Leading Worship With Larrivee

[sacredground]

First, you guys are awesome! The whole Yarrow guitar thing was incredible: a very cool community effort.

Now on to my post...

Curious how many of you lead worship with your Larry's. Seems like there's a number of you out there. Where do you lead, and what do you play?  

[C-10thunder]

I typically use my C-10 Deluxe(with mic...no pickup yet,still experimenting).Our church band consists of keyboard,bass,electric drums,and my acoustic.
We play alot of choir stuff,such as Brooklyn Tab,Mark Conden,Hillsong,Carman,and other arrangements.Occasionally we do an older hymn,which I really enjoy as I love to sing the old songs as well as the newer stuff.MY Larrivee really shines when playing those old songs.
Ron

[luckydog]

Greetings, I am a soon to be Larivee owner as I have an OM-3r in route and due to arrive this Thursday. I'm really looking forward to using it in a worship setting. I currently lead worship at a home group setting alternating weeks at a Vineyard Fellowship. As such, I do mostly Vineyard songs but I tend to do alot of songs that lend themselves to fingerstyle picking and some (limited) chord melodies. I currently use a older Martin d18 (great strummer) and a Taylor 314 but think the "larry" is going to be perfect for worship because of its great tone and versatility for flat picking and fingerstyle.

-Larry (really thats my name)

[damianip]

Actually, I was going to ask how many of you folk do not play worship music. It seems that there are a very significant number of worship players/leaders out there with Larrivees. It's not a bad thing, quite the contrary, but just a bit of a surprise to me.

How many of you sit at home working out tunes, cursing, crying, wondering why your fingers don't work, never playing them in front of anyone? (That's my demographic.)  ;)  

Paolo

[hsojeel]

Well Paolo I sit and curse at my fingers but I also lead worship at my church sometimes when the Head dude is out of town or something and I use the J-10.
Just so everyone knows he is letting me use it for as long as I want cause I told him that I need to play it.  I am hoping he will be very benevolent in his old age and just give the guitar back to me but I'll use it while I can.  Oh by the way I put the K&K pure western mini in that thing and oh my gosh it sounds freaking sweet.  Bout crapped my pants in the  middle of a worship song. :)  

[unclrob]

I don't do the worshop thing{we won't go there this time}I play about an hour a nite yelling at my hands all the time knowing its my falling brain.I get together with Pastour J,Koamon and a civil enginneer and his son thursday nites for drinks and Fun.My pastour bud calls me the devil,which makes Koamon who is a public defender,
the devil advocate,and everyone needs a civil person to enginneer things,and we all need someone to lean on his son. :D  

[freeindeed]

I lead worship in a small country church outside of Richmond. The ensemble consists of my g/f and myself with my L10. I mostly play p/w but like to throw old hymns in now and again.


                                 Chris

[bing4sons]

As my profile says, my wife & I lead praise & worship for the kids in our church.  We do music and then there's a skit every week.  The skits involve characters at KCRG broadcasting (Know God, Choose well, Reach out, Go Tell).  There's a set built around the KCRG theme.

Anyway, my wife gets the kids engaged with motions/dancing/aerobics.  I lead the band.  We have a drummer, bass, acoustic and me.  I play either my Music Man (which has a piezo pickup, so I can play both acoustic & electric or either), or one of my acoustics (some weeks I just don't feel like carting the electric gear in   :lol: ).  I use my J-05 for alternate tunings (like David Crowders stuff E-A-E-E-B-E) and for when I'm going to do major strumming.  I alternate my Avalon & Taylor for the other acoustic stuff.  We do lot's of rocking stuff, with a good number of Passion worship choruses.

We do 3 services every week, with probably 300+ kids in all.  It's a blast.

[PastorChuck]

I play with our church band. Since I am the pastor of the church, they LET me play - kind of a sympathy thing! (Haha) They are all a LOT better musicians than I am, but I love it! We use a combination of Christian and secular music depending on the theme of the day. Our worship set for Sunday included:

Only A God Like You
Beautiful One
I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever
Here I Am To Worship
He Knows My Name

It's a joy to play every week!

[mdrulez]

Cool thread...

I let our worship leader use my lovely D-09E for our band, which is standard rock style: drums, elec, acoustic, keys, and vocals.  I use a Baggs PADI which cuts really well through the mix.  We play a lot of Chris Tomlin and Hillsongs, being that we are college group and like to stay up with the current stuff.  However, I do wish we'd play more hymns, I love them.  Esp. the cool versions, like Crowder's Come Thou Fount and Charlie Hall's "How Great Thou Art" and "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee".

I'm part of the college group at a Korean American church in north Los Angeles called "All Nations Church" (yeah, we're mostly Korean American, but strive to reach "all the nations").  
We've had David Crowder play at our church (seems like a lot of Korean Americans like him) and plan on having DCB and Chris Tomlin next year...I can't wait...

Keep using Larrys for worship! hehe...but honor and worship God above all else (so hard to do when you have GAS...jk!)

[Fisherman]

I'm involved with the worship using an OMV-10E. Our set for last Sunday was...

I am a new creation  :o
Praise him you heavens
Above all powers
Show me the way of the cross
Jesus all for Jesus

:)  

[bing4sons]

I forgot, there's a short video clip, to give you an idea of our time with the kids, if you're interested:

http://www.northmetro.org/kids_kcrg_checkout.php

[guitarcrazy]

Wow Bing!  You guys are really polished!  I play in the praise band at First Presbyterian in Great Falls, and we are lucky if we can get everyone a mic that works!  I play guitar (usually a Larrivee) and sing, and we have another guitar player, a drummer, piano player (used to be keyboard player, until it died), and a couple of young singers.  It is fun, but we are light years from your setup.  Our church was slow to accept the praise band, but now we have two services, one for traditional and one for praise.  During the summer we did combined services, and unfortunately we had more than one aged congregation member get up and leave during our songs, saying "TOO LOUD!".  Hopefully we'll become more accepted by the older parishoners.  Jason

[egordon99]

I do worship music, but Jewish stuff... It's contemporary Reform movement stuff (think Summer Camp), alot of it is based on 60s folk music. Our congregation is pretty progressive, we meet in a renovated barn while we are raising money to have our own building. I used to use my OM03R, but that has been recently designated the DADGAD guitar, so my Martin D16H is taking over (until I get the courage to take my Santa Cruz OM/PW out of the house) I don't use any mics/amplification since the space has great acoustics and isn't that big.  

[Fergy07]

Great question!

I play in a folk group @ church, which usually consists of two guitarists, a bassist, keyboards, and piano, sometimes violin. I had been playing my OM9 as my main guitar, but since I've gotten an I-beamn installed in my P09-koa, that has been getting a lot of playing time.

Andy  

[sc morris]

I play my K&K equipped D03BW in a praise band on a regular basis.  I also give equal time to my Ovation, which sounds as good plugged in, if not better at times, than my Larrivee. (ducks to dodge tomatos).  Our group is me on acoustic/vox, another guy on an a Martin/vox. 3 girls on vox. And a djembe/conga/whatever he can get his hands on player. I love to play p&w music...it's about all I do anymore.  

[jmhyer]

I agree...this is a great thread!!

I mostly sing with the band and with our traditional choir, though I may rarely stand in the back and strum the D-09 along with the band.  Our worship leader plays a Guild jumbo (don't remember the model but it's all-solid wood with spruce top and maple b/s).  It sounds great.  Other usual instruments are piano, keyboard, drum, violin, mandolin, electric guitar, and electric bass.

We play most of the stuff that's already been mentioned.  My church is Southern Baptist.  Most of the older members enjoy piano and organ hymns, but some also enjoy the contemporary stuff.  This is a college town, so there are many, many younger people in our membership.  It's a great thing to be in the music ministry in our church because we have three Sunday morning services.  The earliest is with traditional music and the choir.  The other two are with the band and the contemporary music.  As a member of both the praise band and the choir, I have the pleasure of experiencing it all!!!

www.firstbaptistchurch.org

[bing4sons]

Wow Bing!  You guys are really polished

I'd like to take credit for the sound track, but I can't  :P .  That's our main worship leader and the main worship band.  His daughter sings on the song.  He is a professional musician, in addition to being the worship leader.  He's done guitar work for numerous artists (Boys to Men is the one that comes to mind, but many others as well).  He also used to run a recording studio.

We're not in the same league, but we're loud   :lol: .  We actually led the main service a couple of months ago.  We're supposed to get a CD with video.  When I get it, I'll try to post a short clip.

Our church was slow to accept the praise band, but now we have two services, one for traditional and one for praise.  During the summer we did combined services, and unfortunately we had more than one aged congregation member get up and leave during our songs, saying "TOO LOUD!".

I've been there, believe me.  We still get some parents in that say it's too loud, but I tell them we're not playing for them.  :D

[sacredground]

I started this thread, but I didn't say what I do...

I'm a campus pastor at University of Nebraska. We have a congregation of about 200 that meets on saturday night & sunday morning. We do mostly upbeat contemporary--Crowder/Tomlin, Vineyard/Redman, et al--with a few hymns. We use guitar, bass, roland v-drums, keys, djembe & conga with a "chorus line" ( :D )of 3-4 vocalists.

I use my Larry L09 for aggressive rhythm stuff with a Baggs IMix, and an SD50 for the fingerpicking/light rhythm with a Baggs M1/Trinity pure western combo in stereo.

The sound of my Larry's plugged in is so good, that I rarely play my Goodall live. Go figure! B)  

[Snowy]

As a beginner, I just pray that I someday will be blessed with enough talent to play praise and worship on my Larrivee!  Not necessarily to join the P/W team at church -- mostly for my own private devotions.

My most favorite is Don Moen's "I Will Sing!"

I also like "At the Cross" and "Who Am I?"

:D