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Worship Guitar Chords Exposed!: The Key of G

Better late than never… here’s the start of the worship guitar chords series, where we’ll take a look at each of the 5 CAGED chord positions, and the chords that many worship leaders commonly use when playing in these keys.  I have to apologize, I’d recorded some acoustic demos for each of these lessons awhile back, but lost them when my old computer went down.  If I have time, I’ll rerecord them later…

The Key of G:
Hands down, the key of G is probably the most popular one for all worship leaders.  (In fact, I know worship leaders that rarely play anything other than G position chords.)  There are a few reasons why G is so popular.  First these are very “bright” sounding chord forms that bring life to anthemic or driving songs.  (Think Your Grace is Enough, Holy is the Lord, O Praise Him, or half the stuff with Chris Tomlin’s name on it.  ;)  )  Second, changing chords (with these forms) requires little movement.  Ths means that less experienced guitar players can pick these forms up quickly.  So with that, let’s take a look at the common G position worship chords.

G Major:

The “root” of 1 chord is the G major chord.  The way you hold this chord is to
1.  Place your pinky finger on the high e string, third fret
2.  Place your ring finger on the B string, third fret
3.  Place your middle finger on the low E string, third fret
4.  Place your index finger on the A string,...

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