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Teachin'Mine2
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 11:56am \| IP Logged

Thanks to the advice I got here, dd is enjoying playing her guitar and is busy learning the chords, etc.. What I'm looking for, and have had a hard time finding online, is a Catholic hymn book with the guitar chords given. I've been able to find some small books only, but I'm looking for something more "complete". Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Posted: July 06 2010 at 4:54pm \| IP Logged

Hmmm. You might want to contact Oregon Catholic Press and see if they sell a guitar version of their red Worship hymnal. (I don't know if they do, and our music director is busy welcoming his new baby into the world, so I can't ask him.)

Be warned, though, most traditional hymns have a lot of chord changes and don't sound great on guitar. Also, the key signatures are for organ/piano, so they are often not guitar-friendly. You can transpose them, though, which does help somewhat.

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Posted: July 07 2010 at 10:37am \| IP Logged

Thank you Nancy. I'll check on the Worship hymnal.

Dd doesn't have the music theory to be able to transpose, so thanks for the heads up!

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Posted: July 07 2010 at 8:57pm \| IP Logged

Transposing isn't that hard - you do have to account for sharps and flats, but otherwise you count "up" or "down" a certain number of keys...e.g. to go from F to D, you count each chord down two letters (F to D, G to E, A to F sharp -- the key of D has an F sharp, not an F --) and so on. Minors work the same. Once you try it a few times it's easy to hear what works properly.

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Posted: July 07 2010 at 9:43pm \| IP Logged

Thank you! We did get the eMedia guitar lessons, so hopefully this will be covered in the later lessons. But she still prefers to just keep plugging away at the chords on her own. I've got to say that she is making progress though.

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