A song to reflect some thoughts during the day. Still rough!
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Tabbed out the chords and riff to Fee’s Everything Falls on the Hope Rising album:
http://marshha.googlepages.com/fee-everythingfalls.txt
Maybe I’ll do a cover sometime.
Here my racquets be.
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Dunlop Aerogel 200 with Head overgrip:
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Wilson nTour 95:
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Albums:
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| dunlop aerogel 200 |
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| wilson ntour 95 |
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| From scott – joint worship 09-13-2009 |
(Picture thanks to Scott)
Some thoughts about joint worship today:
- It was cool to see all the young (and older) kids getting promoted for Sunday School, haha. They are growing up for sure.
And some musical notes (no pun) (arranged from least to most significant in my mind):
- Pianos (as always) sound way better than a guy hammering on an acoustic.
- Even if that acoustic is a Tacoma DM-18 with K&K PW Minis. The Ultrasound PDI sounds great paired with the K&K PW Minis, for sure (as is reported by many acousticguitarforum members)! I would say maybe 80-85% of the Avalon U5’s tone… and for the price I paid for the Ultrasound, that’s awesome. Definitely a nice woody tone coming from the monitors. Didn’t use any effects or EQ, just turned the XLR-out level down a little bit.
- From where I was standing, my vocals felt more spot-on and definitely supported by more air, compared to practice over the last few days. Of course, this may or may not actually have been the case, but it felt that way… haha.
- It went way better than I expected – I missed some cues for when to enter vocally at the beginning of a few songs (woops… but it’s not a glaring issue), but we had no major mistakes, which was awesome. Even the issues caught at the last minute (“who’s singing on the pre-communion song?”) went very smoothly due to some last-minute scribbling of lyrics onto pages.
- The congregation totally knew the songs way better than I expected! God of This City was introduced to the Chinese congregation with great reception. 
This was one of the very few times when we’ve gotten in front of the Chinese congregation and they were able to sing along with us so that we could hear them (and quite loudly) from the stage. Definitely a feeling of joy to see everyone worshipping.
- I had an overwhelming sense of peace as we led the songs of worship today, and it was a very pleasant surprise. I was expecting to be rather nervous playing for both congregations, with the room looking rather packed with people. I definitely thought I was going to panic a little bit (as I always do) when I got on stage, but I felt the same (or perhaps, just very similar) peace covering me as I did the one time when I was playing for my small group at UCLA. Definitely the work of God providing peace when I’m normally freaking out – praise God!
That’s all my thoughts for now. God has shown me that, once again, when it gets crazy, all that means is that He sees me through all the more.
Hmm, haven’t written a blog with actual text in a while. I’ll attempt one now.
The first thing on my mind is the catching up I had with one of my old friends, on Monday. She’s really passionate about having solid Bible teaching in her small group, which gets me really excited. It’s great to see others who desire to grow more and gain a better understanding of their faith. As I learn more about what we believe, I find more and more that there’s so much depth in the “basics” that we often take for granted.
Another thing on my mind is the upcoming joint (English + Chinese) worship set this Sunday. I feel like I haven’t done enough prep work for the set, even though I’ve probably done more than my normal amount of prepping – at least in terms of thinking and choosing songs for the set. I’ve been having a lot of trouble choosing this set, mainly because:
(1) it’s joint worship, so there’s the need to choose bilingually-friendly songs
(2) I feel like I have less authority to make decisions regarding this set, so the set’s been churning around on an email thread longer than it should have
but tomorrow, we’ll work out the musical aspects of each of the songs in the set, and we should be ready to rock (as much as the set allows, anyways). I was feeling sick the last couple days, but I feel fine now. Good thing, otherwise this Sunday would be be most unpleasant… for others… who would have to hear me sing…
There’s also a little bit of loneliness (as usual, for anyone who really knows me). As much as I enjoy the single life where there’s no one else to worry about (not in an antisocial, don’t-care-about-anyone way! you know what I meant…) or spend significant amounts of time with, there’s a little bit of a longing sometimes, hoping that there would be someone for me to spend time with. These days, that feeling comes not as a massive wave or a punch to the (emotional) gut, but as small, sporadic-but-infrequent nudges. Haha… I thought girls like guys who play guitar? I still say that’s a lie.
And as a guitarist? I’ve been spending a lot of time on the acoustic and writing my typically-emo’ish song(s). I’m developing a rather strong sense of rhythm and a better ability to hit transitions between chords, as well as playing more difficult chords these days. I still struggle with playing lead though – no surprise, as I’ve never had to do much of it live, and I don’t have much time to practice these days.
I’ve been looking for new worship songs to bring the rock with, but I’ve had relatively low success. The one new song we’ve been playing is Glory To God Forever by Fee, and it’s a good song. I’ve also been playing some reworked hymns from Red Mountain Church and Indelible Grace, with the acoustic rock’ish feel that I seem to apply to whatever I play. At least, it feels that way to me. I wonder if I could fix that somehow.
Audio training is one thing that I need to start up. It’d be great to get people to learn how to maximize the potential we have, with the new dbx compressors and EQs in the rack.
And that’s my thoughts for now…
mike: emo isn’t necessarily bad i guess
mike: i’m emo sometimes
mike: so are you
me: hahaha yeah
me: but you just have to encourage them
me: by beating them
me: with…
me: well
me: I dont have a sword
mike: yea
mike: i’ve probably taught you wrong
I’m amused… these are the things you learn from your mentor:
mike: emo isn’t necessarily bad i guess
mike: i’m emo sometimes
mike: so are you
me: hahaha yeah
me: but you just have to encourage them
me: by beating them
me: with…
me: well
me: I dont have a sword
mike: yea
mike: i’ve probably taught you wrong
hahahahah.
These are the unboxing pictures I took of my LX2 when I first received it a few weeks ago. Better late than never, I suppose.
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| From surefire lx2 |
Nice box – this is a departure from normal Surefire plastic packaging.
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| From surefire lx2 |
And here’s the packaging opened…
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| From surefire lx2 |
And serial# X00898 is all mine! Notice the six US patents… this is seriously some high-tech stuff here, hahah.
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| From surefire lx2 |
Finally, a profile shot.
