There are videos about some of the songs here on the website, and they might be scattered around in some of the written "Worship Thoughts" that we've got here....but the video section is your best bet.

Did you use that sound last sunday? if so, it owns. ;) i seriously had your keys so cranked in my monitor. haha. it was great. 

 

I've got an embarrassing story, speaking of. I rarely lead worship. at my old church I was always playing something...bass, guitar, drums...but rarely led. So my two stories are...

I used to lead in a house setting because our youth building was being built. so, its just me and an acoustic. My youth pastor, and still good friend, was very notorious for giving me a hard time. One time, during the closing prayer to the worship time he was speaking, my shoe rubbed against the floor and it sounded JUST like i let one fly. And so after the prayer I'm like "I promise you, that was my shoe" and i could not get it to make the same sound again. so he razzed me about it, of course. 

 The other story is I led, and once again, hadn't in a while. so I sort of always just pick out the songs I've enjoyed playing. Well, its this big youth weekend and I made the set so it'd all sort of run into eachother real well. I get to the 3rd song, and I'm looking at the sheet with the lyrics and chords in front of me, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how the song is played. I can't figure out the rhythm, the strumming pattern...nothing. So I'm just hanging on G for a while, and the band is confused, and FINALLY it comes to me. It just wasn't typed right, or something. the way it was broken up on the page didn't make any sense in my head I suppose. But luckily, I recovered. could've been worse, for sure.  

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"Some men can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."

I use Prepare the Way, Marvelous Light, All We Need, Center, and Give Us Clean Hands. I also have used Closer a couple of times in smaller settings and we play Nothing But the Blood with the arrangement that is on the Passion 05 cd. Whenever someone asks me who Charlie Hall is I say "You know the song Marvelous Light?" "Oh yeah, I love that song!" "Well you should check out the rest of the stuff he and the band put out too."

 Embarrasing moments:

1) We used Prepare the Way a lot during Advent this past year because it fit perfectly with the season. One day we started but I was playing it half-time. I was able to recover once I started singing it in my head and just double everything I was doing, so no big deal right? Well then I got to the part where we went back into chorus singing "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus..." and I couldn't decide whether or not I should go up high like I usually do there and was kind of in between. Not good. I felt like I distracted everybody from singing something beautiful to God in that moment.

 2) Not a Charlie Hall song here, but a few weeks ago we ended the service with Everything Glorious and I broke my G-string on the first time through the chorus with the capo on so it made it harder to get out of the way. I started trying to hit it good and hard as I continued strumming to get it down off the neck. Then I went the opposite way of the other singers with the vocals at the end of every chorus after that followed  sounding terrible. I had just restrung the guitar that weekend too.

3) We start All We Need with the drums and our electric guitar player does a part that sounds vaguely similar to Brian's keys in the intro. There have been several times when our drummer has forgotten to play and didn't know what song we were doing which made it pretty interesting. Drummers are definitely an interesting breed. Case in point: I give him a set list to keep next to his throne every Sunday and he still forgets to play.

Ah, these have been good times really because I am frequently humbled by them.