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What Child Is This?

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Here is an instrumental arrangement of ‘What Child Is This?’ that I put together as a Christmas gift for you this year. Get the music first and then watch the video. If you don’t read music, it’s also in guitar tab. You should see an article of how to read tab below. If you don’t see it, you can always type ‘guitar tab’ in the search box and that should bring it up.

Hope you enjoy playing the song:

[S3VIDEO file=’jw/what-childSm_Prog001.flv’]

Click here to get the music

In a previous Newsletter you can find arrangements of the Christmas Song, Joy To The World – it’s here.

Blessings in HIM,
Jean

The Untouchables, part 2

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Subbamma had always been a woman who prayed. After nearly 40 years of praying to Hindu gods, she found the Living God. The first article titled ‘The Untouchables, part 1’ talks about her miraculous healing and conversion to Christ. This one will cover a bit of her life as a Christian.

Her husband also believed in this God who healed his wife. Because untouchables cannot get real jobs in India, he moved to Thailand and opened a restaurant there. The restaurant did very well, until they had to close it and flee because of fighting in that region.

They returned to India, but their home community wasn’t happy that they embraced this different religion, Christianity. Their home was burned down, more than once.

With no income and no possibility of decent work, Subbamma cried out to God to show her His Glory. God gifted her with the vision and talent of making beautiful things in lace.

She found Mr. Whitehouse, the British Missionary, and showed him her work. She inquired if perhaps he could see if people in Britain might want to order the work of her hands. As an untouchable, no one in India would purchase from her.

Mr. Whitehouse took the samples to England and returned with THOUSANDS of orders! Isn’t that like our Lord! He blesses us beyond what we can ask or think.

She couldn’t fill the orders alone, and ended up hiring the entire community. Subbamma then taught herself to read, bought a little hut, and opened the very first mud-floor school for Untouchables. This is the same woman that was going to commit suicide at age 39. God had other plans and she lived to be 98. She impacted a whole community for good, and for God.


Subbamma

Today Subbamma is with the Lord, but her works live on. In the next article, I’ll be sharing with you about what God is doing in this community today. If you want to take a peek, check out hope-for-people.org.

Guitar Tab

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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 guitar tab are represented with numbers. 0 is no fret, or the open string. 1 is the first fret, 2 is the second fret, etc.

E- – – – – -3- 3 – 5- 5- -3 – – –
B- -1- 1 – – – – – – – – – – – – –
G- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
D- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
A- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
E- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Do you recognize this tune? It starts on the second string, first fret. Play it twice than jump up to the first string, third fret. Like a book, tablature reads from right to left. This first example was a single note melody. For chords, you just stack the numbers.

E- – – -2 – – – – – – – – – – – – –
B- – – -3 – – – – – – – – – – – – –
G- – – -2- – – – – – – – – – – – –
D- – – -0- – – – – – – – – – – – –
A- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
E- – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Do you recognize this chord? It’s a D chord, a common one in praise and worship tabs.

For more symbols used in guitar tab visit christian-guitar-resource.com/praise-and-worship-tabs.html

Volune One Books

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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. The books solve this problem. All the copyright are paid plus the teachings in the book will reinforce what students see in the DVD.

Available from worshipguitarclass.com/Products.html –
It’s the 4th item on this page.

Here’s information on teaching classes with
the DVD’s & Videos.- worshipguitarclass.com/teachwithvideos.html