Worship Song Video BlogHere, we learn worship songs and some tips and tricks for making them sound decent on an acoustic guitar. Each episode is normally just 3-5 minutes long and is a video that you can watch or get as a vlog entry (through RSS). The songs are ones that are usually not covered in other online forums or by other worship leaders or artists. Since they cover all their material, most of the songs here are for songs done in the past 15 years, with lots from the 90's.
If you would rather view these via iTunes / iPod / iPad and other Apple products you can load the entire collection of videos (or one at a time), by accessing the Worship Song Video Podcast by Kim Gentes on iTunes itself at this location: Kim Gentes on iTunes.
Monday, August 15, 2011 at 12:23PM 
This is Session 15 of the Worship Song Video Blog includes an example of playing the song "Rise" (written by Shawn McDonald). This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs.
This song edition includes a video demonstrating the song arrangement on guitar and a downloadable PDF chord chart with the lyrics and chords (courtesy of WorshipTeam.com).
CHORD CHART PDF: download here.
Video Demonstration: See below.
This video became very popular and people have been asking a number of questions (all of which are explained or demonstrated in the video). But to give some written information here will help.
Guitar Tuning- This song is done with D-tuned guitar strings. This means that instead of the standard EADGBE tuning of the strings, the guitars low E string is tuned to D, not E. This means the tuning becomes DADGBE.
Timing - I play this demonstration around 70bpm, although the original song is done around 74-76 by Shawn McDonald.
Strumming Pattern - The strumming pattern on this song is demonstrated on the video, but some folks wanted it written out. Here is a staff measure that shows the pattern. The notes are just chord strums (I couldn't figure out how to get Finale to do it any other way). Anyways, for each note is a strum. The letters indicate which direction the strum is. D for down, U for up.
hope that helps
Kim Gentes
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"Let Everything" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 14 (with Kim Gentes)
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"So Come" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 11 (with Kim Gentes)
chords, demo, kevin prosch, kim gentes, so come, song, video, worship in Video Blog, Worship Songs Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 11:30PM This is Session 10 of the Worship Song Video Blog and it includes tips on playing the song "Show Your Power" written by Kevin Prosch (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music. This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes.
"Show Your Power" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 10 (with Kim Gentes)
chords, demo, kevin prosch, kim gentes, show your power, song, video, worship in Video Blog, Worship Songs Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 1:58AM This is Session 9 of the Worship Song Video Blog and it includes tips on playing the song "We Will Dance" written by David Ruis (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music. This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes.
"We Will Dance" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 9 (with Kim Gentes)
chords, david ruis, demo, kim gentes, song, video, we will dance, worship in Video Blog, Worship Songs Friday, March 7, 2008 at 4:05PM This is Session 8 of the Worship Song Video Blog and it includes tips on playing the song "I Give Thanks" written by Brian Thiessen (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music. This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes.
"I Give Thanks" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 8 (with Kim Gentes)
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I was asked for a follow up video that would include the right hand picking technique for this song. That example is below. Kim
"Eternity" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 7 (with Kim Gentes)
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"Hallelujah Glory" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 6 (with Kim Gentes)
chords, demo, hallelujah glory, kim gentes, scott underwood, song, video, worship in Video Blog, Worship Songs Monday, March 3, 2008 at 2:52AM This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes. This is Session 5 and it includes tips on playing the song "Holy Is The Lord" written by Jeff Searles (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music.
"Holy Is The Lord" - Worship Song Video Blog: Session 5 (with Kim Gentes)
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chords, demo, kim gentes, lamont heibert, meet with me, song, video, worship in Video Blog, Worship Songs Friday, February 22, 2008 at 11:59AM This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes. This is session 3 and it includes tips on playing the song "His Banner Over Me" written by Kevin Prosch (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music.
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This is a video blog of guitar tips and ideas for playing worship songs. This video blog is done by Kim Gentes. This is session 2 and it includes tips on playing the song "Come And Fill Me Up" written by Brian Doerksen (Mercy/Vineyard Publishing) and recorded by Vineyard Music.
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