PAO GUITAR
Play As One Fall 2025 is excited to offer two levels of guitar instruction again this season: Beginner and Intermediate. Ben Coleman will be returning as our head guitar clinician. We will have a 9 week season ending with a PAO Music Concert on Thursday, October 16th at EFCC. The class will focus on learning guitar basics, including chords, scales, and strumming, with a focus on learning worship songs. Students will be assigned to a beginner or intermediate group depending on skill level. An acoustic guitar is required. Students will receive music, a tuner, picks, and a PAO shirt. The spring season will run from August 21st through October 16th. Sign up now to reserve your spot for your 5th - 12th-grade musicians.
5th to 12th Grade Practices (Beginner & Intermediate) - Thursdays 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Practices will be held at Emmanuel Faith Community Church (Subject to Change)
Play as One Guitar - Lesson 01
01 PAO Guitar Lessons: GUITAR BASICS
In this lesson, we go over basic information about the guitar. This is great place to start if you are new to playing a guitar.
Play as One Guitar - Lesson 02
02 PAO Guitar Lessons: TUNING YOUR GUITAR
In this lesson, we discuss how to tune your guitar. Remember… the best way to tune your guitar is to either use a tuner or a guitar tuning app. If you don’t have access to either of these tools then the next best thing is to tune your guitar by listening to my 6th string (low “E”) and then use the tuning method.
Play as One Guitar - 1st String Exercises
PAO 1st String Exercises
In this lesson, we go over exercises 1 - 8 in Hal Leonard Publishing: Guitar Method: Book 1.
PAO 2nd String Exercises
In this lesson, we go over exercises 9 - 18 in Hal Leonard Publishing: Guitar Method: Book 1.
PAO 3rd String Exercises
In this lesson, we go over exercises 19 - 27 in Hal Leonard Publishing: Guitar Method: Book 1.
04 PAO Guitar Lessons: REVELATION SONG
In this lesson, we teach how to play the wonderful praise song, “Revelation Song” performed by Kari Jobe. It’s a great song to start off with because the majority of the song has only four chords and the strum pattern is not too difficult.