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One of the great 80s dance jams. I still jam out to this when I hear it come on in the grocery store. Even though it was written by Diane Warren, DeBarge still pulled of an amazing performance and put on that magical touch that only androgynous 80s R&B pop stars can do. And yes they are complete Lionel Richie hacks…we’ll do Lionel some justice here soon don’t worry.
This arrangement is identical to the album release as far as song arrangement goes. The instrumentation is a bit different on the intro where I used a rhodes, the string melody on the chorus out is a bit different and the verse breakdown after the chorus has some additional ambient instrumentation. If anyone is interested in using it and would like a version without the guitars then I can post that as well or you can download the reason(rns) file which doesn’t have any guitars. In my band I didn’t want to lose the distorted rhythm guitar by playing these leads so it made sense for me to put the lead on the track.
This was my first Sunday after missing 2 on my vacation in Lake Tahoe. Had an absolutely incredible time, very restful and rejuvenating. This weekend was also our Encounter weekend. If you aren’t familiar with Encounters they are basically a weekend where people are taken through the reality of sin, need for repentance, forgiveness, breaking of generational sin, filling of the Holy Spirit…it’s a super intense weekend for all involved, attendees and leaders. God shows up in power and makes a mess of all of us each time.
This weekend was no exception, so there is always great anticipation for the Sunday that concludes an encounter weekend as drug addicts, prodigals, prostitutes testify to their new freedom in Christ. I’ll blog more about that later. Now for something much less powerful…the Sunday Set List. Those with an asterisk (*) had a loop.
Come Thou Fount - (use an arrangement similar to E-pop piano arrangement)
This week’s set was changed almost right up until service time. Things just weren’t falling into place. I spent a solid 4 hours searching for a particular sound I had in my head for Where You Go I Go (Brian & Jenn Johnson) song I was programming a sequence for
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This arrangement is identical to the album release as far as song arrangement goes. The instrumentation is a bit different on the intro where I used a rhodes, the string melody on the chorus out is a bit different and the verse breakdown after the chorus has some additional ambient instrumentation. If anyone is interested in using it and would like a version without the guitars then I can post that as well or you can download the reason(rns) file which doesn’t have any guitars. In my band I didn’t want to lose the distorted rhythm guitar by playing these leads so it made sense for me to put the lead on the track.