systems out there are not imaginary and there is something behind it, but there are lies all within in. Long story short, I had literally come to a point where I had to choose between God and Lucifer, no exaggeration. I won’t tell you not to go in your journey, but I will say a word of caution as far as dabbling into other spiritual practices. Always ask for the wisdom from the Holy Spirit to come to an understanding. Ultimately you’ll find that most of answers to your questions are found in the Bible and looking into historical context. Check out Michael Heiser, Into the Spiritual Realm. Great source on the road back into Christianity with spiritual eyes. I’ll be praying that you gain the wisdom that you’re seeking and will be a good leader to others
Appreciate this video a lot recently joined our worship team and was feeling pretty intimidated by all the sus chords but this really cleared it up! I was trying to barre them all but these anchors make it way easier!
Thank you for this. 62 yrs old....picked up the guitar after 30 years. You have given me an expressway to musical creativity. Thanks! Will Donate to your channel. How?
This will be very useful for me. I will be playing this Sunday on a Gibson J45, and I think I’ll have a chance to play a Gibson SG that I just got. This week I’ll play acoustic rhythm on Amazing Love (You Are My King).
Great lesson! I really enjoyed this.. also enjoyed the Reverend. I have an American made Reverend Slingshot, Blood Red, Gold pick guard. I needed this lesson been leading from the electric the past few weeks, but I lack the confidence that I have from my acoustic. Thanks!
Great effort making this video 👍🏻 Yet, those alternate chords voicing turn to chord add-ons when you go to IV, V, vi. It is great when you’re on your own, but when you are a part of a band they can really spoil it all, I’ve heard it on many occasions. Even big time guys are guilty of bringing in some disharmony by those “alternate voicing”. One should really know what they are doing when using that kinda stuff and learn some basic harmony first. I agree, it does sound like something fresh, but most often plain chords are preferable.
I agree, there are many times using these extensions do not support the melody and are not the appropriate chord. But, usually the chord chart indicates when to and when not to use them. And a discussion about melody support/harmony is vital but another layer of consideration for another video. This video exists more to expose new and struggling guitarists to these chords as possible options that can be easily integrated into their chord base. Thanks for feedback!
In my church we play all sorts of chords. Polychords, tri-tone substitutions, dimished chords, #5 #9 chords, and some songs not the majority we even modulate keys. So yeah.... We mostly use 5-7 chords when playing from the old hymn book
I actually gave up already 😅 I'm a church drummer but I can't escape the need to play guitar...😅 but it's like battle man, need to see chords to play along 🤭🫣 15 year guitar noob to be honest
Great channel brother! I’ve started playing electric again for our PW band, it was acoustic only last couple years and thought my electric days were over. I’ll apply these tips for sure. Thanks for sharing.
This video was so helpful! I see a lot of negative comments about how modern worship is too simple and bland or doesn’t take much skill but this video is super helpful for me as a beginner. I’m of the mindset that complexity doesn’t at all guarantee better music and I appreciate that a lot of worship songs are written so that they can be reproduced by less talented musicians. I did have one question about the video, why is the bass E in Em7 muted on the chart? It looks like you actually are playing it in the video, though. Thanks so much for the time and effort that you put into this video!
Thanks for the comment! This channel is specifically for guitarists like you who are beginning or trying to figure out the style. So I hope this can be helpful to you. And yes, there's a mistake in my graphic. I def keep that E open. Appreciate the feedback!
WoW ! What a treasure I Found ! May Our Lord Jesus inspires you more to deliver high quality content. I wanted to know if there was a specific trick to identify the anchor position of any key ? Thank you in advance.
Great video, this is going to be helpful for me to add some acoustic guitar skills. Odd you haven't encountered the key of D much, so many of our songs are in that key. Also we use the ii and iii chords a lot, they should be treated as important IMO. Thanks for the good work!
Glad it will be helpful! For the key of D, my point wasn't that songs aren't in the key of D but that when a song is in the key of D, a lot of the guitarists on the albums often choose to capo and play in another key to access those voicings. I think the key of D has a lot of great options. And, most of the material on this channel will be in response to the musical characteristics of the CCLI top 50 which use the I, IV, V, and vi chords the vast majority of the time. But, I will be putting out a video soon addressing some of the options we have for the ii and iii chords.
