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Weekend Review 02-1314-10 – Sunday Setlists – Worship Confessional
[14 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 89 views]

Since we’ve been “blowin’ and goin’” for about 6 weeks or longer now, with a full, rockin’ praise band each week, and since it was valetines day, I thought it would be good to change things up and just have a simple weekend. It was just myself on keys, and Trevor singing vocals. We split the singing duties 50/50, which ended up being cool and adding a little spice to the weekend.

Since it was pretty simple, I picked some songs that I thought would work well on just keys. That included a few hymns, it actually ended up being liked by a lot of people & it’s nice to score points with people who like Hymns. (I happen to be one of those people).

Here was our set:

  • Holy, Holy, Holy (SCC arr.)
  • Blessed Assurance (My Arr.)
  • My Savior My God (My Arr.)
  • Amazing Grace (My chains are gone) – added a cello patch from the motif xs8 in on just the bass notes, cut it of on the C below middle C.
  • Communion
  • Love like Rain (Daniel Doss) – Kept the same cello patch for the bass & added in the “almighty” string patch in the upper register. With the piano, it made a really nice, full sound.
  • Sermon
  • I’ll go where you want me to God (My arr.)

For communion, we brought out some of the art work that some of the artists in our church have painted over the year to give people something visual to meditate. We also used photos from our photographic team as the backgrounds for the lyrics this weekend. It ended up being a cool, artsy kind of a weekend.

That’s about it, not a bunch more to talk about. For more weekend reviews, check out Sunday Setlists on the Worship Community.

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Weekend Review 02-0607-10 – Sunday Setlists – Worship Confessional
[7 Feb 2010 | No Comment | 109 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.

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Weekend Review – 01-3031-10 – Sunday Setlists – Worship Confessional
[31 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 109 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?

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