This is great! I’m a long time bedroom guitarist who recently joined my church’s worship team, so needless to say it’s all been a very big learning experience and this helped a lot!
Clickable timestamps: 00:48 : Voicing 1a - The F voicing 03:32 : Voicing 1b - The Minor voicing (goes along with the F shape) 04:14 : Voicing 2a - The D voicing (Triad) 05:55 : Voicing 2b - The Am voicing (goes along with the D shape) 07:00 : Voicing 3: The Power Chord voicing 09:26 : Voicing 4: The major scale voicing 11:27 : Voicing 5: Inversions
Quick tip. When you want to move to the relative minor when using the D shape, instead of playing a barre chord, place your pinky 2 frets above on the G string to play a minor chord without making the chord thicker. Here is a major chord (using D shape) G string 7th fret, B string 8th fret, E string 7th fret. For the relative minor this would be, G string 9th fret, B string 8th fret, E string 7th fret.
I’ve been playing for twenty years and this is one of the best lessons I’ve ever seen. Bradford, you do an amazing job in each of your videos and I appreciate all your time and hard work! Thank you for all that you do and for serving Christ!
Really appreciate worship tutorials.. Keep them videos coming. It's really helpful. Let's keep it in our prayer that more people will see this and use it to bring praises to our Lord throughout the world.
You still can find them for free, but it's all over the place unlike in this lesson. I literally spent weeks to piece together information about triads from other videos
look up the caged system that's where a lot of these shapes come from. Really learn the notes on the guitar and the theory of how chords are built, once you know that then you could build chords all over the neck.
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to discover learn to play easy christian guitar songs try Fezervin Teeth System Coach (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend got amazing results with it.
There are many factors in good worship guitar courses. One place I discovered that succeeds in merging these is the Worship fixer formula (check it out on google) definately the best plan i've heard of. Check out the great info .
This explains a bunch to me. I started many years ago playing the electric with all power chords, as of the past few decades I’ve been mainly playing acoustic and recently got back to playing the electric on my worship team. This helps big time thx 👍🏻
Why’d it take me so long to find something like this? No one talks about these methods but they’re so helpful and should’ve been the first thing I learned when approaching electric
Bro , this channel teach you everything you need in worship music for electric guitar , and you can become a proffesional worship electric guitarist . BTW : Worship Tutorials Line 6 Pod Go presets are the best😁😁😁
One of the things I've learned from playing bass in a 'big' band is that the whole rhythm section doesn't need to play the root note! Since the bass, and possible piano are almost certainly playing the root note the guitarist doesn't need to. Especially in worship songs where the bass is often playing 1/8 notes on mainly the root note. So you can play even fewer notes!
Thanks man, this is going to help me out a ton! Been struggling with getting through a plateau in my playing and being able do something more creative than just chords.
Presented beautifully in a simple way for the beginners 👍. You can be more theoretical for the advance players. Wrapped around minor chords are the minor 7 chords. C/E is the 1st inversion not second. C/G will be the second inversion.
Funny I have been using all of these and not really knowing it. Playing in a really good full group you quickly realize less strings the better and have been trying really hard to hard to play what I hear on tracks to get voicing right. Good to see I’m in the right shapes lol
This is an excellent lesson. Thank you. The tricky thing I think is that all of us have slightly different hands...I actually have very big hands...and to try and get my thumb over..then play the 3 notes for the F voicing up in the E chord area..seems impossible. I'm amazed how you do this so effortlessly..I just don't have that kind of flexibility! I've found guitar such a frustrating instrument to learn compared to piano..because it isn't just a musical challenge...it is a challenge in finger contortions! Maybe these things improve over time...I remember bar chords once seemed impossibe too. and I'm getting there with those. Anyway thank you..this is a brilliant lesson...and if I ignore the thumb side of things for the E chord.. I can still apply this. Thanks.
