By Andy@Musicademy | February 24, 2011
This pattern purposely misses out the down strum on beat 3, which gives it a pushed feel. Its similar to Oasis’s Wonderwall and this kind pattern works well for giving a slower song an ‘up’ feel. Its taken from the Third Day album, Live in Philadelphia. We have God of Wonders as one of our […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 19, 2011
This pattern is quite similar to Come Now is the Time to Worship. The pattern can sound all over the place if you speed up or slow down even a little. So once you’ve got this pattern down, practice it with a metronome until the timing is rock solid. This is taken from the Paul […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 15, 2011
We have a large archive of online lessons teaching individual songs. Worship songs are covered for guitar, keyboard and bass but we’ve also got some 70 lessons teaching classic rock & pop songs for guitar. These are presented on the website in order of difficulty – stage 1 is for complete beginners and suitable for […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 14, 2011
This is taken from Kari Jobe’s album version of the song. As this is quite a slow song the pattern can be quite full to keep it moving along. There is a lot of room to change this pattern around and keep to the groove but the key is to be consistent. I.e. whatever pattern […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 8, 2011
This pattern is taken from the UK Vineyard original album ‘Come Now is the Time’. This is a very common syncopated rhythm that comes up a lot in worship songs. If it seems complicated on the page, break it down and count it through very slowly. Keep your hand moving as you strum and only […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 4, 2011
I took this pattern from the rhythm of the hi hats on the original Chris Tomlin recording but because it’s a straight groove there’s a lot of license to build your own pattern. So lots of patterns could work. Just be careful not to add to many up strum pushes so to upset the straight […]
By Andy@Musicademy | February 1, 2011
There are so many version of Shout to the Lord out there so I’ve given it a very straight treatment with a very few pushes just to add a little movement. This pattern works very well for many hymn like songs where you want it to sound solid without to much ‘groove’. We have Shout […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 28, 2011
This is taken from the original Chris Tomlin recording. Because we miss out a strum on beat 3 of the bar it feels like the groove is being pushed along. We have Holy is the Lord as one of our Worship Backing Band DVD tracks. You can remove the guitar from the mix and play along […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 27, 2011
John Morris emailed Andy asking him about the guitar he uses in our Intermediate Electric Guitar DVDs. He says: “I noticed you playing a beautifully worn Squier Telecaster. Please tell me about it, I have an affinity toward guitars that don’t cost a tremendious amount of money yet still play really nice. My Squier Jagmaster […]
By Andy@Musicademy | January 25, 2011
Similarly to Your Grace is Enough the main groove accents all fall exactly on the beat. The up strums add a little movement and allude to the rhythm in the melody. For the chorus you could get rid of the upstrums altogether and add them back in for the verse. Basically more down strums adds […]
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