Sunday Setlist “We Worship” [12.28.08]
Today we had a special time of worship in music for our entire service. Our regular service goes for an hour and usually includes a 3 song set list some sort of video elements/transitions, a message, a closing song, and announcements. Today we spread out music, video, art, and a brief encouragement across the entire hour.
- Today is the Day (Lincoln Brewster): Key B. Arrangement very similar to recorded version.
- Video “It”: Video about what worship is.
- Say So (Israel Houghton): Key E. Arrangement very similar to recorded version.
- I Know Who I Am (Israel Houghton): Key A. Arrangement very similar to recorded version.
- Rhythm (Russ Hutto): Key Bm/D. Song I wrote this past year.
- Your Love is Beautiful (Hillsong): Key Cm. Our own arrangement. We used 2 full drum sets on this one. And both drummers stayed on until the last song. Big percussion break in the middle. Goes into a keys/organ solo then back to pre-chorus. Fun song to play. We decided to play it in Cm instead of C#m because it’s a whole lot easier to play for the keys players and not much of a change for the guitar players to shift it down a half step. This was probably one of my favorites to rock out today!
- Video “Be Still”: Video about the noise of life and being still to hear God who is there and speaking to us through out. All the lights go down and and I’m playing Word of God Speak (on keys) and we have an artist on stage doing a chalk drawing through the next 3 songs. The drawing goes from a small little earth to a huge burst of light (like God) as we move through Word of God Speak, Every Creature, then into Revelation Song.
- Word of God Speak (Mercy Me): Key C. Me on keys. Simple. Lights almost totally off. Spotlight on the artist drawing, and me singing.
- Every Creature (Russ Hutto): Key E. I wrote this back in 03. It’s a simple worship song about joining in as all creation calls out the name of Jesus. The band gradually “slides” in on this one. It went over well.
- Revelation Song (Riddle): Short video intro with a reading from Job. Our office admin read/recorded this for me. She’s from England so it’s really cool sounding as we go into the song. It’s a “loop” that stops as she’s finishing the last phrase then our live drummers bring us in with a massive fill and our vocals are doing some nice “Ahs” and then verse 1. We do this a bit faster and defniitely more rocked out than the Gateway Worship version. For most of the song our guitars are playing a chunk chunk style in 16ths with emphasis on the first and 3rd 16ths (DdDd-dddd-dddd-dddd and so on). Works well.
- Video “Psalm 104″: Upbeat worship video of Psalm 104.
- Short encouragement about worship outside the four walls. We’ve listened to God through the noise. We’ve joined in all creation praising Jesus. We’ve praised Him in a big way with the Revelation Song. Let’s live worship in our community. Challenge our people if this resonates with them to stand and sing their guts out during God of This City.
- God of This City (Tomlin Arr.): Key A. We rock this one up just a hair, but play it pretty close to the Tomlin arrangement.
- My Savior Lives (New Life Worship): Key B. Pretty standard arrangement.
It went over very well today. This was a huge departure from our “typical” Sunday morning gathering and as far as I could tell we had a bunch of positive feedback.
Join me and other worship leaders posting their set lists at Fred McKinnon’s Sunday Setlists.
Awesome setlist Russ! I am jealous that you guys are doing Say So, I want to bring that this year coming up
russ, u know I read in Google Reader, but your design is way too groovy to miss, so I always click the link just to come read and get some eye glory here!
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Love the creative elements with the artist and video throughout! Sounds like a great day!
We had planned to do “My Savior Lives” this week but changed to “Awesome is the Lord most high” when I found that we wouldn’t have an electric guitar. Great song but I think it would have been a bit weak without electric.
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Wow, that’s a really cool setlist. (I say that because we did “Say So” and “Revelation Song” as well, and we’re cool, so….)
I’ve wanted to try “I Know Who I Am” for a while… such a great song. Two drummers might just make up for not having Mike Clemons.
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@Johnny: Thanks man. We had a great day!
@Fred: Ha, thanks man. I appreciate it! I’ve actually got the wheels turning to take this theme to the next level after the new year. Hopefully, it will be more eye glorious haha!
@Stephanie: Thanks for the comments! We had a great time! Personally, I’d do My Savior Lives, anytime anywhere…with any guitars. Well, I might not do it if all I had was keys, but you know what I mean. I think it is actually a very cool song driven by acoustic, you just have to work the bass a little more and make sure your harmonies are tight! Thanks for stopping by!
@MIke: it was definitely a cool set up. The drums were LOUD to say the least, but I think that was cool for this special service. The drummers really enjoyed it. I’m looking forward to a time when we can do this kind of service when in a more “normal” time of year. We had a good crowd but attendance was low in comparison and we really had no time to rehearse.