This was very helpful! I know you can take a lot from this video and apply it, but i would love to see a video on leading from electric. Haven’t really found any
What he goes over at 8:00-9:00 is great for the 1, 4, and 5 but is there an easy way to get to a 6 from that shape without having to completely move you hand?
Hello, I know I am late but, you can just play the 1 chord if there are others already playing the 6 chord... The reason why you can play the 1 instead of the 6 is because when you play the 1 chord over the 6 you get a minor 7th chord. With the voicing he shows, the 9th in the 1 chord is the 4th/11th in the minor chord so really you are playing a minor 11th. In my opinion it doesn't sound bad. Hope it helped, have a good day.
Nb.. We can use sus4 chords on all of the three minor chords in a major scale. Example if ur playing in a band then the sus4 chord would essential become a smooth layer
Great tutorial…some good review and some new shapes…thank you. Just because I am a bit of a nerd for this stuff, isn’t the minor chord shape you are showing by barring the strings straight across at the fifth fret actually an A min7? A minor would be: A, C(b3), E…This chord your showing includes a flat 7 ….G….
FWIW - my hands aren’t big enough to comfortably use my thumb without buzz. I bar the “F” shape and use my forefinger and pinky to mute the “a” and “e”. Great lesson though - really important stuff if you have two guitars.
Cara, sou líder de adoração no Brasil. Adoro seus vídeos, timbres de guitarra, acordes e aplicações, mas não entendo nada de inglês. Coloquem legendas em português. Que Deus os abençoe.
I've been playing guitar for a little over 35 years and have never played contemporary Christian music...this helps sooooo much! thank you!
This is great! I’m a long time bedroom guitarist who recently joined my church’s worship team, so needless to say it’s all been a very big learning experience and this helped a lot!
Clickable timestamps:
00:48 : Voicing 1a - The F voicing
03:32 : Voicing 1b - The Minor voicing (goes along with the F shape)
04:14 : Voicing 2a - The D voicing (Triad)
05:55 : Voicing 2b - The Am voicing (goes along with the D shape)
07:00 : Voicing 3: The Power Chord voicing
09:26 : Voicing 4: The major scale voicing
11:27 : Voicing 5: Inversions
CaptainZuzlike nice man thanks this is awsome for shortcuts to go back when you finish watching. I appreciate this God bless u
thank you man! Godbless
Quick tip.
When you want to move to the relative minor when using the D shape, instead of playing a barre chord, place your pinky 2 frets above on the G string to play a minor chord without making the chord thicker. Here is a major chord (using D shape) G string 7th fret, B string 8th fret, E string 7th fret. For the relative minor this would be, G string 9th fret, B string 8th fret, E string 7th fret.
I’ve been playing for twenty years and this is one of the best lessons I’ve ever seen. Bradford, you do an amazing job in each of your videos and I appreciate all your time and hard work! Thank you for all that you do and for serving Christ!
Lyn Kisner thanks Lyn! Really appreciate that!
Really appreciate worship tutorials.. Keep them videos coming.
It's really helpful. Let's keep it in our prayer that more people will see this and use it to bring praises to our Lord throughout the world.
wish you all had put a PDF showing the chord shapes on here for download. Great video though!
This is it !!!! Omg you have no idea how long I have been looking for this type of video!!! Thank you !
Just wanna let you know how grateful I am of you guys. Y'all taught me so much. God bless.
This is actually a fantastic Chord lesson. Nobody does these anymore on RUclips, can only get stuff like this with pay lessons now.
You still can find them for free, but it's all over the place unlike in this lesson. I literally spent weeks to piece together information about triads from other videos
look up the caged system that's where a lot of these shapes come from. Really learn the notes on the guitar and the theory of how chords are built, once you know that then you could build chords all over the neck.
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to discover learn to play easy christian guitar songs try Fezervin Teeth System Coach (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my friend got amazing results with it.
There are many factors in good worship guitar courses. One place I discovered that succeeds in merging these is the Worship fixer formula (check it out on google) definately the best plan i've heard of. Check out the great info .
