Learning guitar chords for worship songs is an invaluable skill for any musician, and regular practice should not let mistakes discourage you.
As you begin soloing, it can be beneficial to choose songs with simple melodies like hymns. This will enable you to build both confidence and muscle memory for chords.
No Longer Slaves
To keep worship music fresh and interesting, it is vital that newcomers learn non-standard chords. Doing this will keep their minds stimulated while making songs easier to play for beginners – keeping worship music fresh. Additionally, learning non-standard chords prevents songs from becoming monotonous which is something many types of worship music suffer from.
This popular song by Zach Nesse is an engaging modern worship song with an accessible chord progression that makes it easy for novices to sing it with love for God.
For this song, the main chords are C, G and D. If you want to add depth and dimension to their sound, it might be beneficial to learn chord extensions – for instance by learning and adding minor 7th chords into your repertoire.
He Is Faithful
This song praises God’s unfaltering faithfulness to His people, the fulfillment of His promises, and His continued presence and goodness despite difficult circumstances, encouraging the singers to trust in Him. The chorus reminds listeners that even though seasons change and people pass away from our earthly bodies, God remains faithful, calling on believers to witness to his truth and righteousness as believers rely on Christ alone as the foundation of their life for peace and strength. The bridge symbolizes this sentiment perfectly with its emphasis on peace and strength found through building one’s life on Christ alone as the pillar of faithfulness!
Explore this diverse collection of worship songs focused on faithfulness. These include chord charts and vocal parts for piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, and ukulele players.
Come To The Water
Come To The Water is an engaging worship song written and performed by Jennie Lee Riddle and Kari Jobe from Gateway Worship as well as Phillips, Craig & Dean that speaks about coming closer to God through prayer. Easily learnable with only four basic chords (C, G, E and D) plus minor extensions like Dm11 and Em7 for added depth in progressions.
However, these chords aren’t essential in most songs since major and minor chords dominate most pieces. Therefore, master these primary chords before expanding your chord repertoire with barre chords for worship songs in any key with confidence – you may also require a capo for certain keys.
I Will Trust In You
Hillsong Worship’s contemporary worship song, “Come as You Are”, is an ideal choice for beginners due to its simple chord progression and slow tempo, with only C, G and Em needed in an easy strumming pattern – plus it is one of the most well-known Christian songs ever!
This song by Israel Houghton addresses the importance of living a life filled with praise and worship, featured on his album Decade.
Triads consist of three notes – the root, middle and fifth notes. Chords without thirds (diminished and augmented chords) can produce similar effects with regular power chords; thus reducing complexity while still creating beautiful music.
You Are Good
This song’s chord progression is very accessible, making it an excellent choice for beginning guitarists. All that is needed to play it are G, C and D without bars or capos needed; plus its slow tempo allows plenty of time to change chords.
To play this song you will require knowledge of basic triads – which comprise root, third and fifth notes – as well as suspension chords (sus4) and minor chords. Since worship songwriters seldom write in minor keys you may only need these chords if you are an advanced player; diminished and augmented chords are far less frequent among modern worship songs, so their knowledge may never become necessary.