More worship workshops
Covered a few more recordings over the weekend:
- Guitar Conversations – Mike Cosper, Patrick Anderson, Paul Hoover
- Strengthening the Drum/Bass Connection, PT1 – Ryan Foglesong and David Zimmer (outline)
- Putting Songs Together – Bob Kauflin (outline)
Still yet to tackle the “The Piano in Contemporary Worship” video series. Vimeo has always been buggy and refreshing when it stops to start again from the top just doesn’t seem too appealing.
Anyway, found the three seminar recordings very useful, the guitar and drum/bass one summarised many things that I have slowly learned over 8 years of playing in a mostly worship band setting. Points like playing less, knowing who is driving the song, recognising that what you listen to will undoubtedly influence how you play (post-rock and instrumental has pushed me towards the ‘play less’ mentality). Gear talk made me want to buy another delay pedal and a tuner pedal.
The last one, “Putting Songs Together”, was just full of good tips and just reading the 5 page outline makes for heavy reading. Moreso because there are so many learning points. Things that I think shouldn’t be limited to people who are leading the singing.
It also supplied a brilliant medley idea: The last verse of “How Deep The Father’s Love” into the chorus of “Jesus Paid It All”, how the first line continues the thought and responds to the last line. The continuity that bridges more than a century between the two songs.
All this talk of worship made for much introspection. I’ve seen myself as less of a musician than a listener who tries to patch together something out of what he hears.
I watched Ikiru by Akira Kurosawa tonight. It’s a good movie.
Off to audition a pair of headphones. Midnight listening session.
