This week was a special service, we had Pastor Chris Daukas and his core team at Grace Church join us in worship. Chris preached along side our pastor and it was incredible being able to unite with them, worship and fellowship with them. I wish we could do it more often.
The worship set went well, it wouldn’t be complete without at least one hurdle. In the middle of the first set my strap lock snapped off, the guitar stayed on my shoulder, but I had to be very still so the strap wouldn’t completely come off. The transition from song 1 and 2 was long while I switched straps with my backup guitar. But hey, compared to last week’s 2 string snapping extravaganza this was nothing.
I tried to do a relatively simple set since we had some visitors and I wanted them to be able to enter in as much as possible. We did a new arrangement of Come Thou Fount which I thought went really well, I’ll be mixing that this week and see if I can’t release the live recording on the site.
- Jesus’ Name - Ryan Delmore
- Everything - Tim Hughes (loop available)
- True Love - Phil Wickham (loop available)
- Come Thou Fount
- Our God Reigns - Delirious (loop available)
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This past Sunday I accomplished 2 things I’ve never done before. I broke 2 strings on 2 different guitars and one of the strings I broke was the D string…on an acoustic! That’s hard to do. I felt sick when I woke up that morning and I knew it was going to be a struggle, I prayed for it not to be, but I knew I was going to have to push through. In fact it reminded me of something one of my old pastors used to tell me.
95% of the Christian walk is digging and fighting in the trenches. Maybe 5% of it is mountain top experiences.
In this worship trench in the middle of “So Near” I snapped a string on my electric which had a 2 pronged effect. Screwing up the back half of So Near and causing me to think what song I was going to play next instead of what was planned. We were planning on doing an electrified remix of Kevin Prosch’s “So Come“, but that wasn’t going to work on my backup guitar which was an acoustic. (note to self, keep an electric backup) So I decided to do “Everlasting God” by New Life acoustically last.
That actually went well and I walked off stage feeling like we weathered the storm. Sure it wasn’t the smoothest of set, but we managed to get through it. At the end of the sermon my pastor asked me to play “How He Loves” by John Mark McMillan. Wouldn’t you know it, in the middle of that song I broke the D string(the D string!) on the acoustic. 2 strings, 2 guitars, 2 awkward recoveries.
I’ve become pretty good at ripping off the snapped string and carrying on, but when you are the only guitarist, there’s no hiding being out of tune once a string snaps. I rarely break strings, never broken 2 in one set and never a D string. I figure I should be good for a long time for string breakage.
- You Love Me Forever - Merchant Band (loop not yet available)
- Dress Us Up - John Mark McMillan
- Gloria 34 - Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- So Near - Vineyard UK (loop available)
- Everlasting God - New Life (loop available)
- How He Loves - John Mark McMillan (end of service)
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I was hoping to have had at least one of the new loops I’ve been working on completed for this Sunday, but it wasn’t meant to be. I did remix an existing loop for How I Live though and was much happier with how it sounded. We kind of had to start over with he mixes in our headsets and FOH because we had another church use our sound system. Times like these I wish we had a digital board. But I actually think we got things sounding better than previously after working with it.
Worship went great, people really entered in, there was a reverent, passionate spirit in the building and it was a joy to see our body unite in worship the way they did. Really awesome. We started off One Prayer with an amazing sermon by Francis Chan speaking on God Is Strong. I was curious to see how our sanctuary operated as a “video venue” and it worked great. I was really encouraged by how much people entered in. People were engaged and attentive to the sermon and I think our body was blessed. So thank you Francis Chan!
- Skeleton Bones - John Mark McMillan (loop not yet available)
- Hosanna - Hillsong United (loop available)
- How I Live - Kyle Campos (loop available)
- Messiah - Phil Wickham
- Where You Go I’ll Go - Brian and Jenn Johnson (loop available)
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An important part of improving individually and as a band is evaluating where you are at, where you want to be and how to bridge the gap. As a worship leader not only are you leading worship for the body as a whole but you are leading a band that requires attention, maintenance and effort to make sure it’s playing well, relating well, operating well and spiritually healthy. I thought I’d expose what this process looks like for us, at least on the surface.
I created an evaluation form that all band members and people behind the booth fill out. Here are the questions that I ask.
- Are you doing what you feel called to?
- Describe your current role in view of God’s calling on your life?
- Are you able to recommit to the worship team? Why or why not?
- What area(s) do you need to improve in musically?
- What’s your practical plan to improve in your area(s) of need?
- How can your band leader assist in this process?
- How would you rate the musical quality of your current band? (Poor, Average, Good, Excellent)
- What can you do to help the band improve?
