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Posted 1 month ago

I just picked up a couple new books that I've heard good things about.
Crazy Love by Francis Chan and Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell.
I know Bell has a lot of critics, but every time I've heard him speak live, I've really enjoyed it.
So - I'm gonna dive into these with the intent to finish them both by Christmas.
That may not seem like a very lofty goal - but considering I've never been an avid reader - it's a S.M.A.R.T. goal for me.

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Posted 1 month ago

Just finished a puzzle. Relaxing.

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Posted 1 month ago

Wasn't planning on pulling out the winter coat this early in the year, but it looks like I'll have to tomorrow morn

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Posted 1 month ago

Check out my little drummer boy

This is Breydon. He's 4.

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Posted 1 month ago

Finally finished

i know it looks simple... but for whatever reason, it took me a long time to end up w/ this.
It's our missions theme/graphic for this year.

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Posted 1 month ago

How we're NOT running loops this weekend

iTunes.

A couple weeks ago I experimented w/ running our click track and loops from iTunes. See the initial blog entry here: http://bdivine.posterous.com/how-were-running-loops-this-weekend
It worked pretty good, but as almost everything does, it had it's pro's and con's.
After mixing down the songs to stereo tracks in ProTools and importing them into iTunes, everything went really well. Our drummer fired the tracks from iTunes and we really didn't have any issues.

It wasn't until the following week when I went to put the tracks together for the weekend set list. We were doing a brand new song and so, like normal, I recorded a few loops and tracks for it. Again, I panned the loops to the right and the click to the left. Unfortunately when I went to "bounce" the file, I forgot that I had muted the click track while I was mixing the loop tracks... and since I was in a hurry, I didn't listen back to the bounced AIFF file.

When we got into rehearsal, the drummer pulled up the track and it started running. The pads and loops sounded fantastic, just as they had the week before, but there wasn't a click running alongside it. The lightbulb went off in my head and I realized what I had done.
The biggest problem w/ running tracks from iTunes or any other 2 track set up is that you're stuck w/ whatever is in the tracks at that moment. You can't adjust tempo, volume of individual tracks, or even add tracks quickly.

The next day I went in and built our worship set in Live which worked beautifully as it usually does.

Here's the practical lesson I took away from this:
When working in worship you have to BE FLEXIBLE. While iTunes is a great tool and can be used.... for us it's not the best way to stay flexible in our worship experiences.

I'm always looking for new ideas on running loops, however the one thing that I don't ever want to loose is flexibility.

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Posted 1 month ago