Thanks! And I think you're right on. Doesn't matter how the good the voicing sounds by itself, if it doesn't support the melody in the song, it needs to be changed.
Honestly im already using those chords.. but dont know what are those but it sounded good to my ears so i used them instead of proper chords, more like alternative?
I've been playing worship guitar for about 25 years, much of that time leading from electric, but I learned a LOT from this. The alternate chord voicings you explore in this video are things I wish I had known from the beginning! How this video has been put together, with plain explanations, clear graphics, and perfect pacing for following along, is just simple excellence. Thank you for what is clearly an excellent level of care put into this video lesson.
Thank you so much for the encouragement!
Required chords? G, C, D and a capo!
I've been playing guitar for over 40 years, and started playing with our worship team last year (Yes, I'm the "old guy" on the worship team!) I learned so much from this video! This showed up in my feed, and I'm so glad it did! Consider me subscribed!
So glad it helped!
YUP. Played in tons of bands and tons of gigs...but now in worship band thinking....."what pretty chords I never used in my entire life".....BUT always got to keep learning your instrument so it's a blessing!
Don't tell your pastor you used to play guitar... you'll end up like me playing guitar and bass for the worship team.
M not a professional like all of you here but somehow I learned and play in Church so can anyone help me to be better please
@@yellowjacket1709 Assuming you are playing rhythm I would study this video and practice. There are plenty of videos demonstrating the exact songs you are likely playing both for rhythm and lead. Study those and practice.
This just showed up so I listened…. I’m hearing so much more than just worship music. Excellent video.
So glad it connected! Thank you
My thoughts exactly! Excellent lesson!
This is one of the best tutorials I’ve ever seen. You are perfectly summing up the ultimate collection of chord versions. These have taken me years to discover and implement. Wish I had this before
Wow, thank you!
CJ Robby, your channel is literally an answered prayer for me. Our worship team has been struggling with issues and conflict lately, and I myself have been weary from my own lack of progress as a guitarist, and the words GIVE UP kept crossing my mind. When you shared Galatians 6:9 at the end of this video, it just hit me like a rock and I immediately felt encouraged to keep going, not to mention I learnt more than I ever have on music theory from this video. Thank you and God Bless! Please keep making these videos!
Hi Ron! I play guitar on the worship team at my church and I am not the greatest guitarist either. I do the best I can. I just don't have that "shredder" ability. I am playing better than I have ever played before. I even do some cool easy lead guitar stuff here and there.
Thanks for sharing! I understand the struggle that being part of a worship team can bring. I'm so glad you've found some encouragment through these vids! God Bless!
This is awesome. I dabbled on the guitar for years with no purpose but started playing bass with my small church and then guitar opened up. I'm the only guitarist and I'm playing electric. I hear these chords and i see them on sheet music, but I didn't know how to move through them. This is a God send.
That's great to hear!
I saw this ages ago, had to quit playing because of toxic ministry, but God is God, he is in control. Need to watch it again. Thank you so much!
You're welcome! Don't Give Up!
Dude, this is exactly the video I needed a few years ago when I started playing in church! I had been playing guitar in rock and metal bands for so many years before getting into worship, and I never listened to worship music before playing at a church lol. So for me the transition to a worship guitarist was rough. I always wondered how they got such open and beautiful sounding chords I’d hear on the tracks and just had to figure it out on my own. This video affirmed what I learned over the years and more importantly filled in all the gaps. Thank you 🙏🏼
That's great to hear!
I unapologetically love worship music and the guitar style of the genre. I have watched countless videos in relation to the subject and this is by far the best content value I have ever watched.
Thanks for your efforts and know they don’t go unappreciated.
There are several members on my team I want to share this with.
This is the first time I have ever taken the time to comment on a video, but I wanted to encourage you.
God bless you brother!
Thanks for the encouragement! I hope it can help your team!
I've been playing for 30 years and in church off and on for the last 15. I use a lot of what you're doing here, which I got to by just trying NOT to play what the acoustic was playing. Great content that I wish had been around years ago. Had to unlearn or ignore a lot of my classic rock/blues background but it still sneaks into my playing at church
I hear you. Our habits from other styles are hard to shed.
