Worship Guitar Lessons and Courses for Christian Guitarists

Beginning Worship Guitar Course

What if one guitar program could take you from beginner to competent musician with a years’ worth of lessons, tests and backing tracks?

For complete beginners and uses 10 contemporary worship songs. Follow this 10 hour course for:

35 essential acoustic guitar chords
15 essential strumming patterns
Understanding chord charts
Play any song in any key in 3 capo positions
Tuning, pick and strumming technique
Transpose into guitar-friendly keys
Power, slash and easy ‘cheat’ chords
Finger picking patterns – Play in 4/4, 3/4 and 6/8 time

A years’ worth of worship guitar instruction including animated graphics, close-up shots and daily practice backing tracks. Suitable for acoustic and electric guitar. What’s new in this course ?

“Musicademy has done a great job of creating a very hefty bit of learning in these 10 hours of guitar lessons. Along the way tests are provided to increase learning and challenge the student to excellence. Musicademy also offers backing tracks to play along with that will help train you to listen to the musicians around you while playing in a band setting. This program is perfect for worshipers of any age who desire to become efficient with a guitar.” Worship Leader Magazine, November 2013

Intermediate Acoustic Worship Guitar

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Our flagship course. Perfect for acoustic worship guitarists who want to take their playing to the next level.
A years’ worth of lessons, tricks and techniques. 7 hours of instruction plus animated graphics, close up shots tips from worship leaders. You will learn:

Over 60 new substitute chord shapes in keys G,C,D,A,E and B
How to build strumming patterns around the groove + 35 usable patterns
Play barre chords without the pain!
18 finger style + 30 strumming technique ideas
Find four different capo positions for all 12 keys
10 licks in the style of James Taylor, John Mayer and John Martyn
12 unique exercises to help you master Travis picking – great for hymns!
Tricks for playing any open chord in B without barre chords or capo!
Use 10ths & 6ths to play alternative acoustic chord voicings up the neck
Use ‘5’ and add9 chords for power and beauty
Understand Nashville numbering to transpose easily into any key

Plus daily practice backing tracks, how to use high strung and baritone guitars in worship and an acoustic guitar buyers guide.

Intermediate Electric Worship Guitar

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A 10-hour course for electric guitarists who want to take their skills and creativity to the next level. Also perfect for acoustic guitarists who want to transfer to electric.

Over 90 usable electric guitar chord shapes all over the neck
Tricks and cheats pro guitarists use or positional playing in open keys
Explore lead guitar with 5 pentatonic shapes & 7 major scale positions
Power & open chords in Drop D tuning
Using effects
How to use 3rds 4ths 6ths and 10ths to create new voicings
Play any chord in any key anywhere on the neck using the CAGED system
Hendrix style double stops for textural lead & rhythm sounds
Soloing using pentatonic scales, lead lines using major scales string bending, drone notes, Octaves, tremolo picking

Read Worship Leader Magazine’s review of the course.

Beginners Plus Acoustic Guitar Course

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Combine learning some great new skills through download-only technique lessons, exercises and play alongs and then puts them into practice by learning how to play some well known worship songs, all unpacked step-by-step:

An invaluable set of ‘G shape’ based ‘cheat’ substitute chords with one finger chord changes that you can use for any song in any key, even a cheat for a B minor chord, all without having to play any barre chords!
How to work out strumming patterns by identifying the strong ‘accents’ in the song’s groove
Picking skills using a pick for playing individual notes riffs and arpeggios
Combining basic chords with the cheat chords to create new songs with easy finger movement
Strumming patterns in 3/4 and 6/8 time signatures

Songs

Forever (We Sing Hallelujah) (Kari Jobe)
Cornerstone (Hillsong)
One Thing Remains (Bethel)
Our God is Greater (Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman)
Stronger (Hillsong)

Everything you need to master the song and technique is included:

A chord chart for each song
Full length video play through for each song with guitar parts on screen
Exercises and play alongs

The Worship Guitar Collection

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A download-only set of 20 worship guitar lessons suitable for existing players.

Each individual lesson teaches you a well known worship song. Even if you know how to play the song already you’ll pick up a host of new tips and ideas in these lessons from Musicademy’s Andy Chamberlain.

The lessons are each between 25 and 45 minutes long.

Agnus Dei (Allelujah)
Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
Better is One Day
Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)
How Can I Keep from Singing
The Power of The Cross
Forever Reign
Jesus Messiah
I am a Friend of God
(Hallelujah) Your Love is Amazing
Let God Arise
O Praise Him
Your Name
Lead Me to the Cross
Our God Saves
Here I am to Worship
Jesus Paid It All
You Alone Can Rescue
Your Love Never Fails (Jesus Culture)
10,000 Reasons

Capo Positioning & Transposing for Guitar

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Find any capo position in any key using familiar chord shapes. Transpose chord charts with complex chords into guitar friendly keys. No knowledge of music theory or reading necessary!

Step by step lessons using worship songs with on screen graphics, exercises, tests and practice backing tracks

Topics covered include:

3 methods for finding capo positions in any key
Capo positions for G, C, D & E shapes in any key

Learn how to transpose chord charts into guitar friendly keys including;

Transposing basics using chord numbers
Transposing complex worship songs into guitar friendly keys
Transposing hymns and carols with unusual chords
Transpose into alternative chord voicings for different sounds

All worked out step-by-step, using worship songs, hymns and carols. Plus:

On-screen graphics for enhanced learning
Play alongs and practice backing tracks
Exercises and tests plus downloadable chord charts

Song Learner Series – now half price

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Suitable for any acoustic worship guitarist who wants to learn more chords, strumming patterns and finger style techniques. Ideal as preparation for the Intermediate course.

The Song Learner series turns a worship song into a 20-30 minute guitar lesson, unlocking the unusual chord shapes, cheats and rhythms used in the original recording. Then instantly apply these new techniques to many other songs.

Learn new, easy to play “cheat” worship guitar chords that the pro’s use.
Learn extended, suspended, augmented, slash chords and substitute chords unlocking easy ways to play complex chords
Learn a unique strumming pattern for every song
Develop more great finger picking skills

Each low cost video download is a complete guitar lessons teaching you a contemporary worship song. These will enable you to master appropriate strumming patterns, find easy shapes for complex sounding chords, cheats for quick chord changes, plus hints, tips and techniques which will further your playing beyond learning the song itself.

The Song Learner Series is ideally suited to students who have completed the Beginners Worship Guitar course but are not yet ready for the more advanced teaching of the Intermediate courses.

Each lesson is so much more than a quick run through of how to play the song. As experienced educators, we at Musicademy realise that many students need to have the information broken down, repeated slowly and then consolidated in the context of a song. The lessons demo every song section and play it through a few times before each element is bolted together step-by-step. Using this method helps you get each sequence into muscle memory as quickly as possible.

A free downloadable resource sheet is available in the members area for each song. These contain chord charts, chord shapes and strumming patterns