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Weekend Review – 01-2425-09

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It’s been awhile. The last time I did this was Dec 13 & 14, over a month. I took a break from blogging and what not during the busy time of getting ready for Christmas and then on vacation, so now I’m finally getting back into the swing of things.

This weekend we had one of our volunteer worship leaders lead and she did a great job. I’m happy to have her leading and starting to do it more often. I’m really looking forward to the way she will develop in the future. She has a ton of potential.

Here was our set:

  • Mighty to Save
  • Unchanging
  • Prayer for Missions
  • Beautiful the Blood (Fee)
  • Enough
  • Message
  • Rescue

I’m really digging Beautiful the blood. I really like a lot of the stuff that Steve has on that Album and plan on implementing a lot of it over the next couple of months.

I was off keys and on Acoustic this weekend, we had Ian on keys, James on Electric, Nik on Bass & Russ on Drums. Erin was the lead vocal & Jeanette sang alto. With me on acoustic, and a couple of other really new people on the team this weekend there was quite a bit of potential for things to go badly, but they actually went really well. We struggled with tempo on the Pre of “Beautiful the Blood” and the outro where we were all really hitting every beat and driving it really hard.

I’m not sure yet if I like playing acoustic, to be honest. It’s fun, however I don’t feel like I’m adding anything. And I don’t mean this in a poor me kind of a way. What I mean is that as the worship leader or band leader, I feel like I need to be strong on the instrument I’m using to lead and not be a hindrance. I’m also a “maximize your strengths, minimize your weaknesses” kind of a guy, so I’d rather keep working at becoming a really good piano guy than work really hard to become a decent acoustic guy. It also kind of feels like peer pressure from the contemporary Christian music world. Everyone else is doing it, ergo so should I.

Anyway, enough about me (I’m out of coffee anyway). Go checkout what some other worship leaders did this weekend.

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  • windbag said:

    We ended with Mighty to Save this week. That’s funny that you mention feeling the need to be strong on the instrument…I’m trying to rope myself in and play less, letting the others carry things for the majority of the time.

    windbags last blog post..January 25, 2009

    - 25 January 2009 at 2:34 pm
  • Brad Hafner said:

    Glad to have you back in the swing of things. Do you guys use a metronome or a click track of any kind? We’ve found that helps alot. Very soon, I’m hoping we can go to using loops with the worship time to get rid of the annoying “Metro Gnome” in our ears.
    Beautiful the Blood does get aggressive towards the end. Great set.

    Brad Hafners last blog post..Worship Confessional 1.25.2009

    - 25 January 2009 at 2:39 pm
  • Ronnie (MandoRon) said:

    How cool that you used Beautiful the ! I love that song, but never felt like it would go over well at my church.

    - 25 January 2009 at 6:51 pm
  • steffanie oltmans said:

    We did “Mighty to Save” this weekend also. Beautiful the Blood is a good song.

    steffanie oltmanss last blog post..Sunday Set-list 1-25-09

    - 26 January 2009 at 6:09 am
  • Dean Lusk said:

    “I’m really digging Beautiful the blood.”

    Ditto! Heard that song at Catalyst last year and instantly took it personally. For some reason I haven’t put it in our rotation yet, though. Your setlist has just pushed me to get it on the schedule. Thanks!

    Incidentally, I’ve tried to keep myself to about six new songs a year. How often do you inject new music? Just started using “Savior” by Ross Parsley, and now I have this personal standard that says I have to wait two months for another new one… :)

    Dean Lusks last blog post..Sunday’s Music – January 25

    - 26 January 2009 at 9:19 am
  • Paul J. said:

    Nice mix of songs…

    - 27 January 2009 at 8:45 pm
  • B.J. Collins said:

    I know what you mean about the guitar thing, brother. There are a bunch of songs that our congregation sings that simply don’t have any keyboard in them, and in the interest of sticking to the feel of the original version, I often find myself banging out chords on my Ibanez Artwood acoustic-electric or grinding out bar chords with plenty of distortion on my Fender Telecaster. (We played “Glory” by Casting Crowns last weekend. Talk about ridiculous overdrive in worship!)

    I’m a keyboardist, and as such, I can really drive the band rhythmically on the Roland V-Combo. Sometimes I feel ridiculous with a guitar strapped on because it’s just not who I am. Sometimes I think I’d be better off just getting out from behind the keyboard and concentrating 100% on the VOCAL instead of making myself uncomfortable by playing guitar. We’ll see what happens THIS weekend when we play “Let God Arise” by Chris Tomlin. Another heavy overdrive guitar song, to be sure.

    Blessings,
    B.J.

    B.J. Collinss last blog post..January 24 & 25

    - 30 January 2009 at 8:30 pm