Worship Guitar Chords: most common chords and voicings

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From my experience teaching tons of students in 1-on-1 lessons, I have found some patterns that keep coming back again and again in worship guitar music.
In this lesson I will cover:
- Common open string voicings
- Other common chords in the key of G Major
- Suspended chord shapes
- Small shapes for lead playing
It doesn't matter if you want to use those chords at church, or if you are not a worship player at all, I think these chords are very useful for many applications.
Thank you for watching!
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This is the Ambient Guitar youtube channel of Canadian multi-instrumentist Antoine Michaud. Through original ambient music, chordal guitar lessons and tips on guitar pedals, Antoine is looking to educate and inspire aspiring ambient musicians to learn everything about the world of ambient guitar and chordal voicings on guitar.

[@DIGITAL7Media]

I’ve played guitar my entire life. Joining the worship band gave me the opportunity to relearn all the chords in new was. Great tutorial. Thank you.

[@takehemmanuel5564]

Most fascinating worship guitar tutorial. You just unlocked something I've been struggling with for year's Sir. Thank you 😢

[@msilvaprof1]

0:35 - #1 Using open strings voicing (9:36 - He demonstrates what he did in details) 4:38 - #2 Stay-in-place top notes in the key of G Major. 6:32 - #3 Suspended chords (Sus2 and specially sus4 chords) 10:16 - #4 Lead suspended lines

[@WillsJazzLoft]

Wow! This is fascinating. I kinda wondered how worship guitarists got all of those beautiful full sounding chords. You mentioned Jimi Hendrix. I'll add to that and mention Prince. I remember during Purple Rain he used much of the same fretboard logic as you're demonstrating. Thank you. Thank the LORD for His Grace working in and through you.

[@absterama]

LOVE this, comes in really handy and adds depth to easy chord patterns. Thank you!!!

[@sigfreed11]

I’ve been looking around for this exact subject. Thanks for posting! Nothing else was as helpful as this video

[@melvinrodas4620]

Thank you so much for posting this! Out of all the videos out there this was most helpful 🎉

[@CornishCockney]

I play baritone ukulele tuned DGBE so I find your lessons SO helpful. Just need to practice now. Bless you my friend.

[@MacedoinaChoirs]

What I have learned from playing Worship Music: "C#, Bb, A minor, F# Repeat".

[@brothaandrew]

God Loves You.

[@qualitydag1]

Very beautiful Chords!

[@onionheadguy7094]

Perfect chords for pedal addicts like myself thank you!

[@robs6454]

Such an excellent lesson. God bless you

[@AliD99]

thank you , very useful and easy to play

[@Gbengaibitade]

You've just changed my worship life 🙌🙌🙌

[@ThefrenchFranz]

Check out for Paul Baloche's "open chord concept' if you want to dig the subject.

[@juliodefreitas157]

Absolutely awesome ❤️

[@robtemple3445]

Thank you for the nice refresher my friend!

[@francism1984]

Thanks man, great video and very helpful!

[@ianjunkermann8194]

Your SUS chords is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

[@rlittlefield2691]

great lesson thank you

[@plaguearttutorials]

Awesome thanks

[@cesarrodriguez-tw9bp]

I’ve been wanting to know this for a while ! Thank you so much !!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Happy to help!

[@johnnygreenway3579]

Another great lesson. Thank you so much for the work you put into these lessons. I'm learning so much!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

It's my pleasure, Johnny!

[@SagaBKSFolkearth]

Great lesson and good voicings thanks

[@hbrmetal]

God bless you

[@billwiebe1049]

This is absolutely awesome thank you so much you taught me so much into videos I that I will always cherish

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

My pleasure, Bill!

[@sleepintheirashes]

VERY helpful video

[@edmundo_bj]

Very nice. It reminds me Alcest musics a lot.

[@jimwarner8071]

Awesome sounds. Thx so much.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

My pleasure!

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[@gunslinger80sguitars]

Great lesson, thank you!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

My pleasure!

[@vansullivan236]

Great, thanks!

[@kapidgerwin]

Wow rhank you for sharing

[@dieuveilmabiala]

Thank you so much

[@geofreygomela2118]

I learning alot

[@sammydodgers121]

You're a very good teacher

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Thank you 😊

[@lameddie5318]

Antoine....THANK YOU!

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

You're welcome!

[@rocl420]

On point #2 with the unmoving pinky and ring fingers, a classic example is the intro to Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. Walking around Em7, G, and A7sus4 chords, and it's the backdrop for the lead solos too. Solid lesson even if I'm not a worship player, thanks Antoine.

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Oh yeah, a Pink Floyd classic, of course! Thanks for sharing!

[@diegovasquez4650]

Nutshell of Alice in chains it's similar too

[@joelisaiah1419]

Hey my friend 😜, I like this lesson. Thanks. This is going to change my playing🎸🎉May GOD bless you 💫

[@iagosantos9401]

Eu pesquisei sobre worship e parei neste video Já me inscrevi no canal, ótimas aulas pra aprender

[@adammindykowski6984]

These are lovely chords Antoine, and I've used them a lot in my songwriting over the years. I'm not a worship guitarist though so wasn't aware of the connection. I learnt these chords listening to Alex Lifeson. He uses these voicings on many Rush songs.

