Yeah. Zack Kim wins. Wow.
HT: Transition Pete
I picked this up a while but I haven’t blogged about it yet.
This EP was recorded at a Hillsong summer camp and is a bit more straight ahead rock than most of the United stuff. I’ve seen some videos on YouTube of the United guys doing these songs at the Hillsong conference in Orlando as well so I’m guessing this is a bit of a feeler for some of the new stuff that those guys are working on.
Although I don’t think that any of these songs would work for us for congregational worship, this is still a good collection of songs. “To Know Your Name” is here as a nice change to the other songs. If you’re used to doing United stuff you probably want to check this out.
You can purchase and download mp3′s of the songs here – HillsongMusic.com
I made a new blog discovery and thought I’d pass it along. I came across Ryan Egan’s blog at iamanoffering.com and thought I’d link the four articles he did as part of a series on practical music theory tips. I talk to musicians all the time who have a hard time getting their head around theory in a way that is helpful for them in their playing. Having a solid grasp of music theory is invaluable for any musician and Ryan does a great job at explaining some concepts that can be kind of tricky to understand.
Perhaps you are a musician who is used to playing by written notes and don’t know how to build a chord. Or perhaps you know how to play chords by ear, but don’t really understand how they’re built. I want to quickly teach you how to play the three basic triads (three-note chords) found in any key.
Yesterday we looked at very basic ways to build the basic triads in any key. Now, playing those basic triads all the time could make yourself bored and your music extremely boring. Let’s add some color by learning how to invert the triads.
Most of us are used to playing the basic chords that we looked at in the last two days, but what happens when you run up against something like Csus or Cmaj7 or C2?Those three suffixes (sus, 2, and some type of 7) are probably the most common suffixes you will see in most praise and worship music. The easiest way to figure out these chords is by looking at the numbers.
Each major key signature has a corresponding (relative) minor key with the same signature. You can find the relative minor of a major key in two ways: count up six steps beginning with the tonic (first note) of the scale. So, in the key of C, we would start with C and count up six steps to A. Building our basic triad (A, skip, C, skip, E) gives us a minor chord now, instead of the major chords we looked at earlier in the week. This chord is root chord of C’s relative minor key, A minor. A minor has the same key signature as C major, no sharps or flats.
I just posted the Top 10 most-played songs of the year but here are the Top 10 songs that I added to my iTunes this year:
- The Power Of The Cross – Kristyn Getty
- We Could Run Away – Needtobreathe
- Glorious One – Steve Fee
- Waiting On Your Love – Justin McRoberts
- Washed By The Water – Needtobreathe
- When God Ran – Philips, Craig & Dean
- Victorious – Steve Fee
- Respect – Aretha Franklin
- Taps – Justin King
- Streets Of Gold – Needtobreathe
Haha – okay I feel like this list needs a little more justification than the last one!
First – I told you I was loving the Needtobreathe record and now you can see that I was serious.
Second – “When God Ran” got lots of love because I put together a video using that song for one of our services. I much prefer the Shaded Red version, anyways.
Third – I l-o-v-e that Aretha made the list! This is mostly because of our amazing Krazee Arts Camp from the summer and the music that we would play while kids were arriving.
Fourth – If you’re a guitar player and you haven’t heard Justin King, you’re missing out. RSS’ers – come check the video!
UPDATE: Stephen asked how to get this playlist. In iTunes go to File -> New Smart Playlist and when the little window pops up choose “Date Added” from the first dropdown box then “is after” and then “01/01/2007″. In the line with the checkbox you want “Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.”
Here we go – the ten songs that got the most play in my office this year.
- The Adventure (Radio Edit) – Angels & Airwaves
- Reaching – Leeland
- Hide and Seek – Imogen Heap
- The Son of God Came Down – Sovereign Grace Music
- Yes You Have – Leeland
- Here Is Our King – David Crowder Band
- Favorite Arcade – Hello Kelly
- Yet I Will Praise – Melissa Boraski
- Your Grace Is Enough – Chris Tomlin
- Unchanging (Raise Up Holy Hands) – Chris Tomlin
UPDATE: To get this playlist in iTunes, go to File -> New Smart Playlist and when the little window pops up choose “Play Count” from the first dropdown box then “is greather than” and then “0″. Click the little + box beside it and then choose “Last Played is in the last 12 months.” In the line with the checkbox you want “Limit to 10 items selected by most often played.” Make sure you’ve got “Match all of the following rules” checked at the top of that window.
Hello Kelly – “Sleigh Ride” single
Sovereign Grace Ministries – “Savior”
Jars of Clay – “Christmas Songs”
Andrew Peterson – “Behold The Lamb Of God”
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