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If you’re a guitar player, you will SERIOUSLY not want to miss this tutorial we’ve just loaded up on our YouTube channel.

Today, you have the opportunity to learn from one of the very best players in the worship music industry.

Alex Nifong is a good friend of mine, who’s played with countless artists that you know and love in the Christian music world..

TobyMac
Chris Tomlin
Christy Nockels
Matt Redman
Crowder
Tim Hughes

And so many more! Alex is an amazing guitar player, amazing husband, father and so much more and I couldn’t be more excited for you to learn from him today!

Today, he’s going to walk you through learning to play the song “Who You Say I Am” from Hillsong Worship on guitar!

Just click on the image above to get started learning this amazing song today!

Happy Thursday!

It’s almost the weekend! Woooo!

I absolutely love getting to learn new music and especially new music that is requested by our private Rooted Music Worship Community Facebook group 🙌🏻

They recently requested that we teach the song “King of Kings” from Hillsong Worship, 

So I learned it and created a tutorial for it. 

But, what struck me more so than the song or melody, were the lyrics…

And I wanted to share them with you today…

Specifically Verse 4’s lyrics, which come in after Verses 2 & 3 speak about Jesus’ death and resurrection:

“And the Church of Christ was born
Then the Spirit lit the flame
 
Now this gospel truth of old
Shall not kneel shall not faint
 
By His blood and in His Name
In His freedom I am free
 
For the love of Jesus Christ
Who has resurrected me”

The very act of Jesus death, was the same act that brought about freedom for you and for me.

What an amazing truth to sing about, remember and proclaim today!

I know we usually reserve songs like this for...

Learning to play worship songs on piano happens one step, one song at a time. 

The simple, gradual growth that happens in us as we learn a new song, a new concept, etc...

Allows us to build a solid foundation with which to grow from.

If you've had a goal to learn to play your favorite worship songs on piano, but have been falling short, chances are you've just been missing something...

Maybe you've been missing the right coach, 

Maybe you've lacked time, 

Or you may have even lacked funds. 

Well, good news for you all today - I'm ready to help on your time and at an affordable cost. 

Check out our tutorial above of Hillsong Worship's King of Kings and take your next step towards learning to play your favorite worship songs on piano!

If you ever needed a reminder that God has GOT YOU, this is the song to do it!

We all go through our week to week regimens, focusing on the good, the bad and the ugly in our lives…

Completely losing sight of the fact that God is with us every step of the way.

And not only is He with us, He cares for you and for me.

If he clothes the flowers of the field and makes sure even the birds have food to eat,

How much more will He provide for you?

You, who are made in His very image…

You, who are loved so much by God Himself that He gave His Son to take on the bad and ugly in our lives…

You, who are actually called God’s SON or DAUGHTER…

Cling to that truth today and as you do, what better way to constantly remind yourself of that incredible truth, than by learning a song that underscores the idea perfectly!

The song “Everything” from Lauren Daigle is such a powerful song of remembrance and gratitude to our Father, 

And is one that has blessed me so much and I know will do so for...

I don’t know about you, but we are loving the song, “Bigger Than I Thought” from Sean Curran and Passion.

So much so, that we’ve now added a Guitar Tutorial for “Bigger Than I Thought” to our YouTube channel on guitar!

Take a look and see how one of the best in the business, Alex Nifong plays this great song in a couple different ways.

Alex has played with many artists over the years… Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Passion, Chris Tomlin, TobyMac, Christy Nockels, just to name a few.

He’s going to show you exactly how to play this song in both an open position as well (no capo) as well as in a position if you are wanting to use a capo!

Click on the video above and get started learning this great song from one of the best!

Learning to play the piano can be difficult! 

There are definitely challenges as you get started, right?

Learning to play and actually be fluent playing between all of the different notes on the piano (there are 88 of them)...

Learning to do two different things with each hand…

Let alone, learning the keys of music and becoming fluent as you play between them.

The challenges are real, but the help we want to provide to you is too :)

In the tutorial above, we’re going to walk you through learning to play “Another in the Fire” from Hillsong!

It’s an amazing song, that I’ve had the privilege of leading many times and one I hope really enjoy going through with us.

One of the reasons for teaching this song, is that it’s played in an extremely easy key to learn - the key of C.

You’ll see from our teaching exactly why it’s so easy and then how you can learn to play fluently in this key, not just for this song, but for any other song in the key of C.

So, if piano has always been a ...

Learning to play different songs easier and more efficiently is a skill that really takes root after continuous practice and repetition.

The knowledge of the concepts needed to be play these songs and needed to execute playing songs like this is a must have…

But what it really boils down to is COMFORT.

Comfort with the material being played in the song, yes and even comfort with the use of the different aspects of music theory in a particular song.

But more so comfort with the keys of music, their chords, the inversions going along with those chords as well as other modifications to them…

Feeling like you can, on a dime, transpose a song to another key if needed…

Knowing some of the “tendencies” that occur in worship music that can be learned and actually result in a much easier path towards playing whatever song you want!

If you’re not quite there yet, rest easy, we all have something we need to grow and develop in.

But, if you’re not there and you’d like to work at becoming...

After over 30 years playing piano, Julia had a game-changing experience that happened just last Sunday!

And after 30 years, she learned to do something pretty incredible in only a few weeks after joining our program. 

Julia has been playing for her church for a while now. 

She had just recently started in our Worship Piano: Beginner to Pro course because she really wanted to learn this foundational concept called the Nashville Number System…

This concept is an incredible way to learn to play the worship music you love and learn to do it in a simple, more effective way than you ever thought possible.

Julia had never learned this method of identifying chords before and was brand new at it. 

After just a few weeks in the course, lightbulbs were turning on and things were making sense!

So much so, that just last Sunday, Julia had a monumental moment at church as she was playing!

Julia was playing for her church as she does most Sundays...

However, this Sunday would prove to be a...

Why do you want to learn to play piano?

Are you hoping to better yourself?

Is it something on your bucket list?

Maybe there is something deeper…

Maybe you want to play with other people in a group..

Nothing super formal - just some fun with friends in a hobby you all love.

Or maybe your goals and hopes go even deeper.

Maybe you actually want to learn to play piano because deep down, you would like to be able to provide yourself with more opportunities to worship our Heavenly Father through music. 

There are obviously many ways to worship our Father and the route of music is just one of them. 

But, maybe you would love to provide yourself with more of those opportunities or even lead others in worship through song.

Whatever your reason for learning, I’d love to know what it is! 

Simply hit reply to this email and let me know why you want to learn!

And in the meantime, I have an amazing worship piano tutorial for you because, after all…

You DO want to learn to play :)

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Chances are you’ve heard the song “Revelation Song” recorded by several artists, namely Kari Jobe! 

I love getting to lead this song and help usher others into the presence of God through it!

Today, we’re going to walk you through learning to play the song top to bottom, and as you learn it, you’ll be learning one of the most listened to songs recorded by Kari Jobe!

AND… What’s even better - you’ll be learning to apply something I call the ONE THING - something that all professional musicians know and use everyday to write music, play music and communicate with their band members.

Every professional musician knows and understands a concept in music called the Nashville Number System, which is this ONE THING that makes such a huge difference in the life of every musician that truly comes to understand it!

Truly understanding the Number System, will allow you to transpose music more effectively than you ever have before, understand music and honestly fluently play in any key as yo...