Cahonga: A New and Great Sounding Piece of Furniture

Well today he had a fun day at rehearsal. Ben had his "new" 1978 Guild bass which was awesome, but the big news was the Cahonga. This is the latest percussion item built by Marc, our resident percussionist and brilliant cabinet maker. How does it sound? You ask. Awesome. It has a great tone. Smooth middle, punchy lows, and a nice snap when needed. I can't wait for Marc to put the finish on this fine piece of musical furniture. How did we mic it? Two Beta 56's on the top and an Audix D-4 under to add some bottom when needed. I can't wait to fire it up again on Sunday.

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Serving Sleepy

This is a great Blog Post by David Wilcox from Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It ties into the sermon that Ryan gave on Worship. Click on the link for the full post.
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Humility and Church Singing

Vitamin Z posted this quote from Bob Kauflin:
“Years ago, I was in England at a large Christian conference. During one seminar, we were led in corporate worship by a guitarist whom I thought was average in every respect. As he finished what I would describe as a sorry time of worship in song, the elderly gentleman to my side turned my way. With a glowing smile, he asked, “That was simply lovely, wasn’t it?” I wanted to say no, but the Holy Spirit caught my tongue before the answer slipped out. What I realized was that only one of us had been worshipping God during that time. And it wasn’t me. I was busy worshipping myself, exulting in my knowledge of worship, my experiences, my training, my background. Needless to say, God wasn’t impressed. ‘But this is the one to whom I will look: he
who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word’ (Isa 66:2b ESV). May God grant us grace to truly seek His reputation above our own each time we meet to worship Him.

- Bob Kauflin, Worship Matters

It is Good to Have Trained Volunteers

Today was an interesting day at DSC. I was called out of service with 2.5 songs left in the music part of our service. I thought, "well I can't leave the Worship Center right now." Well what happens is Trish my trusty volunteer takes over and finishes the service for me. I was able to go handle the situation outside the Worship Center and the service finished with out a problem. Thanks to Trish and her great help over the last few years and especially today. Though it takes patience to train and be trained it is worth time and effort.

Checklists for Service Prep

I came to a conclusion last year reading David Wilcox's blog Undistract. It is a blog that recaps the weekend for his technical team and gives them updates on changes to how or what they do on Sundays. When I first starting reading it I noticed he kept telling his crew make sure you actually do your check list and mark off that you did the items on the checklist. I thought hey checklists what a great idea. I made some up and we started using them and it worked great. At some point we got lazy and did not follow the checklists on Sundays. Well one Sunday we tape some cables and I get asked should we do a line check. I say no we only added one vocal mic since Thursday we are good. Well the mike was patched wrong by yours truly. If we would have done the line check, which is on the checklist by the way, we would have found the problem before the band gets up stage for sound check. We will now always follow our check lists. Here are the checklists we use on Sundays.