Saturday, May 27, 2017

Song Agenda for Sunday May 28

Hi Everyone,
Here's the song agenda for Sunday May 28 at Jubilee.  Also for Thursday this week, here's the map to the park from the school:  https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/Bearspaw+Christian+School,+69+Street+Northwest,+Calgary,+AB/Bowness+Park,+48+Avenue+Northwest,+Calgary,+AB/@51.1390099,-114.2348183,13.36z/am=t/data=!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x537168069555185b:0x7008322920f5f467!2m2!1d-114.1894469!2d51.1869659!1m5!1m1!1s0x53716eb340f25d63:0x7c440bab04128bd7!2m2!1d-114.216914!2d51.097159

http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/Parks/Pages/Locations/NW-parks/Bowness-Park.aspx

Please let me know if you can or can't make it and we'll decide based on weather and attendance if its a go or not.

Song Agenda:

I thought about solos a bit more and realized that it doesn't make sense to do them for another reason (besides the fact that we're really leading working in a church).  The sound guy won't easily know who is who and may have troubles turning the right mic up and the correct time....  Print off the chord charts if you need them - I've attached them below.

SMILE AND BE ENGAGED!  :-)

My Redeemer Lives   Key of E   Chord Chart

  • Intro - bass starts, band joins in (tambourine too with the drums)
  • Verse 1 - vocals in unison
  • Chorus - vocals in unison - Tambourine full on!
  • Instrumental - same as we practiced and the original song- tambourine full on!
  • Verse 1 - Vocals with harmonies
  • Chorus - 2 times, full band, singing harmonies
  • Bridge - Band full on, including tambourine
  • Chorus - just drums and tambourine - everyone else CLAP and SING!
  • Chorus - full band, full on
  • Outro
You Are Good    Key of G   Chord Chart
  • Intro - E. Guitar starts.  Band joins, like we practiced.  Wait for Chelsea's strum before we start singing
  • Verse 1 - Drums (bass drum and hihat), bass, guitars chugging, and singing in unison
  • Chorus - Mostly a cappella - Drums (bass drum) and bass.  Singers in unison and CLAPPING
  • Instrumental - like the intro
  • Verse 2 - Full drums with instrument shots like we practice.  Singers harmonizing
  • Chorus - 2 times - everyone full on
  • Bridge - 2 times - start quiet and build, like we practice
  • Chorus - 2 times, no stopping, everyone full on
  • Outro - like the intro (and like we usually do)
I Surrender    Key of D (but starts on Bm)   Chord Chart
  • Intro - E. Guitar, keys, and A. Guitar
  • Verse 1 - Sing quiet and airy.  Instruments as we practiced
  • Chorus - Same as verse 1
  • Verse 2 - Harmonies with singing, but still quiet.  Drums with a full beat (like we practiced) Tambouring too.
  • Chorus - Full band
  • Instrumental - Chords - G, Bm, A   E. Guitar leads
  • Bridge - 1 time, full band
  • Instrumental - Same as above
  • Chorus - 3 times.  First time, a cappella.  Band building next 2 times
  • Bridge - full band
  • End
Good Good Father   Key of E   Chord Chart
  • Intro - Keys and A. Guitar start
  • Verse 1 - like we practiced, E. guitar swells
  • Chorus - Quiet, but like we practiced - drums, cymbal work to keep the beat
  • Verse 2 - drums full beat, singers harmonizing
  • Chorus - Full band, with tambourine
  • Bridge - 2 times
  • Verse 3 - really quiet - drums cymbal work
  • Pre-chorus - 'and you draw me...'  keep repeating and building as we normally do,  Drums and E. guitar can build big
  • Chorus - full band, no stopping
  • Chorus - quieter

Saturday, May 13, 2017

Song Agenda for May 24th Chapel

Hi Everyone,
Again, great practice on Thursday - you all sounded fantastic!
Remember, Mr. Schneider is speaking first on 'Spiritual Warfare' in  chapel.  After he's done, we're up and the song order will be something like this:

