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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
June 18, 2005
- 6 Picking Patterns + Writing Songs
I often get emails from guitarists that are stuck in a rut using the same strumming pattern for every song. Here are 6 finger-picking patterns that you can use with 4/4 time songs. I wanted to teach them to you with a song, but I can't use popular worship songs because most are copyrighted.
You can [...]