{"id":18319,"date":"2018-01-18T11:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=18319"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:36:55","slug":"recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an email recently from someone relatively new to guitar playing who wanted to know which of the songs we have available as backing tracks and chord charts are accessible for a newish guitar player.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve pulled together a list of simple songs which have video lessons available too. You can access all the lessons with a membership of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\">Worship Training Subscription Site<\/a>\u00a0or by via permanent download (links for the downloads and chord charts are below). Two of these lessons are Subscription site only &#8211; we do try and reward subscription site users with some unique content. The backing track and chord chart links take you to our sister site Worship Backing Band.<\/p>\n<h2>Easy worship songs for a beginner guitar player<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Forever (We Sing Hallelujah) (Kari Jobe) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/forever-we-sing-hallelujah-bethel.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">lesson in the Beginner Plus Acoustic Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cornerstone (Hillsong) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/cornerstone-hillsong.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">lesson in the Beginner Plus Acoustic Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How Great Is Our God (Tomlin) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/how-great-is-our-god-chris-tomlin.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/how-great-is-our-god.html\">lesson from our Song Learner series<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Hosanna Praise Is Rising (Baloche, Brenton Brown) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/hosanna-praise-is-rising-brenton-brown-paul-baloche.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/guitar-downloads\/new-beginning-worship-guitar\/praise-is-rising-strumming-patterns.html\">lesson in the Beginning Worship Guitar Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>One Thing Remains (Jesus Culture) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/one-thing-remains-jesus-culture-2225.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">lesson in the Beginner Plus Acoustic Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our God is Greater (Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/our-god-chris-tomlin-matt-redman.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">lesson in the Beginner Plus Acoustic Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your Grace is Enough (Matt Maher) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/your-grace-is-enough-matt-maher-2129.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/your-grace-is-enough-strumming-patterns.html\">lesson from the Beginning Worship Guitar Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Stronger (Hillsong) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/stronger-reuben-morgan-ben-fielding-hillsong.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">lesson in the Beginner Plus Acoustic Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>O Praise Him (Crowder) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/oh-praise-him-david-crowder.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/worship-guitar-collection.html\">lesson in the Worship Guitar Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Our God Saves (Baloche) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/our-god-saves-brenton-brown-paul-baloche.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/worship-guitar-collection.html\">lesson in the Worship Guitar Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your Love Never Fails (Bethel) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/your-love-never-fails-chris-mcclarney-anthony-skinner-jesus-culture.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/worship-guitar-collection.html\">lesson in the Worship Guitar Collection<\/a><\/li>\n<li>How He Loves (John Mark McMillan &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/how-he-loves-john-mark-mcmillan.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/how-he-loves-guitar-lesson.html\">lesson in the Beginning Worship Guitar Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Holy Spirit (Jesus Culture) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/holy-spirit-bryan-and-katie-torwalt-jesus-culture.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/course\/song-based-lessons-acoustic-guitar\/lesson\/holy-spirit\/holy-spirit-acoustic-guitar-lesson\/\">Lesson in the Subscription site<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>This Is Amazing Grace (Phil Wickham) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/this-is-amazing-grace-jeremy-riddle-josh-farro-phil-wickham-bethel.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/course\/song-based-lessons-acoustic-guitar\/lesson\/this-is-amazing-grace\/this-is-amazing-grace-acoustic-guitar-lesson\/\">Lesson in the Subscription site<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another simple song that you should be able to play using the backing track and chord chart<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good Good Father (Housefires) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worshipbackingband.com\/uk\/good-good-father-housefires.html\">backing track &amp; chord chart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>40 training tracks for beginner worship guitarists<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18327\" src=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-520x520.jpg 520w, https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/18115753\/Training-Tracks-Worship-Guitar.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/guitar-downloads\/worship-guitar-backing-tracks\/worship-guitar-training-tracks.html\">Beginning Worship Guitar Training Tracks<\/a>. These include x40 songs with backing tracks plus a set of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/christian-guitar\/guitar-downloads\/workbook\/beginning-worship-guitar-workbooks.html\">Workbook Songbooks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Save money by buying a course<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ZvqZYgshY0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/store\/uk\/beginner-plus-acoustic.html\">Beginner Plus Acoustic Worship Guitar Course<\/a>\u00a0is perfect for fairly new acoustic guitar players who have a few basic chords and strumming patterns under their belt and want to get to the next level. The course includes a video lesson, exercises and play alongs as well as a chord chart for each song:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Forever (We Sing Hallelujah) (Kari Jobe)<\/li>\n<li>Cornerstone (Hillsong)<\/li>\n<li>One Thing Remains (Bethel)<\/li>\n<li>Our God is Greater (Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman)<\/li>\n<li>Stronger (Hillsong)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>It&#8217;s like Netflix for worship training<\/h2>\n<p>Get EVERYTHING for a single low monthly (or annual) fee with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\">online worship training subscription site<\/a>. This is starting to have more customers than our DVDs and downloads.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v=nrx3Wbf8GcM\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find out more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fees are $30 a month of $180 a year which works out at $15 a month (plus you get a free month if you sign up now).<\/p>\n<p>Our team subscription is as little as $9 per month per user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an email recently from someone relatively new to guitar playing who wanted to know which of the songs we have available as backing tracks and chord charts are accessible for a newish guitar player. We&#8217;ve pulled together a list of simple songs which have video lessons available too. You can access all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":20394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-18T11:50:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-07-19T12:36:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16101341\/Learning-worship-guitar-lessons-520x342-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"520\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"342\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Andy@Musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@musicademy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Andy@Musicademy\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/\",\"name\":\"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-18T11:50:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-07-19T12:36:55+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253\"},\"description\":\"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Musicademy\",\"description\":\"Award-winning training resources for church based musicians\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253\",\"name\":\"Andy@Musicademy\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\/\/musicademy.com\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy","description":"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy","og_description":"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/","og_site_name":"Musicademy","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Musicademy","article_published_time":"2018-01-18T11:50:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-07-19T12:36:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":520,"height":342,"url":"https:\/\/drc0fhsrp02et.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/16101341\/Learning-worship-guitar-lessons-520x342-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Andy@Musicademy","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@musicademy","twitter_site":"@musicademy","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Andy@Musicademy","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/","url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/","name":"Recommended songs for beginning worship guitar players | Musicademy","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-01-18T11:50:14+00:00","dateModified":"2019-07-19T12:36:55+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253"},"description":"A list of easy-to-play worship songs for beginning guitarists. Includes links to chord charts, backing tracks and video lessons.","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/recommended-worship-songs-beginning-guitar-players\/"]}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/","name":"Musicademy","description":"Award-winning training resources for church based musicians","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/74b3a3a4fc00dc6fbf71c3a055780253","name":"Andy@Musicademy","sameAs":["http:\/\/musicademy.com"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20912,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions\/20912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}