Shout Unto God   Key of D (but we actually never play that chord - ironic, huh?)
https://youtu.be/IQcgtQ8-Ws4
'The enemy has been defeated...'   (repeat around 8 times, whole band building every time)

  • A.Guitar, bass, and keys (pad) start
  • Drums join, first with that beat we were talking about (snare 1/2 time with toms in between)
  • Getting bigger, guitars get more busy and louder
  • drums full on, tambourine going
  • I'll signal for when we go into....
'Shout unto God with a voice....'   (again repeat about 8 times, but staring with JUST PERCUSSION)
  • First 2 times - JUST DRUMS, TAMBOURINE, and singers FULL ON (you're almost shouting)
  • Next two times - Band joins, but does a single large SHOT on every chord
  • Next four times - everyone FULL ON
  • End on G chord - BIG BIG BIG ending
After the ending, E. Guitar can start right into....

Let God Arise  Key of E
  • Intro - like we practiced
  • Verse 1 - Just drums, bass, and singers - no keys or guitars until the C#m on 'See'
  • Pre-chorus
  • Chorus - full on - no stopping this time
  • Instrumental - like intro
  • Verse 2 - like we practiced
  • Pre-chorus - singers harmonizing
  • Chorus - 2 times - full on all band and singers
  • Instrumental to bridge (using pre-chorus chords)  E.guitar can play solid, whole note chords until singers start singing
  • Bridge (really like pre-chorus, just lots of times, starting quiet and building)
  • Chorus - Band holds chords on 'Arise' each time, then back in full on 'Reigns'
  • Chorus
  • Instrumental to end
This is Amazing Grace   Key of D  We might cut this some for time's sake
  • Intro - band starts big - everyone in, including tambourine.  Keys with solo line
  • Verses 1 & 2 - drums, bass, organ, & singers, but everyone build 'the King of Glory...' into the chorus.  Singers need to clap
  • Chorus - with tambourine!
  • Verses 3 & 4 - full band - instruments with shots. Big build into chorus
  • Chorus - with tambourine!
  • Bridge - 2 times.  First time quieter.  Second time with tambourine and band shots
  • Chorus - 2 times - everyone full
  • Instrument out
I Surrender    Key of D  (but starts on Bm)
  • Intro - Drums, guitars, and keys
  • Verse 1 - band much quieter - mostly just keys and A. guitar
  • Chorus - band a little bigger
  • Verse 2 - full drums - singers harmonizing.  Tambourine going
  • Chorus - full band with tambourine
  • Instrumental -  (bridge chords, full band)
  • Bridge
  • Instrumental - E. Guitar solo with Bridge chords
  • Chorus
Overwhelmed    Key of G
  • Intro - A. guitar, keys, bass, and drums
  • Verse 1 - bass drum every beat, band is quiet
  • Chorus - held notes.  Bass drum only on chord changes until chorus finishes, than back to bass drum every beat
  • Verse 2 - Full drum beat.  Band builds to chorus
  • Chorus - 2 times - full band, singers harmonizing
  • Bridge - as we practiced, quiet, but building each time to big last time before...
  • Chorus - full on
  • Instrumental - same as intro.  Singers can sing a new song here
  • Bridge - almost everyone instrumentally drops out, but we'll build it again
  • Chorus - Band holds the note on 'Delight', does shots on 'Glory', 'of', and 'presence', and then back in full on when we get to 'overwhelmed'
  • Instrumental out (same as intro)

Friday, April 28, 2017

New Songs for Next Chapel (May 24)

Great practice yesterday everyone!  Here's the songs we practiced and talked about:

My Redeemer Lives   Key of E   Chord Chart




Trading My Sorrows   Key of G  Chord Chart
You all have to listen to this one - the full thing.  They do some pretty fun stuff with this one  'Wake up!!!'



Overwhelmed    Key of G   Chord Chart
This is another good one to watch entirely.  I like how they build the song back out of the intro again!




