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Archive for the ‘Writing Songs’ Category


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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Guitar Walking Basses

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 [...]

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It Is Well With My Soul Story

‘It Is Well With My Soul’ is one of the songs in the New Reading and Music Theory Guitar Course. The story is so touching, I decided to make a short video about it to share with you. God is FAITHFUL in all of our trials and helps us through them when we have an [...]

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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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