Jubilee Sunday June 5th Agenda

Hi Everybody,

I've had A LOT of positive feedback from our acoustic chapel.  Great work everyone!  Good job keeping  your eyes and ears open and being flexible  :-)

Because we've only got 1 practice to get ready for our worship set this Sunday at Jubilee Christian Centre, I ran a list of 8 songs past Mrs. Freeman to see which ones would work with their congregation.   Below is the list we came up with for Sunday.  I'll be playing keys as I don't have a bass and I don't want to put too much pressure on A.V.  There is a possibility that M. Freeman will be able to cover the bass guitar with us.

We need to be at the church (here the address:  458 35 Ave NW, Calgary)  at 8:30 am Monday morning.  Please be on time so we can set up and do a good sound check and run through of our songs.  C.Z. - this will be an acoustic drums set (that is mic'ed so wonderfully!) so you might want to prepare yourself to play a little less heavy handed  :-)

This Is Amazing Grace   Key of D   Chord Chart

• Intro - Instruments full in - Big Band  
• Verses 1 & 2 - A.V. leads.  Everyone else clapping :-)  Drums, bass and chugging guitars  
• Chorus - A.V. leads.  Everyone else sing in UNISON.
• Verses 3 & 4 - Everyone singing, clapping and grooving.  Band does shots  (M.F.  you'll pick these up easy - don't worry)
• Chorus - 2x  Big Band  Everyone singing.
• Bridge (worthy is the Lamb)  band quiet right down.  Bass drum off-beat. 
• Bridge - again building
• Bridge - Big Band, going for it.
• Chorus 2x.
• Instrumental out (start as song start).

Mr. M. - Introductions talking.

Everlasting God   Key of G   Chord Chard   Chord Chart for Bass

• Intro - I'll count us in (as I want this to go a good tempo).  Guitars alone first time through, then full band
• Verse 1 -  C.M solo    E.Guitar chugging following the bass line (like you know how)
• Pre-chorus - 'Our God...'  Everyone sings in unison
• Chorus - Everyone sings in unison
• Verse 1 - Everyone sings harmonies (we really had this sounded good last practice)
• Chorus 2x
• PRE-CHORUS 2x - 'Our God....'   first time quieter, second time really big
• Chorus - bass drum (on off-beat) and bass only.  Singers belting it out.  Other instruments build back in on '...don't grow weary..'
• Chorus
• End.

I Will Exalt  Key of D   Chord Chart

• Intro - Keys, acoustic guitar, & Bass
• Verse 1 - T.Z. solos   Piano, acoustic guitar & Bass accompany with light cymbal work on drums
• Intro again - Keys, acoustic guitar, & bass
• Verse 2 - A.J. solos  J.L. harmonizes.  Piano, acoustic guitar & Bass accompany.  Drums, bass drum and hihat - no snare yet.  Building into chorus
• Chorus - Vocals all on melody.  Drums in with snare.  E. guitar in with chords.
• Verse 1 - O.F. Solos  J.L. harmonizes.  Drums full playing.  E.guitar full chords.  
• Chorus - 2 times  Singers harmonize on second time.  We're big.
• Instrumental into bridge - Keys and bass play bridge chords
• Bridge - This is it everyone.  This is where we shift into another gear and really worship.  No matter what has happened in our set to this point, this is where the rubber really hits the road.  We start lifting our hearts to God HERE.  T.Z. starts us off with the first time through.  
• Bridge 2nd time - J.L. joins T.Z. here with harmony.  Make no mistake, the rest of us aren't just watching - we need to be all in with our hearts, just not with mics yet.
• Bridge 3rd time - We're all in, all on melody.  Instruments all in.
• Bridge 4th time - Big build on drums - snare, floor tom, and bass all together.  Vocals harmonizing.... giving our all....
• Chorus - acapalla - no instruments.  All voices. 
• Chorus - instruments back in on 'exalt'
• Outro - Keys, acoustic guitar, and bass play intro chords.

J.L. talk here?

