June 15, 2010
- Guitar Scales - 4 Tips To Mastering Guitar Scales
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 helps [...]
May 29, 2010
- 7 Tips on Changing Guitar Chords Faster
When you are first learning to play the guitar, it usually takes a while to change the chords. Here are some tips to help you change to new chords much faster. Mastering this skill will make it easier to play your worship songs.
1. Memorize the chord forms in the worship song you are trying to [...]
May 13, 2010
- Guitar Care
One of the Worship Guitar Class Family members, Pamela, asked about how to care for her guitar. I thought that you may be interested in tips for caring for your guitar too.
Here are some tips to keeping your guitar protected and cared for.
1. Get a guitar case and leave your guitar in the case. 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 [...]
November 18, 2009
- Christmas Songs and Solos
Would you like to learn some fun arrangements of Christmas Songs? I have just made a new book and DVD that contains both the solo arrangements and chords for 14 familiar Christmas Songs.
In this new course you can learn to play 14 Christmas Song arrangements. You get lessons for playing the solo arrangements in the [...]
October 15, 2009
- Mastering Finger Picking
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 and [...]
September 25, 2009
- The Guitar Hymnal
Want to learn 68 hymns in guitar friendly chords? The Guitar Hymnal book and CD have 68 hymns. This is great for the Christian guitarist. You can have all these hymns in easy to play guitar keys for personal worship, or in your small group or church. The book is by Steve Turley. It's one [...]
July 24, 2009
- Travis Pick Fingerpicking
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.
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 18, 2009
- Tips On Practicing Music
In the last survey, quite a few people requested help with finding time to practice and tips on how to practice. Here are a few ideas that you may find helpful.
1. Make Time To Practice.
We each have the same 24 hours a day. Only God is omnipresent so we need to be making choices of [...]
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 [...]
August 28, 2008
- Olympic Lessons for Christian Guitarists
I don't know about you, but I sure enjoyed watching the Olympics from Beijing. What an incredible opening night and how inspirational to hear the stories about these athletes.
Did you notice how often the news commentators talked about their relaxed technique? I did. Several times the newscasters talked about Michael Phelps' relaxed swimming style. When [...]
May 23, 2008
- How To Practice The Guitar
Christian Guitar Practice - Pray First
The exciting difference between just practicing the guitar and using it as a tool for worshipping an Awesome God is that our purpose and focus shifts.
It's no longer just you learning to play the guitar. When you as God to help you, He can give you insights and help. You [...]
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 [...]
October 7, 2007
- Jean Welles Worship Guitar Class for Kids
The Worship Guitar Class for Kids program is done and ready to help kids worship our God with a guitar in their hands. Here is a 7 1/2 min. excerpt of the first lesson.
This is a 7 1/2 min excerpt of Lesson One
Available from KidsWorshipGuitar.com
How is this program different than the other kid's program? It [...]
May 6, 2006
- How to Hold a Guitar & A-Frame Guitar Supports
How do you hold a guitar? Below is a 7 minute video showing various options of how to hold a guitar and the advantages and disadvantages of each method.
Methods shown are resting the guitar on the right leg, playing with the guitar propped up on the right leg as in Flamenco guitar playing, using [...]
March 26, 2006
- Video Podcasts
Have you seen those new Video Podcasts apple produced? I saw one in a computer store the other day and was surprised at the quality those little podcasts produce. With those of you who own one, I've started making Video Podcasts. The first lesson of the Worship Guitar Class series is now up and downloadable. [...]
February 26, 2006
- Relaxed Right-hand Technique
Here's a brief, probably one minute, video to help you see how you can play with a relaxed Right Hand. At a Christian Guitar Convention I taught at a few years ago, I was surprised that out of 2 classes, maybe 50 students, only 2 had relaxed right hands. Most people play with way too [...]
December 1, 2005
- Guitar Tab
How to read Guitar TAB
As shown in the diagram below, tablature has six lines. Each line represent one string. The top string represents the first string on the guitar. The bottom string represents the 6th string. For a bass guitar, the guitar tab would have just four lines, representing the four strings.The frets for [...]
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. [...]