Where music, culture and worship meet.

This blog examines, reviews and discusses how worship is being lived out in culture and in the church. We tackle everything from songwriting techniques in corporate worship, to interviewing worship leaders and pastors, to reviewing the last big rock concert.

March 09 2010

5th grade chorus PS22 sings “Lisztomania” and kills it!

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PS22 Chorus have sung a lot of other cool tunes, but this is one of my favorite songs(Lisztomania by Phoenix) in the past few years and they killed it!

February 15 2010

Video: How to use Reason’s Spider Audio Merger/Splitter

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The loop in this video is a custom loop for Misty Edward’s “You Won’t Relent” and can be purchased/downloaded here.

February 12 2010

Video: How to create the perfect fadeout in Reason

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The loop in the video can be downloaded here.

January 23 2010

Video: Justin Timberlake & Matt Morris perform “Hallelujah” (Hope 4 Haiti)

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Absolutely incredible performance of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah. As good if not better than Jeff Buckley’s cover…blasphemy I know.

January 13 2010

Beat slicing tutorial from Trifonic (Video)

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This is a cool tutorial on some techniques to slice up drum patterns in interesting ways. Great because it’s tool agnostic, meaning you can use the same technique in whatever application you are using, Abelton, Login, Reason, etc… Click through to his vimeo account to see more tutorials.

Trifonic: Editing Beats – Part 1 from Next Step Audio on Vimeo.

[via CreateDigitalMusic]

January 12 2010

Sunday Wrap Up: “Preaching Colossians is hard work” (Video)

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This past Sunday I was actually preaching instead of leading worship. Our pastor was in Kuwait and I picked up preaching duties, teaching out of Colossians 3:18 , not an easy task. I was really blessed to be able to do that for Life Connection Church, really it was an honor and I pray that God’s will was accomplished. For the rest of the info you can just watch the video wrap up…

Sunday Wrap Up (01/10/10) from Our Rising Sound on Vimeo.

December 23 2009

The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldier (Live on Jools Holland)

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One of the great joys of Direct TV is my season pass for Jools Holland. On this occasion they had a pretty packed lineup, John Legend, Amy Winehouse, The Raconteurs and Muse. Hands down, Raconteurs stole the show, their performance of Broken Boy Soldier was incredible. Enjoy.

December 07 2009

Video: Matt Chandler speaks before his brain surgery

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As I watched this incredibly challenging and encouraging video of Matt Chandler discussing where he’s at with his sudden fight with a brain tumor, I felt such simultaneous heartache and joy seeing this warrior of our faith stand firm in Christ. Matt has had such a huge impact on me from afar, I’ve never met him or even seen him in person, but his impact on my faith cannot be overstated. It’s humbling to hear his words, it’s encouraging to see him live it out and it’s incredibly moving to see the love and wisdom shared through his family.

For those of you who don’t know, Matt Chandler is pastor of The Village Church and fellow member of the Acts 29 Network. According to the latest updates Matt is doing well, is out of the ICU and results should be back from tests on the tumor in the middle of this week.

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