How He Loves Us   Key of E   Chord Chart  Josh leads us.

• Intro - guitars, keys, and light cymbal work on drums
• Verse 1 - J.L.  Instruments quiet.  No percussion.
• Chorus - J.L.  Instruments quiet. No percussion.
• Verse 1 - J.L.  Instruments fuller, some percussion
• Chorus - Everyone
• Verse 2 - Everyone Big
• Chorus - quiet
• Bridge 2x
• We'll see where it goes from here.

Photo from our acoustic Encounter

Acoustic Chapel Agenda

Possible Stage Setup

You are Good  8:30 - 8:34  Key of G   Chord Chart   (keys - organ)

• Intro - guitars - M.W. soloing.  C.M. - remember the space before the first verse starts
• Verse 1 - C.M.  everybody else clapping and into it
• Chorus - everyone singing practically acappella
• Verse 2 - C.M.  Instrument- shots
• Chorus 2x - everyone singing
• Bridge (full 2 verses) 2x - C.M. leads us
• Chorus - totally acapella
• Chorus - with instruments
• Instrument outro

Josh - greeting, prayer and intro

I Could Sing of Your Love Forever  8:34 - 8:38 Key of E    Chord Chart  (keys - piano/pad layered patch)

• Intro - guitars
• Verse 1 - O.F. sings - everyone else groovin'
• Chorus - Singers all in.  Instruments do shot chords
• Verse 1 - O.F.  sings - everyone else groovin'
• Chorus 2x - we're all in big
• Bridge - stay big
• Chorus - acapella
• Chorus - everyone big
• Instrumental out

Josh talk?   Band plays quietly behind - Intro to How He Loves

10,000 Reasons  8:46 - 8:52 Key of E   Chord Chart    (keys - piano/pad layered patch)

• Chorus - J.L. quiet
• Verse 1 - J.L.
• Chorus - everyone, breathy
• Verse 2 - C.M.
• Chorus - everyone big

         Time for student Testimonies?  I think this is really important - band will play background.  It doesn't need to go right in the middle of this song, but given the words of the song I thought it might be interesting to break it up like this.

• Verse 3 - J.L.  quiet
• Chorus 2x

How He Loves Us  8:40 - 8:46 Key of E  Chord Chart   (keys - piano/pad layered patch)

• Intro - guitars
• Verse 1 - J.L.  Instruments quiet.  No percussion.
• Chorus - J.L.  Instruments quiet. No percussion.
• Verse 1 - J.L.  Instruments fuller, some percussion
• Chorus - Everyone
• Verse 2 - Everyone Big
• Chorus - quiet
• Bridge 2x

Set a Fire  9:05 - 9:09 Key of G   Chord Chart     (keys - piano/pad layered patch)

• Set a fire 3x   J.L. leading us  quiet and building
• No place I'd rather be  3x    start quiet and build again, but not full.
• Set a fire 2x   build big

Closer  9:09 - 9:14  Key of E   Chord Chart    (keys - piano/pad layered patch)

• Intro - Instrument play through chorus chords.  M.W. can solo the chorus melody
• Verse 1 - T.Z.  quiet
• Chorus - T.Z.  leads  everyone sings quiet behind her
• Verse 2 - Everyone
• Chorus 2x - Everyone
• Instrumental - chorus chords, M.W. soloing again.
• Bridge 3x - T.Z. starts  3rd time through we're all in big.
• Chorus

Reprise I Could Sing of Your Love Forever  (just chorus and bridge to work up to Deep Cries)


Deep Cries Out    9:15 - 9:19  Key of E   Chord Chart  (keys - organ)

• Intro - guitars  M.W. soloing.
• Verse 1 - C.M. sings.  We're all groovin' and movin'
• Prechorus - we're all singing.  Instrument shots.
• Chorus - Everyone singing and big.
• Verse 1 - Everyone singing.  Instrument shots
• Prechorus - everyone building
• Chorus 2x - Big BIG!
• Bridge 1 - 2x
• Bridge 2 -  the breakdown - guitars muted strums
• Chorus