I am so blessed by this. I have wondered, for so long when I write worship songs why they just didn't sound right. Thank you thank you. My playing has definitely leveled up discovering this.
Glad it was helpful!
This is a really good starting point. Of course once we are familiar with all of the triads and inversions we can play wherever we want without a capo, and also put the notes we want at the top of the chord voicing we're using (or anywhere else :).
Absolutely! The purpose of this channel (which I haven't explained well) is going to be focused on demystifying the music for beginner and struggling guitarists. Thanks for the comment.
This is one of the best guitar tutorials I've ever seen! Thanks for your amazing work!
Wow, thanks! Really appreciate the encouragement!
Yo dude, awesome video! I love the all the ideas /variations. I play a lot in E and generally use most of the variations you showed already but there were a couple that made me go "whoa, must use!" Thank you so much!
Awesome, thank you!
Very nice lesson. Have been playing in a Worship band for the past 15 year. Prior to that, I played in bands doing all the usual rock and blues guitar driven songs. Worship music in particular is better served with chords like you've shown here in addition to the numerous triads that are available. Very few full barre chords are needed or even desirable in most CCM. Great presentation!
Thanks for sharing!
This is GREAT info!!! Clear, concise and tailored to worship style and then some! Also, you are a fantastic teacher, I’m looking forward to more videos!
Really appreciate the encouragement, thank you!
This guitar channel is truly exceptional! As an worship music enthusiast, I’ve immersed myself in countless videos related to this genre. Without a doubt, this content provides unparalleled value. The information is crystal clear, concise, and perfectly suited to worship style. Additionally, your teaching skills are fantastic-I eagerly anticipate more videos from you!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Thank you, it add colours to my personal worship and worship in cell group.
Wonderful!
There's something refreshing and delightful in your presentation of information. Enjoyed the content and subbed!
Thanks for the encouragement!
Another superb video, CJ, thank you. I've been playing guitar for 40 years but only really moved to electric ten years ago. Your tips on economy of movement and voicings that sound great but also easy are just priceless!
That's so great to hear!
Great video. I’ve been playing worship on and off, mostly on, for the last 24 years. As I got more confidence, I would play chords the way I wanted to, sometimes doing chord substitutions, as long as they worked out and fit what everybody else was playing. One of the greatest things about especially electric guitar is how you can move some fingers and not others, creating great color tones in chords. Very Phil Keaggy and Alex Lifeson. You are helping out a lot of people here and expanding their musicality by teaching them this. This is great.
Thank you so much for the encouragement!
I honestly just found your channel yesterday and between this video and your "Powerful Electric Parts" video, you have unlocked new parts of my brain. Your 7 chords of the Major Key chart is extremely helpful. I am a youth pastor and with one of the worship leaders, we have a worship band made up of youth group students. There is a constant flow of new members with every new school year, but we also lose the most experienced every year. These videos will definitely be a tool that we use in aiding new students coming into the band. I can't wait to see how much this channel grows in the future! Thank you so much for the hard work you are putting in. The seeds you are planting have roots that run for miles. God bless you! Jesus loves you!
I used to do college ministry. The attrition and constant change is sooo challenging. And thank you so much for the encouragement.
Hey man, I‘m a working as a professional guitarist since decades and still can learn from this lesson. Not so much the single voicings, but the concept behind it. Great job! 👍👍👍
Great to hear!
Wow! Great job. I can’t imagine how many hours of work it took to put this together, you did a great job … thanks. I set the guitar down for about 15 years because I got board as I was not learning anything new and just recently picked it back up to help our worship leader. He is a young guy and knows a lot so I’m learning like crazy. He taught me about the worship G chording positions and I wanted to learn about C, D, E, and A. Another youtube taught me about figuring out how to use my capo, know where to place it for the key I want, and what chord shapes to use to play in that key. It’s very empowering. I’ll be going over this video several times to pull out all of the information so thank you very much.
