Since this is the Struggling Church Musician website I’m going to tell you before you even start, Pray. Every day. Not only during your daily devotions but during the week pray before you play. Pray before youplay. Pray before practice and before performance. Pray for the Lord’s blessing upon your hands and [...]

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Sam’s Gospel Music Course – Offers free downloadable books and lessons. Gives you good tips for playing in church. More along the lines of what a church musician should be doing for playing in service. I registered with him and downloaded all the books. He’s also got a section for all you organists.
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This online lesson is courtesy of Hear and Play**********************

Note: You might want to print this lesson out for easier [...]

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When you are shopping around for new or familiar arrangments of music to play you will come upon music notated in different styles. Different people have different styles they are comfortable playing. Much of this is depending on how they were trained. But not all of it.
Those trained in the classical way, [...]

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As an older beginner you might think that learning to play the piano will be a long and tedious process. You’re probably nervous about finding a piano teacher and playing all those scales day after boring day.
Then you might think that you can’t afford a piano and have no place to put one even if [...]

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If you know your chords and how to form them then the next step for youto learn are the numbers and Roman Numerals relating to the chords.
For example just as the I or 1st note of the C scale isC and the I or the1st note of the G scale is G there are 1 [...]

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Worship Guitar Class
Free Worship Guitar Class Newsletter and free tips on Playing the Guitar Effortlessly along with an ebook of Common Chord Charts with Pictures which I enjoy.
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Learn Gospel Music
These guys have been around a while. This is a message board for struggling church musicians,. Pianists, guitarists, keyboard players and organist. Actually [...]

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The guitar is that true rare wonderful instrument that can stand by itself. Perfect for accompanying small groups or beautiful as part of a Worship team. You can’t go wrong with the guitar as your instrument.
I learned to play guitar to accompany our Sunday School. It was very easy as I was also a [...]

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Wedding season is upon us (and I’m late with this article). Has someone asked you to play for their wedding yet? If you’re agonizing over playing in a church wedding then don’t. Don’t make things harder than they need to be. Get some nice and easy music and spend time enjoying [...]

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A lot of people want to know what “shouting music” is. Basically, it’s a very specific style of gospel playing that is used in church during high periods of praise. Here is a small lesson below from the music experts at Hear and Play that will give you a bit more of an [...]

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