What are your favorite "psalms, hymns and spiritual songs" to play

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Permalink Reply by Walt Pilcher on March 29, 2009 at 12:22pm

Favorites come and go, and like Rob says, there's no beating some of the old hymns. Only in recent years have I come to really appreciate the depth of meaning of many of the lyrics in those songs that I grew up with in church without paying much attention to. There are some really wonderful new, contemporary arrangements of some of the old hymns that are great to listen to and have the potential of bringing a whole new audience to the old (but still new really) messages.

Other than that, some lasting favorites of mine are "Breathe," "Trading My Sorrows," Jeremy Sinnott's "I Will Seek You," Nicole C. Mullen's "I Know That My Redeemer LIves," "Let Your Glory Fall" by David Ruis, and several by Paul Baloche. Brian & Jen Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, CA, are doing some wonderful new songs as well. I'm sure there are other "favorites" that don't come to mind right now, in fact too many to list.

Permalink Reply by Kathy Gryta on April 11, 2009 at 4:59pm

The praise band I sing and play with has done many of these you mention. We also rock out to Grace Like Rain and Voice of Truth, and have a great time bluegrass jammin' to Leaning on the Everlasting Arms and I Saw the Light. A couple of my favorites that I haven't seen mentioned are 'God is Good, All the Time' and 'In the Palm of Your Hand' - that one by Alison Krausse - a friend of mine has worked up a killer finger-style accompaniment to that.

Permalink Reply by Reed Elliott on April 11, 2009 at 7:48pm

My two favorite solo fingerstyle hymns to play are Holy, Holy, Holy and As The Deer. I've been looking for a good intermediate tab for Be Thou My Vision and haven't been able to find one. I shorten most pieces to about a minute and a half to play during the offering. Nothing is more gratifying to me than playing beautiful hymns fingerstyle.

Reed

Permalink Reply by John Nabors on November 14, 2009 at 8:04am

Have you looked at Pete Hutlinger's Hymns Vol 1?

JLN

Permalink Reply by Central Valley Musician on May 17, 2010 at 9:26am

Hi there Reed. I did a Google search and there are a bunch of sites with this tab, although some of them do not follow the chord progression exactly the way they should, you can get an idea of how it should be done.

Take care

Permalink Reply by Walt Pilcher on April 12, 2009 at 7:48pm

Very nice, Rob. We don't get to hear enough of this kind of music these days. Thanks.

Permalink Reply by Central Valley Musician on August 8, 2009 at 5:49pm

Well, despite stage frieght, here is the chorus to "Holy Ground" that I did a few minutes ago. Its not perfect, but just having fun with it.

Why do we get nervous in front of a mic?? LOL

Attachments:

• Holy Ground.mp3, 1 MB

Permalink Reply by Kathleen Trissel on December 13, 2009 at 5:12pm

Everlasting God, How Great Is Our God, Amazing Grace, Be Thou My Vision, How Great Thou Art. I suppose the list could go on and on.

Permalink Reply by Manny Estrella on December 28, 2009 at 2:45am

I lead a small church choir that sings in masses. i play classical acoustic guitar hooked to a small amp. we also have a lead guitarist but he uses a Washburn electrocoustic. an amateur keyboardist completes the cast of instrumentalists. no big deal really but we enjoy what we do. we also sing in community worships. As regards songs, i like Avalon's "Testify to Love", "Still" by Hillsong. Our lead guitarist made a great series of riffs for the latter song, a statement of his blues upbringing.

Permalink Reply by Steve Hills on March 23, 2010 at 8:31am

I've been using a lot of Indelible Grace music on Sunday mornings (I'm a church planter and lead the worship service). The take the lyrics of the old, doctrinally rich hymns and put them to new acoustic arrangements. I also would consider myself a beginner, so I've been able to several new chords getting them ready for church!

Permalink Reply by Robert Brennhäußer on April 14, 2010 at 7:03am

Currently i love to sing and play "Mary don´t you know", "He reigns" (Newsboys), "Forever young" (Dylan) and a german Hymn in kinda punk-style: "Befiehl Du Deine Wege".

Those favorites change regularly - as the Psalms tell us: Sing to the Lord a new song!

God bless ya all!!

Robert

Permalink Reply by Rev. Matt Fontana on April 22, 2010 at 1:27pm

I don't have an exclusive favorite but I like to play songs from worship together and resound worship (England). I learned a bunch of songs from resound worship quickly and I love playing them.

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