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May 13 2010

Loop Available: “Jesus Paid It All” by Elvina Hall (Mars Hill arrang.) (Free)

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I’ve heard this song quite a few times, but never like I heard it on Mars Hill’s Good Friday service. I heard the words in a new way, the arrangement was incredibly moving and I was broken. I probably listened to it 100 times for the next couple weeks. It really is one of the best arrangements of any hymn I’ve ever heard. Chad Gardner and the Mars Hill team did an INCREDIBLE job on this song.

This loop follows Mars Hill’s arrangement very closely. There are some instrumentation changes here and there, but really any credit for creativity must goto Chad Gardner and team for this. The first time we played this song with this loop in our Sunday service was absolutely incredible, one of the best worship times I’ve experienced. God did a lot of work in our hearts that day.

If you don’t have Reason and need some instruments muted, just let me know.

Remember to vote on the loop below, this really helps me get a sense of what folks find useful. Also it is used to calculate top loops widget in sidebar for people to quickly see the better loops.

Song: Jesus Paid It All by Elvina Hall (arrangement by Chad Gardner), Album “Good Friday Service
Key: Am
Bpm: 78 (3/4)

Section: Time (bar)

  • Intro
  • Piano In: 0:36 (17)
  • Band In: 0:55 (25)
  • Verse 1: 1:50 (49)
  • Interlude: 2:09 (57)
  • Verse 2: 2:27 (65)
  • Chorus 1: 2:46 (73)
  • Instrumental: 3:06 (82)
  • Verse 3: 3:43 (98)
  • Chorus 2: 4:02 (106)
  • Bridge: 4:27 (117)
  • Bridge 2: 5:04 (133)
  • Crash Ending: 6:00 (157)

If you download this loop or you’ve benefited in any way or are appreciative of the service, I’d ask that you please consider donating whatever you feel the loop is worth. The amount (including $0) I leave up to you.


 
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April 12 2010

Loop available: “New Creation” by Fellowship Church

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New Creation is an incredible song from Dex Alexander and Fellowship Church. If you haven’t seen the video of their live performance make sure to check it out. I’ve had this in the queue to do for a long time, but it wasn’t until we decided to do this song for Easter that it rose to the top of the stack.

Fair warning, I really changed up the vibe on the intro and verses…it’s a true remix there. You can sing the same melody over it and hopefully get the feel for it. I also inserted a few more bars into the verse section to give space for an added vocal section we did. I don’t have a live recording of our performance yet to demonstrate our arrangement, but as always I have the arrangement file guiding you. And if you choose to purchase the arrangement can be altered for your taste.

Remember to rate the loop below, this really helps me get a sense of what folks find useful. Also it is used to calculate top loops widget in sidebar for people to quickly see the better loops.

You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $4.99. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions. The following is what’s delivered upon receipt of payment:

  • Loop (high quality stereo mp3 and aif)
  • Vocal Cue track (aif)
  • Master Reason 4 file (rns)
  • Arrangement Details (rtf, shows exactly what parts come in at what time)

As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is very happy with it.

Song: New Creation by Fellowship Church, Album “Closer to the Start
Key: C
Bpm: 111


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March 18 2010

Custom loop available: “Finally I Surrender” by Misty Edwards

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This custom loop is for use with Misty Edwards’ “Finally I Surrender” off her album Relentless.

You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $14.99 as is. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions. The following is what’s delivered upon receipt of payment:

  • Loop (high quality stereo mp3 and aif)
  • Vocal Cue track (aif)
  • Master Reason 4 file (rns)
  • Arrangement Details (rtf, shows exactly what parts come in at what time)

As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is very happy with it.


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March 08 2010

Loop Available: “All God’s Children” by Delirious (Free)

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This song has been on my to do list for some time and is the first song I’m doing as part of the Gospel Community Worship Project. I’ve always loved this song and been in a couple of Delirious’ concerts when they played it live and it was incredible. The arrangement here has the same instrumental hook that makes the song instantly recognizable.

I did make some changes to the end section, namely I don’t do the “there will come a day…” part. I just allow for some repeats on the “Hallelujah” tag. The loop here does have a bass line in it. If you need it muted you’re welcome to download the Reason file and mute it out, or you can comment or contact me and request me to do it for you if you don’t have Reason.

Remember to vote on the loop below, this really helps me get a sense of what folks find useful. Also it is used to calculate top loops widget in sidebar for people to quickly see the better loops.

Song: All God’s Children by Delirious, Album “Kingdom of Comfort
Key: A
Bpm: 132

Section: Time (bar)

  • Verse 1: 0:36 (21)
  • Verse 2: 1:05 (37)
  • Chorus 1: 1:34 (53)
  • Verse 3: 2:18 (77)
  • Chorus 2: 3:01 (101)
  • Tag: 4:00 (133)
  • Instrumental: 4:29 (149)
  • Crash Ending: 4:58 (165)

If you download this loop or you’ve benefited in any way or are appreciative of the service, I’d ask that you please consider donating whatever you feel the loop is worth. The amount (including $0) I leave up to you.


