"Mercy" from Bethel Worship is one of my new favorite songs. The message captures a significant work of God in the Church today. The music is fairly simple, but with enough flavor to make it really interesting. It's sort of a fast slow song. My initial impression was that it was a slow worship song, but when I went to learn it, I realized the tempo is just a few beats shy of some of our most … [Read more...]
Creative keyboard approach to “Great Are You Lord”
Every musician wants to reach the point where he/she is not only playing correctly, but playing with inspired creativity. But how do we bridge the gap between just playing the chart and truly playing creative keyboard? Often when we hear artists play creatively, it’s not that they are performing with spectacular technique or profound musical understanding. It's just that they’re doing a few … [Read more...]
Keyboardists should learn this guitar rhythm skill
Guitar players have a particular rhythm skill that keyboard players should learn and use to their advantage. That skill has to do with subdivision. When a rhythm guitar player does rhythm, he/she doesn't just play random ticks within a measure. The correct approach to rhythm guitar means playing all the subdivisions of the measure - usually 8th notes or 16th notes - and emphasizing select … [Read more...]
Gospel chord – dominant flat-9 for piano
Some chords look a lot scarier than they really are. One example is the flat-9 dominant chord. This gospel chord can add a lot of flavor to your piano progressions without being complicated. In this post, we'll look at a simple way to approach this chord and how you can change a chart to work it in. Dominant chords The flat-9 chord typically belongs in the dominant chord category. … [Read more...]
Yamaha CP40 – new keyboard purchase
A new Yamaha CP40 concluded a recent search for a keyboard at our church. Our second keyboard - a Roland A90 - was in need of replacement. Although it was a really good keyboard - top of the class controller keyboard for its time - the keys kept breaking. Here is what was most important to me in a new keyboard: MIDI connectivity for Mainstage. Any keyboard in the given price … [Read more...]
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