Early Sunday morning I got a text from my pastor saying he was up all night sick and that he wasn’t going to miss service but needed prayer. I got the sense at that point this might be one of those “challenging” days. Sure enough during rehearsal we had plenty of technical issues. Cords failing, shortage of cords, piano was sounding awful out of the house, the hits just kept coming. Then service started…
The set was going good, but I felt some disconnect in the worship and was battling in the middle of the set how to address it. We got to the last “ministry” song, Our God Reigns, and I snapped a string at a terrible moment. It was a good time as far as point in the set(last song) but not a good point in that song. Although I’m not sure what a good point to break a string would be. I haven’t broke a string in a looong time, I think Delmore infected me with his string snapping disease.
I did my best to recover and plow through, I finished the song on piano, but I wasn’t happy how that sounded either. Mostly because I’m a terrible piano player and I haven’t played in a few weeks, which showed. Through it all I think God showed his grace and he was glorified. We avoided a complete train wreck of a distraction. The message was awesome and people really responded. Amen!
- You Love Me Forever – Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Skeleton Bones – John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Lead Me to the Cross – Hillsong United (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount
- Our God Reigns – Delirious (loop available)
This post is part of Fred McKinnon’s Set List Sundays.
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Ugh… hate that! I broke a string Sunday as well, during the second verse of “God of Wonders.” Which is one of my favorite acoustic songs. Grrrr…
Really, Kyle…..I wonder if you hadn’t mentioned that you broke a string, how many people would have even known. You are such an amazing worship leader that things like that never seem to be noticed by the rest of us.
Wow, Skeleton Bones! Awesome! I love that tune. I love that CD. That’s really cool. Good set man.
Days like these are really rough! I’m sorry… I’ve had my fair share of these days.
I remember breaking a string once and I just stopped playing. I let the rest of the band continue and just led vocally. It always throws me off though.
I prayed and cast all of those fowl spirits off of my bass from last week and cast them into what I thought were the swine… it turned out they jumped off of my bass playing onto your strat…. Man.
Well, that’s pretty fun to just slip over to piano when the guitar goes down. I always love a good multi-instrument experience.
One thing to look forward too is days like this always seem to make the next week seem extremely smooth:)
the transition from guitar to piano went without a hitch, it sounded like it was meant to be that way….. Kyle you are so good at fixing a rough situation in a way that no one even knows there was ever a problem.