To my ear with the anchor notes, it just sounds like drowning at times, like a pad. It sounds good for a few songs but when it’s every song … especially if the whole worship set uses the same chord shapes, it really takes away from the fullness and differentiation of the song. With a full band you could literally just play the anchor notes and nobody would know the difference. In fact, just play the anchor notes and strum a rhythm and you could get away with just that because the one other note that is added is often drowned out by the anchor note(s). Ok, soap box put away … :^) All that being said, I love learning new stuff and will not purposely do anything that doesn’t fit with what my worship leader wants or needs so this video is very helpful. It’s more tricks in the bag for me to pull from.
Glad it was helpful! I do agree about the droning sound of the anchor position. I teach these positions to guitarists as an easy place to START to add value to their team but def not a place to STAY. Ultimately our chord voicings need to support the melody. I think someone can get stuck just playing these chords or just playing cowboy chords never growing because they don't understand the greater purpose of the voicings they're using! Hope this continues to help! Thank you
Dude this guy needs some more love. Ive played guitar (in general) for over 13 years and seeing these other ways to play in the key of E (I use power chord variants) this was fun to use today for worship, i suprised my guitar bro's on band 🤣
Thanks! It's always fun to surprise the team!
Fantastic video. Thank you so much for it. I am the sole electric guitarist at my church, (and a novice, at that), so this has been incredibly helpful in aiding me to move on from barre chords. You've earned my sub!
So glad it's helping! Make sure to keep me updated on how you're progressing. cj@dontgiveup.pro
I can't believe that I watched this for free! What a awesome content! Thank you. Greetings from Brazil!
So glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much Sir. This will help me a lot for my guitar playing. I remember this when I was in the band our keyboard player taught me a chords on 1 st position,2 nd position etc. so you don’t need to jump from one place and come back. Make sense. I’m just basic on guitar. But same concept. Thanks again.
Noob here and not a worship music fan, but I like the sounds of the chord progressions. Thank you for this lesson. New sub
Thanks for the sub!
Great content. I will be tuning in as you develop the channel and will definitely be recommending it to budding new worship guitarists. Thank you for your time and effort.
Awesome, thank you for the encouragement!
Love the Tiger's hat... It makes everything everything just that much better. Thanks for the tips on the E chord family group. I needs must work on that one. congrats on this new channel
Right on! Love Detroit! And thank you!
This is the single most useful and enlightening guitar instructional video I have ever watched
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I've learned a ton from your content! I play lead/rhythm in a worship group and I see myself as kind of the "fill-out guy" in that I seek to fill in gaps and make the song fuller and more interesting. Your lessons go a long way toward that! I've gone from being a, "guitar player" to a musician who happens to play guitar.
That’s so great to hear! I’m glad it’s helped!
Best worship guitar channel ever! Thank you. Full of things to add value to a worship team! Please post your video you talked about on thirds. Your video on fifths was amazing. God bless! So helpful.
Thank you! So glad it was helpful. More videos coming soon!
Thank you, sir, this video is very helpful to someone how is trying to learn guitar, your theory and teaching still is awesome
You're very welcome!
Very informative, your style of teaching is great for beginners. You now have a new subscriber. Thank you!
Welcome!
Thanks for tacking D on the end since it is a super common key.
Great help brother! ❤️ Glory to God! 🙏
Love the video and the teaching -- I just grieve the typification of "worship music" as a particular sound or genre.
I don't think music used for worship has to be any certain style or genre - as long as it's edifying. The reference to "modern worship music" as referenced in these videos is speaking to the musical characteristics of songs found mainly in the CCLI Top 50.
Well, how timely! Thank you CJ for this lesson. I'll be applying these techniques right away (playing next Sunday). I mostly cover rhythm electric guitar as I don't know the fretboard well so chords are very important at this time. Looking forward to watching more of your videos. Cheers from Canada!
So glad it was helpful!
Love these videos! I’m the only guitarist in our praise band. Could you share some techniques for playing rhythm on electric?
I’ll def be covering that in some future content. Thanks for the feedback!
One starting recipe:
Fast song: palm mute these chords on verses, open it up for the chorus.
Slow song: finger pick these chords on verses and open it up for the chorus!
I have watched this video 3xs and i finally understand the anchor positioning!!! wow love it.
And i was really angry at your key of E voicings. but now i love it
Haha! That’s great to hear!
