We had one of our best days yesterday. I really enjoyed our time of musical worship yesterday. The team was on, the setlist was perfect, and people really connected with God and with what we were doing.
1) You Are Good (Israel Hougthon) Key of E: An old favorite. I had told the team during our midweek rehearsal that we might be shelving this song as we add 2 new songs the nest 2 months. We typically rotate a new one in and an older one out. But after Sunday the response overall was tremendous and the band really loves it so we’ll probably keep this one in the loop.
2) I Know Who I Am (Israel Houghton) Key of A: This is one of our jammin’ new favorites. It’s very easy, very repetitive, and rocks if you do it right.
3) Revelation Song (Jennie Lee Riddle) Key of D: Because we typically don’t do “slow” music in our sets we had to rearrange this. We upped the BPM a bit and added a FAT rock groove to make this song really bring the rock power. IT melts our faces off. I wish I had a decent video with a good audio mix to share our arrangement, but alas I do not. We recorded a pretty cool intro that we play with a colorful ProPresenter presentation as we head into the song.
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The female voice in the intro is our office administrator. She’s from England. It’s cool be able to record someone with a different accent than “southern” for media stuff like this. I put it together in Garage Band and just recorded her with the Mac’s built in mic.
4) Rhythm (Russ Hutto) Key of Bm/D: We did a full band arrangement of this tune I’ve been working on for a few weeks. It was powerful. Again, I wish I had a great video with decent audio, but I don’t. I might be able to find audio from our recorded sermon podcast this week, but usually the mix is for live room and not for video or audio recording so we lose a lot of the drums and the end result is a poor mix for playback.
Thanks to all the worship leaders and song writers who gave input to help shape the lyrics of this one. It turned out to be a gem.
This week’s recap of songs is posted in collaboration with other worship leaders on the “Sunday Setlists” blog carnival at www.fredmckinnon.com.
9 Comments, Comment or Ping
tam
we did revelation song a few weeks ago. love it! the girl who sings it on our team just kills it! she nails it every time - you just stand there jaw dropped. amazing lyrics!
Aug 25th, 2008
Billy Chia
Russ,
Awesome man - I like the little electronica you had going on in there. Do you keep the drum machine through out the song and play with a click?
Aug 25th, 2008
russhutto
@Tam: YES! It is indeed a great song. Our people actually love our version better cause we rock it pretty hard, but I love the original version as well.
@Billy: No, we actually hit it FULL FORCE right after the voice is done with the live band. The drummer uses the intro to establish tempo and clicks us off during the last little segment of scripture on the intro. We set the output of the intro to be a little “softer: than what our overall entry volume is when we kick in, so it is really in your face when we crank it.
Works well. I’ll see if I can post video, even if it is a lame mix.
Aug 25th, 2008
Jeff M. Miller
I love seeing the diversity of our set lists. The commonality of worshiping the same Father, Son and Spirit in ways that would look completely foreign to one another’s churches is amazing.
Aug 25th, 2008
Fred F. McKinnon
We wanna hear Rhythm!
Aug 25th, 2008
russhutto
@Jeff: Yeah, Jeff it is indeed beautiful. I believe that somehow Heaven is going to be the same way. Not exactly sure how, but I know that out of all the diverse cultures and expressions of musical worship that will be there, we’re all going to be singing praise to the Father at the same time. It will be a beautiful mess…but somehow mess doesn’t do it justice.
@Fred: I’m trying to grab a vid capture of it from Sunday, I’m pretty sure, it’s gonna sound like poo, but I’d like to at least share how we rocked it
Aug 25th, 2008
dorothy (vicar of vibe)
That clip was awesome!
Would love to see the vid.
Aug 25th, 2008
Jon Morris
dude i want to hear your song. rhythm sounds ethnic. did you have grass skirts? haha. seriously want to hear it.
Aug 25th, 2008