Online Video Worship Guitar Lessons

The Musicademy Song Learner Series for Worship Guitar - learn the strumming patterns and chords for contemporary praise and worship songs, note for note, and significantly enhance your playing. Even if you can already find your way through these songs, these lessons are guaranteed to transform your playing with loads of pro tips and techniques.

- Find easy ways to play complex worship guitar chords
- Get the right rhythm and pacing for each song
- Learn one finger "cheat" chords for smoother playing
- Improve your worship guitar finger picking
- Plus hints, tips and techniques you can apply to loads of other worship songs

  

Songs featured include Everlasting God, Holy is the Lord, Beautiful One, When the Music Fades and Facedown as well as a number of challenging hymns including Stuart Townend's In Christ Alone

Musicademy's accessible teaching approach breaks each section of the song into bite-sized chunks, helps you play it through a few times and then bolts it together with the rest of the song, step-by-step so that you get each sequence into muscle memory. The Musicademy Song Learner Series is designed to help you play more songs using the technical principles taught on the Musicademy Worship Guitar Course DVDs.

        

Each lesson is available as on DVD from our webstore or online as a download.

Let My Words Be Few          Matt Redman
Learn about drone notes and augmented chords, strumming patterns for different song sections and slash chords with moving bass notes made easy

How Great is Our God          Cash, Tomlin & Reeves
Simple chord changes and a bass note walk down in G plus how to improve your strumming by using bass and treble stings to mimic drum sounds

When the Music Fades        Matt Redman
Discover easy one finger chord changes in D, a great 16th note strumming pattern that you can use with other songs and how to play separate bass notes for a fuller sound

I Could Sing of Your Love Forever             Martin Smith
Learn useful open chords in E further up the guitar neck plus great alternative cheat shapes for F#m and G#m without using a barre chord

We Fall Down                        Chris Tomlin
Play just one power chord shape for lots of chords in E, a generic slash chord shape that can be used all over the guitar neck and a sensitive strumming pattern that creates musical space whilst still sounding full

Beautiful One                        Tim Hughes
A 2-bar 8th-note strumming pattern for the right groove with or without a drummer, palm muting to create musical tension plus a great cheat chord for B minor

In Christ Alone                      Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
A brilliant set of one finger chords and 'set piece' riffs in D that will help you master the complex parts of this song easily and play other hymns with lots of quick changes

Here I am to Worship         Tim Hughes
Refresh your playing of this modern classic whilst learning about slash chords with simple one finger changes in D and how to alternate strumming patterns between verse and chorus

Indescribable                        Laura Story
Work out how to build strumming patterns in 6/8 time plus learn an easy F chord shape plus one finger chord changes in G

Everlasting God                    Brenton Brown & Ken Riley
Master the opening riff of Everlasting God plus the various strumming patterns and pushes that capture the correct groove and pace for the song

Let Everything that has Breath      Matt Redman
Learn to use power chords in conjunction with open strings in E plus an easy way to play the complex F#m and G#m chords

You are My King                    Billy James Foote
Use a cut capo to combine very simple chord changes with open strings for huge sounds in E

The Father's Song                             Matt Redman
Make the complex chord transitions flow smoothly with a set easy to follow changes and learn a sensitive finger picking pattern that you can in other songs

How Deep the Father's Love For Us           Stuart Townend
Master a great 'James Taylor style' finger picking part beautifully with the alternating time signatures in this modern hymn

Nothing But The Blood        Matt Redman
Learn to play songs in the tricky key of B without a capo

Facedown                             Matt Redman
A superb introduction to playing songs using C based chord shapes plus an easy alternative F chord

Lord Let Your Glory Fall      Matt Redman
Tackle the difficult chords, changing dynamics and compound time signatures in this song with one finger chord changes and great strumming patterns

The Wonderful Cross          Tomlin, Walt & Reeves
Take your guitar skills up a level and open up new musical ideas by using power chords, octaves, slides and drop D tuning to combine melody lines with rhythm playing

All Creatures of our God and King        Arr. David Crowder
Learn the acoustic guitar part note-for-note from David Crowder's beautiful arrangement of this hymn including the strumming pattern and opening riff

