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Great day leading at St. Simons Community Church. Had my lovely wife, Lydia, joining me along with David (guitar/vocals) & Michele (alto) Dantzler, Gary Share (bass), Fred McKinnon (keys/vocals), and Mike Richardson (drums) filling out an awesome band lineup!

1) Revelation Song (Riddle): Walk-in Song. Key C. I was ablte to bring an arrangement to SSCC that I had done back at House of Joy in Valdosta. It was neat to hear some of the comments from different people and to see the different perspectives represented. I know it can be quite a gamble to “remix” such a familiar song like we did. Overall, as the walk-in song I think it was the perfect place to introduce the arrangement because people are still coming in and it’s not the main focal point. But you could tell, in both services, that people were itching to stand up and join in and sing, what I believe is one of many people’s favorite songs.

2) Beautiful One (Hughes): Key C. Pretty straightforward arrangement. I love adding the “my soul, my soul must sing” tag at the end. Wraps it up nicely!

3) Better Is One Day (Redman): Key D. I don’t think I’ll ever be “done” with this song. It’s so simple, yet such a profound and wonderful truth to sing! We arranged it a little more rock and roll and hit a nice groove in the bridge that kind of lets the song soar some. If you’ve never done this song, you should look into it and if you’ve been one of those who has done it before but it’s been a long time…I recommend taking it out every once in a while! It’s a great congregational “singer” kind of a song!

4) Overcome (Egan): Key G. Pretty straightforward. We ended our worship set with this one this morning and it is always a very powerful song. I think it can be arranged almost any way you like it, from more of a really powerful, slow worship ballad, to a little bit more of a rocked out moderate driving kind of a vibe…it just seems to work any way you arrange it!

Everything went well overall. I felt like I kind of lost a little “power” in my voice near the end of our second service. It’s mainly because I don’t sing as much as I used to when I was on staff and did it regularly.

I also goofed a little bit on the first verse of Overcome because I was intentionally not looking down at the music trying to “engage” the congregation. So, kind of a good and bad thing at the same time. I kind of smile/laughed it off.

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My wife and I will be worshiping with the fine folks at Providence Worshiping Arts Center in Jesup, GA today. Today it will just be me on the guitar and us singing. Here’s today’s planned setlist:

1) Christ is Risen (Maher): Key of G. Great song! I typically do this (with my home church) in the key of Gb. I’m pretty comfortable guitar-wise playing in G so a few months ago when I was leading at a another place I was sure we did this song in Ab, so when I pulled it out to lead there I thought I was doing myself a favor by dropping it a half-step to G. After a few bars through the song I realized my mistake. That being said, the band sounded good, and I didn’t want to throw too much change their way in the moment, so we kept it in G and as long as I bring my big boy tenor singing voice I can usually get through it in G pretty well.

2) Blessed Be Your Name (Redman): Key of G. Lydia will be singing the lead on the verses and I’ll come in with some harmony and then take over the chorus. I key it in G so that she can just rock the verses in her natural alto range. It works well, and provides a little variety as we trade off the melody throughout the song.

3) Our God (Tomlin): Key of G. Pretty Standard arrangement of the song. Usually when I lead this at my home church we rock it out a little more than the typical Tomlin-esque arrangement, but since it’s just me on the guitar it will be pretty standard.

4) Overcome (Egan): Key of G. One of my favorite songs over the past year. It’s such a great song! Love it!

5) He Loves Us (McMillan): Key of G. Optional tag out of Overcome into He Loves Us chorus. I don’t typically lead this one well, so I generally keep it at the back of the line when it comes to planning setlists, but as I was singing and worshiping yesterday preparing for this morning I really felt a tug in the direction of this song, so we’ll see how it goes coming out of Overcome.

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I’m posting this on Saturday night, so it’s more of a “here’s what’s to come” than a here’s what we did…though I will talk a little bit about our rehearsal from this past Thursday.

I’m “leading” this week, but not in a traditional sense. Fred, my good buddy, is out of town on vacation with his family for spring break. So he asked me to lead. being that it’s spring break, and the majority of our drummers are all family men, I realized quickly that it was going to be a rough time scheduling drummers.  No worries. I made a few line-up moves and I’m in on drums. (more…)

Had a great time co-leading with Mandy Thompson over at The Chapel today!

1) Beautiful One (Hughes): Key C.

2) Hosanna (Brown): Key G.

3) It Is Well (Hymn): Key A.

4) We Still Believe (Kathryn Scott): Key G.

5) Here I Am To Worship (Hughes): Key E.

I’ll be back at my home church next week and looking forward to doing some of the new Passion stuff. What’s going on in your neck of the woods? Share your Sunday Setlists at The Worship Community!

I’ll be co-leading at St. Simons Community Church today! Excited to be sharing the leadership duties with Fred McKinnon and Katie Fendig.

Here’s our lineup:

1) Hosanna (Baloche): Key G. Fred will be leading this one. It’s a great tune!

2) Better Is One Day (Redman): Key D. Katie will be leading out on this amped up version. One of my favorite songs from the early Passion stuff!

3) Rain Down (Crowder): Key G. One that I’m just learning. Fred will be leading out on this one. I really like this one! I’m singing some high tenor on it!

4) Our God (Tonlim): Key G. One that I introduced in the adult gathering a few months ago. It’s a good one!

5) Hosanna (Fraser): Key E. Katie will be leading out on this one! It’s one of my favorite Hillsong joints!

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