Good practice today. It sure is fun to see how fast we can pick up new songs. If someone could let me know what the theme for chapels in March is, that would be great. Also, if each of us could russell up a cowboy hat or two by then, :-) that would be super as well.
Here's the new songs to listen to closely and learn:
God Is Good
Like I said in practice, it will be important for all of us to listen to this closely and know the melody in all the parts of the song. Particularly in the verses (even though E will be 'preaching' through them) - certainly the bridge.
Keyboards - have fun with the keyboard licks - there's lots of them in this song. You don't have to learn them, but they would be fun to learn and play.
Singers - listen to when they back up with with words compared to when they do the 'oooh's' It would be good if we could do it similarly.
I Saw the Light/I'll Fly Away
Heh - I hadn't seen this video before. I had no idea that David Crowder was a hillbilly. This is awesome. We'll do both of these (I saw the Light and I'll Fly Away) as a medley like they do - perhaps not all those verses though. :-)
Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone
We'll arrange this one similar to the way Chris does it here - start quiet with just keyboards and a pad and build it slow. Watch towards the end of the video to see what it escalates to.
You're Beautiful
Drums - once this one gets going, it would be good if you could hit the snare through the chorus as he does - so if you count through the chorus in sets of 8, he hits the snare on beats 4 and 7 (and sometimes 1) The Bass drum is a steady beat landing on 1,3,5 and 7.
And, of course:
One Way
Remember with this one we need to get the chords coming out of the chorus going back into the verse. Guitars should follow the snare beat.
