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I think electric bass guitar players in general should be happy the instruments are so cheap. $100 gets a playable instrument. $1,000 gets a professional instrument. $10,000 gets a top end instrument. My dad played cello professionally. $10,000 gets you the professional bow. The...

Hi All, Our worship team is playing Phil Wickham's "This is Amazing Grace" tomorrow. In listening to the recording, I'm belive the bass is using some effects (either that or the loop is drowning out the bass.) I'm not sure how to try and re-create the bass sound. Could any of you make some...

If size is what matters, then you have to go with go with electrostatics or magnetostatic speakers. 6 feet all, three feet wide, 1 inch thick and no box. For high and midrange sound they are some of the absolute best sounding speakers you can buy; but they typically have weak bass as it takes...

Hi All, Our worship leaders have been toying with the idea of in-ear monitors for some time. Our chruch joined with another, so we have both an Aviom system and a sennheiser wireless transmitter for one of the aux mixes off of our board. What we don't have are in-ear-monitors. I was toying...

Hi BumbleB, I would challenge you to consider what role pride is playing in your decisions. Wanting to say "yes" to everything is often a pride thing - it's not wanting to admit we have limits and wanting to please everybody and be acceptable. I like to do everything - and it's a struggle...

I've been in the situation where my wife and I had a very difficult choice to make. One of those 'there is no good option' kind of decisions. The elders decided that we chose wrong and we were told that serving in any public capacity - even handing out the bulletin as people walked in - was...

Hi All, A while back Skeeter1 mentioned using worshipplanning.com. I've taken an interest in how song libraries are set lists are managed and am looking to see how other groups handle the issue. I would appreciate it if you can share with me how your church handles those tasks. At our...

Hi Eric_71 I completely do agree that "cultivating" is important. I've gone head to head with music directors in my past where they want the best player on first every set. (This was from my symphonic horn experience.) When I got to college, our lead player was a great mentor and would give...

Our worship team has been meeting once a month to watch Paul Baloche's DVD's on leading worship. One of his first points is playing to the best of your ability as you have it and waiting for the right person to show up and getting to know them both personally and musically before inviting them...

Hi All, Thanks for the replies. I'm starting to suspect that it should be F#/A# which would make it function as 5/3 (which is commonly used to substitute for the vii chord.) I also appreciate being corrected on the artist. When I joined the church, none of the song charts gave any credit...

Hi All, This past week I watched Paul Baloche's "Music Theory Made Easy" DVD. Very basic, but I did learn a few good nuggets specifically around chord usage in contemporary songs. For example that instead of a iii chord, people will often use a 1/3. Or instead of the vii* chord, they use...

I've been having the same conversation with our leaders. The worst is when they schedule a new song and want to review it an hour before the service. Yeah, we have the youtube link - but all I know from that is what the song sounds like and how we will not be playing it. To be fair, our...

I sometimes use a Boss GT-10B. I can't say I take advantage of the effects very much - it's normally use as a mute/tuner/DI box when I take it to church. At home I sometimes use the pitch shift so I can practice a tune in the key our worship team will be playing in along with a youtube clip in...

Dress code? No. I have a small problem with footwear - I just don't like it. I normally remember to put my sandals on before the service starts, but I've been known to forget. I've had some people comment about it, but nothing unkind. I think they either find it humorous or just wonder how...

I have to agree. I may be playing whole notes - but I want each and every one of them to generate that deep feeling of joy that my best has just been given to the Lord and he is pleased.