Originally Posted by: damirThanks Lori. :p It's wonderful that you also worship leader. It's ok that you can't slow down keep goin'. May our Lord's Name be glorified eventually. Unfortunately I can't read tab but I want to. I do use the following chords in the praise song "I want to know you": G, C ... C, G, Em, D, G. Did you get what key?
Hope hearing from you soon.
;)
Damir

Yes, that is in the key of G. I usually play that song in D but it isn't too hard to transpose to G.... My suggestion is this; learn to read tab because a lot of music and the explination of how to do things will open up for you. It's really hard to tell you a way in which you could pick that without putting it in tab form... reading tab is really easy, one type is just a picture of your guitar strings and frets with finger placements shown as dots (you see this type in chord charts). Then another type would be where there are horizontal lines representing your strings with numbers that represent which fret/note to play.

For example:

G chord shown in Tab

E--3----
B--0----
G--0----
D--0----
A--2----
E--3----

The notes to the left indicate which string and the numbers show which fret/note your to play. The 0 indicates you have no fingers pushing down anything on that string but played open. An X or an empty line would mean that you don't sound/play that string at all. Also, being that they are all stacked in a line means they are played at the same time. If they were staggered like below you would play those same notes only one at a time like an arpeggio.

E-----------3-
B---------0---
G-------0-----
D-----0-------
A---2---------
E-3-----------

Here's how you might pick that same G chord in tab. I'm going to add below a finger assignment so you will know which fingers to use on your picking hand. Thumb=T, Index=1, Middle=2, Ring=3 (classically it would be P,I,M,A)

E-------------3----------
B--------0---------0-----
G-----0----0----0----0--
D------------------------
A------------------------
E---3--------------------
----T-1-2-1--3--1-2--1

Well, I hope that helped ya out some in reading tab as well as a picking pattern. Incidently, that is the same pattern I tried to explain very poorly before. It's a very basic pattern that works well with a lot of chords, you can easily use that pattern for the entire song (altho I wouldn't recommend that because it would start to sound really redundant but it is a good pattern to start out with). The only difference would be that you would want to change which note you play as the bass so it is the root of the chord.... mmm, also... that song as is most of the worship music in the style you are doing is wrote in 4/4 time. The timming of that pattern would be that each note is played as an 8th note (half a beat per note and counted as: 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and).

Blessings,
Lori