As a team, I’d like us to learn these songs and lis­ten to each part. We do not have to copy the songs exactly but being famil­iar with them will allow us more ease as we play on Tues­day nights. I couldn’t get all the songs but most of them can be found here. I’ll post the song and give some notes per instru­ment or singer so that way you can review what I envi­sion and give feed­back in brief­ings. I have a won­der­ful team full of tal­ent so if you have an idea on how we can improve, let’s hear it!

The Songs

“Won­der­ful Maker” by Matt Redman

Matt Red­man. He just doesn’t give up and con­tin­ues to write great stuff. This one is older but still nice. I’d like to do this song a bit more lively but essen­tially the same. Elec­tric gui­tar: I love the swells. I’d love to see that incor­po­rated into the song if pos­si­ble. I think we do this song well so I’m mov­ing on to the next one. Please leave com­ments if you have ques­tions and , of course, cite the song.

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“Awaken Us” by Mar­cus Meier

This song is from the Immersed CD from the Inter­na­tional House of Prayer in Kansas City. Some things to note that I’m look­ing for: the verse is qui­eter than the cho­rus. I’d like the cho­rus to be strong when we enter the first mea­sure. Vocally, let’s sing in uni­son for the verses and har­mony in the cho­rus. I love the har­mony in this song. Since we have many singers, we can dou­ble up on har­monies in the cho­rus if it is male and female. The dif­fer­ence in the octave sounds nice. >

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“Restora­tion” by Clay Edwards

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“The High­est and the Great­est” by Tim Hughes

Tim Hughes always writes great songs from the con­tem­pla­tive to the proclam­a­tory, anthemic pieces. This 3/​4 time (or maybe it is 6/​8) has a def­i­nite waltz but some great moments here. The drums use a triple beat to in empha­sis of the time sig­na­ture. I’d lis­ten for that ele­ment and see what we can do to incor­po­rate it. When we do this song in the prayer room, I’ll start with drums, bass and gui­tar launch­ing into the cho­rus with the elec­tric (for strength) and vocals. The bridge is the high­est moment in this song and would be good to play it the loud­est. The end­ing cho­rus “lift­ing you high…” is excel­lent to launch into spon­ta­neous singing. Let’s build this like they do from small to large.

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“Daugh­ters of Jerusalem” by David Brymer

Beau­ti­ful, reflec­tive, awe­some. I wish we had a key­board player because the gui­tar doesn’t really give it the feel it deserves. This will be at the end of the set as we tran­si­tion if the pre­vi­ous cycle is com­plete. I’ll play by gui­tar with one accom­pa­nied vocal­ist. As the tran­si­tion occurs and the singer must tran­si­tion out, I will be left with the new wor­ship leader who will hope­fully will be able to sing this with me in a har­mony. You gotta love this song! : )

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“Real Love” by Luke Wood

This is a new favorite of mine that Luke Wood wrote and pub­lished on a recent IHOP Lim­ited Edi­tion album. I’m not sure if I’ll lead this as a team but it is good to have it here as a ref­er­ence… just in case.

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Music Tem­plate

Some­times when you are lay­ing out a song, you want all your songs to look the same. I had a mis-​​matched wor­ship leader book for a period of time until I had enough. I designed a lay­out that I enjoy using and I’m offer­ing it to any­one else who want to use it. It’s a .pdf form that you can enter the lyrics, chords, indi­ca­tors, title and author infor­ma­tion and main­tain the for­mat­ting each time. Try it out if you like. Down­load

Mess­ing Around

I’m post­ing these files to keep track of dif­fer­ent music frag­ments that I have from time to time. This is a 1 – 5-​​6m-​​4 pat­tern that I’m mess­ing with in the key of G. This ver­sion is the more mel­low of the two.

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Here’s the second…

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This one is a bit more mel­low and has a dif­fer­ent chord struc­ture. Check it out.

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