            Let God Arise   Encore in needed?  Key of E  Chord Chart   (keys - organ)

• Intro - guitars  M.W. soloing
• Verse 1 - O.F.  sings
• Prechorus - everyone singing, instruments building
• Chorus - everyone big
• Instrumental
• Verse 2 - O.F. sings
• Prechorus - everyone singing, instruments building
• Chorus
• Prechorus 3x  - J.L. leads here
• Chorus acapella

April 27 Debrief and New Songs for Acoustic Chapel

Great job on the prayer chapel everyone!  Special kudos out to:
- Keys for carrying us all the way through with solid background foundation!
- Acoustic Guitar for doing the same through the pain of your fingers
- J.L. for leading like you did - not just calling out queues in the songs, but also for the talking and direction you gave through the mic.

I thought as a band we provided great continuity for the chapel and communicated will with our song transitions and background music.  I also thought that we could work on knowing/memorizing our song mappings  :-)  It would help our confidence and that would help everyone follow us.  That gives us something we can improve on for our next chapel....

We're doing an all worship acoustic chapel next on May 25th - just after the long weekend and just before Grad.  We have 4 practices to put this together.  I'm excited and looking forward to this and I know you are too.  Here's the songs we discussed and agreed upon on Thursday:

Deep Cries Out    Key of E   Chord Chart

Set a Fire  Key of G   Chord Chart

You are Good  Key of G   Chord Chart

The Happy Song   Key of D  Chord Chart

10,000 Reasons   Key of E   Chord Chart

How He Loves Us  Key of E  Chord Chart

How Great is Our God   Key of G   Chord Chart

Closer  Key of E   Chord Chart

I Could Sing of Your Love Forever   Key of E    Chord Chart

April 27th Chapel - Positioning Ourselves to Pray

Environment – Lighting dim, candles, tables, vases paper, pens, elastics

8:25 a.m. - Worship team playing instrumental intro to Great are You Lord (key of E) as the students come in. Greeters stand at doors and let students in.  Keep doors closed until 8:25 a.m.

8:30 a.m. – Opening – Amal   - Band plays continues playing quietly in the background

8:31 – 8:36 - Francis Chan Video

8:36 – 8:45  - Amal talks briefly – Band can quietly start intro to Great are You Lord (key of E) when Amal starts talking

~ 8:41 - Worship team – Great are you Lord  (Key of E)

8:45 – Sebastian – Introduce Humility  -  Band playing ‘end instrumental’ of Great are You Lord quietly

8:48 – Worship team - I Will Exalt (key of D) - after song continue to play softly in the background  as Perry introduces the next topic.

8:53 -8:56 – Perry introduce Contempt and Forgiveness – Band quietly playing ‘Intro’ to I Will Exalt (key of D)

8:56 - Amanda explains the call to action and students can take the steps they need  Worship team plays instrumental in the background to Good Good Father (key of E)

9:06 - Band plays/sings Good Good Father (Key of E) to bring all of the students back together.

9:10 – Gabrielle Introduces Faith and Trust and prays for students  Pray on your own or with a friend – Band quietly, instrumentally plays verse chords of Good Good Father (key of E) in the background

9:18 - Worship team- At Your Name (Key of E)   

Perry Dismiss the kids

Potential songs for our next chapel (Apr 27th)

At Your Name   Chord Chart   Key of E

I Found a Love   Chord Chart   Key of G

I Will Exalt   Chord Chart   Key of D

No Longer Slaves Chord Chart    Key of D

Good Good Father  Chord Chart  Key of E

Great are you Lord   Chord Chart    Key of E

March 9th Encounter Debrief and Song Thoughts

Hi everyone,

Great job today!  Our fast songs went quite well I thought.  I heard some good things about how the E. Guitar sounded - particularly in God's Not Dead.  I thought we probably could have shortened our arrangement of I Am Free a bit - essentially that was my fault thought I think.

