Guitar Walking Basses Using walking basses is a common technique used to write worship songs. You see this in songs like ‘As A Deer’. You can also use this technique to make a song arrangement. I show some examples in our Music Theory Course of how to take a song and make many different arrangements [...]
Read More...Would you like to improve your guitar playing? Practicing with guitar scales is a fruitful and beneficial practice. Here are 4 tips that can help you play scales excellently. The first tip is practicing. You need to spent time with the instrument to improve your playing. Use scales to begin you time of practice. It [...]
Read More...Mastering Finger Picking The ‘How To Master Finger Picking‘ course is now in a book and DVD format. The new name is ‘Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class(TM) – Mastering Finger Picking.’ This new book is currently shipping to the retail stores and is available on the website. It has 12 lessons with both song accompaniments [...]
Read More...A Video Lesson On Travis Picking The Travis Pick works well with songs like ‘What A Friend We Have In Jesus.’ I’m working on an instrumental arrangement of this song and planning on adding it to the Finger Picking Course along with some other songs using the Travis Picking patterns.
Read More...How To Get Clean Guitar Notes and Chords Here are a few tips to getting a clean chords on your guitar, so your worship songs sound great 1. Trim your left-hand fingernails. If you have nails it’s impossible to hold the strings down cleanly. 2. Hold a string down with the tip, or pad, of [...]
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