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Originally Posted by cshude
I've had people at church ask me to play along with the piano for hymns- they don't understand my reply that most of them are written in keys that are horrible for guitar and that the songs themselves don't translate well to the guitar as written.
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Yah, I don't think they had us guitarists in mind when they arranged the music.
I ran into this when I first started playing old hymns in church in the 90's (I grew up Catholic and so played alot of the guitar-based folk and St. Louis Jesuit songs that were popular). All of these tunes were in Ab, Bb and Eb! I'm going, ok, whatever. I just played E and A form barres and partial barres, I, IV, V, VI, etc. I was really glad I had the Nashville system learned. Really a good experience.