Gospel’s GreatestFor voice and C instrument. Format: fake book. With vocal melody, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord chart. Gospel and Worship. Series: Hal Leonard Fake Books. 295 pages. 9×12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard. (HL.240136) I’ve owned this particular songbook for a number of years.  My copy is dog-eared and well used. This book [...]

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The Praise & Worship Fake Book This is one of the newer Fake books for church playing. It has over 400 of the newer Praise and Worship songs such as As the Deer, Shine, Jesus, Shine, Give Thanks etc. And is notated for “C instruments’ such as piano and guitar. The notation is mentioned as [...]

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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 that if your [...]

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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. ***** Learn [...]

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This online lesson is courtesy of Hear and Play********************** Note: You might want to print this lesson out for easier reading… In this month’s online classroom, I’m going to share with you a few concepts from the GospelKeysTM 202 video course. I warn you beforehand! You probably have never seen anything quite like this before [...]

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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, or playing [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. ***** 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. [...]

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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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