American entertainment

I ran across this on one of the St. Louis Cardinals websites the other day. One of the contestants on American Idol this year is the 15 year old daughter of Joe Magrane, who pitched for the Cardinals in the 1987 World Series. Here’s the video: So Steven Tyler thought it would be okay to [...]

January 24, 2012  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: culture, music, Stupid Things You Can Find on the Internet  2 Comments

God-centric or Cristo-centric?

All of our music this morning was centered on Christ to some extent or another. There were a few songs that use the term God, but also referred to “the Lamb,” so I’m going to count those as songs about Christ also. This on the heals of reading an article by Glenn Packiam about song [...]

January 15, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  One Comment

Classic Christian song of the day: Chameleon

When you think of Petra’s album “Never Say Die” you probably, like me, think of songs like “The Coloring Song” or “For Annie” or maybe even “Angel of Light” or “Praise Ye The Lord.” As I was digitizing my Never Say Die record tonight, I heard “Chameleon” for the first time in years. And I [...]

January 3, 2012  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: music  No Comments

YIP: 2012: The Other Stuff

While combing through the sale books at Barnes and Nobles some years ago I ran across a book from the Klutz people that caught my attention. It was a book of knots. It came with two pieces of rope – a blue one and a red one – and even had holes in the hard [...]

January 2, 2012  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  No Comments

YIP: 2012: Music

Ah music. You knew music would have to show up on this list at some point, right? After all, a brief glimpse at the category list shows that I’ve written more about music than anything else. Of course the 30 days of recording in July had something to do with that. Like photography and writing, [...]

January 1, 2012  Tags: , ,   Posted in: music, Recording  No Comments

It’s Christmas

December 25, 2011  Tags: ,   Posted in: music, worship and the church  No Comments

Most of the time

As a worship leader I am often confronted with the idea of how the music I select will be received by the congregation. Most of the time, I am able to set that aside because the reality is, I believe – for the most part – that the music I select has very little to [...]

December 21, 2011  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: christian culture, music, worship and the church  No Comments

A Saturday kind of song

Remember a while back I was talking about changing perspective and how I had picked up a guitar at Demetrios’ and started playing something? Well, here it is. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I actually have two versions of the song. I recorded the guitars again with a “C” part – not really [...]

December 17, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: music, Recording  2 Comments

Fix it in the mix

It’s interesting how many similarities there are between recording music and photography. In both cases technology has changed how the medium is used over the past 10 years or so. In the case of music, there are so many digital tools now that you can change almost anything after the fact – even (notoriously) the [...]

November 27, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: music, photography, Recording  No Comments

Guitar surfer

Carrie Underwood’s character in Soul Surfer talks a lot about perspective and looking at things differently to gain a new perspective. It’s not bad advice, particularly when you apply it to music. From the time I’ve had my guitar – more than 10 years now – I have tuned it to DADGAD. For you non-guitarists, [...]

November 23, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: music, Recording  One Comment