Welcome to my "Fake Book" website! Below, you will find
a collection of musical resources for Christian ministry, mostly guitar
charts featuring song lyrics and chords.
I sing bass in my church's Chancel Choir, and sing and play
acoustic guitar and mandolin in a contemporary
praise band (Godspeak) as well as our folk band. My wife and I also do a
monthly short devotional service at a
nursing home in our neighborhood, where the residents enjoy hearing the
old traditional hymns. Over time I've produced quite a few
guitar charts and other material for these ensembles, and I've posted them
here in the hope that others will find them useful.
In addition to lots of Contemporary Christian music titles, there
are also some traditional hymns charted for guitar (the arrangements come
from The United Methodist hymnal), and a few pieces of sheet music (produced
with Finale Songwriter 2010) for mixed voices.
Sometimes these charts are in a lower key than the popular
recordings -- who can sing as high as Chris Tomlin???
In most cases, links are available to download the charts in MS-Word format
(*.DOC) as well as Adobe Reader format (*.PDF). The Finale-produced material
is available in PDF, Finale 2010 format (*.MUS), and MusicXML 2.0 format
(*.XML). Please note that
*.MUS files can only be opened by 2010 and later versions of
Finale's music notation products (currently Finale 2010 and Finale Songwriter
2010). To save a link
as a file, right-click on the link and choose "Save Target As" or
"Save Link As" depending on your browser.
Question, comments, criticism:
Email Me
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CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC
TITLE |
KEY |
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DESCRIPTION |
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Above All |
Bb (G capo'd 3) |
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Amazing Grace / Peaceful Easy Feeling |
D |
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Amazing Grace - My Chains Are Gone |
D |
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Arms of Love |
G |
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Awesome God |
A (G capo'd 2) |
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Beautiful One |
C |
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Better Is One Day |
E |
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Blessed be the Lord God Almighty |
G |
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Born Again - one page |
F (C capo'd 5) |
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Born Again - two pages |
F (C capo'd 5) |
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Born Again - two pages |
F |
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Born Again - one page |
G |
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Born Again - two pages |
G |
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Breathe (with optional key change) |
A (G capo'd 2) |
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Call My Name |
E (C capo'd 4) |
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Come, Now Is The Time To Worship |
D |
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Cry of my heart |
D |
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Days of Elijah |
G |
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Everywhere I Go |
D |
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Give You Glory |
D |
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God Of Wonders |
D |
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Grace Like Rain |
D (C capo'd 2) |
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Hallelujah (Your Love Is Amazing) |
G |
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He Reigns |
G (E capo'd 3) |
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Heart of Worship |
D |
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Here I Am To Worship |
D |
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Holy God |
Bb (G capo'd 3) |
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How Can I Keep From Singing |
G |
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How Great Is Our God (Godspeak) |
G |
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How Great Is Our God (Chris Tomlin) |
C |
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I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever |
D |
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I Love You, Lord |
D |
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I Will Rise |
F (D capo'd 3) |
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I Will Worship |
G |
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Light The Fire |
E |
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Lord I Lift Your Name On High |
G |
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Love Has Come |
F# |
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My Life Is In You, Lord |
G |
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Open The Eyes Of My Heart |
D |
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Shout to the Lord |
A (G capo'd 2) |
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Shout to the Lord |
A |
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Shout To The North |
G |
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Step By Step |
G |
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Trading My Sorrows |
A (G capo'd 2) |
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What Faith Can Do |
A |
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We Bow Down |
D |
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We Bow Down |
A |
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When I Look Into Your Holiness |
C |
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You Are My King (Amazing Love) |
D |
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You Are So Good To Me |
G |
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You Never Let Go |
G |
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TRADITIONAL HYMNS
TITLE |
KEY |
DOWNLOADS |
DESCRIPTION |
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Angels We Have Heard on High |
C, D, or G |
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Are You Washed in the Blood |
G |
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Battle Hymn of the Republic |
G |
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Be Still My Soul |
D |
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Come Thou Almighty King |
G |
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Come Thou Fount |
D |
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Come, Ye Thankful People, Come |
D |
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Go, Tell It On The Mountain |
D |
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God Of Our Fathers |
D |
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God Will Take Care Of You |
A |
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I Surrender All |
A |
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Mary Did You Know |
Am |
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Now Thank We All Our God |
Eb (D capo'd 1) |
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O Come All Ye Faithful |
G |
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O Come, O Come Emmanuel |
G |
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Silent Night |
Bb (or G or A) |
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The First Noel |
D |
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The Old Rugged Cross |
A |
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We Gather Together |
D |
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What Child Is This |
Em |
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CHORAL WORKS
TITLE |
PARTS |
DOWNLOADS |
DESCRIPTION |
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A New Hallelujah (M. W. Smith) |
S.A. |
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Chorus and refrain harmonies only |
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Come To The Cross (R. Hamilton) |
S.B. |
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Hallelujah Chorus - bass section |
Bass only |
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It Is Finished (R. Hamilton) |
S.A.B. |
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Description here |
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