I really learned so much from this lesson. I'm definitely a beginner, so this will help me in so many ways. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing this to us.
You're very welcome!
Wonderful! Refreshing! Beautiful!! Thanks so much! I’ll use these ideas to worship and glorify Jesus!!!!! Blessings to you for sharing!!!!
Enjoy!
Pete Townshend chords right there my friend. He played all his open chords in this way, muting the third etc. Nice lesson. I like your guitar. really nice looking instrument and tone.
I didn't know that! Thanks for the insight!
Very good! The older I get the more I find out I don't know! Thank you!
You are so welcome! As I get older I'm discovering the same thing.
Wow!!! Thanks. This is like a college course for this old guy. I subscribed & saved to work on when I make time. Great stuff!!!
I hope it can continue to be helpful. Enjoy!
Thank you for this channel! Bless you! Keep it coming
Thank you! Will do!
I have been playing guitar for a long time but I am very new to playing with a praise and worship team, and this video plus your power of fifths video are invaluable lessons for people in my situation. As you said, the traditional chords we have all learned are not usually the best fit for worship songs. Especially with me being the 2nd or even 3rd acoustic on stage at times, I am very conscious of wanting to add value and not muddying up the sound. Thank you very much for posting these videos, I have subscribed and I look forward to what you share in the future!
I'm so glad it helped! Looking forwarded to releasing more content soon!
Wow, this was unexpectedly helpful for all of my playing, any genre. I feel kinda dumb for not seeing this earlier and feel thankful for your time and effort sharing it.
Glad you found it helpful!
I’m a late starting guitarist & like others notice the don’t give up message. I’ve been at it for about 4 years and have had minimal music theory, but you just helped explain why it is important. I’ve used Chordify since I typically play alone but noticed the chords are typically different from how the actual musicians play. It seems focused primarily for acoustic guitar although strumming and or tabs are absent. I have often wondered how do you know which position to start. I learned a lot today. The tips about finger pressure was excellent. Also, thanks for the chord charts, keys and graphics ,voicings, and capo usage. I think too many tutorials end up being someone rushing through too quickly while also showcasing their skills. Your style is excellent.
So glad it was helpful!
This video is a huge time saver! I’m an advanced acoustic guitarist but I’ve never had to use the Nashville number system until now. I was thinking how long it would take to learn all the chord numbers for all the keys, but it only took this video!
So glad it was helpful! Make sure to check out my LIVE class on the Number System: www.dontgiveup.pro/nashville-numbers
This video is GOLD! Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
This is such a well put together explanation, what a great resource for upcoming worship muscians
Appreciate the encouragement! Thank you
Loving your videos so far - thank you for putting this content out. I've been playing bass for a couple years. Now I am trying to get to a level where I can be "tolerated" playing guitar and these lessons have helped a lot. Hope to move up to "tolerated" and then quickly pass onto "helpful" or maybe even "needed" quickly....
I'm glad these videos could help! I don't doubt you'll become helpful in no time!
What a blessing this video is, what is fascinating is a lot of what you explained i have been doing instinctively, using my ear to hear the voicings,plus years ago i noticed Chris Tomlin using the "anchor "notes on most of his chords,the ironic thing is many of my more accomplished guitar friends poo pooed the idea that modern worship was a style/genre all on it's own
Thanks for the feedback! I’ve heard that same push back regarding style. It’s helped me a lot to understand the Style conversation less as an expression of frivolous preference and more as communication strategy. Style should serve the story we’re telling through the song and be something that makes sense for the people in our local church.
So much here to unpack. I've never clicked subscribe so fast.
Thank you!
God bless best teacher in the world thanks
Thank you!
That's like a bunch of overpriced online guitar courses and 2 years of music school condensed in ONE video!
My mission now is to get all of those shapes in my psychical memory. God bless you, brother, your work is excellent!
Thank you!
Great video brother. Super appreciate the theory at the end (I'm a theory nerd in the making). I've been playing guitar for a little over a year (electric exclusively), but just started playing live and with our worship band a few weeks ago and stuff like this is super helpful. Keep 'em coming. Subscribed!
Very cool! Glad it was helpful!
