I’m ok with spaghetti. Angel hair pasta and meat sauce.
I’m ok with puppy kisses on my nose.
I’m ok with graphic design paying the bills.
I’m ok with 100% humidity.
I’m ok with watching Mary Poppins with my wife.
I’m ok with summertime golf.
I’m ok with deep email conversations.
I’m ok with major life change.
I’m ok with cookouts with friends.
I’m ok with an old acoustic guitar.
I’m ok with doing dishes.
I’m ok with buying a home on Saint Simon’s Island.
I worked all week on cutting and editing video and have quickly come to appreciate that even though I CAN do it, it’s probably not my calling in life.
We used a video story to bring home the message from Sunday. It was pretty powerful. I won’t bore you with all the details, but I was blessed near the last minute to be able to use some instrumental music from Fred McKinnon instead of having to whip some up myself. Thanks, Fred, the music worked perfectly!
Setlist:
1) Everlasting God (Brown):
Key A. Lincoln Brewster arrangement. We had no electric guitar this week. But we still had a good full sound with 2 acoustics, bass, and drums.
2) My Best Friend (Hillsong):
Key C. This is always a fun one. Pretty standard arrangement.
3) My Savior Lives (New Life Worship):
Key B. Pretty straight forward arrangement. I think I blew out my voice on this one though. I should probably do it in A next time :)
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1) You Are Good (Houghton):
Key E. Just about everyone knows this one. It’s a great tune. I was on drums this week so it was fun to play this one.
2) Blessed Be Your Name (Redman):
Key G. We key it down just a bit when our female lead vocalists lead this one. It always comes out nicely! Our arrangement is pretty standard.
3) Shackles – with Cool King G-O-D rap intro (Mary Mary/Hutto):
Key Em. We love this song, but wanted to do something fun with it. I created a simple loop and ran it from my iphone (got off the drums and we just did this whole song sans live drums). “Cool King G-O-D” is a rap song I wrote a little over 15 years ago (I was 16 or 17 when I wrote it – I’m 32 now). Admittedly it’s not the greatest hip hop tune of all time, but it’s a fun one to do. I took 2 of the verses from it and used it as a kind of rap “pre-tag” before shackles. We actually could have used some male vocals on the “He’s the Kiiiiing” part on the chorus, but our girls did a good job of trying to sound gangsta. Ha.
Our shackles arrangement pretty much stayed the same structurally. We kind of changed the groove a bit. Added a little “breakdown” in the middle (repeated at the end).
Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance dance
Everybody in the House lift your hands hands
Take the shackles off my feet so I can dance dance
Everybody in the House lift your hands
“House” is capitalized because our church name is House of Joy.
It was fun. Here’s an actual video. The mix is not quite where I’d want it to be. The drum loop is almost non-existent but live it was thumping and for some reason the bass guitar all but disappears when shackles starts. Video is not usually on my mind on Sunday mornings so I didn’t think about the mix for this one. Anyways, besides those issues you can at least see what we did.
Shackles – HipHop – 2nd service from Jimmy Linville on Vimeo.
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