Archive for November, 2009

The Right Key is One Key to Stong Vocals

There are many ways you can help your worship team vocalists sing strong with confidence. One thing I discovered this past year is that the right key is the key!
Last year I would introduce a song usually by listening to the cd then having the band try it and vocals sing. Many times they would [...]

What I Am Reading-Freebies, Printing Press and Questions

Thought I would let you in on a few different blogs and articles I have been reading lately-
1. The Internet is Not Your Delivery Boy- From Church Marketing Sucks I learned that the internet is not just the 20th century printing press, but should be so much more. It’s not about informing but connecting…
2. Freebie [...]

Caption Please

Kind of afraid to ask but… Do you have a caption for this photo?
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Searching

In one of the boxes pictured… There is coffee.

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Winterfield Concert

Thanks so much to the congregation at Winterfield UMC in Longview for having me out. We ate Thanksgiving dinner and I shared some music.

The Setlist.. pretty much stuck to it

The set up… this has become pretty standard.. Bose sound system makes it so easy.

Guitar looks kind of lonely back there.

When is the last time they [...]

What You Can Buy For $10

Movie ticket and drink
10 Dollar menu items
2 Packs of ornaments at walmart
Starbucks Venti Egnog Latte or two
2 $5 Footlongs from Subway
Mosquito Net that saves the life of a child in Africa

Help Me Save a Life

For the past two years I have been supporting the “Nothing But Nets” campaign. The campaign raises money to provide mosquito nets that protect from Malaria with the goal of wiping out the disease on the continent of Africa.
Between now and Christmas I want to raise enough money to buy 1000 nets. At $10 each [...]

Instrumental Reflection #12- O Come O Come Emmanuel

This week I am starting with the first of my Christmas instrumental reflections. My original plan was to have 8-10 of these done by Thanksgiving. With moving and other things, that has been pushed back a little bit. I do plan to get them out as soon as possible though, so keep listening. If you [...]

What I’m Reading-Revolution, Connection and Forgiveness.

Revolution, Connection and Forgiveness. This is what I learned from reading blogs over the past few days.
First Kem Meyer posted a video called Social Media Revolution. If you thought social media was a here today, gone tomorrow venture then think again. I have seen this video before but it is definately worth reviewing.
Second, you can [...]

Why the New Blog Layout

If you visit forkintheroadmusic.org you will notice that the page template has changed. For a while I had used the arras theme, which I really liked as far as asthetics, however it did not work best for my site. This is for a few different reasons I think
First of all I think my idea behind [...]