Right now I am waiting on some tires to be put on my car. When I pulled into the shop I was the only one here. Somehow there is a car in front of me now and my car I still waiting. It is at times like this that I wonder what I should do. [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Online Lesson- Basic Chord Theory and Nashville Numbering Part 2
August 29th, 2008
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These are lessons 2 and 3 of an online lesson on Basic Chord Theory and the Nashville Numbering system. This lesson deals with how to put together scales and chords. It is built on lesson one which talked about intervals and whole and half steps.
Part II – ScalesA scale is made up of a combination [...]
Online Lesson- Basic Chord Theory and Nashville Numbering Part 1
August 28th, 2008
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Imagine this- You are in rehearsal and you have your chord sheet for “Lord Let Your Love” sitting in front of you. You are ready to rehearse when your group realizes that the key it is written in is too high and it needs to be changed. At this point you have two options. Scratch [...]
Guest Devo: Kerri Crocker- You Against the World
August 27th, 2008
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As I was driving to church yesterday, my eyes were drawn to the clouds and I just had to take a picture! Oddly enough they reminded me of “life”. The large, dense blanket to the right was covering the sky in the distance (a.k.a. our problems, struggles, fears) while the smaller ones looked as if [...]
Youth Worship Bands: Buying a Drumset
August 25th, 2008
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So, you are ready to invest in a drum set for the youth room because your drummer is tired of lugging all 48 pieces of his kit to the church every Wednesday night. This is a move I would recommend if your drummer is a consistent part of your youth program and if you foresee [...]
Guest Post- Logan Armatys- How to Survive Summer with a Band
August 23rd, 2008
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With an amazing summer coming to an end, I feel the need to write about the most important thing we, as a band, have learned from the experience of traveling together weeks and months at a time. It is our greatest adversary…patience.
So how do you hit the road with your best friends …the amazing musicians [...]
Free Song: Angelise
August 23rd, 2008
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I think that God speaks to us in many different and unique ways. I think also that we can speak to him in different ways. Some of us prefer to express our thoughts in poetry, some by serving and building things, some on our knees in prayer. I have always felt connected most when music [...]
Working With Youth Worship Bands: Back to Basics
August 22nd, 2008
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This is part one in a series of posts entitled “Back to Basics”.
Maybe this is familiar. You are listening to the radio or latest worship CD and hear a great new song. You go home, type out the chords or find them online, grab the CD and head to rehearsal. You then play the [...]
Removing Distractions
August 18th, 2008
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In one of the last scenes of “Runaway Jury” Nicholas Easter, played by John Cusack is talking with Rankin Fitch, played by Gene Hackman. This conversation takes place after the trial in which Fitch has tried many tactics to sway and intimidate the jury to go in favor of the gun company he represents. End [...]
Youth Bands: Working with Drummers
August 18th, 2008
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For a young musician, drums can seem deceptively easy. After all, all you have to do is beat on things, right? What often happens is you get a kid who learns a basic 4/4 beat in his cousin’s bedroom and the next thing you know he wants to be in the praise team, which may [...]
