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How to create your own click track in Garage Band

I created a screencast to show you just how easy it is to create your own click tracks in Garage Band. You might also be interested in my post on an OSX BPM widget that lets you tap out the BPM for songs in your iTunes library. You can click through to the video on [...]

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How do you send a click track to monitors and not mains?

Micah D. sent in this question on the “How to introduce click tracks to your band” post. How do I put the click track through monitors [and] the loop … through the main speakers? Good question. The goal is to get the loop playing through the mains and available to monitor mixes but the click [...]

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How to introduce click tracks to your band

Why use a click? I don’t want to assume we all know and appreciate the benefits of a click so I figured I’d start here. A click insures your band plays a song in the correct time and keeps your band in the correct time through the duration of the song. Without using a click [...]

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How to setup your Mac laptop for live audio

This site talks a lot of using loops in worship and I wanted to take a minute and talk about how to setup your laptop for playing any kind of audio live off your Mac. This posts focuses on mac because if you are relying on a windows machine to play any kind of live [...]

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Him that pisseth on thy guitar is blessed!

One of my favorite local pastors is Pastor Steven L. Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church. It was love at first sight when I read their inviting tagline, “Don’t expect anything contemporary or liberal.” I mean that’s powerful, warm and loving all at the same time! Except I have noticed they do use some contemporary [...]

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How to properly use simile in worship songwriting

sim·i·le A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare). A powerful tool of writing and one not much used in [...]

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