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 25 2010

New Deluxe Memory Boy pedal from EHX

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Electro-Harmonix makes the absolute best analog effects pedals in the biz and the Memory Man is of course one of the all time great pedals that’s in nearly everyone’s arsenal, including mine. The one problem with it has always been no tap tempo. Even the Edge was bothered by this and would have to start a lot of U2’s songs because the tempo would be set by his delay settings. Well EHX went ahead and solved this and introduced a heck of a lot more(expression pedal, tap divide, …) with their new Deluxe Memory Boy pedal. I want it and I want it badly. Check it out:

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 25 2010

TC Electronics Polytune: tune all strings at the same time

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Well this looks really cool. The new tuner from TC Electronics says it will tune all your strings at the same time, you just strum and it shows which strings are out of tune. If this works as advertised I want one. Selling for only $99, that seems almost too cheap to me. What you think, you gonna buy? Anybody already used it?

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.

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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.

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