Comments on: Why should I consider using loops in my worship service?

By: Nick Thacker

Nick Thacker — Sun, 08 May 2011 22:13:53 +0000

Kyle,

I keep coming back to this post as a “pillar” article in defense of using loops for worship leading. Please write more like this!

Also, Jeremiah (even though you already know this), http://www.loopingworship.com is another solid resource for training/free loops etc. Check it out!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:42 +0000

check out http://www.loopcommunity.com free loop resource for worship leaders. "Share a Loop, Take a Loop"

By: Daniel Cash

Daniel Cash — Fri, 15 May 2009 16:36:39 +0000

I haven’t used actual loops from a computer (yet) but I have used the loop station on my DL4 pedal to loop effects in the back ground. I played the piano part of Our God Reigns and then looped it. I little tricky and you have to be spot on with your tap dancing, but it can add a lot to the overall sound. It can get a little weird at times and I have to be sure and reign it in (we’re not quite yet the church that would prefer a Radio-Head-esque type worship experience!)

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:39:26 +0000

Great article, and timely for me- I’ve got the mac, I’ve got ableton, and I’ve been wanting for a long time to incorporate loops into our sets. Now I need some help/resources to show me how to get started creating these babies. Any resources you’d recommend?

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:07:56 +0000

Barrie: These are all great questions. In fact so good that they deserve their own posts. So I’ll answer these in subsequent posts. Thanks for the great questions.

By: Barrie

Barrie — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:05:06 +0000

Hey Kyle, thanks for this post, its something that I’ve been thinking about more and more recently. I guess my main hesitation has to do with the whole spontaneous prophetic aspect. I also can see what your saying about it being useful for the congregation to know the ‘roadmap’ for a song but have you found any sense in which this might add to people not engaging since they’ve “been there, done that” exactly the same way last week.
How easy/difficult do you find it to break out of the song/set when us loops? The way I understand it if you felt the Spirit leading in a certain direction at the end of a song then it would be just like any other time. But what about if you had a song and as you were preparing for that week you felt it would be good to jump from the chorus of one song straight into another, could that work and could you modify/join loops?

Since you’ve done both is there anything you feel that you lose from using loops?

Sorry for the barrage of questions but its something that really intrigues me. I look forward to the next post on what you see as the cons.