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Who else finds Lord of the Church hard to play?
Any other hard worship songs?
I've been leading a small group in worship and I'd like to include some of the older worship songs and hymns and some of them are like 4 chords to a bar in places. Its really good from a improving standard, but i'd daren't try to lead worship with them!
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Originally Posted by telecasting Any other hard worship songs?
I think the hardest song I do right now is Revolutionary Love by David Crowder - because rather than doing the traditional capo on the first fret and play G, I capo on the fourth fret, put a cut capo on the sixth fret, and play some crazy chords and notes.
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Originally Posted by psalm63adam I capo on the fourth fret, put a cut capo on the sixth fret, and play some crazy chords and notes.
Dude, two capos. hardcore
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O Sacred Head Now Wounded is probably the hardest song I've come across. I had to play just the bass notes on it because the chords are just too dang complicated.
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Probably anything that I'm going to arrange in prog rock style for a chapel service this fall.
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I think that the newer Crowder stuff has been the most challenging to pull off.
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i think the old hymns that arn't made for guitar are hard. YOu know, the ones where you have a new chord every beat. Its fun though, since I like challenges.
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Originally Posted by jamforchrist123 i think the old hymns that arn't made for guitar are hard. YOu know, the ones where you have a new chord every beat. Its fun though, since I like challenges.
Those indeed are pretty tough, and Lord of the Church is one such example, which includes a couple of diminished chords, an E augmented, a Bb9#11 and various other #9's and b9's. Its a really good song to play, but I try and sing at the same time and it doesn't always happen!
The problem with most worship songs at the moment is that there is a concentration on the words, and the melody and harmony just isn't anything on these old songs. Either that, or they're written in a way which either guys or girls can sing without either doing a falsetto or singing so low they can't hear themselves.
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Old hymns tend to be a challenge. I'll usually sit down beforehand and work out which chords are not really needed, you can generally reduce it to 1 or 2 a bar that way The hardest thing about them is often not just playing the chords but reading the words from a different page and trying to work out when to change to what chord while singing which words and avoiding a multitasking meltdown all at once
all good fun though
God bless, Rich
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I was playing hymn melodies last night. I find that more fun than the chords anyway.
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The Passion remake of "Christ the Solid Rock"
I ended up scratching it because, while the band could pull it off and it sounded cool, it was just way too time consuming to practice and perform well.
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Originally Posted by telecasting Those indeed are pretty tough, and Lord of the Church is one such example, which includes a couple of diminished chords, an E augmented, a Bb9#11 and various other #9's and b9's.
The jazz I play everyday makes 99% of the songs I've played in church pale in comparison...
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Originally Posted by Rainer. The jazz I play everyday makes 99% of the songs I've played in church pale in comparison... Hehe, "Lush Life" anyone? Play a good arrangement of that and come back and talk about "difficult" worship songs. Heck, and that song doesn't even have a ton of crazy extensions. It's just so far outside.
I digress, and this is not the right forum.
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Son of God by Lincoln Brewster has a killer electric guitar solo that is hard to play.