Chords for Fingerstyle Gospel Guitar- Tis So Sweet & What a Friend We Have in Jesus!

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_ _ _ _ Howdy, [D] welcome to _ BanjoBenClark _ .com, your home for learning how to play banjo, mandolin, _ _
and guitar.
Normally we flat pick guitar.
This [G] week we're getting rid of the flat pick.
We're using the fingers that God gave us to do a finger style arrangement _ [F#] to a couple
_ _ classic hymns.
I love these hymns.
What inspired me to do these this week was my wife's grandma, _ _ who I love like my own,
_ _ passed away last week, which [E] is sad.
She was a great, great woman who inspired me greatly.
_ But the most important thing was it's not over with.
She's with the Lord [G] Jesus because she knew him as Savior.
_ _ _ The truths that these hymns talk about I hold so near and dear [E] to my heart.
I just want to share with you that through song _ _ this week.
This is a huge lesson.
We're going [G] to not only learn how to play it, but I want to talk to you about how I
come up with these arrangements.
Whenever I think finger style guitar in this particular style, _ _ I have three different components
I'm thinking about.
Melody, _ I'm thinking about bass notes and taking us to different chords, and I'm thinking
about harmony notes.
So we'll look at each one of those individually [F#] as we walk through this.
If you're watching on [E] Facebook or YouTube, here in a moment I'll ask you to come over
to the website.
You can join as a GoPick member and have access [F#] to hundreds of videos and tabs.
This is about a 40-minute video lesson.
Of course I have the tab exactly as I performed it, but I also have some _ MP3s where I play
it very _ slowly.
You can download those, follow along with me, and you can learn [Am] to play this one.
I promise you can.
Let's jump into the first measure of Tis the Sweet to Trust in Jesus.
_ Let's learn these beautiful hymns with finger [F#] style guitar.
_ Let's lay a little bit of a [F] foundation _ _ as we approach [Em] these.
As we throw out the first line of tab there, _ you'll notice a couple things.
One is there's some notes with red circles around them.
What [Gm] in the world are those?
Well, those are melody notes.
So as we play through this arrangement, so I don't have to keep saying it, we're going
to _ accentuate those [D] melody notes.
We're going to try to make those be in the forefront and have the other notes _ _ _ just _ support them. _
As well, you'll notice beneath each one of the notes I have those little [G] numbers _ in the
circles or a letter.
Those are our pickhand indications.
So T would stand for thumb, and boy is our thumb going to be busy, particularly as we
go [A#] to [Em] _ what a friend we have in Jesus.
_ Then [G] one would stand for index, two would stand for middle.
_ Those are the only three fingers I'm using.
I'm [G] bringing my banjo _ _ method, my banjo style over to finger style guitar.
So [E] I'm going to plant also that pinky for me.
It might be your ring finger for you.
_ I'm going to plant [G] that and that's going to give me a little bit more strength as I pinch these _ strings.
It also gives me a little [D] reference to where I'm at on the guitar.
_ Now one other thing I want to mention before we dive into this is that whenever I create
[G] finger style [G#] guitar arrangements, there's really three parts that I'm creating.
The first and foremost that I'm worried about is the melody.
How do I present that melody?
So often I'll just think of that before I do any of the other notes.
The second one is going to be _ the bass notes.
What chords do I want to use and how do I want those chords to move between _ one another
and lead to the next chord?
And then the third part that I think about are the harmony notes that are going to accompany
_ the melody.
So those are the three parts that are always going as I'm playing and we can see those
displayed _ even in the first measure.
So I want you to place your ring finger on the third fret of the low G string.
That's going to provide that bass note for the G chord that we're on.
And then of course we have our melody note happening at the same time on the second string.
So as we play those two together, _ _ we want to bring out that melody note.
We don't want real heavy bass _ _ _ _ overpowering that.
_ _ _ And then we've got a couple harmony notes here that I'm going to jump up and play _ that
are harmony notes of the G chord.
And then I've got a melody note _ on the second fret of the G string that I'm going to reach
up [Am] and play that I want to try to bring out.
All [G] the while leaving my bass note down. _ _ _ _
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_ Sounds really pretty, [B] doesn't it?
It's simple but [G] it's pretty.
_ _ _ Then measure two, I'm going to pinch again. _
Then I'm going to start walking up my bass note.
[A] _ _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ Pay attention [G] to what the thumb [A] does.
[B] You know that's another tip that I'll give [A] you, especially as we get into What a Friend
We Have in Jesus.
You may [F#] just want to go through and learn just the thumb parts and just get that on _
[G] autopilot.
Because the thumb is operating separately _ _ from our melody and harmony notes.
But it's [Am] going to walk up and then whenever we [Gm] _ arrive on that second fret, we're also
going to play the fourth fret of [F#] the fourth string, _ the F sharp note.
And we're going to do a brush. Okay?
_ _ So that means I'm going to play both of those strings with my thumb.
_ [B] And I'm going to use the side of my thumb to get it really smooth.
And it's okay if there's a little space between the notes.
_ They don't have to be right together. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So [G] measures one and two.
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[Em] Then I go to a C chord in measure three.
But we're going to leave off [B] the middle finger.
We're going to brush [C] through those two strings. _ _
And then hammer _ [D] to the second fret.
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That's a half note.
One, two, _ three, four.
Then [G] leave those down for measure four.
_ [C] Pinch. _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ _ So as we get into measure five, _ [C] the melody notes of course are happening on the [G] top. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ Then we're going to start walking up there on the last beat of measure [Am] five with our thumb.
[D#m] Now I'm going to play it for you measures one through five just so you [E] can hear it.
Keep in mind though, if you're here on the site, I've got an _ mp3 where I play it very,
very slow as well as a [D] video where I play it very [G] slowly. _ _ _ _ _
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