Saturday, April 27, 2013

Web resources available for Christian Musicians

Over the past few years, it is great to see a considerable increase in  available free web resources for Christian musicians. In this post, I am giving a list of  websites/blog pages with free resources for Christian musicians that I have found through Bing/Google searches. Most of these pages are maintained by like minded Christians with a vision to facilitate free web resources for young/young at heart Christian musicians/worship leaders. These resources not only expand the database of available worship songs with chord arrangements but also provide us helpful insights into various styles of chord arrangements by various musicians. The chord arrangements for a given song by different musicians are generally different. The more we listen/practice different styles, the more effective we can be during worship sessions.

Psalms 150: 6 says:

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord; Praise ye the Lord

and Psalms 33:3 says:

Sing unto Him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud noise

May all these resources continually facilitate more meaningful worship  of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ with the best of our talents. All said and done, the best expression of music is realized only when we utilize it in glorifying our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

The list given here is not comprehensive. Please feel free to give links of similar websites that you may find in the comments section.
 
Churchspot.com:

This is a great website constantly updated with chord arrangements written over lyrics of Tamil and English songs. This website already has chord arrangements for a lot of Tamil and English Christian songs commonly sung in churches. The website also features a unique convenient feature to select songs for particular programs  and print the songs along with chords in the required key.
 
Link: http://churchspot.com/

Aatmik-sandesh.com:

This web page is a big resource of chord arrangements for Hindi Christian songs. This page also has mp3 links for some songs to listen and learn the tunes.

Link: http://www.aatmik-sandesh.com/as/downloads/guitarchords/index.html

Sam Mugunthan's Youtube Page:

This page involves videos featuring simple instructions with guitar chord arrangements for common Tamil Christian songs. This can be very helpful for new guitarists. Here is the link:

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/thillalangadi69/videos?view=0&flow=grid

Tamil Gospel Lessons:

This is an upcoming webpage that can be very useful and inspiring for young keyboard/ players. The instructor is highly talented and has some great videos demonstrating how simple old and new worship songs can be played with beautiful expression utilizing advanced music workstations.

Link: http://tamilgospellessons.com/

Tamil Song Chords:

This blog page has been started by its author to provide chord arrangements over transliterated lyrics of Tamil Christian songs for the benefit of Christians who may not be able to read Tamil fluently. This is a thoughtful presentation to address a growing need.

Link: http://vadadas.blogspot.com/2012/04/reason-for-this-blog.html

Tamil Christian Songs Facebook page:

This Facebook group is a social page where any musician can put forward a request or submit a song with chords. This is a great group resource

Link: http://www.facebook.com/LFvYM?sk=app_2309869772

Gospelguitar.com:

This webpage is currently under re-construction. This is one of the first few pages started years back to provide with useful resources for Christian musicians.
 
Link: http://www.gospelguitar.com/tamilsongswithchords.html

Christian Tamil Song Chords:

This blog page has been started by its author to provide chords for Tamil Christian songs. This page currently has chords over transliterated words. 

Link: http://thomsonjabakumar.blogspot.com/

Christian Songs (Lyrics and Chords):

This blog page has lyrics and chord arrangements for Hindi and English worship songs.

Link: http://cherrydove.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Songs Chords:

This blog page is a useful resource  with chords over lyrics for primarily Telugu Christian songs. This page also has chords for some English and Hindi songs. 
 
Link: http://teluguchristiansongchords.blogspot.com/

Chords for Telugu Christian Songs:

This blog page is again a useful resource with chords over lyrics for primarily Telugu Christian songs. The author of this page has also given links where chords for songs can be transposed.
 
Link: http://beawarriorforjesus.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Guitar:

This page has chords for Telugu and English Christian songs.  It also features some videos showing how to play some of these songs.

Link: http://teluguchristianguitar.blogspot.com/

Telugu Christian Guitar Chords:

This blog page has a good collection of chords for Telugu and English Christian songs.

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