Sunday Setlist 9/28/08

Unchanging – Tomlin
For Who You Are – Hillsong
Here I Am to Worship – Hughes
Holy Holy Holy – Sufjan Stevens version

As a whole this week was a case to start having practices during the week. In hindsight I realize that I may have pushed to much musically- asking too much when we have a limited time for practice. I spent too much time teaching chords and harmonies, which really should be done before Sunday morning. Long-term I hope that I won’t have to do so much on the teaching level, but right now it’s what we’ve got.
I tried some new things this week (asking people to stand, power point instead of printed words) and, pairing that with the new version of Holy, Holy, Holy- it was a little awkward for the crowd I think. Everyone was expecting the old school version and here we go, changing the melody. When we sing it again, it’ll go much smoother- both with people being able to follow along with the melody, and musically with the band.
The first three songs were familiar for everyone, easy-peasy for the music and the harmonies blended very well. I especially liked the transition between Who You Are – Here I am to Worship- we did them both in the same key and hung on the IV chord to transition between the lyric “I will worship You for who You are, Jesus” to “Here I am to Worship..” Nice.

This post is part of part of the Sunday Setlists.