Guitar Chord Information

Basic chords are provided for every song in the hymnal for use by guitarists and keyboardists who read or improvise from the chordal structure. Guitarists may need to ignore some of the information provided for the keyboardist (i.e.,  the indication of bass notes and sevenths and ninths). More accomplished guitarists or keyboardists may also desire to fill in more of the chordal structure than we have provided. Others might want to simplify the chordal outline even more. Again, what is provided is the basic resource. To help you further, we have provided the following: