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January 26th, 2006 by Travis Swan | Posted in Gear | 1 Comment »
Effects are additions that are placed between your guitar and amplifier to “color” the sound. You can put them in many configurations to customize your tone, and ultimately this configuration is up to your own personal taste – but I will suggest a few guidelines as you read on. Here’s a run-down of [...]
January 18th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Strongbad’s tips on being a death metal band.
January 17th, 2006 by Jeff | Posted in Ministry Philosophy | 16 Comments »
Over the past few years I have been mentoring a few young worship leaders, through this process I’ve had to determine what is vital for one to know in order to go from being a singer or singer/guitarist or singer/keyboardist into a worship leader. Though there are many intricate details I could go into, [...]
January 11th, 2006 by Travis Swan | Posted in Gear | 11 Comments »
This article comes partly from my own personal experience with guitar amps, as well as from advice by Chris Liepe, an old friend of mine, former lead guitar player for my worship team, now a professional producer/sound engineer at Sweetwater Productions studio.
With amplifiers, the first decision you must make is tube vs. solid-state. Solid-states [...]
January 11th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Bob Kauflin talks about the importance of worship leaders reading theology books
January 10th, 2006 by Travis Swan | Posted in Gear | 1 Comment »
As I write for rockworship.com I am forced to more deeply examine the things I do as I lead people in worship. Many things are deeply spiritual. Lately I’ve been considering how to enter Christ’s rest and have faith that He will do all the work in the service. Much of what [...]
January 10th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Features | No Comments »
The messages from Faithwalkers 2005 are now available for download. All main sessions as well as the breakout seminars are online. All downloads are availabe for free (released under the Creative Commons license). Thanks to Malex Media for hosting the downloads.
Also available from that site are some great pictures from the conference.
January 5th, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Pete Townshend Warns iPod Users to turn the vlume down.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
How Bono’s spirituality affects his music.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
A Study of The Edge’s Guitar Delay.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
A forum quotes John Mayer talking about overdrive, distortion, and more.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Is our worship about us? Or about God? Ways to tell…
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
Tim Challies interviews Derek Webb. Interesting discussion about music and theology.
January 3rd, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in External Links | No Comments »
USA Today featured an article on Kenny Chesney’s Concert setup which happens to be the largest current touring concert. Pretty amazing.
January 3rd, 2006 by Jeff | Posted in Ministry Philosophy, Theology | 1 Comment »
Lately the song “Breathing the Breath” by Matt Redman has been kicking my butt, and yesterday I found some scripture that tied in this idea even a little more, so I thought I would share it with you all.
Matthew 10:39 “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his [...]
January 2nd, 2006 by Dan Price | Posted in Song Writing | 7 Comments »
This is a link to an interview that my Pastor Noel did with me on/about corporate worship
January 1st, 2006 by Matt Heerema | Posted in Features | No Comments »
I love Chris Tomlin live. I’ve seen him twice, once in concert, and once leading worship for a week right after the release of “Not To Us”. This live album captures the energy of his live performances very well. On stage, they have a raw, high powered, gritty, intense sound that just [...]
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