- What can your band leader do to improve the band’s overall quality?
- How would you rate your band’s interpersonal relationships overall? (Poor, Average, Good, Excellent)
- Do you have any relational issues with anyone in the band?
- What has God shown you about worship or anything else through your service on the band?
After receiving everyone’s input I’ll follow up with each person personally and discuss their input, where they are at musically, relationally and spiritually. This is a great opportunity to catch issues before they are issues.
Do you have an evaluation process? If so what does it look like?
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This week we started One Prayer and Pastor Aaron Dailey brought an incredible message entitled God is Enough. He asked me for songs around that theme and there are a fair amount of songs around that, just not many good ones. I settled on None But Jesus, as it’s in our semi-regular rotation and sufficiently addresses the topic. We played this song as our final song in the set and then again in ministry time and thought it fit really well with what the Holy Spirit was doing.
Musically the set went really well I thought. I feel like as a band we’ve hit a pretty good pocket. There’s a level of comfort, familiarity and enjoyment that we’ve hit together as a band that is translating to much better sounding music. There’s certainly many areas of improvement left, I think we’ve hit a solid floor to build off though, which feels great. Couldn’t come at a better time as we have a handful of new songs to introduce both originals and covers. Looking forward to getting a little refresh in the rotation and dropping a few stale tunes.
- Rain Down - Delirious (loop not yet available)
- The World Can’t Take It Away - Ryan Delmore
- True Love - Phil Wickham (loop available)
- With Everything - Hillsong (loop available)
- None But Jesus - Hillsong (loop not yet available)
By they way, when I write “loop not yet available” that means I have and use a loop for that but have not posted it on the site for various reasons. If you would like to hear the loop for possible use you can contact me and I’ll send it to you. It may be posted for general consumption in the future though.
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I returned this week from our family vacation in California. Stayed for a few days with my brother’s family in my hometown of Santa Barbara CA, then took the family to Disneyland for my son’s birthday. It was awesome and everything I had hoped it would be. Theeeennnnn we got back and let’s just say, the real world set in quickly. One of the roughest weeks I’ve had in a long time. Psalm 73:25-26 ministered to my spirit well:
Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
It’s always a challenge to prepare worship for Sunday and not bring in all your issues into the set. You end up picking songs that minister to your situation instead of picking songs that minister to the body and glorify Jesus. I’ve spoken before how being an elder in the church has really helped in leading worship because you’re more aware of the pulse of the congregation and if there are corporate issues. This greatly informs my selection of songs, knowing what our body has to worship through and repent of. That being said, here’s what we sung:
- Jesus’ Name - Ryan Delmore
- Gloria 34 - Taylor Sorensen (loop available)
- I Will Trust You - Chris Lizotte
- Our God Reigns - Delirious (loop available)
- Reprise (Be Lifted High) - Hillsong United
The set flowed really well I thought. I thought we may be a little out of sync since I missed last week and we hadn’t played for a couple weeks, but the band played really well. I really enjoyed our remix of the “Be Lifted High” reprise, might have to do a little loop to that.
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My dear friend Mark Rohl took some incredible shots last week of Our Rising Sound leading worship at Life Connection Church this past Sunday and I wanted to share them with you. You’d be wise to hire Mark for any of your photography needs, hit em up on Facebook or Twitter.
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The genesis of our arrangements goes a little something like this. I get in the shower and think about the song and work it out in my head for about 30 minutes. Yeah I take long showers, definitely not the “green” way of working arrangements, but it’s what works for me. If I think it’s an arrangement we can nail in pre-service practice we’ll give it a shot. This week I wanted to do Phil Wickham’s Messiah, but we were throwing in a 3rd part, sort of instrumental break with a vocal melody coming over top. We were playing it and it just wasn’t coming together, nobody was comfortable. We took our break for prayer and I decided to play it on acoustic and try the arrangement less “electrified”. Nearly identical arrangement, just different instrumentation and all of a sudden it felt good.
Moral of the story is this, you have to know when things aren’t working and then have the guts to make a change. I’m so lucky to have a team of skilled, humble people that don’t get offended if I tell them their part just ain’t working. Who cares if it’s what you had planned all week, who cares if the drummer was really excited about his part, nobody cares about forethought if the final product sucks and we’re not here to please musicians who love their cool new part. Thank you to my band for being flexible, knowing who we serve and laying their pride at the foot of the cross.
- We Cry Out - Kim Walker (loop available)
- Dress Us Up - John Mark McMillan
- Lead Me to the Cross - Hillsong United (loop available)
- Messiah - Phil Wickham
- How He Loves - John Mark McMillan
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