Set List 08/31/08

Ha! Went ahead and got this post done ahead of schedule so all that's left is to tweak any comments I may need to make about it.

So Downtown's got a drummer now (other than me), but I like the idea of all of our worship sets in one convenient location (helps me fill out CCLI reports), so I'll probably still continue posting both campuses sets here (or I'll get one of the guys from downtown to post them here)


Set List: Lifepoint:
Salvation's Chorus
Breathe on Me - (Todd Fields) This is one of my favorite worship songs... (come to think of it I think I've said that about every song on the Northpoint's Louder Than Creation)
How He Loves
Lay it down
Let Me Sing
Band: Jeremy, Ronnie, Tammie, Bill, Elizabeth, Leigh, Mia, Me

Set List: Lifepoint Down Town:
Mighty To Save
Salvation's Chorus
How He Loves
You Alone
Band: Mia, Ronnie, Tammie, Ricky, Me

Set list 08/24/08

Well starting next week I'll have a little less commentary about our worship songs (unless something strikes me) unless we're introducing a new song (Oh yeah, we are how about that...), anyway this was Brandon's last week of leading worship at our Downtown Campus and so I'll be posting worship sets for both campuses for the time being, but that won't start until next week. I'm really looking forward to what God's been doing both at Main Campus and Downtown Campus, it's been an awesome adventure and it's going to get even better.

Right, before I jump into the set lists' wanted to say welcome back to Jeremy (Our admin and worship arts Pastor) who's been on vacation and wearing other hats for the last three weeks (working with host team, preaching, you know little things like that).

Set List:
Performance Song: Unwritten (Natasha Bedingfield) - When we started there where it all began the premise was simple, The Church didn't start with hundreds of people it started with Jesus and his disciples, but we wanted to make the point that the story of the church was still going on today, so of course, "The rest is still unwritten." (At least until we get to Revelations, but that's another subject matter entirely).

You Are (Todd Fields) - One of my favorite faster paced worship songs, there is so much truth in this song. This one is from the Nothpoint Live Album

Lord of All (Kristian Stanfill) - We did this song for the first time the last time Jeremy lead worship, it's another awesome song from the Louder than Creation worship album (Northpoint).

God of This City (Andrew McCann, Boyd Aaron, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, , Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley... We did the Passion'08 arrangement of the song) - Theme Worship song... kinda funny in the 4 weeks we've done this song we haven't done it the same way once, thought I think this last week (literally, as the series is over) was the most fun I've had with it.

Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone (Traditional/Tomlin) - This followed the "Fix You" video, wanting to add some amazing worship to follow that amazing video.

Other Elements: The Fix You (Coldplay) Video: Josh (Our Downtown campus pastor and video/graphic arts director) designed an AWESOME testimonial video with snippets from letters we've received interviews we did and audio clips from the other sermons in this series, the end result was a heart stirring video that I HOPE he puts up for Creative Chaos tomorrow so I can link it.

EDIT: It's up and available for view HERE

Just an AWESOME worship set, Thank you God for letting me be a part of this movement to reach people far from You.

Band: Jeremy, Ronnie, Steven (Keys this week), Bill, Elizabeth, Me, Vocals: Tammie and Kimberli (Nee-san!)

No gear broke, but I've "retired" the JAck Dejohnette sticks I were using a bit to loud when I play aggressive and switched to the Dennis Chamber series.

Set List 08/17/08

I had originally started this setlist post with a bit about being "In the Zone" but I ended up moving that to my personal Blog, sorry!
So to my much joy we opted out of a performance song this week in favor of another worship song! Now don't get me wrong I enjoy doing the PSs and I think that we do them in a way that really connects people to the message that Pastor brings, but I love to spend time worshiping in music.

Right, I'm already a week behind so here's the set list:

Enough (The Barlow Girls Rocked out version) - a Classic that we haven't done in quite some time it was great to bring this one back, and it flowed right into:

Glorious One (Steve Fee) - Normally we use the multitrack for some extra synth loops and what not, but as we had a female lead, the key would have been off so we did this one organically (well, at least click track free) and it rocked!

My Romance (Rick Pino - Jesus Culture Arrangement) - Just as awesome when rocked out as it was acoustic. So glad we did this song.

God of this City (Andrew McCann, Boyd Aaron, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley... We did the Passion'08 arrangement of the song) - "Theme" Worship song,

I've been really good about NOT breaking sticks lately, so nothing to report here.

Band this week: Tammie (lead), Steven (Acoustic Guitar), Justin (Lead Guitar), Bill (Bass), Dave (Keys), Elizabeth (Percussion), Me (Drums) Vocals were Jessica and Mia

Set List 08/03/08

This week's worship set was a lot of fun, but much different than norm.

As we're currently in our "Where it all began" series looking at where the church has come from and where it's going we decided to do some hymns... mind you not in the normal fashion.

Tom did an amazing job leading worship and the band was just wow... I've gotten a lot of good feedback about this and everyone enjoyed Tom's arrangements of Saved/Nothing but the Blood and Pow'r in the Blood.

Setlist:


Saved (Dylan/Third Day)


Nothing but the Blood (Traditional?) - Tagged into Saved and wow did it work.


Pow'r in the Blood (Traditional?) - Mind you our version was not the typical it was... funky? Jazzy?.... I'll have to see if the mixdown turned out ok becuase I WANT a copy of this!


