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Instrumental Reflections Live #1 Haunting Melody
Instrumental Reflections take on a different look with this video recorded live from ustream
Tag: "work"
Asking for Help
By Russell Martin on Aug 09, 2009 in Me
For the past week I have not been writing on my blog. Not because I am tired, or have nothing to say but because I was kinda stupid. I have been looking for a new look, layout for my blog and as I was trying them out, loading and unloading them something went wrong. All [...]
What Should I Sing?
By Russell Martin on Jul 10, 2009 in Worship
When I am a guest worship leader at a camp, or retreat, one of the hardest things I deal with is figuring out what songs I should sing. This seems like a small thing, but I can’t help but think, “Are they going to know these songs?” or “What songs mean the most to them?”
Here [...]
New theme
By Russell Martin on Apr 07, 2009 in Communication
I am just testing out this new theme to see how it works. Do you like it or not? Let me know!
Working With Youth Bands: Point and Play
By Russell Martin on Mar 27, 2009 in Worship
Here is a little exercise we use with our youth band to work on playing together, keeping rhythm, following a leader and learning to listen to other parts. We took a repetitive section of a song, in our case we used the first part of “Undiginified” and we made sure everyone knew it. Then I [...]
Sunday Setlist- 3/15/09
By Russell Martin on Mar 21, 2009 in Worship
Yes I know I am almost a week late in posting this. Oh well.. maybe since I can’t be first, I’ll be last.
Last week we had special guests leading worship. It was our youth band. I am so honored to have the priviledge of working with this group of talented young musicians. They have worked [...]
Sunday Setlist 3/8/09
By Russell Martin on Mar 09, 2009 in Worship
This was a good week at our Xperience Service. We had a full service, a new family joining, great message. Here are our songs.
Today is the Day - This was our first song from the CD of the same name to introduce. We used it as our opening song and since it was new they really [...]
Online Songwriters Showcase
By Russell Martin on Mar 08, 2009 in Music
Written a new song you want to share? Send in the link and have others listen to your creation.
Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 3
By Russell Martin on Mar 07, 2009 in Music
This week was our 3rd week of guitar lessons and I wanted to get to the point of what most people want to do with their guitar, which is playing chord. I included in their worksheets a basic chord chart. I figured since we learned how to read a chord chart last week that they [...]
Teaching Class Guitar Lessons Week 2
By Russell Martin on Mar 06, 2009 in Music
Last Thursday we had our second guitar lesson for the class. I actually gained one student, and everyone else was there as well. I asked the question at the beginning how many practiced and most of them said they spent atleast a little time working on stuff during the week.
I took some time to review [...]
