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Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast – Episode 0052 – God Songs

If you missed last weeks’ podcast, I’d highly recommend you go check it out here. In this week’s episode, David and Kevin continue their discussion on songwriting through the book “God Songs.” We are having a great time talking about this book and I’d strongly recommend you pick up a copy of the book and [...]

 
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Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast – Episode 0051 – God Songs – Songwriting

If you missed last weeks’ podcast, I’d highly recommend you go check it out here. In this week’s episode, David and Kevin continue their discussion on songwriting through the book “God Songs.” We are having a great time talking about this book and I’d strongly recommend you pick up a copy of the book and [...]

 
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Worship Ministry Catalyst Podcast – Episode 0050 – God Songs

If you missed last weeks’ podcast, I’d highly recommend you go check it out here. In this week’s episode, David and Kevin continue their discussion on songwriting through the book “God Songs.” We are having a great time talking about this book and I’d strongly recommend you pick up a copy of the book and [...]

 
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Weekend Review 02-0607-10 – Sunday Setlists – Worship Confessional
[7 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 48 views]

This was another great weekend. We had all our top notch players on, everything went well. The biggest issue we had this weekend was in our transitions. We didn’t have any song to song transitions. They were all start & stop. Which I guess is fine, and one of the things you have to give up when all your songs are started by guitar. At least, when we’re only doing what is on the recording.

Here was our Set:

  • Let God Arise
  • Because of Your Love
  • Song of Hope
  • Reading – Psalm 103
  • Let the Praises Ring
  • Everlasting God
  • Sermon
  • Wherever He Leads I’ll go (Old hymn, my music) – You can listen to a recording in the player to the right.

To see what other worship pastors and churches did, check out Sunday setlists on The Worship Community.

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Weekend Review – 01-3031-10 – Sunday Setlists – Worship Confessional
[31 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 64 views]

5th weekends are awesome! Well for the way we do things anyway. We have four teams to rotate one weekend per month for most months of the year. However, now and then a month will roll around with 5 weekends in it. On those weekends I put together teams of people who don’t normally get to play together, and who are also all our best musicians.

Because of this we get to do a little bit tougher music & we get to polish it a little more. This weekend was no exception. Last night had a few rough spots, which can be largely attributed to my having to cancel our midweek rehearsal, but this morning was great!

Here was our set:

  • Sing, Sing, Sing. (Tomlin)
  • Welcome
  • Happy Day (Fee Arr.)
  • Let the Praises Ring (Brewster)
  • Scripture
  • One God (Jeremy Ross)
  • From the Inside Out
  • Message
  • The Church’s One Foundation

“Sing, sing, sing” is the first song from Tomlin’s new album that we’ve done at our church. People liked it. For me, it’s okay, it sounds like all his other stuff, but people like it. This was also the first time we did “Let the Praises Ring” and I think in general people liked that one too. The best response was on “Happy Day” & “From the Inside Out”. “Happy Day” because people knew that one pretty well and “From the inside Out” because people really connect with that one.

All that good stuff said, we did have our fair share of troubles yesterday. One of the biggest troubles we had is with our bass player following along. He’s more of a technical player than a feel player if you know what I mean. He’s got good feel, but he definitely lands on the technical side of things. When using a chord chart he seems to have problems with repeats and what not. Aside from writing out music for him, I’m not sure how to help him out more. He works the music up on his own, probably more than most of the others on the team, except our guitarist, but for some reason, little changes seem to throw him for a loop.

Any of you have ideas on things I could do to help?

For more Weekend Reviews, Check out Sunday Setlists @ The Worship Community.

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Weekend Review – 01-2324-10
[24 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 56 views]

This was another good weekend. We had our piano driven group on this weekend, and it’s always fun to switch from doing all the usual suspects to doing songs that lend themselves to piano in some way.

So, we did some Tommy Walker songs which are great for piano, we did a song I wrote and since I’m a piano guy, it’s a piano song. We did a couple of other songs that are normal contemporary songs too.

Here was our set:

  • Never Gonna Stop (Walker)
  • No Greater Love (Walker)
  • Scripture
  • I am Crowned (Lindner)
  • How Deep the Father’s Love for us.
  • Message
  • Amazing Love (I’ll never be the same – Hohnholtz)
  • Awesome is the Lord (Tomlin)

We used a click on three of the songs this weekend. The click beat us on Saturday evening, but we played with it well this morning. We even got the transition from “Never Gonna Stop” which we were doing at 92 bpm into “No Greater Love” which we did at 107 bpm.

Do you know any good piano driven worship bands or songs? Indie groups would be great too. As much as I love the Tommy Walker stuff, I’d much rather be moving our piano sounding group more in the direction of a “Keane,” “The Fray” or “Coldplay” kind of a sound.

For more weekend reviews check out Sunday Setlists over at “The Worship Community.”

On another note, Kevin (the other guy behind Worship Ministry Catalyst) would appreciate your prayers this week as his wife is scheduled to deliver their baby on Monday or Tuesday.