How Deep the Father's Love (Stuart Townend) - am amazing worship song.


God of this City (Andrew McCann, Boyd Aaron, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, , Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley... We did the Passion'08 arrangement of the song) - Again the theme for our series, this's week version was a bit more grooving than last weeks (of course last week was an acoustic set).

Band this week was: Tom, Ronnie, Bill, Elizabeth, Dave and Leigh on vocals (Who did an awesome job!)

Broken Gear List was: Nothing! but one pair of my Weckl sticks has just about had it.

Set List 08/03/08

Well yesterday was a different experience for me...


On occasion we'll do an "Acoustic" Worship set everyone seems to like them, and it gives set-up & Tear-down teams (not to mention myself) a bit of a break.

The difference is this the first acoustic set that we've done where Elizabeth (our percussionist) was here to play. The last two acoustic sets ended with me being a big baby with bruised hands for a week or so. (Our percussionist had been on vacation for BOTH other times). The end result was I got to sit back and relax and enjoy the service... (Everyone in my department is now falling off their chairs and laughing as they all know full and well that I was not sitting back relaxing). Actually I did get to take part in most of the worship, and hear some of Pastor's message which was a very nice change, but one thing that I was able to do, which is something that I really should be doing more often is that I was able to observe the service. Reid over at North Point's Music Blog mentions this in his post this week, and I found it informative and convicting... now don't get me wrong I love to play, but as I found myself evaluating the serivce (And later told Pick about this) I came to the conclusion that I need to be off at the minimum of once (preferably twice, perhaps even more) a month to evaluate worship and what's going on the stage, as it's part of my job to protect the environment.

Okay, enough of that, let me get to the worship set:


Setlist:


Everlasting God: (Chris Tomlin) - We normally do the Todd Fields/North Point Arrangement of this song, but as it was an acoustic set, I'm not sure how to label it.


Lift High: (Eddie Kirkland) - As amazing as this song is with the full band, I think it's everybit as powerful, perhaps more so in an acoustic set.


My Romance: (Rick Pino - Jesus Culture Arrangement) - Generally I try not to introduce more than one song at any given week, but Mia (Who was leading Worship this week) brought this song to me asking if we could do it, after experiencing it on Sunday morning I'm so glad I said yes, this song was annointed!


God of this City: (Andrew McCann, Boyd Aaron, Ian Jordan, Peter Comfort, , Peter Kernaghan, Richard Bleakley... We did the Passion'08 arrangement of the song) Our "theme" worship song for this series.

Worship Team this week was: Mia (Worship Leader), Tammie (BGV), Tim (BGV), Bill (Bass), Justin (Acoustic Guitar), Ronnie (Acoustic Guitar), Dave (Piano) and Elizabeth (Percussion).

Matt's busted gear list this week: None as I wasn't playing.

Lessons Learned...

Okay, so this post is going to both the Lifepoint Worship blog, (Check it out if you haven't yet) and my personal blog (Which again, I would encourage you to checkout if you haven't seen it yet).

But as this past week we did an acoustic worship set there are few lesson's I've learned as music director that I'd like to pass along to you.


Point number one: It's really important to be off stage and evaluating worship on a regular basis. (Ironically Reid just talked about this on North Point's music blog, the same day I talked to Pick about the issue).


Point number two: Acoustic sets, are well recieved by the people attending the service (at least the few we've done have been), however, they are much harder on the music team.


Point number three: When you normally have a male worship leader, and switch to a female lead do not forget that every song will need to be re-keyed, and allow lead time for this to happen rather than wait for practice to role around.

We've had other churches come to see how we do things at Lifepoint and one person commented that it seemed like we had it all figured out, well we don't but we're always learning how to do things better, (hmm this gives me an idea for another post),

Set List 07/27/08

And Once again it's Sunday before I manage to get this past week's set list up... Bad music director, no biscuit!

So this past week we wrapped up our Outlaw series, worship was great performance songs (that's right 2) were a lot of fun.

Set List:
Good 'Ol Boys
Happy Day
Lord of All
Salvation's Chorus
Wanted Dead or Alive

Yes Good 'old boys the opening from The dukes of Hazard, it was a lot of fun to play, and the one song I got to sing both services.

Happy Day is the newer version that we did a couple weeks ago (Last week?) I'm working on incorporating the old gospel version of the song with the new one, and then I found out that Tomlin's already done that, this week, however was just the newer version.

Lord of All is a New song (for us anyway) by Kristian Stanfill It's a really cool moderate paced worship song (From North Point's Louder than Creation Album).

Salvation's Chorus is a fast paced worship song that's a lot of fun.

Finally our final performance songs was Bon Jovi's Wanted Dead or alive. This rocked, great guitar work by both Justin and Ronnie on this song.

Band was: Pick, Ronnie, Justin, Anne, Bill, and Myself.

One other thing that was really fun this week was that I was able to sing during the run-through. (Mainly because Jeremy was saving his voice due to the Bon Jovi song), and that was one of the hardest thing's I've done to date... Drum and fill-in lead worship at the same time.

Oh, and speaking of filling in, Anne also filled in on Washboard (Good 'Ol Boys) and Synth (Dead or Alive) this past week.

Matt's Busted Gear List: Nothing! (Can you believe it?)