We affectionately refer to Willow as the "Mother Ship" because we've modeled a lot after their successes, so this was a big deal to many at our church.
Here's the order Joe selected.
God of My Days- Zach Neste (G)
I had never heard this tune before and there's a strange line in the chorus "God of my days, the king of my nights" wait seriously, "king of my nights" I had trouble worshipping to that one.
Blessed Be- Redman (A)
classic!
Let God Arise- Tomlin, Cash, and Reeves (G)
to make a point he had the everyone in the room including the stage begin the song totally still without moving a muscle. Then we started over with physical expression, it was really awesome!
Let the Praises Ring - Lincoln Brewster (D)
great congregational response
Amazing Grace-Chains Are Gone- Tomlin (F)
Violin solo after a teaching on instrumental music.. sweet-the first time I had heard an actual "teaching" in my church on that
I do not like singing the chorus in F, but my amazing friend Dawn is really even more of an alto than I am , and so I was stuck with the high notes all weekend.
Amazed - Jared Anderson (E)
This is always a good connect er in our church..but I think it's better in D. I feel like a lot of the tunes had the women straining today.
I Love You Lord- Laurie Klein (no key, acapella)
The Dirty,
Dawn and I didn't know for certain until 5 minutes before rehearsal that we would be up front on the mics. and Joe called us out for not knowing our parts in front of everyone. It was a really uncomfortable moment.
Joe prefers all up front singers and the choir singing almost all the time, kind of the older Willow style. I connect much better with more of a modern vocal sound of one lead, and one or two harmonies at certain sections of the song, not all the time. At times, it was hard for me personally to worship with all that unison and constant vocal noise, it loses a lot of the emotion and never comes down enough for me.
It was a challenge for our team to use only lead sheets, as some of them are used to chord charts only, and that led to some more awkward moments in practice.
The Diggety,
Joe is amazing at setting up a song.. the way he verbally intros draws people in so easily, it's awesome.
His teaching on instrumental music, on responding to God with our bodies, and on worship in general was incredible and just what our church needed.
The emotion Joe exudes while speaking and leading is incredible and moving.
There was a great response from the congregation!
I have some great ides and practical things to improve my leading because of this weekend and I'm very excited about that!
That was my week-Check out some other sundaysetlists posts here: http://www.fredmckinnon.com/myblog/2009/04/26/sunday-setlists-40/
totally awesome--I'd love to hear what the gist of his teaching on instrumental music and worshiping with our bodies is sometime.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking the high-ups. . . I was struggling with those notes on some of the unison stuff and always felt better when I could drop back to harmony. I am in agreement with you on key selection being subjective.
ReplyDeleteI like the unison on some of the faster stuff. . . *some* being the key word there. . .but I agree that it doesn't leave much room to build or to bring it back down when you want to get more intimate. I don't like it much at all on the slow worship. It was good singing with you either way.
~Dawn
Called out for not knowing parts (!!!) I would die. Seriously. It sounds like an amazing morning, anyway, I'd LOVE to have someone come to teach me like that.
ReplyDeleteGood stuff, Jen! Seems like Let God Arise was popular this weekend. David Goodwin (@dg4G) did it in his church too! How fun was THAT to have a guest worship leader/musician? Love those times.
ReplyDeleteyeah i heard the king of my nights song the other day and all i could think of was "Seriously? that's the best you could come up with to follow 'God of my days?'" haha.
ReplyDeleteCalled out- that always make me nervous- i probably would have fainted. I love Amazed- you are right it is a great congregation connecter- and sang best by all in D! :)
Wow! I'm sure being called out in front of everyone was very uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteI agree "King of my nights" is a bit odd.
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