GuitarHymns.com is a resource for guitarists wanting to learn Christian hymns.
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Guitar Hymns - Home
Description
GuitarHymns.com is not here to make a profit, nor to try to rob a profit from those who've earned the right to it. The purpose is to help guitarists play those hymns we already have in our hymn books. The ability of churches to use hymns in worship is beginning to be limited by the ability of guitarists in worship bands to play them. This site hopes to remedy that problem--not by providing an alternative to hymn books, but by providing a tool for guitarists to use to augment their hymn books.
Most of us already have, or have access to music books and/or hymn books with these hymns in them. But there are usually no guitar chords for them. Even contemporary hymn books don't always provide chords for the hymns we might want to play. I have found that often when chords are provided for hymns, they aren't adequate, don't sound right, are in difficult keys, or don't fit with what I'd like to do. Sometimes I want to try a hymn in a different way, using different rhythms or harmonizations.
This site grew out of my own work trying to play hymns on my guitar. Early on I found some hymns with guitar chords, but as I progressed as a guitarist, I began to find the versions oversimplified. So I started adding chords and passing tones, etc. I even stumbled across ways of playing hymns that sounded more contemporary, sometimes this meant altering the chords a little. Right now I've got about 50 of them, though some are just other versions of the same hymn.
Contact
- Rich J DeRuiter
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- Bellingham WA
- United States 98226
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- 360-724-5211