[@rondalharper2645]

Exactly! F#Maj in this voicing. "The Alex Lifeson chord" John Petrucci. Lol

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

2 4 4 3 0 0

[@ThefrenchFranz]

Thanks for the reference to Alex Lifeson! 😉

[@JezusLeeftenKomtTerug]

Nice TY

[@stevesmith3990]

Nice one Antoine :)

[@josevillanueva9705]

5th lead guitar voicings are going to make a huge difference for church

[@nickkellie]

Very nice but you forgot the holiest chord of all!! G sus !

[@vvincent1744]

Sus😰

[@cjgreen4331]

@@vvincent1744 Mogus? 😳

[@yahwensi522]

I said Amin for G sus

[@romans1227]

I see what you did there 😏

[@MG-jk8ez]

Only brothers without any sins can play that chord.

[@bennyodom5382]

Nothing worse than someone who loves the sound of their own voice.

[@jessieplaysmusic8530]

That suhr tho 😍

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Yo a question if u could answer please.... ive a neunaber reverb pedal one and am not happy with it... it hasnt got the dreamy think i would want to have. Do u you think a big sky would do that sad dreamy tone ? ty u in advance man!

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nice ...what effects did you use?

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❤❤

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1) (0:43 2:53 3:04 (3:39 4:03 4:11 (4:22 2) 4:41 (5:52 3) 6:41 8:03 8:22 8:31 8:42 9:43 10:02

[@MrHamish121]

Any tips on getting the ambient tone you had? Thanks

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

I was just using the Neunaber Immerse MkII. Incredible reverb pedal!

[@GaylordBonnafous]

The leads on the higher strings sound a bit like The Edge from U2.

[@johndavid9973]

❤

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Nice tone. What pedal is used for this video

[@AntoineMichaudGuitar]

Neunaber Immerse MkII

[@matthewf.4842]

Yo good

[@diegonava7086]

Coldplay vibes

[@DonWoodsyt]

4:21 he plays Yellow by Coldplay lol

[@forfreedomssake4315]

quebecois? Je reconnais ton accent :)

[@stephenparry6811]

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[@patricktracy1966]

1966. Religious people burn Beatles records, and preachers warn about that "devil music", Rock and Roll. 2021 Religious people are lead in worship by electric guitarists, that have more power in the pedal board than all the Beatle guitars and amps combined.

[@ThefrenchFranz]

Yes, but there are many "worship bands" whose music certainly doesn't lead to heartfelt praise, not to mention adoration... the road remains narrow.

[@cjgreen4331]

Pov: You didnt know things could change

[@seraphym6764]

Great but, I have midget thumbs.

[@rdgipson]

Chords are chords. The idea that some are "worship" chords is nonsense.

[@fryer6541]

yeah no…. If your using the simple “cowboy chords” for electric guitar and that’s it, your mistaken. Using other voicings and variations unlocks new ways of playing.

[@rdgipson]

@fryer6541 It seems apparent you missed the point of my comment. And it's "you're" not "your".

[@wesleyfletcher7654]

This is great, but worship players wouldn’t play the entire neck. You’d get in the way of the piano, synth, and other guitars. Most worship guitar is played with either three notes or two, but rarely with 5 or 6. However you are correct in total, but not in application as you want to consider where the other instruments in the band are residing harmonically.

[@jsirius94]

It depends on the make up of the worship team. Sometimes with only one electric voicings like this would work well.

[@wesleyfletcher7654]

@@jsirius94 maybe. But I’d argue that’s not the case if you have a bass player, pianist, and acoustic player. That’s a pretty common band. Throw in tracks, which are increasingly common and the times when you’re playing rhythm solo are very rare.

[@jsirius94]

@@wesleyfletcher7654 fair enough, but in instances where you could use a full electric these all would work. And as chord concepts these are all spot on, most of the voicings demonstrated would be something I'd play on the acoustic rather than electric.

[@wesleyfletcher7654]

@@jsirius94 100% agree, and I said that in my original comment. He’s not wrong and there’s good info here. I’m not trying to be a troll. I’m trying to point out that you need to be aware of the entirety of the band situation and what others are playing.

[@jsirius94]

@@wesleyfletcher7654 that is still my biggest focus for growth as a player. Knowing where you fit in the overall picture of a song is the number 1 thing I emphasize to new players on a worship team. The only constant in worship teams I've been a part of in the past is that we never had a consistent instrument make up, so what ground you had to cover varied from week to week

[@joehillary6981]

Good teaching, much appreciated. But is it necessary to call it worship guitar? It's better to just leave the instrument's name alone and refer to the genre as worship/gospel, jazz, classical, and what have you. Otherwise may as well call all the other instruments with the worship prefix e.g. worship drums, worship piano, worship bass, worship triangle??!! See how ridiculous that sounds? A real musician will embrace all genres. Labeling the guitar itself as "worship" is wrong.

[@SuperEdge67]

They’re not worship chords…..they’re guitar chords. The whole concept of worship music is just bizarre.

[@jimicunningable]

If I play worship chords, will Yaweh come and condemn most of Humanity to Eternal Torture, as promised in Revelations? Great stuff guys. Keep up that "love".