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Theory Lab II

Posted: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 @ 2:55 pm in Music | No Comments »

A couple of weeks ago I posted about some piano and music theory lessons I was teaching to a friend. The agreement was for me to teach piano for a month, and at the end of the month we would reevaluate their progress and see if they could continue to learn from me. [...]

Theory Lab

Posted: Monday, February 8th, 2010 @ 10:43 am in Music | No Comments »

The change from worship to any other, structured music is like going from the game “Operation” to actual brain surgery. For me, worship has been largely unstructured and improvised – a single sheet of lyrics are attached to general chords and that’s it. No grand staff. No notation. No symbols. The system (rather, lack of) [...]

Counting Down…

Posted: Sunday, November 15th, 2009 @ 2:30 pm in Music | No Comments »

I had a good day today at church. Worship wasn’t half bad and I actually enjoyed myself. At this point I’m just counting down the Sundays until I’m done, though I’m wondering sad I am going to be that I won’t have the opportunity to make music on a regular basis anymore. [...]

Square Peg

Posted: Friday, November 13th, 2009 @ 10:32 am in Music | No Comments »

It’s hard to talk about something mid-stream, that is, when you’re going through something and you know it’s not over yet. Here’s the abbreviated version:

I’ve stepped down as worship leader. My pastor begrudgingly accepted my resignation and I’m committed to working with the church over the next month to find a replacement. Overall, [...]

Christmas Eve at the MPV

Posted: Thursday, December 27th, 2007 @ 4:52 pm in Music | No Comments »

A couple of months ago I was searching around the internet for some ideas on a creative Christmas Eve service. What I didn’t want was the standard fare: Stale Christmas Carols with the usual candlelight, the same passages of scripture that are read every year and, after an uneventful hour, everyone goes home to [...]