I always strive for that Hillsong united sound, you've given me so many great options now with this video sir, i wanna learn and nail all of them! 😁 Thank you, much appreciated from South Africa! ❤🇿🇦💯✅👌
I hope it continues to help!
Pure GOLD and time saving! Thank u very much🙌🏻
Glad it helped!
Thank you and God bless you!
Same to you!
Great teacher, thanx so much! Blessings🙌Daniel
My pleasure!
I'm a recovering Christian who still believes in Christ but leaning toward the Mystical, spiritualist, scientific side. I still listen to worship sometimes but regardless, I've been playing guitar 14 years now and always appreciate guitar lesson that go over the key of E. It's beautiful and so easy to instantly sound more melodic
I’ve been down your road and see that it’s great that you’re seeking God. I had a journey a few years ago where I had come to a point where I questioned my beliefs, as a scientist, and had to ask myself i I truly believed in God and Christianity or whether it was indoctrination. I got into many mystical practices, chakras, hoodoo, divination, drugs, etc… you name it, searching for the truth. Ultimately, I returned back to the Bible after coming to the end of myself and asking God for wisdom. I can tell you from that most systems out there are not imaginary and there is something behind it, but there are lies all within in. Long story short, I had literally come to a point where I had to choose between God and Lucifer, no exaggeration.
I won’t tell you not to go in your journey, but I will say a word of caution as far as dabbling into other spiritual practices. Always ask for the wisdom from the Holy Spirit to come to an understanding. Ultimately you’ll find that most of answers to your questions are found in the Bible and looking into historical context.
Check out Michael Heiser, Into the Spiritual Realm. Great source on the road back into Christianity with spiritual eyes.
I’ll be praying that you gain the wisdom that you’re seeking and will be a good leader to others
Glad you liked it!
So glad I found you’re channel
Me too!
Have really enjoyed your videos so far! Looking forward to some future videos with hopefully some more advanced content!
Appreciate this video a lot recently joined our worship team and was feeling pretty intimidated by all the sus chords but this really cleared it up! I was trying to barre them all but these anchors make it way easier!
That's great to hear!
Great Reverend Guitar :)
Thank you for this. 62 yrs old....picked up the guitar after 30 years. You have given me an expressway to musical creativity. Thanks! Will Donate to your channel. How?
So glad to hear that it's helping spark creativity! And I don't have a donate option yet. But maybe soon. Thank you!
This will be very useful for me. I will be playing this Sunday on a Gibson J45, and I think I’ll have a chance to play a Gibson SG that I just got. This week I’ll play acoustic rhythm on Amazing Love (You Are My King).
I hope they helped!
Great lesson! I really enjoyed this.. also enjoyed the Reverend. I have an American made Reverend Slingshot, Blood Red, Gold pick guard. I needed this lesson been leading from the electric the past few weeks, but I lack the confidence that I have from my acoustic. Thanks!
I love Reverend's! Glad the chord voicings are helping!
Fantastic video! Lots I can use. Thank you very much
Glad it was helpful!
this is gold. very clear and I already applied it in my playing. thanks!
Fantastic! Great to hear!
Amazing. I have noticed some similar patterns organically but it great to have them in a system like this
Glad you like it!
Can you do a video that helps explain ‘how’ to use the Capo to adjust the key?
I'll think through that. But there are some good videos on TH-cam I think that can walk you through using a Capo. Thanks!
Great video, and love the Reverend
Thanks!
I'm very glad I stayed long enough to be intrigued. I received great value from this video
Glad to hear it!
Great effort making this video 👍🏻
Yet, those alternate chords voicing turn to chord add-ons when you go to IV, V, vi. It is great when you’re on your own, but when you are a part of a band they can really spoil it all, I’ve heard it on many occasions. Even big time guys are guilty of bringing in some disharmony by those “alternate voicing”. One should really know what they are doing when using that kinda stuff and learn some basic harmony first.
I agree, it does sound like something fresh, but most often plain chords are preferable.
I agree, there are many times using these extensions do not support the melody and are not the appropriate chord. But, usually the chord chart indicates when to and when not to use them. And a discussion about melody support/harmony is vital but another layer of consideration for another video. This video exists more to expose new and struggling guitarists to these chords as possible options that can be easily integrated into their chord base. Thanks for feedback!