I remember when I first learned triads it completely changed how I played electric guitar. These are really great tips!
This is a fantastic lesson! This was a great explanation of the chords used in modern worship music today!
This explains a bunch to me. I started many years ago playing the electric with all power chords, as of the past few decades I’ve been mainly playing acoustic and recently got back to playing the electric on my worship team. This helps big time thx 👍🏻
It's crazy i was nervous about playing worship on electric but apparently all the chords i learned playing jazz work well! Thank you for the vid
Bradford, this is the most helpful video I've watched in a looong time. And I waste a lot of time watching videos..... Thanks brother!
This video connected a few dots for me on chords that I just hadn’t thought of before. Thank you so much!
This video was clutch, man! 1 of 3 electric guitarists for our Christmas services. Thank you!
Been waiting for this for ages!!!! Please make more of these!!
This is lead worship guitarist 101, love it! And a great refresher for me too
mindblown one major and minor voicing.. bruh this is so good.. im speechless
Love this series. They've been very useful for me switching from acoustic to electric. The more voicings you want to share the better!
Bradford thank you! I have saved this and will rewatch several times.
Such an amazing teacher. God bless you!
Dude. That guitar is gorgeous!
Why’d it take me so long to find something like this? No one talks about these methods but they’re so helpful and should’ve been the first thing I learned when approaching electric
You deserve my like. I cannot thank you enough. Really appreciate making this awesome video
Great lesson for musicians looking to understand lead guitar better!
HELPFUL?!?!?! Dude this has helped me so much! Taken my worship guitar abilities to the next level! Thank you SO much brother!
Thank you for this video. Its going to open up to me a new level of playing for worship!! God Bless!!
God bless you brother, thank you for your ministry
Your face at 4:32 😂😂
It’s that blank stare that we all have when explaining a D chord. Haha.
Great and informative video! Thank you! God bless!
This is quality, and really practically helpful. Thanks Bradford! More like this please WT...
perfect timing for worship practice tonight!! thank you
Bro , this channel teach you everything you need in worship music for electric guitar , and you can become a proffesional worship electric guitarist . BTW : Worship Tutorials Line 6 Pod Go presets are the best😁😁😁
this is incredible.. thank you guys
This is a great video. Helped greatly. May God bless you for the work you are doing with this channel.
One of the things I've learned from playing bass in a 'big' band is that the whole rhythm section doesn't need to play the root note! Since the bass, and possible piano are almost certainly playing the root note the guitarist doesn't need to. Especially in worship songs where the bass is often playing 1/8 notes on mainly the root note. So you can play even fewer notes!
This is huge, really made a difference in my playing thank you
Thanks man, this is going to help me out a ton! Been struggling with getting through a plateau in my playing and being able do something more creative than just chords.
This is exactly the kind of lesson I was looking for! Thank you so much.
thank you for this lesson, it really helpful. God bless you!
Thanks so much.... great lesson....very helpful.....God bless.
thank you so much i feel like this prepares me as a eletric guitar beginner
Very helpful video! Thank you and God bless you!
Opened up a new world to me
More videos like these please. This and the last were awesome!
really great lesson. Clear and quick, love it!
The first time I watched this video, I missed those last 5 seconds. Hahahahaha! Worth it.
This is a great lesson! Looking forward to the next one.
Presented beautifully in a simple way for the beginners 👍. You can be more theoretical for the advance players.
Wrapped around minor chords are the minor 7 chords. C/E is the 1st inversion not second.
C/G will be the second inversion.
Thank you so much it's very helpful for me and God bless you
Funny I have been using all of these and not really knowing it. Playing in a really good full group you quickly realize less strings the better and have been trying really hard to hard to play what I hear on tracks to get voicing right. Good to see I’m in the right shapes lol
This was so helpful!! Do more videos like this!!
