June 8, 2010
- 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 [...]
April 22, 2010
- 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 I. [...]
February 3, 2010
- New Guitar Course
I'm working on a new guitar course that should start coming out, Lord willing, in February. Am currently working on Lesson 4 of a 17 week course. It will teach you how to read notes on the guitar, plus music theory. It's going to be geared towards the worshipper who wants to understand music and [...]
June 18, 2009
- Getting Clean Notes On Your Guitar
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 your finger right [...]
May 26, 2009
- Playing with Confidence
In the recent survey there were two related questions: "How to control stage fright?" and "Tips on playing in front of an audience."
In looking at the questions it occurred to me a better question is "How to play with confidence."
Years ago I learned that even when the poles are far apart, there were a lot [...]
April 10, 2009
- New Headstock Tuner
I heard about a new headstock tuner and just got an opportunity to try one yesterday. Wow… it's so easy to use. It just clips on the head of you guitar and can tell what the note is by the vibration of your guitar.
These also work for pretty much any stringed instrument. It's a chromatic [...]
March 30, 2009
- Christian Drum Lesson Videos
Carl Albrecht has produced some excellent Christian drum lesson DVDs. He is not only a professional drummer and accomplished musician, but he is also a gifted teacher.
I am pleased to offer his drum/percussion training videos at the website.
http://worshipguitarclass.com/christian-drum-lessons.html
He knows how to teach anyone the basics of playing drums. He teaches how to sit, hold the [...]
January 22, 2009
- Music Instructional Streaming Videos
What do the 'How To Master Finger Picking' and 'Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class for Kids' programs have in common? They are now both available as online streaming videos.
The advantages are instant access, no shipping costs, no worries about losing or damaging the DVD and no customs costs for International orders.
You can still see the [...]
January 19, 2009
- Plek Station at Westwood Music
I recently talked to Fred Walecki, the owner of Westwood Music, and he showed me an incredible machine that can dress your frets with perfect precision. They have a Plek Machine in the store. I played some of the guitars that had been adjusted by the machine and actually purchased one too.
This fixes your current [...]
April 24, 2008
- Guitar Scales You Can Play
A wonderful way to improve your playing is by practicing scales. This is a video that will show you how to play a couple 'C' scales. The first if just one octave. Everyone can start with this one. When you can play it with ease, try the second scale with two octaves. If you would [...]
March 8, 2008
- Amazing Grace - Arrangements for you
In deep gratitude John Newton wrote ‘Amazing Grace’ over 200 years ago. Ex-slave trader turned preacher, John knew first hand God’s amazing grace!
Later, John Rees wrote the last verse, which is my favorite verse:
When we’ve been there ten thousand years bright shining as the sun. There’s no less days to sing God’s praise than when [...]
November 8, 2005
- Volune One Books
To help you use the worship guitar class DVD's in class settings books are now available for Volume One. The book has all the songs with musical note, the teaching, and tips.
Pastors have asked about buying extra booklets to use for teaching classes, but I only had the copyrights for 1 booket per DVD. [...]
June 1, 2005
- Musical Notes
Musical notes in the Western World are the same on any instrument. Here's a 5 minute video showing you the notes on the piano, solfege, & guitar. You will learn what a movable 'Do' is and why the notes have different names in different countries. Solfege is the term for 'Do Re Mi,' etc.
The [...]