How Great is Our God Ed Cash, Chris Tomlin & Jesse ReevesCustomer Review
"The most appealing feature of these videos is that they allow you to work at your own pace. This is important for those of us who unfortunately have day jobs that keep us away from playing as much as we would like. I can bring up a session, spend 20 minutes doing a focused group of exercises, and not feel like it was time wasted.
I chose "How Great is Our God" for the slightly syncopated rhythm contained in the verse and chorus. Even though its 4/4 time, the words don't exactly fall on the beat. I've played this live, before a worship audience, and felt my strumming could have been better. Fortunately, the audience was very familiar with the song, and the group singing provided the beat that kept us moving. You can imagine how excited I was to see Andy discuss the technique of strumming to simulate a "bass and kick snare" beat. This was exactly what I was looking for. I'll be doing this song again live and I can't wait to use these new techniques.
These videos and lessons provide a quality toolkit to build better musicianship. I can't tell you how much of a fan of these videos and lessons I am.”
Matthew Blake, Houston, Texas
Login to the members area of the main Musicademy website to download the free worksheet to accompany this lesson. The sheet contains the chord shapes and strumming patterns taught in the lesson.
A free online ltrailer of the Song Learner Series is also available.
The Musicademy Song Learner Series for Worship Guitar - teaching contemporary worship songs in the context of a 12-20 minute lesson which enables you to master appropriate strumming patterns, find easy shapes for complex sounding chords, cheats for quick chord changes plus hints, tips and techniques which will further your playing beyond learning the song itself.
The Song Learner Series lessons are also available on compilation DVDs. They are ideally suited to students who have completed the Beginners Worship Guitar course but are not yet ready for the more advanced teaching of the Intermediate course. Song Learners will build on the foundations of students’ musical knowledge and teaching how to play some of today’s most popular contemporary worship songs properly. This is particularly useful where the most appropriate fingering and rhythm is not immediately obvious from a chord chart or music score.
Each lesson is significantly more than a quick run through of how to play the song. As experienced educators, we at Musicademy realise that students new to a musical principle need to have the information broken down, repeated slowly and then consolidated in the context of a song. The DVDs therefore show each new section of a song and play it through a few times before each element is bolted together in a step-by-step way. Using this methodology not only does the student understand the technique and how to apply it to other songs, but also gets each sequence into muscle memory.
This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 21 February, 2007.
