One of the cool things about being a dad is to see your kids reach new milestones in their lives. First steps, first words, etc… Well this week I get to experience two of them with our son. Next week he starts kindergarten, but today he learned how to ride his bike without training wheels for the first time.
We got him his bike two Christmas’ ago, and while he rode it, he just never really liked the training wheels. He finally decided that he wanted to learn to ride on two wheels before he started kindergarten. It took all of about 20 minutes, and he had it nailed.
This is my Taylor 414CE which I have had since 1999. I love this guitar, but believe me, it doesn’t get babied. It gets played…hard! In spite of the abuse and minor surgery, it just keeps getting it done.
This guitar is definitely a representation of how I lead worship. Rollover over the picture to check out some of the abuse.
Attendance was flip flopped this week. We seemed to have more people in first service than second. I can’t seem to figure that one out. Not normal. It must be global warming.
I am finding that our church really connects with Your Name.
John gave a challenging message on Jonah 4. That like Jonah, God has given us a “NInevah” to reach.
Learned that no matter how hard I try, plugging my guitar into the “out” of my DI won’t give a good signal to the FOH . It only took me about two minutes to figure it out.
Here was the setlist:
Awesome Is The Lord Most High - Tomlin
You’re Worthy Of My Praise - Ruis
Enough - Tomlin
Your Name - Baloche
God Of This City - Bluetree
Amazed - Anderson
Our kids had the opportunity to go to a fine arts camp at First Assembly of God Church this last week, and last night had a performance which you know I had to share here. On the third song you will have to check out Cassandra singing (on the left) with a small group.
So Tim started me thinking about using a click track. I am starting a preliminary look on how to do it on a regular basis. Now the easy way (or hard way depending on your perspective) would be for me to use my laptop to run the click. This would also give me the option of running a separate track for a backing keys part, loops, etc… This is the setup I have used in the past and it works pretty well. The only thing is that being a portable church this will just add to my setup, and believe me I don’t need anything else to setup on Sundays.
I am not counting this option out, especially since it won’t cost me a cent to use. But I also wanted to look for a small metronome/drum machine option. Here are my needs:
Enough presets to store tempos for a particular Sunday of songs
Foot pedal option to start/stop and/or step through presets
Aux input so that I would be able to run the drummers in-ear feed through it
So 