 
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February 11 2010

Custom loop available: “You Won’t Relent” by Misty Edwards

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This custom loop is for use with Misty Edwards’  “You Won’t Relent” off her album Relentless. The song has an unmistakable melodic hook, but I think one of the challenges for me in the loop was how to restrain that. This arrangement(parts, not instrumentation) follows the Jesus Culture performance of this song which is 10 minutes long. So the challenge here was how do I show restraint in the loop arrangement instrumentation wise, layer slowly and hit that hook in a way that doesn’t become too repetitive. I’ll let you be the judge of how successful or unsuccessful I was at that.

You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $14.99 as is. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions. The following is what’s delivered upon receipt of payment:

  • Loop (high quality stereo mp3 and aif)
  • Vocal Cue track (aif)
  • Master Reason 4 file (rns)
  • Arrangement Details (rtf, shows exactly what parts come in at what time)

As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is very happy with it.

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December 29 2009

Custom loop available: “Follow You” by Leeland

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This is a custom loop I did that I am now making available for resale publicly. This loop is for use with a great song by Leeland called “Follow You” off their Love is On the Move album. The song follows the arrangement on the album as far as order of parts, but instrumentation and the intro section are different.

You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files (aif, high quality stereo mp3 and reason file) you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $14.99 as is. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions.

As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is quite happy with it.

Song: Follow You by Leeland, Album “Love is On the Move
Key: D
Bpm: 88 (4/4)
Click-In: 1 bar

Section: Time (bar)

  • Verse 1: 0:21 (9)
  • Chorus 1: 1:05 (25)
  • Verse 2: 1:27 (33)
  • Chorus 2: 2:10 (49)
  • Bridge: 2:54 (65)
  • Chorus 3: 3:38 (81)
  • Outro: 4:00 (89)


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November 30 2009

Loop available: “Burning Ones” by Jesus Culture

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If you read this blog with any regularity you may be asking yourself, didn’t Kyle write a post about how theologically unsound some of the lyrics from this song are? The answer is, why yes I did write a post about that, I also wrote a post about how much I dug the song as a whole and in order to fix the lyric problem I changed them. Simple yet effective solution.

Your love is our reward, that’s why we ask for more of You

became

You set our hearts desires, that all our lives bring glory to You

Now onto the loop. This loop uses a bass sequence on the verses second the second chorus. It allows room for a live bass player to play underneath without muddying up the mix, but you can decide how you’d approach that or you can catch my bass player on twitter and ask him his thoughts. The arrangement follows the Jesus Culture arrangement as far as order of song sections.

You can stream the loop below but you are not able to download the loop. In order to download the loop files you need to send payment through PayPal. The price for this loop is $4.99. Once payment is received I’ll contact you and give you download instructions. The following is what’s delivered upon receipt of payment:

  • Loop (high quality stereo mp3 and aif)
  • Vocal Cue track (aif)
  • Master Reason 4 file (rns)
  • Arrangement Details (rtf, shows exactly what parts come in at what time)

As always though please comment and rate the loop to let me know what you think. I had a lot of fun making this loop and I’m pleased that the original customer is very happy with it.


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Song: Burning Ones by Jesus Culture, Album “Consumed
Key: G
Bpm: 152 (4/4)

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November 05 2009

Loop available: “The Solid Rock” by Edward Mote

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Over the past couple years my heart has really been moved towards re-arranging hymns, due in large part to the influence of Mars Hill’s worship leaders but also due to a conviction on singing theologically rich lyrics. One of my favorite hymns is “The Solid Rock” by Edward Mote. I’ve done a couple versions of this song and always enjoyed E-pop’s version of this song, but on one particular listen it moved from appreciation to an urgency to do it.

Most of the time I try and respond to that urgency in my spirit, there are a lot of songs I have in the queue to loop so I have to prioritize in some way. So this arrangement is a version off of the E-pop arrangement. Same hook in the piano melody but used some different instrumentation, rhythm and added a more heavy instrumental section.

Remember to vote on the loop below, this really helps me get a sense of what folks find useful. Also it is used to calculate top loops widget in sidebar for people to quickly see the better loops.

Song: The Solid Rock by Edward Mote (E-pop arrangement), Album “Rain City Hymnal Vol. 1
Key: Bm
Bpm: 72 (3/4)
Click-In: 2 bar

Section: Time (bar)

  • Verse 1: 0:47 (20)
  • Verse 2: 1:27 (36)
  • Chorus 1: 1:47 (44) *Note: a beat drops in chorus (each chorus drops a beat)*
  • Verse 3: 2:20 (57) *beat 2 is now beat 1*
  • Chorus 2: 2:40 (65)
  • Verse 4: 3:14 (78) *beat 3 is now beat 1*
  • Chorus 3: 3:34 (86)
  • Instrumental: 3:47 (92) *back on beat 1*
  • Chorus 4: 4:07 (100)
  • Outro: 4:20 (105) *beat 2 is now beat 1*

If you download this loop or you’ve benefited in any way or are appreciative of the service, I’d ask that you please consider donating whatever you feel the loop is worth. The amount (including $0) I leave up to you.


 
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