Teaching contemporary seven worship songs in the context of separate 12-20 minute lessons which enable 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 is 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 build on the foundations of students' musical knowledge and teach 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 to other songs, but also gets each sequence into muscle memory.
Each DVD has up to 2 hours running time and is coded Region 0 (will play anywhere in the world).
Volume 1 Track Listing
Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
Drone notes and augmented chords
Strumming patterns for different song sections
Slash chords with moving bass notes made esy
How Great is Our God - Cash, Tomlin & Reeves
Easy chord changes and a walkdown in G
Add rhythm to your strumming by using bass and treble trings to mimic drum sounds
When the Music Fades - Matt Redman
Simple one finger chord changes in D
A great 16th note strumming pattern that you can use with other songs
I Could Sing of Your Love Forever - Martin Smith
Useful open chords in E further up the guitar neck
Great alternative cheat shapes for F#m and G#m without using a bar chord
We Fall Down - Chris Tomlin
One power chord shape with open strings for big sounds in E
A generic slash chord shape that can be used all over the neck
A sensitive strumming pattern that creates musical space but still sounds full
Beautiful One - Tim Hughes
Great cheat chord for Bm
A 2-bar 8th-note strumming pattern for hte right groove with or without a drummer
Palm muting to create musical tension and release
In Christ Alone - Keith Getty & Stuart Townend
One finger chord changes in D useful for songs and hymns with quick chord changes
Set piece riffs that will help you play the complex parts of the song easily on guitar
Here's what our customers say about The Song Learner Series
"It is so rewarding to find worship resource material that goes beyond the usual elementary transcriptions that bear little resemblance to what is actually played."
Arthur Ansell, Ferndown, UK
See volumes 2 and 3 for more songs
"Songs were great. Andy does a good job explaining the chords and strumming patterns."
Charles Doyle, Australia
"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
"What other DVD's and downloads claim to provide these actually deliver, and more."
Dwight Parker, Culpeper United Methodist Church, VA, USA
"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.
With "How Great is Our God" 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.
Matthew Blake, Houston, Texas
"I Can Sing of Your Love Forever" had basically been retired until I watched the video. The droning, flowing way the song is played there really reintroduced that song to me. The possibilities for that song were expanded greatly and even when our youth band now does that song, it sounds more full and exotic. Very nice, I couldn't have been more pleased. In short, these instructional song videos are well worth the price and your time."
Dwight Parker, Worship Leader / Technical Arts Specialist, Culpeper United Methodist Church, VA, USA
This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 23 January, 2007.
