Greetings Fellow Worshipper,

Blessings to you in the Lord

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NEWSLETTER CONTENTS

1. Arrangements of Away In A Manger…
2. Christmas eBook & Christmas Book/CD…
3. Vocal Help…
4. In Closing…
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1) Arrangements of Away In A Manger...
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Here are a few arrangements of Away In A Manger. The first
arrangement is sung using a simple strumming pattern in a
couple different keys. There are 2 strumming patterns and a
picking pattern here that that work well with 3/4 tempo songs
like this one. The last arrangement is using very pretty
chords up the neck.

First download the printed music by clicking here. Print it out
so it’s easier to follow. Then listen to the audio and enjoy
singing this lovely Christmas Carol.

2) Christmas eBook & Christmas Book/CD…
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The above Carol is taken from the Christmas eBook. It has
the arrangements you just learned, plus one of playing Away
in a Manger instrumentally. The eBook has many ways to
play 7 Christmas Songs, both with singing and as guitar solos.

You can learn more about the Christmas eBook by clicking here.

Would you like easy guitar arrangements for singing Christmas
Songs? ‘Songs of Christmas Joy’ by Steve Turley has easy chords
and is a book with CD.

To learn more about this ‘Songs of Christmas Joy’, click here.

3) Vocal Help…
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New on the site is a ‘Vocal Warm-up’ CD. Rochelle, the
voice teacher, told me she has used these exercises thousands
of times for choirs. She said she made the CD with worship
leaders in mind.

This CD is an easy way to warm-up your voice in the car on
the way to church. I’ve been using it, and love it!

Vocal Warm-up is here.

4) In Closing…
Do not let anything distract you from the joy of this season.
My Hard Drive crashed a couple weeks ago, and I am so
grateful that I was warned the day before to back everything
up. It was all backed up!

Today my starter died. When it didn’t start I walked to the
mechanics. Since my battery was so new, they suggested
just having it towed to the shop. Later the mechanic told
me my car could have caught on fire if I had chosen just to
jump start it and had driven it.

A part of the starter was stuck in the flywheel and the starter
would have gotten very hot, which would have melted the
wires which could have started a fire.

We are all promised that there will be trails and will be
problems. We are consistently given opportunities to ‘lean
not on our own understanding.’ Not that I’ve perfected it,
but I’ve noticed I’m not getting as emotionally caught
up in the problems.

I remember when a good friend told me he had come to
the conclusion that God was probably serious when He
said through James to Rejoice in all Trials, that God sees
trials differently than we do.

I have read the end of The Book many times and know for
certain that the ending is really glorious!! Would you join
me in choosing JOY when trails of various kinds appear…AND…

Worship Him with ALL your heart, because He
loves you with ALL of His!

Love & Blessings in the LORD,

Jean Welles

Blessings in His Name!

1. How to Extend Worship Songs
2. Learn 50 Contemporary Worship Songs
3. From You
4. In Closing

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HOW TO EXTEND WORSHIP SONGS
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There is an easy way to extend your worship songs
by using a deceptive cadence. There is an article
at the website and how to use it with
‘Lord I Lift Your Name On High.’
How to use Deceptive Cadence

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LEARN 50 CONTEMPORARY WORSHIP SONGS
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This is a book with 2 CDs by Ric Holloway that
uses popular and contemporary Worship Songs. You’ll
learn lots of cool strumming patterns to use with
familiar songs by Third Day, Steven Curtis Chapman,
Paul Baloche, News Boys, Mercy Me, Jeremy Camp,
Chris Tomlin, Casting Crowns and more. There are
50 wonderful songs that you’ll love playing.
Learn 50 Worship Songs

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FROM YOU
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About the new course:
“Bravo!  You do a great job of explaining things
clearly and have an excellent scope and sequence.
All of my playing and teaching guitar has been
chord-based with a little bit of walking up and
down on the bass strings and identifying suspensions,
adding 2, 6, 9, etc.  This is broadening my
perspective and will consequently broaden my
students’ perspective as well.

Thank you for sharing your skills and creating
such accessible resources.”

Blessings,
Carol
The new course is here:
Music Theory For Guitar

And from Martha about our main lessons…

“I just can’t thank you enough for your wonderful
DVDs!  Your DVDs have given me the confidence in
playing that I never had before and as a result
of that I am now going to use the DVDs to teach
my 11 year old granddaughter to play also.
She is VERY excited and so is grandma!”

God Bless You Jean,
Martha

Thank-you Martha & Carol!

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IN CLOSING
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I’ve been thinking a lot about King David’s life.
He sure made a lot of mistakes, but God always
compares him to the rest of the kings as the
standard of someone with a heart for God.

King David was a worshipper. Jesus told the
Samaritan woman that a time was coming when people
would worship God in spirit and in truth.

As we worship and abide in Christ our lives bear
fruit. Oh, may we all have worshipping hearts
like David’s!

Worship Him with all of your heart because He
loves you with all of His.

God Bless,
Jean Welles
Christian Guitar Lessons