We had our big preview gathering this week. There seemed to be a lot of new faces in the crowd, which is great! The biggest challenge for me this morning was the set-up. We meet in an elementary school so we have to set up and take down everything. We got a really nice new sound system and today was our first day using it. It took forever an hour to set up, which pushed our rehearsal time to about 30 minutes. Right now we don’t practice during the week so this morning we didn’t run through even one of the songs completely through. I was a bit nervous as we started the first song, but once we got through it fine I realized that everyone in the band was talented enough and played on worship teams enough to be fine.
As we were setting up my guitar player walked in, and he had brought a friend. And his friend was carrying his keyboard. Um… apparently there was a miscommunication and I thought he was coming a different week. It really turned out great though, he was a solid keys player and really gave the music a fuller sound.
Setlist:
Your Grace is Enough (Maher) – D. Honestly, this was a 1/2 step to 1 step too low for me. It was also a bit awkward for the other girl singing with me. The harmonies were either too low or too high. Next time I’ll do it in Eb or E.
All Creatures of our God and King (Crowder version) – Bb. We started out quiet with just me strumming the acoustic guitar and the keys playing a long sustained chord in an ambiant sound. We built though the song and really nailed the Alleluia’s at the end.
Desert Song – (Fraser). – D. This song seems to be connecting very well with both the band and congregation. When I first introduced it a few weeks ago, I thought it might be a bit too wordy but now as the lyrics have caught on people are really getting into it. I really like the song too and I need to watch myself because I’ll push the beat and speed everyone up.
How Great is Our God - (Tomlin , etc) – G. Good solid song everyone knows.
You Are My King/We Exalt Thee - (Foote) – D. Love this song. After the “you are my king” refrain we quietly went into the we exalt thee chorus. The voices in the crown rose up over the music and we ended with just voices. Very worshipful. Tom came up and introduced a video he was going to show. The bass player and I stayed up and played for the video.
Mad World - (Tears for Fears) – C. We played this during the video- you may recognize it from the movie Donnie Darko. The problem was they turned all the lights out and I couldn’t read the lyrics. I only missed one line, and I sang something.. just not the right words. It turned out okay in the end though.
Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone - (Tomlin version) – C. This was played while everyone got up during communion.
Overall the morning went much smoother than I thought it would go when I realized we had zero time to rehearse. Yet another reason for a weeknight practice! Having a full band was so fun though. I can’t wait for the next time we get to have one.
Band:
Myself – Lead vocals and guitar
Joi – Backing vocals
Nate M- guitar and backing vocals
Ben – keys
Joel – bass
Nate C. – drums
This post is a part of Sunday Setlists. Thanks!
We did Desert Song last week. Such a cool song.