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Archive for the ‘Song Arrangements’ Category


Easy Christmas Songs

Christmas is around the corner and I’ve noticed quite a few people downloading the free Christmas lesson from the Christmas Songs and Solos for Guitar course. In addition to that course, I’m currently working on a new one called Easy Christmas Songs For Guitar. The new course is geared towards singing Christmas songs with not [...]

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How Great Thou Art

“How Great Thou Art” was written as a poem in the late 18oo’s. A young Swedish preacher was inspired as he walked home from church one afternoon. Carl Boberg was struck by how rapidly a thunderous storm appeared. It rained for just a short time, followed by a breathtaking rainbow. That night he wrote the [...]

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Plagal Cadence – Song Endings

One of the most used way to extend the end of a worship song is with the use of the plagal cadence. In fact, it has been used for years as the ‘A-men’ ending of hymns in traditional church music. To understand how it works, you should know what the I, IV, and V chords [...]

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How to extend worship songs

I’m enjoying creating our new Music Theory for Guitar course. One of the musical concepts in the course is called a Deceptive Cadence. Worship leaders use this technique quite often to extend a worship song. It’s common for a song to end with a chord called the V, or V7,  to a chord called the [...]

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Music Theory Course

The new ‘How to Read Notes and Music Theory‘ course is ready! It’s a 17 week course with streaming videos, music, a forum, phone calls and more. Visit the website to get the music for the first Lesson free. Learning how to read notes and about music theory will help any guitarist to understand their [...]

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