Brilliant eye opener. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
The similarities between Modern Worship and European Power Metal are abundant. Chord progressions lay the foundation.
Very interesting. Which Euro groups?
No, no, no… not specific bands but a genre to genre.
No, no, no… not specific bands but a genre to genre.
In my church we play all sorts of chords. Polychords, tri-tone substitutions, dimished chords, #5 #9 chords, and some songs not the majority we even modulate keys. So yeah....
We mostly use 5-7 chords when playing from the old hymn book
You mentioned other teaching/videos beyond the two videos you have here on this channel. Could you provide a link please?
More videos coming soon! Thanks!
I love how I sort of just learned all of these by osmosis over the years
Nice!
Great lesson 🎉thanks
My pleasure!
FINALLY! FOUND THIS. 😭😭
Thank you very very much bro. ❤❤
So glad it was helpful!!
I actually gave up already 😅
I'm a church drummer but I can't escape the need to play guitar...😅 but it's like battle man, need to see chords to play along 🤭🫣 15 year guitar noob to be honest
At least now I have extra time to start learning again. With this help.😊
How about Minor key?
this is so nice ! thanks! can you make a video for beginner set up pedal ?😄
Yes, soon
Saw this channel just started I’m happy I found it! Great instructions and can’t wait to follow!
Thanks! More vids coming soon!
Great lesson!. I would gladly pay for PDF of all these chords! Many thanks:)
Great channel brother! I’ve started playing electric again for our PW band, it was acoustic only last couple years and thought my electric days were over. I’ll apply these tips for sure. Thanks for sharing.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for a lesson.
My pleasure!
Idk how to thank you this is so helpful!!! God bless u even more!
So glad you found it useful!
Awesome GOD BLESS YOU
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This video was so helpful! I see a lot of negative comments about how modern worship is too simple and bland or doesn’t take much skill but this video is super helpful for me as a beginner. I’m of the mindset that complexity doesn’t at all guarantee better music and I appreciate that a lot of worship songs are written so that they can be reproduced by less talented musicians. I did have one question about the video, why is the bass E in Em7 muted on the chart? It looks like you actually are playing it in the video, though. Thanks so much for the time and effort that you put into this video!
Thanks for the comment! This channel is specifically for guitarists like you who are beginning or trying to figure out the style. So I hope this can be helpful to you. And yes, there's a mistake in my graphic. I def keep that E open. Appreciate the feedback!
WoW !
What a treasure I Found !
May Our Lord Jesus inspires you more to deliver high quality content.
I wanted to know if there was a specific trick to identify the anchor position of any key ?
Thank you in advance.
Most anchor positions I look for involve the root,third, and/or fifth note of the key scale
Top quality content.
Thank you!
Great video, this is going to be helpful for me to add some acoustic guitar skills.
Odd you haven't encountered the key of D much, so many of our songs are in that key.
Also we use the ii and iii chords a lot, they should be treated as important IMO.
Thanks for the good work!
Glad it will be helpful! For the key of D, my point wasn't that songs aren't in the key of D but that when a song is in the key of D, a lot of the guitarists on the albums often choose to capo and play in another key to access those voicings. I think the key of D has a lot of great options. And, most of the material on this channel will be in response to the musical characteristics of the CCLI top 50 which use the I, IV, V, and vi chords the vast majority of the time. But, I will be putting out a video soon addressing some of the options we have for the ii and iii chords.
@@DontGiveUp-qn8he that makes sense, we have guitarists that play in the Key of C with a kapo using the key of G chords
Great video. Lots of great stuff in here. The anchor notes are right on the money, except that F7 for key of C will clash with some melodies
Thanks! And I think you're right on. Doesn't matter how the good the voicing sounds by itself, if it doesn't support the melody in the song, it needs to be changed.
Worship music is its own style-heavily influenced by U2 and Coldplay
I don't doubt it. Especially early Hillsong.
Sad ; but true .
dude what 😂😂😂 worship is influenced by Bethel and Hillsong
Honestly im already using those chords.. but dont know what are those but it sounded good to my ears so i used them instead of proper chords, more like alternative?