This book features 22 gems of gospel and hymn music, arranged in various keys in dropped D tuning (DADGBE - 6th to 1st string) for the intermediate and advanced guitarist. The arrangements provide compelling evidence that dropped D tuning has been liberated from its usual position as simply a variant of "standard tuning." In this book, it takes on an exciting open-tuning character. Innovative string choices and guitar voicings are employed to evoke different textures for the various melodies. The music ranges from the single-note treatment reminiscent of the solo singer, to the flowing, arpeggiated approach of the harper, to the chordal power of the organist. The pace can be slow and meditative, or up-tempo and celebratory. The presentation is in tablature and standard notation.

Be Thou My Vision  
Bring a Torch, Jeanette,  Isabella  
Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus  (Hyfrydol)  
Fairest Lord Jesus  
Give Me Jesus  
Go, Tell It on the  Mountain  
Holy Manna  
In Christ There Is No East or  West  
Jacob's Ladder  
Joshua Fit the Battle of  Jericho  
Just a Closer Walk with  Thee  
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep  Silence  
Must Jesus Bear the Cross  Alone?  
Nearer My God to  Thee  
Poor Wayfaring  Stranger  
Praise to the Lord  
Simple Gifts  
This Is My Father’s  World  
What a Friend We  Have in Jesus  
What Child is This  (Greensleeves)  
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Water Is   Wide)  
Will the Circle Be  Unbroken