Posts Tagged ‘listen’

Keyboards in Worship: Out of Your Element

Recently, I played at my church in a different service than I usually do. They have a different style than the one I am used to fitting into. And to top it off, they were playing a difficult song with an orchestra – something I’ve not done before as a keys player. Yikes! For me, [...]

Keyboards in Worship: What Do I Play?

This was the biggest question I had when I started playing, and I still ask this question. What in the world to I play?! I mean, I could play pads on everything, but that’d be boring! And I can’t play cool lead synth lines on everything. Somehow that’s not going to work for the response [...]

Catalysts: The Web is Changing the Music Business

Was on ChurchCrunch and I saw this post on the Catalyst Music Project. I got all excited about it. [ Catalyst Music Project | Aaron Keyes from Catalyst on Vimeo ]. So here’s the deal. The music industry is changing. No, it already has changed. Not everyone knows it yet. The Web is empowering the [...]

Turning the Internal Analyze Switch Off

Ok. You’re going about your usual day. You see something related to your work, and all of a sudden, you’re analyzing the heck out of something and you jump into work mode. Ahh! This happens to me with music all of the time! I’m listening to my iPod, just enjoying the tune, when I hear [...]

Less is More

I was reading this post on sojurnmusic.com about the keyboard and how to play it in a modern worship band, and I thought that some of it applies to all members of the band. As a musician myself, when playing in a band you want to contribute all that you can. Unfortunately, when we do [...]