Guitar Friendly Keys In a lot of church bands, the pianist/keyboard player picks out the music for the band. Most digital web-based music suppliers offer their arrangements in a variety of keys. The best way to select the right key for your band is to base the choice on your vocal abilities, but sometimes taking [...]
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Here’s a quick guitar trick if you’re like me and transpose most songs in the key of E to the key of D and then play it capoed at the second fret. Next time, don’t use your capo to press down on every string, shift the capo as shown in the picture so that the [...]
Music for Holy Trinity Sunday & How to Transpose
Posted: May 12, 2009 in All Others, Capo, Children, Holy Trinity Sunday, TheoryTags: Children, Father I Adore You, Terrye Coelho Strom
On Trinity Sunday, I have chosen the song ”Father I Adore You” as a song choice. Many congregations use this on Trinity Sunday. There are other good contemporary song choices, such as “Glorify Thy Name”, but I chose ”Father I Adore You” because there is a portion of our congregation that normally does not sing, [...]
You Are
Posted: March 4, 2009 in All Others, Capo, Learn a SongTags: Cut Capo, Installation, Mark Roach, You Are
One of my favorite songs to strum & sing is ”You Are” by Mark Roach. It does a beautiful job of emphasizing the names and attributes of Jesus. I will often use it as a pre-service piece to draw our attention towards Jesus, or I’ll play it during the Offering to draw attention to the [...]
