Worship Blog
A Letter to Me (the Guitarist) [rewind]
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| December 30, 2011 To close out rewind week, I had to save the best for last. Remembering what a dufus I was as a young guitarist, I decided to write a letter to my self in hopes of helping younger guitarists be less annoying than I was...
8 Tips to Help Your Team Practice [rewind]
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| December 29, 2011 Practice tips and wondering out loud why my ex-bar musicians practice more than my church musicians...
How to Dump Your Worship Leader [rewind]
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| December 28, 2011 Ask a friend on the team to tell me you quit. I enjoy this one. It gives me that 7th grade feeling all over again – like when I got a Dear John note from my first girlfriend, delivered by her friend to my friend.
Taco Bell vs. Chipotle [rewind week]
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| December 27, 2011 Ever gotten in line behind the uninitiated at Taco Bell? They stare. And they stare. And they're just about to order, but, oh wait, what's a Chalupa?
Ministry, Intimacy & Disco
| December 26, 2011 We're doing rewind blogs this week between Christmas and New Year. Here's a short one from early in 2011. It's point is as sharp now as it was then...
Keywords:, intimacy, john 5, mark batterson, soul print, surrender, worship |
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Escape the 1st 4 frets...Triads 432, Part 2
| December 24, 2011 In this guitar lesson, we'll continue to explore how to escape the first four frets by using triads. This free video training will show you how to move triads up the neck with simple shapes...
Piano In Worship Training, Part 2
| December 21, 2011 This is a must-watch for keyboard players (and people who play near them...)
Vocalist: Why You Should Lose the Music Stand...
| December 20, 2011 Practice singing without your music stand. Why? If it’s there, you’ll look at it. So lose it...
Soar On Wings Like Egos, Part 5
December 16, 2011 I look at the young, hip worship band members in the “famous” churches and wonder if they’d let me play guitar on their team. Problem: I exceed both the age and weight limit of skinny jeans, and you won’t see me rocking a man-scarf.
Video Lesson: 4-3-2 Triads, Part 1
| December 15, 2011 Here's another way to utilize triads to escape that muddy middle of the lower 4 frets. This guitar lesson uses the intro to Hillsong's Hosanna to show how triads are used worship music.
Piano In Worship Training, part 1
December 14, 2011 Hey all you ivory-pounders, I haven't forgotten about you. Here's a great training video from Bob Kauflin...
People Aren't Coming to Your Church Because of the Music
| December 13, 2011 If you're in a church of 200 or less, this is the bad news: People aren't coming to your church because of the music...
Sound Techs and the Blob of Sound
| December 12, 2011 The “blob of sound” happens when the team overplays or oversings. You can try to sculpt something out of it. But it’d be easier if they actually gave you something to mix...
A Socially Acceptable Form of Por--What?!
| December 9, 2011 I was reading my Kindle while on the elliptical machine at the Y. It’s not the first time I’ve almost fallen off the elliptical, but it’s the first time my own lack of coordination wasn’t to blame. What did he just write?
Soar on Wings Like Egos, 4
| December 8, 2011 I remember my brief stint as a trumpet player in the junior high band. Whenever multi-measure rests occurred we had to just sit there while the saxophones played something cool. We pretty much just amused ourselves by emptying our spit valves on each other’s shoes...
Kicking the Music Stand
December 7, 2011 Think about your relationship with the congregation. Do they see you tucked safely behind a music stand, a mic stand, two monitor wedges and a forest of fake ferns? Try this...
If It Can Go Wrong...
| December 6, 2011 I spent over an hour yesterday afternoon doing a trial-run for last night's webinar. No glitches. It all worked. Gloriously. That should have been my first clue that I was in for it...
Beginning Guitar Lesson, 2
| December 5, 2011 After watching this video, you'll be about two-thirds the way to rock star status. Once you learn the G and C chords in this lesson, pretty much all you'll need to learn next will be "the windmill."
The Happy Third of the Circle of Fifths
| December 2, 2011 What's your "happy third" of the Circle of 5ths? When it comes to determining the best key, does the band really need to take second, or even third place? Probably...
Soar on Wings Like Egos, 3
| December 1, 2011 Is there something special about being onstage and part of the team? Is there an “energy” when you’re part of a live band? Can there be something extremely validating about singing and playing for an “audience”? With trepidation, my answer is yes, yes and...
