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Are You Rocking the iPad in Worship?
Here’s something that I thought was cool. Squeeze, made an appearance on Jimmy Fallon’s show the other night to play the classic “Pulling Mussels (From The Shell),” and the keyboardist was playing both the electronic ivories and an iPad. He even drops a nice solo in right around 2:32. YouTube commenter MooCowMusic says it’s his app, Pianist. I’ve [...]
Guest Post by Brian Davis: Resources
The following is a guest blog from my friend, Brian Davis – Media Resources Manager at Highland Park United Methodist Church. For months I have heard Paul Rasmussen (Pastor of our modern worship service) say, Don’t let resources dictate vision”. As a resources manager, I live in a very concrete world of what we have [...]
Death Cab for Cutie Gets It
I promise (I think) this is the last one. I do have a blog prepared on a totally different subject tomorrow (leadership). The last 2 posts (Lifehouse and this one) have come from your comments. I thought your suggestions were too good to go unnoticed. In today’s video/song, one of my favorite bands, Death Cab [...]
Lifehouse Gets It
Today’s example of great musicianship is brought in part because of one of the comments made by Trae earlier in the week. I absolutely love this song and love using it in worship, but it had slipped my mind. Trae brought it back to my attention. This will close this week out. This is Lifehouse [...]
Phil Collins Gets It
The first time I realized the power of withholding the drums until just the right moment was in Phil Collins’ genius song “In The Air Tonight”. That’s when I “got it”. The following is a video of him playing this live in his Farewell Tour (I have this DVD – because Phil Collins is a [...]
Coldplay Gets It
Yesterday I expressed my personal opinions about music, dynamics and letting a song build. I said that the quickest way to spot an amateur player is to see him playing the whole song. A real musician knows when to not play. One of my favorite bands is Coldplay. Today I thought I’d show you Coldplay [...]
How I Teach Dynamics in Music to Church Praise Bands
Continuing with the theme of worship music (yes, I’m focusing on worship leaders for a bit), I’d like to talk about one of the most beautiful parts of music: dynamics. Dynamics are the ebb and flow/highs and lows of music. As you know, I travel quite a bit and visit/work with a lot of churches. [...]
A Deeper Look at Owl City
Last week I posted about Owl City’s – Meteor Shower song possibly being the future of worship music. I could tell from many of the comments that some didn’t quite get why I thought he (Adam Young) may be on to something in the realm of worship music. Yes, I love seeing laptops on stage [...]
The Future of Worship Music?
I’ve been listening to Owl City ever since they splashed with their hit “Fireflies”. After first downloading that song, I went back and downloaded the whole album. I was on a road trip and driving listening to my iPod and the Owl City album came on. It got to song 07 “Meteor Shower” and I [...]
Free Christmas Music From So Elated
For fans of WILCO, IRON AND WINE, DAVID BAZAN, SUFJAN STEVENS, DEREK WEBB – you might dig So Elated’s new Christmas album “The Bewildering Light”. You can get it for FREE by telling 5 friends or pay what you want. I’m always looking for fresh sounding Christmas music – especially stuff with a Sufjan Stevens [...]
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