PAO GUITAR

Play As One Fall Guitar Season - 2024

Play As One is called to teach the heart of the musician, their families, and their community to see the world transformed by Jesus Christ through discipleship.

Play As One is excited to offer two levels of guitar instruction this season: Beginner and Intermediate. Ben Coleman will be returning as our head guitar clinician and, this season, we have a few exciting changes. Instead of a 9 week season that mirrors our sport programs, guitar will now follow our other arts programs and be a 14 week session. The season will also end with our first PAO Music Concert on Thursday, November 21st 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 lever. An acoustic guitar is required. Students will receive music, a tuner, picks, and a PAO shirt. The fall season will run from August 22nd - November 21st. Sign up now to reserve your spot for your 5th - 12th-grade musicians.

5/12 Grade Practices (Beginner & Intermediate) - Thursdays 6 - 7:00 PM in Room EC 2

The Fall PAO Parent Orientation & Uniform Hand Out will be Saturday, August 17th at 10:00 AM at Emmanuel Faith Community Church.

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.