A serious question? please help

[youngkobe2k7]

My guitar playing style is rock and roll, but the bishop who i play for is more of an old school type of person. I have been trying to find some good gospel guitarist but i have yet to find any. Could anybody suggest anything ?

[kodacolor]

I can't think of any guitarist off of the top of my head but gospel guitar is a mix of blues (progressions and chords) and smooth jazz (riffs, runs, and some chords).  If you immerse yourself in those styles you should be in good shape.

[funkStrat_97]

My guitar playing style is rock and roll, but the bishop who i play for is more of an old school type of person. I have been trying to find some good gospel guitarist but i have yet to find any. Could anybody suggest anything ?

When you say "rock and roll"; can you be more specific?  Rock is pretty diverse, and some sub-genres may work better in a tradional gospel context than others.

I can't think of any guitarist off of the top of my head but gospel guitar is a mix of blues (progressions and chords) and smooth jazz (riffs, runs, and some chords).  If you immerse yourself in those styles you should be in good shape.

There are even some rock licks that could be incorported in there too.  Blues is the foundation of rock, jazz and gospel so you can really get crative with this.

[Fenix]

Rock is blues with heavy distortion i always say.

[Sonar]

My guitar playing style is rock and roll, but the bishop who i play for is more of an old school type of person. I have been trying to find some good gospel guitarist but i have yet to find any. Could anybody suggest anything ?

This sounds like a job for uriahsmusic.   

Search this site for any Uriah video instruction and you gotta be getting warm.

Another thought is to lose your tube amp and distortion pedal...and get a Roland JC120 Jazz Chorus for a year. That will force you to alter your style and play clean precise chords. 

"Old School" is subjective. Do you mean strictly old school gospel or old school guitar in general ala Cornell Dupree or Motown/Stax guitarists as it pertains to gospel styles?

[ferrente]

Welcome To LGM, youngkobe2k7

[JayP5150]

Another thought is to lose your tube amp...

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit...  (jokes... jokes)

OR, buy a tube amp, if not equipped with one... lol

If you are proficient by any means, just start jamming on the stuff you need to learn, and what you already know will fall into place.

The hardest thing for me to catch on to were the little transitional chords in some of these progressions (like a A/Db on a D to Bm walk-down, for instance; or any aug chord). That was just one thing I never needed playing ZZ Top and Cream.

You'll find that a lot of stuff will literally fall right into place.

You'll also find that learning stuff that is more fitting in the Gospel genre will make your rock playing that much more on point. For real. I'm a much more mature player now than when I was rockin' the bars years ago. I can still play it all, it's just tastier now.

Have fun, man, and welcome.

[lilBB]

The hardest thing for me to catch on to were the little transitional chords in some of these progressions (like a A/Db on a D to Bm walk-down, for instance; or any aug chord). That was just one thing I never needed playing ZZ Top and Cream.

can you elaborate on this? i may already know it by ear but have never seen it written.

Thanks

[funkStrat_97]

Another thought is to lose your tube amp...

I think we need to re-evaluate having Sonar as part of our coummunity .

[JayP5150]

can you elaborate on this? i may already know it by ear but have never seen it written.

Thanks

Okay, let's say you've got that little walk down from a D to a Bm; that little in-between chord is an A/Db.

-x-
-2-
-2-
-2-
-4-
-x-

It's n A with a Db root.

So you could go:

--------------
--7--2--3-----
--7--2--4-----
--7--2--4-----
--5--4--2-----
--------------

Or, higher up:

--10--9---7----
--10--10--7----
--11--9---7----
--12--11--9----
---------------
---------------

That little chord is used a lot in worship music. It's not hard, it's just something I never picked up until I was playing in church again.

check this out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJU11qD32fg

That little walk is in there (along with a lot of bad noodling lol). That song is Pocket Full of Rocks' "More of You Jesus." (I think that's what it's called).

But that prog is ALL OVER THE PLACE...

[Fenix]

check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJU11qD32fg

That was hot, thanks!

[jlynnb1]

or even...

---x---
---7---
---7---
---7---
---5---

---x---
---5---
---6--- or ---4--- (my preference)
---7---
---4---
---x---

---x---
---2---
---3---
---4---
---4---
---2---
---x---

[Rown]

        Need to post more JAY.That was sweet

[JayP5150]

---x---
---5---
---6--- or ---4--- (my preference)
---7---
---4---
---x---

I like that a lot. Much more fluid.

Thanks, Rown and Fenix. That was something I put up like a year ago, and it just now had some relevance lol.