by Kyle
on February 4, 2009
in gear, how to, tips
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 [...]
by Kyle
on January 26, 2009
in how to, live, music, tips
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 [...]
by Kyle
on January 21, 2009
in band, how to, music
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 [...]
by Kyle
on December 16, 2008
in gear, how to, live, tips
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 [...]
by Kyle
on November 18, 2008
in funny, how to, video
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 [...]
by Kyle
on June 3, 2008
in church, how to, 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 [...]