Oct. 8 Set List

Good practice this past Thursday everyone!  We covered a lot of bases in the time we had.  Before posting youtube videos of our Oct. 8 set list, I had some thoughts:

- For A.W on keys:  After seeing you start Amazing Love an octave higher twice, I realized that I was probably giving you conflicting messages about 'keyboard playing'.  Sorry about that.  There are some songs where it's better to play your keyboard up higher and keep your left hand either off the keys or on the vibrato stick so that you are clearly heard when you need to be.  These are generally songs that are driven by guitars.  On the other hand, songs that are keyboard driven (like our arrangement of Amazing Love) it sounds better if you play lower in the keyboard and give it a good solid bass with your left hand since guitars are holding back on this song.  Hopefully that makes sense.  I saw a great improvement in your playing this week.

- For the Percussionists:  To reiterate what I said in practice, less is more - particularly in the area of fills on the set.  Listen to how the drummers do their fills in the songs below and in other songs you listen to.  I'd say half of the fills are quite understated given the ability of what the drummer could do.    It's all about what works within the scope of the 'whole' song, musically.  Intentionally 'holding back' on what you can do on the drums can create that 'positive tension' we were talking about a couple of weeks ago and allow you to focus on things like consistent tempo.  :-)  Both of you were fantastically tight with the fast version of You Are Good in practice though.  It sounded great!

- Singers:  You are sounding great!  Like we talked in practice, here are some things to keep in mind:
     1.  Are you in tune?
     2.  Are you following the vocal movements together with the other singers?  
     3.  Are you enunciating your syllables together?
     4.  Also, something we didn't talk about...  Non-verbal communication - facial expressions and posture:  what are you doing?  As worship leaders, I'd suggest that we smile, feel free to clap and move around a bit (I saw some of you doing that in practice - good!).  Generally look like you are engaged in worship - not just singing.

Here's our set for Oct. 8.  Please learn them well and prepare your hearts  ;-)   Also please practice our other songs as well so we're ahead of the game once we finish this encounter.  Thanks!

You Are Good




Everyone Praises




I Found A Love




Amazing Love