Chords for O Come To the Altar | Official Guitar Tutorial | Elevation Worship

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Hey, I'm Chris from Elevation Worship,
and I just wanted to show you a quick and easy way
to play the song, O Come to the Altar. _ _
So for starters, I've got a capo on the fourth fret,
and I'm playing in the G shape.
So this song has a bit of a folky vibe to it,
so we wanted _ the way we're playing it
and the chords to kind of match that.
So _ for _ the top of the song on the intro,
I've got my finger here just covering
in the G shape again, _ _ covering the two G notes,
and then everything else is open.
I am _ muting the A string with this finger.
So I'm doing this, and then I [Abm] just have a hammer-on
on the second fret D string, and at the same time,
[E] first fret B string that I go back and forth.
So the intro [B] sounds like this.
_ _ _ Here's the hammer-on [E] with those two, _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ and then it's really the same [B] thing into the verse.
So the verse sounds like this.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ Are you [E] hurting and broken [B] within? _ _ _ _
Overwhelmed by the weight of your [Abm] sin?
And then there we introduce the E minor chord.
So it's just a basic E minor.
I am putting _ my pinky, leaving it
on the _ bottom E string there,
and then I move to a C [Gb] add nine.
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_ So Jesus [Gb] is calling.
So the whole verse one more [B] time.
_ _ _ Are [E] you hurting and broken _
[B] within? _ _ _ _
[E] Overwhelmed by the weight of your sin?
_ _ [Gb] Jesus is calling. _ _
So there's the verse.
Then [Abm] we move into the chorus,
and [B] I'm gonna use this shape for the G _ chord,
where I'm keeping [Db] these two fingers here on the [B] bottom.
Again, muting the A string with my middle finger.
So your first chord is a G,
[C] and then you move to the A [Dbm] minor seven, _ _ _
and then I'm gonna move to an E minor [Abm] again.
_ _ It's like an E minor _ seven with your pinky here
on the bottom there, and then a C add nine again.
_ _ [E] _ So the [B] chorus is this.
_ _ O come [Dbm] to _ _ the [Abm] altar.
_ The _ _ Father's arms [E] are [Gb] open [B] wide. _ _
_ _ [E] Forgiveness was bought [Abm] with
the precious _ blood [Gb] of Jesus [B] _ Christ.
Back into your [E] verse.
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Cool, and then we move to the bridge,
and _ the bridge is pretty simple as well.
Again, you're gonna use this same G shape
that you started the song with,
_ and it just has this suspension.
_ _ On the top of the bridge, it goes like this. _ _ _ _
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And it moves to an E minor chord,
[Abm] and I'm now playing my E minor
with the D string muted [A] on my middle finger,
and I'm using this same index finger
to _ have the suspension there again on [E] the B string. _ _
_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _
And then I move to my C add [Gb] nine to finish it out.
So the bridge sounds like this, _ [B] just the guitar.
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_ [Abm] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] Oh, [B] what a _ Savior. _ _
_ _ _ Isn't [Abm] he _ _ _ _ _
wonderful? _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ Sing hallelujah. _ _
[Gb] Christ is risen.
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_ _ _ _ So that is pretty [Abm] much the entire song,
the three sections that you would need to know
to play this song all the way through.
Hope this has been helpful,
and I hope you're able to _ use that. _
Thanks for watching.
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