6.16.13 Worship Rewind

• Let God Arise – Chris Tomlin
• Victory In Jesus – Hymn
• Indescribable – Chris Tomlin
• No Turning Back – Chris Tomlin

Happy Father’s Day! I get to celebrate the day being a father of a three year old. That’s exciting to me.

Looks like it was a Chris Tomlin day! Today during worship we had a great tome considering trying to regulate the bass amp, a broken guitar string, and a keyboard going out on the last song.

Before service as I was walking up on stage, I had a guy tell me to go play some great music. Thats his favorite part. So we did. We started off with Let God Arise. Thomas, our drummer, caught me off guard with the drums coming in four measures early. That’s not how we practiced it. I literally had to jump on my distortion pedal to get it fast enough. In the second service he caught me off guard because he played it like we did in practice and I was standing ready on the distortion pedal but he didn’t count in on the high hat like he normally does.

After welcome, we did a drawing for one man to sit in the man-cave we set up. That was real fun for a couple of guys getting to sit on a sofa and won a free cooler of beef jerky, chips, root bear and a few other things.

During Victory In Jesus, I broke a string during the first service. I broke the “D” and that’s not normal for me. I usually break the “A”. I believe it was cause because I had to rewrap it a few time when I restrung it a week ago. During the third verse, we play to the beat of the drummer only, so as I was singing the verse I tuned the other strings to be sure the last two songs weren’t out of tune.

I love the song Indescribable. We haven’t played it in a while. You could tell. Lol

Lastly, we played No Turning Back. I like this version of a classic hymn. It was a little difficult to play it during the first service with five strings.

Ultimately, we had a great day at GraceLife. Loved seeing the visitors and catching up with my church family.

Man-Cave
photo credit: Carlo Serrano

6.9.13 Worship Rewind

• Shout To the Lord – Lincoln Brewster
• Sing Sing Sing – Chris Tomlin
• Mighty To Save – Hillsong
• Great Is Thy Faithfulness – Hymn
• Keep Your Hands To Yourself – Georgia Satellites

Rocking day today. Our lineup today was Kaven on bass and Thomas on Drums and me on electric guitar.

We started off with Shout To the Lord. I like Lincoln Brewster’s version so much better as a guitar player. Coming off of being congested with sinus infection and an ear infection, I wasn’t sure if I was gonna be able to hit the high notes but it came out pretty well.

After announcements and welcome, we went into Sing Sing Sing. I really rocked this one up by added some hard guitar riffs to open up the song as well as after the drums came in, I dropped the “E to a “D” like Keith Urban does in Who Wouldn’t Wanna Be Me. We also done a fake ending (Thomas’ idea). That was pretty fun too. Chris Tomlin does it in the live version.

Mighty To Save sounded good. I liked the bass riff Kaven played in the bridge after a measure of the drums by themselves.

Finishing off with a great hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness. Sometimes I sing that song to Levi to quieten him (my two year old).

The band would like to personally dedicate our performance of Georgia Satellites to the one and only Heather Myers. It’s one of her favorites. Heather wasn’t able to play with us because she selflessly gave her time to run the computer while Jaemi, who usually runs the computer was busy preparing to teach on stage with our pastor. This song just completely rocked and we had a great time playing it. This was an idea that just came about (led by the Holy Spirit I’m sure) during worship rehearsal after the band just jammed for a minute. I love it when that happens.