Alan Jackson Gospel Songs 
On The Acoustic

Im this version of Amazing Grace you'll notice that for the first few verses I'm playing an arpeggio style of playing across individual notes in the chord.

After the picking break, I'm combining the arpeggio with a bit of strumming. And finally near the end I'm playing just root up down up rhythm.

So you can combine these, pick one or come up with your own arrangement. The chords used here are Bm, A7sus, A7, D, D7 an

As with Amazing Grace above, Alan Jackson decided to play How Great Thou Art in the same style using an arpeggio format. What I didn't like about his version is the 1/2 step or one fret move he did in the middle of the song. I'm not a fan of 1/2 step chord changes.

The songs starts in G and moves thru the G7, C, Edim with an Am and a D7 for the first half of the song. Then a C#, D#, G#, G#7, Fdim and an A#m comes into play as you finish the song. But as I mentioned, I'd just stay in the key of G through the entire song.

In this old classic toe tapper called I'll Fly Away, Alan played this in the key of G. This has a very common strumming pattern using the root down up down up down up and repeat in a bit of a fast shuffle.

As with many of these Alan Jackson gospel songs, you can implement your own picking break into the song as I've done here using the chords G, C, D and Em.

In this song called Just As I Am, as you'll see I'm using a capo up on the 4th fret. Capo is optional and is used often to get into the original key, or a key where you can sing. This is one of those great Alan Jackson gospel songs to learn.

You have two options on playing the rhythm.

The first is to just arpeggio down over the strings followed but some rhythm. So the count would be 1-2-3 up down up and repeat. Or you could skip the arpeggio and just strum in a root up down up down up root up down up down up pattern and there is a melody picking break in this one.

Chord here are G, G7, C, D and a Dsus.

This song Precious Memories I'm playing with a capo in the 3rd fret and using a Drop D tuning. 

A nice easy root down up root up down up strumming pattern will carry through this one.

I have a bit of a picking break in the middle of this one but nothing too complicated.

The Precious Memories chords are D, G, A7, A/Db, Bm and an E or E7.

In this Alan Jackson gospel songs version of There's Power In The Blood, we have a fast paced bluegrass vibe going on.

It's another root down up down up down up strumming patten that is used in many songs across many genres.

The picking in this one is a bit more advance but as in all of the lesson, I break down what you see me playing in all of my demos.

This one is a simple G, C and D chord song.