MUMBAI: Since the glory days of Mahalia Jackson, gospel music has been a stabilizing force in the African American community. A mainstay within the black church, the art of gospel music creation has seldom been studied outside of the church sanctuary. However, many gospel musicians have found fame and fortune by implementing the gospel style in musical genres from Pop to Country & Western.

With the introduction of his exclusive DVD series, GospelChops.com's Gerald Forrest not only illuminates gospel music as an art form, he brings the high-spirited experience to your home theater. "Gospel music performance is a very spiritual process and it's often difficult to codify all of its intricacies in standard music notation," says Forrest. "Like other genres, as music evolves, young generations come up with new ways to stretch the music to its creative limits. With our DVD projects, we capture that creative process and make it available for the world to study and learn," he expresses.

Learning is exactly what you will do once you set your eyes on the amazing young musicians that Forrest endearingly calls, "church cats." Award-winning drummers from all over the United States appear in the "Shed Sessionz" series and have sparked a fiery global movement that grows with each release. Bass players join the GospelChops movement in "Bass Sessionz Vol. 1," a star-studded DVD that blends genres in a "gospel meets jazz" format.

Forrest proclaims, "The biggest names in secular music look to gospel musicians for their bands. The reason is because the church environment teaches a form of musical expression that is hard to emulate. GospelChops makes the music come alive and feel good."