Writing my own worship music is hard! I've been caught in a rut, where I'll take ideas from other worship songs and weave them into mine, but it starts to change the message of my song.
So, to start out I want to explain that currently I am in the process of writing 2 original worship songs, one of them is a Christmas Worship Song that I want to reveal to you guys around Christmas song, the next is a song I've been working on for the number of weeks that has a tentative title "Whole." That's the song I want to talk to you guys about right now is the song Whole.
Already on this Blog I've explained the situation that I was put into by my now ex-girlfriend. Well shortly after that God started to really speak to me, and speak words of wisdom and teaching to me, that I can't even begin to explain. God started to teach me and revealed to me so much about who he is and his identity, that I started to feel whole again. One Piece.
Jesus at that point was the only person I needed in my life at that particular time. My motivation for what God was teaching me throughout what I was going through was my motivation to write this worship song straight from the heart. This song talks about the fullness, and how complete you should feel in God's presence alone. Sometimes you can be alone, but God is right there to protect who you are, and make you feel at peace, and whole again. In Colossians 2:10 it says "So you also are complete through your union in Christ, who is the head over every ruler and authority."
There is nothing that should be holding that completeness that God holds. In him alone we are made stronger no matter what obstacle we may be facing. In the next upcoming weeks I really want to share with you guys this song and release it on YouTube, and start a YouTube channel dedicated to Worship music covers and original songs that I write. I will also upload them to this blog for you guys to check out!
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Monday, October 3, 2016
The Worship Pedal Board
Holy Moly. The Worship Pedal Board has come such a long way from when I first started it earlier this year. I'm honestly in total shock how blessed I am to have the materials I have to make joyful music to my Jesus. I started late last year in like November, starting to collect pedals to assemble a Pedal Board. The task was not easy. I was using a POD HD300, that just came with presets and stuff. The run would end with the POD however when for whatever reason during a worship rehearsal, it stopped working.
I was really scared, because I didn't want to use my pedal board that I had been building because I was scared that my tone wouldn't be as crisp as it was before. And honestly, since I was forced to use it, it sounded terrible at first. Some of the pedals I was using at the time however, just wouldn't do me justice. I wanted to find a way to make my tone....mine. I realized that what I have been given was an opportunity. An opportunity to make the most out of the supplies I had been given. I kept on upgrading the board to my liking. It was very difficult because no one had explained to me before what anything was. What is reverb, what is delay, what is overdrive. What are good pedals to look at for Worship leading. No one ever taught me what any of that stuff meant. So through YouTube tutorials and such, I learned and grew my knowledge of what a worship pedal board should be.
It was very interesting because not only was working on the pedal board, and upgrading all my gear expensive, but it felt like it took forever to get stuff. I had just recently gotten a Timeline Delay pedal, which I upgraded from my TimeSpace Echo Delay (I do not recommend that pedal for worship leaders). It was hard to get use to using new pedals, and such. I absolutely love leading worship and the board has helped me worship Jesus with all I've got.
I really have felt Jesus use me for the past 6 months when I was making the board. I want to give people the best worship experience ever, while also worshiping Jesus myself through what I've been given. It's amazing to see how God has blessed me and will continue to bless me as a guitarist for my church.
I was really scared, because I didn't want to use my pedal board that I had been building because I was scared that my tone wouldn't be as crisp as it was before. And honestly, since I was forced to use it, it sounded terrible at first. Some of the pedals I was using at the time however, just wouldn't do me justice. I wanted to find a way to make my tone....mine. I realized that what I have been given was an opportunity. An opportunity to make the most out of the supplies I had been given. I kept on upgrading the board to my liking. It was very difficult because no one had explained to me before what anything was. What is reverb, what is delay, what is overdrive. What are good pedals to look at for Worship leading. No one ever taught me what any of that stuff meant. So through YouTube tutorials and such, I learned and grew my knowledge of what a worship pedal board should be.
It was very interesting because not only was working on the pedal board, and upgrading all my gear expensive, but it felt like it took forever to get stuff. I had just recently gotten a Timeline Delay pedal, which I upgraded from my TimeSpace Echo Delay (I do not recommend that pedal for worship leaders). It was hard to get use to using new pedals, and such. I absolutely love leading worship and the board has helped me worship Jesus with all I've got.
I really have felt Jesus use me for the past 6 months when I was making the board. I want to give people the best worship experience ever, while also worshiping Jesus myself through what I've been given. It's amazing to see how God has blessed me and will continue to bless me as a guitarist for my church.
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