Another impression I got was 'When You Walk Into the Room' was new for a lot of people, but that's ok.  Its a great song.  Unfortunately we had to cut 'Set a Fire' a bit short because of our time.  I don't really like being (or feeling) rushed in worship, and so we'll likely do 4 songs in our next set instead of 5.

We have two chapels left in the year this year!!!  April 27th and May 25th.  As far as I know, May 25th will be our all acoustic chapel, so our next chapel on April 27th will be the last one with the full band.  Here's a list of the songs we did this year (and some others).  We need to pick 4 for our next chapel.....

God's Not Dead
I Am Free
When You Walk into the Room
Rooftops
Set a Fire
The Happy Song
Happy Day
Everlasting God
Came to My Rescue
Cornerstone
Awake My Soul
I Surrender
Great Are You Lord
No Longer Slaves
Good Good Father
Deep Cries Out
I Will Exalt
Don't Ever Stop
Amazing Love
Let God Arise
You Are Good
Your Grace is Enough
Here I Am to Worship
I Found a Love

March 9th Encounter Agenda

Good practice today everyone.

Based on what we've been practicing, here's our agenda for next Wednesday:

I am Free   Key of D   (keys - piano and pad patches)

• Intro - Big band start with O.F. on the tambourine like we did in practice.  If you're not playing you need to move, relax and get everyone clapping  :-)
• Verse 1 - T.Z. singing.  As we practiced.  Keys, remember those little riffs like we've been working on.  Build up to chorus
• Chorus - Just singers in unison and bass drum.  Everyone clapping
• Instrumental - same as intro
• Verse 2 - T.Z. singing.  Just like we practiced.  Build into big chorus
• Chorus - 2 times - big.  Everyone singing, smiling, movin', groovin', and clappin' to the music
• Bridge
• Chorus - acapella with bass drum
• Chorus - Big, everyone in, full on.
• Outro - same as intro.  Drums remember to slow us down right at the end.

God's Not Dead   Key of E  (starts on C#m   - keys organ patch)

• Intro - Big band start just like we've been practicing.
• Verse 1 - C.M. sings.  Just like we've been practicing
• Chorus - Everyone sings in unison
• Instrumental - same as intro and as we've been practicing
• Verse 2 - C.M. sings.
• Chorus - 2 times.  Big everyone going for it full on.
• Bridge - 3 times -  C.M. be ready to go right into the bridge after the second chorus above
• Chorus - 2 times
• Instrumental - same as Intro to finish.

When you Walk into the Room  Key of A  (keys - piano and pad patches)

• Intro - Just keys.  A.V. starts singing when she's ready, just like we practiced.
• Verse 1 - Just A.V. and keys.
• Chorus - Just A.V., keys, a little bit of drums, and a little BG vocals
• Instrumental - as we practiced.  A little more drums and guitars here.  Keys, do that riff we practiced for this song.
• Verse 2 - J.L. sings.  Instruments are building gradually from the start.  Half way through we go bit and J.L. goes up and octave singing.
• Chorus - Big - everyone full on, worshiping
• Instrumental - Big band, freestyling worship like we've been doing in practice.
• Bridge - 3 times - Just keys, bass and J.L. first time.  Everyone building from there 2nd and 3rd times.
• Chorus - Big - huge!  
• Instrumental - big - Remember to end the song on the D!  Keys, hold the D chord until we start the next song.

Rooftops   Key of G  

• Big instrumental intro like we've been practicing.
• Verse 1 - T.Z. sings.  M.W.  do your cool stuff on E. Guitar like you were in practice.
• Chorus - acapella with bass drum
• Instrumental - just like intro like we practiced
• Verse 2 - T.Z. sings.  Same as we practiced
• Chorus - 2 times - everyone in big
• Bridge - 2 times - like we practiced big
• Bridge 2 - 3 times - quiet, but building.  Arms wide open....  Here I am..   Heart wide open
• Chorus
• Bridge - end on G.  Simple transition, J.L. will start us into

Set a Fire  Key of G

• J.L. will lead us entirely through this song.  We'll follow his lead.