This is an excellent lesson. Thank you. The tricky thing I think is that all of us have slightly different hands...I actually have very big hands...and to try and get my thumb over..then play the 3 notes for the F voicing up in the E chord area..seems impossible. I'm amazed how you do this so effortlessly..I just don't have that kind of flexibility! I've found guitar such a frustrating instrument to learn compared to piano..because it isn't just a musical challenge...it is a challenge in finger contortions! Maybe these things improve over time...I remember bar chords once seemed impossibe too. and I'm getting there with those. Anyway thank you..this is a brilliant lesson...and if I ignore the thumb side of things for the E chord.. I can still apply this. Thanks.
Wow, this is incredibly useful
Thanks for sharing. Brilliant help for me starting to look at new ways of playing chords!
Just love this lesson
Thanks for teaching this stuff❤
Thanks so much for teaching the 1st inversion chords. I'm having a trigger thumb now so I can't do the G/B F#/D stuff. But now I can! God Bless!
Really usable and helpful tips. Thanks :-)
This is something we like to learn
Great lesson, and great sound!
What profile r u using?
This was very helpful! I know you can take a lot from this video and apply it, but i would love to see a video on leading from electric. Haven’t really found any
great class and beautiful guitar man.
This video is insane! Thank you~
Great chordal lesson with some solid theory
Good lesson, thanks
Great lesson!
such a great lesson
Dude this is like payed class!!!
This video has been really helpful thanks so much
Powerful lesson! Thank you!
Great lesson!!!
Excellent!
Thank you.
Ty sir, I learn a lot from you😁
This was awesome. Thank you!
Thank you. This is some good stuff ☺️
Nice ! keep doing this ! Bless you :)
Great lesson
Might like to point out that the first minor shape is a minor 7th :)
Yes, I was thinking the same thing
3:50 This is a minor7 chord
7:55 Not a power chord but a sus 2 chord
Love love love this!
That guitar sounds glorious.
Joe McDaniel 🙌🏼
8:35 can be played during a I V I IV progression or a I V vi IV progression
Inversions are great!
Super helpful!
Thanks so much! God bless!
What he goes over at 8:00-9:00 is great for the 1, 4, and 5 but is there an easy way to get to a 6 from that shape without having to completely move you hand?
Hello, I know I am late but, you can just play the 1 chord if there are others already playing the 6 chord... The reason why you can play the 1 instead of the 6 is because when you play the 1 chord over the 6 you get a minor 7th chord. With the voicing he shows, the 9th in the 1 chord is the 4th/11th in the minor chord so really you are playing a minor 11th. In my opinion it doesn't sound bad. Hope it helped, have a good day.
super helpful!! thank you!
Great Video!
Good ideas for practice. Thanks
This is awesome! Thanks!
Nb.. We can use sus4 chords on all of the three minor chords in a major scale. Example if ur playing in a band then the sus4 chord would essential become a smooth layer
Great tutorial…some good review and some new shapes…thank you. Just because I am a bit of a nerd for this stuff, isn’t the minor chord shape you are showing by barring the strings straight across at the fifth fret actually an A min7? A minor would be: A, C(b3), E…This chord your showing includes a flat 7 ….G….
Good stuff guys!
Shape 2 (the straight minor one) is a minor 7th, right?
Great lesson! Good reminders!
Great lesson. Thanks
FWIW - my hands aren’t big enough to comfortably use my thumb without buzz. I bar the “F” shape and use my forefinger and pinky to mute the “a” and “e”.
Great lesson though - really important stuff if you have two guitars.
Cara, sou líder de adoração no Brasil. Adoro seus vídeos, timbres de guitarra, acordes e aplicações, mas não entendo nada de inglês. Coloquem legendas em português. Que Deus os abençoe.
So helpful! Thankyou.
Please upload more videos on alternate chords ...❤ From Assam, India...
Honestly if you fully implement these principles here you should be more than fine!
Thanks, great tutorial