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.

[DIGITALMedia]

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.

[msilvaprof]

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

[absterama]

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

[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.

[takehemmanuel]

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

[johnnygreenway]

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

[AliD]

thank you, very useful and easy to play

[ianjunkermann]

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

[rocl]

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.

[francism]

Thanks man, great video and very helpful!

[sigfreed]

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

[cesarrodriguez-twbp]

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

[adammindykowski]

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.

[joelisaiah]

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

[CornishCockney]

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

[onionheadguy]

Perfect chords for pedal addicts like myself thank you!

[robs]

Such an excellent lesson. God bless you

[melvinrodas]

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

[edmundo_bj]

Very nice. It reminds me Alcest musics a lot.

[Gbengaibitade]

You've just changed my worship life 🙌🙌🙌