I Surrender    Key of D (or Bm)    Chord Chart


Sunday, April 16, 2017

Next Chapel - April 26th Songs

April 20 - great practice today everyone!  I really enjoyed it.  In fact, even if Wednesday doesn't go well, practice as good enough for me  :-)  ...that doesn't mean we shouldn't try our best on Wednesday though.   Tambourine sounds good in every song, so percussionists, if you aren't drumming, please play it!

So our Song Agenda for Wednesday is:

Sing, Sing, Sing    Key of E  Chord Chart

  • Intro - instruments chugging like we practiced
  • Chorus - just once
  • Verse  
  • Chorus - 2 times
  • Instrumental - E  D   A  A
  • Chorus - quiet
  • Chorus - Loud and big
  • Instrumental - E  D   A   A
  • End

Praises    Key of G   
Chord Chart
  • Keys start
  • Verse 1 - Hanna solos - drums - bass on off-beat like in practice
  • Chorus - remember breathy - not full voice
  • Verse 2 - drums full beat
  • Chorus - 2 times - Full band, all singer
  • Bridge - 3 full times - quiet first time
  • Chorus - no stopping, full band
  • Chorus
  • Verse 1
Drummers switch while Laura keeps playing keys


Jesus We Love You   Key of G  
Chord Chart
  • Intro - keys start this one too
  • Verse 1 - Julia solos
  • Chorus - again - held back, not full singing but breathy
  • Verse 2 - everyone sings
  • Chorus - 2 times - full band, all singers
  • Bridge - 3 times
  • Chorus - Band holds first note and comes back in one 2nd 'love you'
  • Chorus
  • End

Good Good Father    Key of E   Chord Chart
  • Intro - Chelsea starts
  • Verse 1 - Tryse solos
  • Chorus - again, breathy
  • Verse 2 - we're all in singing and playing
  • Chorus - 2 times - full band, all singers
  • Bridge - full on, not stopping
  • Verse 3 - Tiffany solos
  • Chorus - 2 times
  • End






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So if you haven't heard, our next chapel is on April 26th.  We worked through a few songs for this chapel in last practice.  Next Thursday will be our last practice before this next chapel, so please try and be present.   The four songs we decided on last Thursday (due to this squashed schedule) are:

- The Happy Song   Key of D       Chord Chart
- Praises                   Key of G       Chord Chart
- Good Good Father   Key of E     Chord Chart
- Jesus We Love You  Key of G    Chord Chart

I'm a little uneasy about that one fast song and three slow songs still, but that's the way things stand currently.  I was thinking we could either swap 'The Happy Song' with 'Sing, Sing, Sing' or keep 'The Happy Song' and swap 'Praises' with 'Sing, Sing, Sing'....   Thoughts?

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Acoustic Chapel Songs to work on

Remember to think about how we want to set things up in the gym for this chapel.  I have really enjoyed practice these past two weeks - they've been some of my favourite times of the week.  I really enjoy playing and singing with you all.

Agenda for our Acoustic All Worship Chapel


Start with:  I think we will just do a verse and a chorus of each of these and move through them fairly quickly.

Sing Sing Sing   Key of E      Chord Chart

Every Move I Make   Key of E  Chord Chart

Romans 16:19   Key of E      Chord Chart

My Redeemer Lives    Key of E   Chord Chart


Middle slower songs:  I'm not sure we'll do the first two below.  I really want to spend the majority of the time on Avalanche and Set a Fire.

Amazing Love   Key of D & E   Chord Chart

Great Are You Lord   Key of E    Chord Chart

Avalanche   Key of C        Chord Chart  Julia H to sing first verse solo.  (she volunteered)

Set a Fire   Key of G   Chord Chart


End with:

Everlasting God   Key of G   Chord Chart

You Are Good    Key of G    Chord Chart





our original list:

