So what we're going to do, we're going to focus on playing just two simple chords to
start with and I'm going to get you scrolling between the two.
So to start off with, if you can place finger number one, which is your index finger, so
if you can place that on string number five at fret number two.
So let's find out a string again, so it's one, two, three, four, five, so one being the
first, six being the thickest, and at fret number two, which is, if we have frets one
and two there, I just want you to place it just at the headstock side of fret number two,
near as you can really, but not actually touching the fret itself.
Now with your second finger, if you can place that on string number two, I want down, down,
one and two, and then I'll place three and four, I want down, up, down, up, so it sounds
like this, so it's down, down, down, up, down, up.
So here we go, one, two, four, and it says D, A, D, G.
And again, D, A, E minor, D, A, G, D, D, D, A, E minor, D, A, E minor, D, D, A, E minor,
D, D, D, D, D, D, D, A, E.
So this one needs a new strumming pattern, so if you put a standard G chord on.
Now instead of doing the usual down, down, down, down, for every beat, which is going
to get a little boring.
So it's down, down, up, down, up, down, so you've got to move your hand quite quickly.
Now beat number four.
So let me just show you the basic power chord shape.
Now in this instance let's do a G power chord.
It's also known as a G5 chord, so if you see it written out in music, if you see G5,
it means G power chord, if somebody says G power it means G5.
Sounds great.
Now if I put a little bit of distortion on as well, it gives a really nice kind of chunky
sound.
So as a worship guitarist you're suddenly in a place where you want your sound to be
something a bit more aggressive or a bit more lifted or you want people to be a bit more
outward than what you're playing.
If you use some power chords it can often be a way of doing that.
So just play that power chord.
Now try if you can just to play those three strings, so really just string 6, 5 and 4
with your right hand here.
Now one last picking pattern I want to try you on, really, really nice sounding pattern,
it's a little bit more lengthy.
So this time we're going to go P I M I, so let's just do that together, so we go P I
M I and then it's R I and then M I, so that last little bit is R I M I, so again it's
ring finger, index finger, middle finger, index finger, so strings 1, 3, 2, 3.
So let's try that again, so we go P I M I, so try that together, 3, 4, so it's P I M
I and then it's R I M I, so 3, 4, so it's R I M I.
G F F 2 3 4 C, so the C E bass note, so straight F, 3, 4, C Avery, so G Avery B and then E
major.
And that repeats.
Wonderful.
Now let's just do that.
Choosing songs for a worship set is, somehow it's quite a complicated thing and in other
ways, in other ways it's a very simple thing, you know, it's not, you don't want to get
so cerebral and sort of like, man this is rocket science, what if, sometimes you get
too hung up on a thing, but the other type of things, you do want to think through some
simple principles, you know, to how to put things together.
One might be more, I think, I think they need, I think that, you know, worship leaders need
to have a hunger after God, and then they need to have a hunger after his word and after
the things of God as well, you want to just be hungry for God, but then you want to be
hungry for his things and hungry for his kingdom, and then you want to have the ability to communicate
that in whatever way it is, because I don't limit worship leaders to a guy with a tart
front, I think a lot of people need worship in different ways.
