Worship Guitar Workshop

I wanted to let you know about a project that I’m working on. We’re doing a full out redesign of www.WorshipTeamCoach.com and WorshipGuitarWorkshop.com. The two sites will be integrated and content will be easier to access and find. I’ll also be adding more to the Small Church/Big Worship resources.

In order to keep overhead low and a huge majority of my resources free, I’m crowdfunding the redesign through RocketHub. If you’re unfamiliar with crowdfunding, it’s not charity and it’s not an investment like venture capital. It’s for friends/fans/followers–people who appreciate the work someone is offering and chooses to help fund them through a big or small gift. The cool thing is, each contribution gets a reward. In our case, we’re giving away everything from a 10-week worship team devotional ebook to a full weekend of workshops at your church or 16 hours worth of coaching.

The $20 gift range is a great deal–it’s my Chord Voicings for the Advancing Guitarist DVD. It’s a 2-disc, 2 hours/40 minutes of training that helps you play chords all around the fretboard. The great thing is that $20 reward is almost $15 cheaper than than the regular price on the website.

You can check out all the rewards at RocketHub. You can also watch a video to learn more about the project. If you have any questions about RocketHub, about the rewards or the redesign project, feel free to drop me an email at jon@worshipteamcoach.com.

Thanks for stopping by…

~jon

Here’s an excerpt from Chord Voicings for the Advancing Guitarists. It shows how to create inner movement within open movable chords.

For the month of April 2011, I’m offering Easter Basket Special. You can get Chord Voicings for the Advancing Guitarist for ALL the guitarists on your worship team for the price of ONE DVD.

The details are spelled out in a recent newsletter. The info is about halfway down the page. While you’re there, if you read the rest of the e-update and like you, you can subscribe to the list on a link at the top of the page.

There’s nothing new under the sun. But sometime in jr. high, circa 1988, I slid the open E chord shape up to the 6th fret I thought I had found it. I moved it two more frets and was absolutely convinced that I had stumbled on the greatest find since six strings had been tied to a piece of wood.

Turns out I wasn’t the first. Within a decade, the worship music scene was dominated by acoustic guitars playing open movable chords. The two quintessential songs of that era was Open the Eyes of My Heart by Paul Baloche and Delirious’  I Could Sing of Your Love Forever.

While the sound in modern worship has moved away from that open acoustic sound, the technique is still being used and innovated upon. And it’s still a great way to escape the first four frets.

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