Avalanche   Key of C        Chord Chart

Everlasting God   Key of G   Chord Chart

Every Move I Make   Key of E  Chord Chart

Jesus Loves Me  Key of G   Chord Chart

Everywhere I go - God, You are My God   Key of G    Chord Chart

Amazing Love   Key of D   Chord Chart

Open the Eyes of my Heart    Key of E   Chord Chart

Came to My Rescue   Key of G   Chord Chart

Set a Fire   Key of G   Chord Chart

You Are Good   Key of G     Chord Chart

Great Are You Lord   Key of E    Chord Chart

Sing Sing Sing   Key of E      Chord Chart

Romans 16:19   Key of E      Chord Chart

The Happy Song or Happy Day    Key of D

No Longer Slaves   Key of D    Chord Chart


Sunday, February 26, 2017

March 1st Chapel Agenda

Hi everyone,
We on for Chapel this Wednesday, March 1st.  Please remember your ear buds and to show up at the school at 7:15am to help set up.  Here's our song list,

Let God Arise   Key of E
  • Intro - E. Guitar starts, rest of the band comes in with drums
  • Verse 1 - like we practiced - singers in unison, band driving but muted
  • Chorus - hold chords on 'Arise'.  Full band back in on 'reigns'
  • Instrumental - E. Guitar soloing
  • Verse 2 - same as we practiced, singers bust a move
  • Chorus - 2 times - full band
  • Bridge - 3 full times, start low (like we practiced) and building every time 'our God is a God who saves'  
  • Chorus - hold chords on 'Arise'.  Full band back in on 'reigns'
  • Chorus - full band
  • Outro - same as intro
Reprise bridge (Our God is a God who saves)??  :-)

Beautiful One    Key of A (but starts on D)
  • Intro - Full band
  • Verse 1 - as we practiced, but Rebecca sings solo
  • Chorus - all singers in unison, full band
  • Verse 2 - full band (as we practiced) and all singers with harmonies
  • Chorus - 2 times, full band with singers doing harmonies
  • Bridge - Rebecca sings solo first time through, everybody builds and joins second time.
  • Chorus - 2 times - full band and singing, pulling out all the stops
  • Bridge 2 - 'My soul my soul must sing'  Instruments do shots!
  • Chorus - Instruments STOP on 'One' and come back in on 'Sing'
  • Chorus

Praises   Key of G (but starts on C)
  • Intro - Instruments quiet, but everyone playing.  Keys lead us off
  • Verse 1 - Julia solos, bass drum on off beat with cymbal work
  • Chorus - All instruments quiet, singers in unison.  Drums same as verse 1
  • Instrumental - same as intro
  • Verse 1 - drums full beat, all instruments in.  All singers in, harmonies
  • Chorus - Full one everyone - singers harmonizing.  Band holds note on last 'higher'
  • Bridge - 3 full times through - Julia sings solo first time.  Drums back on bass offbeat first time.  Band builds each time through.  Singers join and belt it out 2nd and 3rd times through.  BIG BUILD!!
  • Chorus - No Stopping, full on, everyone!  Hold note on 'higher'
  • Verse 1 - Julia solos
  • Outro - same as intro.  End on D so you can move right into.....

I Will Exalt    Key of D
  • Intro - as we practiced
  • Verse 1 - Chelsea solos, instruments held back
  • Instrumental - same as intro
  • Verse 1 - Full band, all singers harmonizing
  • Chorus - 2 times
  • Instrumental - going to bridge
  • Bridge - 2-3 times - Chelsea solos first time through.  We all join her 2nd and 3rd times.  Build starts quiet and builds (like we practiced)
  • Chorus - Instruments hold on 'Exalt', come back in on second 'Exalt'
  • Chorus - BIG BAND
  • Verse 1 - Chelsea
  • Outro - same as intro.

Friday, February 3, 2017

New Songs to Work on for March 1st

Again, great job on that last chapel everyone!  Looking forward to our next chapel, here's some songs to practice and know.  We'll focus on these 6 and choose 4.  PLEASE get really familiar (listen to the videos) with the songs as it will help us learn them faster.

Let God Arise    Key of E    Chord Chart



Let the Glory of the Lord Rise Among Us   Key of D & E   Chord Chart



Every Praise   Key of G   Chord Chart



Good Good Father   Key of E   Chord Chart



I Will Exalt   Key of D   Chord Chart



Praises   Key of G