Play Church Guitar
When you play, you pray twice!
This saying comes from a banner that hangs next to the band set-up at our church. It’s absolutely true. What you play and what you sing are your prayer as well as your witness. What you convey when you play church guitar says more about you than words could ever say.
Whether you are learning to play church guitar right now, or if you are adapting “secular” guitar playing to fit into sacred music, you are not very far away from performing the music you love. Many of the old Spirituals, such as “Michael Row the Boat Ashore”, as well as the hymns, such as “Amazing Grace” have very easy chord structures and the music is simple to play and/or sing. There is not a lot of adapting that needs to take place with these old and simple songs; if you have played Folk, Rhythm and Blues, or early Rock and Roll, you have played variations of these songs for years.