{"id":18569,"date":"2018-10-17T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T10:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=18569"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T10:18:55","slug":"creating-guitar-parts-for-worship-space-and-dynamic-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/creating-guitar-parts-for-worship-space-and-dynamic-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating guitar parts for worship: Space and Dynamic [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"

New electric guitar video series by Matt Isaac<\/h2>\n

Welcoming guitarist Matt Isaac to our team of bloggers with the first of a series of videos exploring ways of creating electric guitar parts in worship. This first video is quite “talky” but those coming up in the future are a lot more hands-on.<\/p>\n

Space and dynamic in worship<\/h2>\n

I\u2019ve found myself regularly having conversations with people about creating
\nguitar parts on the fly, from chord sheets and context. This is quite a common need in
\ncontemporary church music, and can be easy either to lose sight of the fact it can need a fair
\namount of skill to do so convincingly, or to be too aware of this and feel that without lots of
\nadvanced practise, it\u2019s off limits. In my experience however this isn\u2019t the case, and there are some
\nsimple principles, which we can apply to our own playing, to create some effective and musical guitar parts.<\/p>\n

Musicianship and instrumental ability are something of a toolbox, as our capacity increases, so do
\nthe options that are available to us to draw on. There are lots of really practical skills and
\nunderstanding that are important to developing as any kind of instrumentalist. In the case of
\nguitar, you can find some valuable material on the Musicademy Electric courses: fretboard
\nknowledge, chord voicings, double stop intervals, scale shape, lots of vital stuff!<\/p>\n

What I\u2019ve tried to do with this video series however, is create some simple ideas, drawn from a mindset with which you might approach arranging parts, that can be applied to your own playing, regardless of level. Hopefully these will be helpful in giving you some tools to make the most of what you already have, and to gain a new perspective going forwards.<\/p>\n

All the ideas are going to be applied to the progression below. This means that whatever your capacity already allows you to do with this progression, these principles can hopefully be applied directly to your playing.<\/p>\n

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Video 1: Space and Dynamic in Worship<\/h2>\n