Holy is the Lord                     Chris Tomlin & Louie Giglio
Use bass and treble string strumming to add "bounce" and groove to your playing
plus an easy way to play the complicated G/F chord

Yesterday Today & Forever        Vicky Beeching
Learn some new chords in D further up the guitar neck and a great rocky strumming pattern that captures the groove of this song

Psalm 62 / My Soul Finds Rest In God Alone
Stuart Townend and Aaron Keyes
Get to grips with this fantastic new hymn. This is a great lesson teaching you how to play a challenging song on guitar without missing those quick chord changes. It also shows how to make sure you get the complex 5/4 and ¾ time signatures right.

This lesson features an interview with writer Aaron Keyes and a play through with Aaron and Andy.

All the Song Learner lessons have an accompanying chord sheet which you can download from the members area of the Musicademy website. The sheet features chord diagrams, a chord chart and a visual reminder of how the strumming pattern is made up.

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"It was great to learn lots of different techniques and styles - it means that I can do so much more than just strum chords."
Richard, UK

"A great insight into some of the guitar tricks that people use when leading worship"

Martin Smith, Delirious?

 
"What other DVD's and downloads claim to provide these actually deliver, and more."
Dwight Parker
Culpeper United Methodist Church VA, USA

"The Song Learners were great for learning how the recording artist actually played the song. Andy does a good job of verbally describing how to play the different parts, and the camera angles show it clearly as well. The free dowloads of the chord sheets are helpful, but not necessary, to follow the lesson. And being able to download specific songs is very convenient."
Dan Nelson

Wyoming, USA

"Compared with other materials I have used, this product does an equally good job at teaching chords.  However, where these DVD's excel is taking the time to teach the strumming pattern and offering tips to make the accompaniment musical.  The teaching is paced well and the instruction is easy to follow.  I have applied this material already to Sunday morning worship.  I have also downloaded one of the songs and that process was easy and has the benefit of receiving the materials immediately."  

Pastor Nick Daugherty

Iowa USA

"Holy Is the Lord - Though I've played this song a million times (or what seems like it!), I've always wanted to find a way to play it a little differently and add some more dynamics to it.  This video was great for doing just that!  The tips on playing the guitar to give it a percussive sound like a bass and snare were very helpful, and the demonstation of the walkdowns was a lot of fun.  I've found myself using these tips in other songs as well in leading worship at our church. " 

Kirk Grover,
Oregon USA

"Valuable lessons on strumming patterns, chord cheats and finger picking amongst other subjects via a variety of contemporary worship songs. Accompanied solely by his acoustic guitar, Chamberlain is a patient and considered tutor and his careful dissection of each song demystifies what on the surface may appear to be complicated chords and styles for the novice guitarist."

Lins Honeyman

crossrhythms.co.uk

"Let My Words Be Few – Andy Chamberlain does a wonderful job of teaching this song – and as he states in the beginning of this video, it would be great for beginners or those who've been playing guitar for a while.  As in the other videos, he does such a wonderful job of teaching new strumming patterns here, breaking the patterns down and teaching them in a way that you can strum along as he's talking in order to get it down just right. The chords he also teaches are beautiful, explaining what a drone note is (I use them all the time, but now I know what it's called and what its purpose is), and gives a quick but understandable lesson as to what an augmented chord is and why we would use them."

Kirk Grover,
Oregon USA

"How Deep the Father's Love For Us – I've never really had picking down.   This video is helping immensely as it shows some really neat techniques and patterns to use in picking.  Again, Andy walks through each section and doesn't blow over any details – everything here is easy to understand and well demonstrated. This video also does a wonderful job of showing how the song is broken up between 6/4 and 4/4 timing, and how to alternate between the two seamlessly."

Kirk Grover,
Oregon USA

"The Father's Song – Probably the video that packs in the most value into one lesson!  Goes over some great finger picking, an awesome walkdown that would be difficult to master without Andy's tips, and a bunch of great sounding and unique chords. Plus, Andy shows some different ways to finger common chords that work well during the quick chord changes and make the stretches on the walkdown easier."

Kirk Grover,
Oregon USA