This was the final week of no Christmas songs. Now I have to bite the bullet and pull off a few next week. I’ve been working on some new arrangements and hopefully we’ll be able to do Christmas tunes in a cool new way. I will say this though, there are no upbeat cool Christmas songs. Not a single one.
This week’s set went pretty good. The congregation really entered in so that was great. We reworked “Sweetly Broken” because I just couldn’t play it anymore the same way. I think we came up with some cool ideas and pulled it off, just not as smoothly as I would have liked. “With Everything” went really well this week, the church really caught on to this one fast which is great.
- Rain Down – Delirious (loop used, not yet available)
- Sweetly Broken – Jeremy Riddle
- Gloria 34 – Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- With Everything – Hillsong (loop available)
- None But Jesus – Hillsong United (loop used, not yet available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Twila Paris’ This World is jumpy and cool in a retro kinda way. Actually, her dad wrote it about 40 years ago. And you can get down with a swing version of Go Tell It on the Mountain.
If you think upbeat Christmas music is hard to find for a worship setting, try finding New Year’s Day music.
Be encouraged, brother.
Have you had people asking for the Christmas songs? We added one first week, more today and next week will be almost exclusively Christmas.
Glad to have found your site. I’ll be watching what you do.
I led with:
O Holy Night (you can really speed that one up and the last verse/chorus is powerful worship)
Light of the World -Matt Redman (I always thought this would be a great Christmas song, first time trying it)
Gloria 34 (because the Gloria sounds christmasy)
Overall went well. It definately felt Christmasy but still powerful worship.
Great setlist! Yeah I also have to bring in some christmas songs because I haven’t yet either!
I don’t know exactly what you mean by “cool,” but here’s what we did this weekend. Seemed to go over well.
Christmas Offering – Paul Baloche
Away In A Manger – Third Day blues version
Born In Bethlehem – also Third Day
Jesus Messiah – Chris Tomlin
O Come All Ye Faithful – Third Day again
We joked that it was a Third Day set, but those were the ones we really liked, so we went with it.
I was just telling my drummer that we’ve got to get into using loops. What’s the best way to go about that (producing /using).
Gary: There’s a lot of different ways people implement using loops in live settings. For myself I do pretty much all production inside of Reason and then use Ableton Live to control the loop live. So I guess the first step is deciding what kind of loops you are thinking about creating and then trying out the software that best suits that sound. Then of course you need IEMs since you’ll be playing to a click.
I’m going to be getting some reviews from musicians on the various loop software they use so we can have a comprehensive review here on each and not just what I use. So stay tuned. Shoot me an email if you wanna discuss your particular setup in detail. I’ll help in whatever way I can.
Jim: No, fortunately nobody has been asking me. But my time is up, no more avoiding it
Aaron: Great songs, Gloria 34 does sound a bit like a Christmas tune.
Johnny: Thanks!
Oh, here’s a couple more, just in case you like ‘em:
God With Us – MercyMe (What could be more Christmas?)
Also, a couple years ago, Truth did a Christmas CD. I actually like it alot, even though it doesn’t sound like U2 or Coldplay or whoever’s hip. It’s called You Are Emmanuel and has several great cuts.
None but Jesus is one of my all time favorites.