Gospel Songs For Guitar

Gospel standards that are essential repertoire for every aspiring guitarist - great for playing at jam sessions and for family, church, camp or other venues for sacred songs. We learn to play gospel chords for guitar by developing our ear.

Learning to play gospel chords on your guitar will help develop your overall emotional connection with your audience. While gospel music is strongly entrenched in the African American "folk church" tradition, it also attracts many who identify as much with its expression of African American values, aesthetics, and life experiences as with its expression of religion.

The founding fathers of gospel music are:

James D. Vaughan

R. H. Harris

Albert E. Brumley

Thomas A. Dorsey

If you are just starting to learn gospel chords for guitar, start by training your ear by playing a simple two chord gospel song such as:

"He's got the Whole World In His Hands" (two chord song) - is just one of the many gospel songs for guitar using easy chords.

Common keys for Gospel Songs are:

Key of C

Key of G

Key of D

Key of A

Key of E

Of course many gospel songs are played in keys such as the key of F, Bb, Eb etc

Many of the flat keys are difficult to play on the guitar, particularly if you are a new player. The solution is to use a capo with easy chord shapes you already know and enjoy.

Let's say you know the three main chords in the key of G

They would be G C & D by placing a capo behind the first fret you would produce the following chords without having to learn any new shapes.

capo 1st fret, produces the following chords:

G = G#/Ab

C = C#/Db

D = D#/Eb

Here's a short list of three chord gospel songs for guitar.

Amazing Grace

Faith Of Our Fathers

Farther Along

Gloryland Way

I Saw The Light

I'll Fly Away

In The Garden

Jesus Loves Me

Just a Closer way With Thee

Nearer My God To Thee

Old Rugged Cross

Softly And Tenderly

That Old Time Religion

Where Could I Go (But To The Lord)

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

It's possible to add additional chords to any of the songs listed here, however the idea is to here the basic chords and learn to "hear" where the chord progression is going before using chord substitution.

I sincerely hope you enjoy learning these gospel chords for guitar, as they will be very helpful in developing your overall musicianship.

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Mike Hayes is a teacher, author, speaker and consultant. Get his tips and tested strategies proven to boost your guitar playing his membership site at www.guitarcoaching.com today.

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