This blog examines, reviews and discusses how worship is being lived out in culture and in the church. We tackle everything from songwriting techniques in corporate worship, to interviewing worship leaders and pastors, to reviewing the last big rock concert.
As many of you know John Mark McMillan performed at our church, Life Connection Church in April. He was nice enough to sit down with us for a good long conversation. This video is just part 1 of our conversation. John Mark is an amazing guy and had a lot of great insight into music and worship. You don’t want to miss any part of the interview so make sure you subscribe to the rss feed to keep up to date when we release the other portions of the interview.
Also We’ll be doing a little giveaway here. The prize is John Mark McMillan’s cd “The Songs Inside the Sounds of Breaking Down” on iTunes. So you will get the album gifted to you over iTunes. To enter into the giveaway you need to so 2 simple things:
Link to this post on some other site. Could be your own blog, could be a digg submission, delicious, Facebook, you get the idea. All those nifty links are at the bottom of this post.
Comment on this post with a link to where you mentioned this post.
That’s all you have to do. I’ll let the competition run for 2 weeks. Now onto the video…
Been a busy few days getting this latest redesign ready. But it solves a few problems and eliminates a few limitations the previous designs had so I’m stoked. This should be a good base to build off going forward. Still need to make a few tweaks but I’m tired and my wife is giving me that, “if you don’t get in bed now you’re sleeping on the couch” look. Have some exciting posts lined up for later today, I’ll give you a hint, it rhymes with, “Shawn Shmark Shmickmillan”. We’ll even be giving a free prize away as well.
Stay close and let me know how you like the new look. Click around and explore, it’s fun. Big props to Josh Dailey for the logo design, well done as always my man.
Took a shot of my live setup with my iPhone this past Sunday. Thought it might be fun to diagram exactly what I play with.
Apple MacBook Pro (GR) - this is my workhorse. In addition to running Guitar Rig I use this for most all my personal work. It’s an older MBP but it gets the job done. 2.33 Ghz Intel Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 120GB HD
Guitar Rig 3 - After leading worship and playing lead guitar in a lot of worship bands in smaller venues I was sick of dealing with stage volume issues. I was having to turn my amp down so low amp didn’t have the chance to get to the warm part of the tubes. Literally I was having to have my amp down at 1 so the FOH guys would stop complaining. So I was really limited in my tone and sound. All direct options whether software or multi effects had such poor quality and weren’t an option until I found Guitar Rig. I experimented with it on some recording projects, then tried it live and was very happy with the flexibility and sound quality. So this is my rig for small venues and I highly recommend it for congregations 300 or smaller.
Behringer FCB 1010 Midi Foot Controller - I don’t particularly like the foot controller that comes with Guitar Rig, so I just got the software edition and got my own midi foot controller. 2 foot pedals is a must, dedicated volume pedal then the other for trem speed, wah, what have you.
Presonus FireBox - “2 out of 3 musicians recommend Presonus for their firewire audio interface needs.” I’m one of the 2.
Apple Macbook Pro (Reason) -My newer machine. 2.4Ghz Intel Core Duo, 4GB Ram, 150GB HD
Reason 4 - I talked a bit about how this came to be in an earlier post. Slowly been integrating more synth tracks, live and recorded.
M-Audio Oxygen8 v2 - wanted something small and ultra portable with a decent amount of assignable controls and transport. This fit the bill. Great controller for Reason.
The best part is all this was originally $200 at goodwill but my bro just happened to show up on 50% day. Apparently $200 for all of this was just too much, they got to move product after all.
Adding it all up this is $3,700 worth of equipment bought for $100 at goodwill, with no guns involved, no threats of any kind, this was a peaceful transaction. I NEVER find anything good at goodwill much less this kind of treasure. Usually I start feeling sick after 5 minutes smelling the musty old clothes and run out screaming after seeing old men pick out someone else’s dirty underwear from the $0.10 rack. Leave a message on my brother’s facebook congratulating him on this robbery.
Steven’s youngest daughter was killed Wednesday evening. The details are terrible but you can read those on your own. More important is the need for us to support him in prayer. Absolutely a devastating loss for his family and the church family as a whole. So stop and pray for him and his family.
Carlos Whittaker runs the crazy popular blog RagamuffinSoul.com. He is the worship leader at a megachurch in Atlanta called Buckhead Church. Currently he’s acting as a blog reporter at a stealth Rick Warren conference where a 1,000 pastors were invited to attend and a select few invited to speak on a range of topics. Mark Driscoll is there speaking on discipleship and had some really interesting, amazing and funny things to say as usual. Mark tackles the topics of worship, multi-site churches, the fake Mark Driscoll on twitter and why he likes to pick fights. Feed folks you gotta click through to see the video.
When playing recorded intros in Reason there’s something you don’t want to do, unless you intentionally want to screw up the song and distract the entire congregation. I of course didn’t intentionally do this yesterday, but unfortunately intentions mean jack squat in music. No there is not going to be any video going up on You Tube so you all can laugh at me. Below is a screen shot of the intro I used for Ready Now, see if you can spot the problem. Hint: this is just an “intro”.
It’s a good read and I think Joel did a good job answering the questions. It was a tough transition early for our church in just getting people’s expectations reoriented and seeing people struggle to break out of religious tradition is always a grind, but in the end good. I’d be interested to hear other worship leaders and pastors experience with their worship model and the pros and cons they’ve experienced.
I saw this a while ago but I guess it’s been officially released and is catching on. Seems more like a novelty than a useful instrument. It’s not doing anything more complex than your normal sequencer except that it has really pretty lights. I expect nothing less from Japan. Check it.
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