O Come O Come Emmanuel Christmas Song Arrangement

December 19, 2017 By admin 4 Comments

Here is a beautiful solo guitar arrangement of the song ‘O Come O Come Emanuel’. It is an excerpt from our Christmas Songs & Solos program. The music for this arrangement of ‘O Come O Come Emmanuel’ is available below the video.

Here is the download link for the Music – O Come O Come Emmanuel

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Hope you enjoy the song1

God Bless,
Jean

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today Music

March 23, 2016 By admin 33 Comments

Here is a guitar arrangement of ‘Christ The Lord Is Risen Today’ that I made for you. Resurrection Sunday is my favorite holiday! The video lesson is posted here. The music is also available free from the form below. Just fill in your first name and email address and we’ll send it right out. If you would like to continue to receive help from us, check the ‘newsletter’ box and will send out lots of tips for playing the guitar and a free chart of chords too.

‘Christ The Lord Is Risen Today’ was one of the first songs written by Charles Wesley. He wrote it one year after his conversion to Christianity. What a huge blessing this man is to the body of Christ down through the centuries! This song was written and sung in the 1700s. It is loved as much today as when it was first written. I praise God for all His songwriters new and old that help us to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ!!

If He was raised and He was. Then, we will also be raised as He promised.

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

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The evidence of Christ’s birth and resurrection are immense. I find it refreshing to see such fine minds like Josh McDowell, Francis Schaeffer, CS Lewis, Ravi Zacharias, and others that came to the Bible as skeptics. Then, when they really studied it became not only Christians but they all wrote books in defense of the faith.

I recently posted a video about many of the prophecies of Jesus in the Old Testament. It’s called 300 Prophesies Fulfilled by Jesus.

May the fact of Christ’s resurrection bring you great joy through every day of our lives here! He Has Risen! Because He lives there is hope for today and a wonderful future ahead.

Music Theory – 4 Ways To Change a Song

February 11, 2015 By admin 3 Comments

Music Theory is very useful because knowing it not only makes you a more competent musician, it helps you understand how to make great song arrangements. We’re running a special on our Reading Music and Music Theory Courses.

I made you this short video lesson on how to change a song 4 different ways. There are hundreds of ways to play any song. Try out this one, ‘Away in a Manger’, and let me know what you think.

I recently uploaded a post around the song ‘Heavenly Father.’ That actually has several other examples of changing the arrangement of a song and making it your own. It has three verses and each is unique.

There were requests for the specific arrangement in the video, so I made a guitar lesson around it…. Heavenly Father Guitar lesson.

An easy way to vary a song is by changing the right-hand patterns. There are many different strumming and finger-picking patterns that you can use. You can also change the chords. I don’t get into the many varieties of chord substitutions, but do change the chords all to 9 chords.

You can hear it in the last version of ‘Away in a Manger.’ Using 9s is a quick and easy way to add interest to your songs. Besides changing the color of a specific chord, there are also other types of chord substitutions.

You can look at a chord chart to see how to hold down these types of chords, but it’s actually the best to understand how they are formed so you don’t have to always have a chord chart with you.

As music majors in college, we were required to take music theory classes. I’m grateful for the education I had and hope to share it with you.

Wishing you a lifetime filled with beautiful music!

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Heavenly Father

November 26, 2014 By admin 16 Comments

I had fun singing this song last night and thought it would be fun to film for you. The lyrics and chords are posted below the video. I hope you enjoy this song. It’s an old one, but a good one. There are several different lyrics used for the song, but these are the ones I usually sing.

D            G                 D
Heavenly Father, I appreciate You;
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Heavenly Father, I appreciate You.
D          D7
I love You, adore You,
G                 Gm
Bow down before You;
D                A7               D
Heavenly Father, I appreciate You.

Son of God, what a wonder you are;
Son of God, what a wonder you are.
I love You, adore You,
Bow down before You;
Son of God, what a wonder you are.

Holy Spirit, what a comfort You are;
Holy Spirit, what a comfort You are.
You lead us, You guide us
You live right inside us;
Holy Spirit, what a comfort You

These are the simple chords to use for ‘Heavenly Father’. Later I made an entire guitar lesson with a 14 page PDF on all the thinking behind this arrangement.

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