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How to extend worship songs

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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. There isn’t space here to talk about the various chord structures and keys, but the I chord is the root chord of a key. For example in the key of ‘G’ the I is the ‘G’ chord. The V in the key of ‘G’  is the chord ‘D.’

A ‘D’ or ‘D7’ chord resolves nicely to the chord ‘G.’ A deceptive cadence is when you change to the VI chord at the end of a song instead of the I.

A good example is the song ‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High.’ I know many of you have our ‘Worship Guitar Class’ course and this song is in the first volume. The chords are predominately ‘G C D C.’ It ends with the chords ‘D,’ ‘Dsus,’ G…..

The deceptive cadence for the key of ‘G’ is the VI chord which is the chord ‘Em.’ Instead of playing ‘D,’ Dsus,’ ‘G’ … you can play ‘D,’ ‘Dsus,’ Em.’ The ‘Em’ is on the last word ‘high.’ Play it for a measure then half a measure on ‘Am’ and ‘D’ ‘Dsus’ for the 2nd half of the measure and ending on G. The ending is below…

|    Em     |  Am              Dsus       D           | G  C | D C | G
… high.             Lord I lift your name on high.

We often repeat the deceptive cadence 2 or 3 times before finally ending on G.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to read music or to understand music theory, would love to have you join our music theory class. 🙂

Filed Under: About Music, Song Arrangements, Worship Resources, Writing Songs

Music Theory Course

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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 instrument better. Would you like to pick up any music and be able to read it? How about taking a song and making your own unique song arrangement?

Free Guitar Reading Lesson.

Filed Under: Song Arrangements, Writing Songs

Christmas Songs and Solos

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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 DVD, plus strumming and finger picking suggestions for playing and singing the Christmas carols  in the book.

For more information visit Christmas Songs and Solos.

Filed Under: Guitar Technique, Song Arrangements, Thoughts

Travis Pick Fingerpicking

By Jean 4 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Guitar Technique, Right-hand, Song Arrangements

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