Leading Worship With Larrivee

[danerada]

I play guitar in the worship band at Kent Island UMC in Stevensville MD. I play a Larrivee D-09. I also play guitar on a lot of Emmaus and Chrysalis weekends - for that I use my Guild...I'M NOT PLAYING MY D-09 OUT IN THE WEATHER!!!!!!...my wife is the worship leader and we have myself, my wife, two more vocals, keyboard, drums and bass. We have fooled around with recording a couple of songs...i put them out on nowhereradio.com and the band name is Ransomed.

[bing4sons]

I also like ...  "Who Am I?"

:D

I've been to see Casting Crowns a couple of times.  I love their music and their heart.

[Snowy]

Pastor Chuck - I love those songs!  Especially "I could sing of his love forever"

[sc morris]

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.

I was in the same boat several years ago.  Though I was a pretty accomplished rock player, I really couldn't get the hang of p&w music.  There really is a difference. I just wanted to tell you to hang in there and don't give up.  When I started I was surrounded by such talented people that intimidated the sox off of me. They are all gone now, doing other things, and I was left with the job that most of them were doing. Strange how that happens. It will likely happen to you one day too, if you stick with it.  

[SongMan]

Great Thread!
Can you guys please also state the Pickups you are using.

I just changed church, and I lead worship for college group service. Hmm... about 6 members, but with sanctuary being rather big, I need to plug in.

It's sad, we have Bass, key board, electric guitar, drum, extra acoutic guitar JUST SITTING THere, because no one knows how to play them. Right now it's me leading with guitar and a lady playing the piano. Try playing Crowder/tomblin with just guitar and piano.  :lol:  It's all good, I am sure Lord appreciateds our music just as much as Bing's.

And yes, I am trying to teach the members to use some of the instruments.

Going back to the main question, I use L-05 right now with Rare Earth Humbuckers, but thinking of switching to Rosewood or maybe a Dread.

[guitarcrazy]

We like to do a lot of Steve Bell for contemplative type stuff, and are working on some Shawn McDonald material right now.  Some very good tunes on Simply Nothing, especially Beautiful.  Not very hard to play either.  Singing like Shawn is another matter....

[danerada]

We play contemporary worship music...Micahel W. Smith, Tim hughes, Delirious?, David Crowder, 100 Portraits, etc.

[bing4sons]

Try playing Crowder/tomblin with just guitar and piano.  :lol:  It's all good, I am sure Lord appreciateds our music just as much as Bing's.

And yes, I am trying to teach the members to use some of the instruments..

Absolutely He does!  I never really did much band stuff until a few years ago.  Mostly I played/sang solo.

Not only do we get to share with the kids, but I've also be able to pull some teenagers into the band.  It allows them to use and shape their gifts.

We rotated through several bass players.  I would always have to call and find someone who was free to play.  But, we had one 8th grade boy who was just starting out.  He wasn't close to our other bass players in his skill level, but he ALWAYS wanted to play.  So, I made him the full time bass player.  I told him he was the man and to let me know when he couldn't play.  That was about a year and 1/2 ago.  The progress this guy has made is AMAZING.  He has become an acomplished bass player.  Anyway, that kind of stuff in very satisfying to me.

[mischultz]

I engineer services primarily, but I do get out in front of the desk on occasion for smaller retreat events. I draw mainly from the Passion catalog and the hymnal, although Charlie Peacock has a compilation out that I may end up lifting from.

I've met Bing and I know Sonny well. The great thing about their system (at least in the main room) is that it's not fatiguing to listen to. You can run a consistent 105 dB and be perfectly comfortable over extended periods. Still makes me smile every time I walk in. But if someone's not complaining about volume, you're not putting enough in.

Concert performance, whether it's in a worship context or no, is something visceral that ought to physically envelop you. It's the difference between leaning into the wind because you know it will support you, and leaning in because you're straining to understand someone.

My spare change.

Michael

[bing4sons]

But if someone's not complaining about volume, you're not putting enough in.

A man after my own heart!   :lol:   BTW, Sonny is our main worship leader.  I'm always telling Sonny he should turn it up a little more, but his thoughts are that if he's getting equal complaints on both sides of the volume issue, he must be about right.

I love the music at Northpoint Community Church is the north suburbs of Atlanta.  They gear everything they do to be culturally relevant (and the volume does get pretty loud).  If someone wants something a little more traditional, they make no bones, that's not what they do.  There are other churchs that do that.  The thing is, they started with that vision in mind, so they're not upsetting folks who started the church 50 years ago.

[jimi thing]

i play a lot on our worship team at church with my D-60 and hopefully with an OM-05ve soon!!!  we play a lot of Brian Doerksen, Third Day, Vineyard standards, Michael W. Smith, Chris Tomlin, i like to sneak in the odd David Crowder....

i play with two other guitarists (plus the backing band) on our worship team that rotate in every so often....one plays a D-03e and the other plays a Duncan (JA Duncan Guitars) Jay worked at the Larrivee factory in British Columbia before starting his own company.....the guitars are quite nice, great craftsmanship and tone

sunday set included:
lord reign in me
did you hear the mountains tremble?
-some song i can't remember.....- let's call it a musical interlude  
i want to know you
your love oh lord
in the secret

love the thread!! have a good one!  

[Fergy07]

I play in a Roman Catholic church (not a religion known for their praise and worship), but our church kicks butt on it's music ministry and has eight or nine different choirs. The folk group plays mostly traditional hymns, with some of the newer stuff by unknown monks (I think). However, a good portion of the songs really were never meant to be played on a guitar and they go through some really awful chord changes on each beat. If I never see another minor 7th flatted 13th chord again and have to guess just how it's fretted in a nano second, my life will be complete. I use I-beams in my Larrivee's, and my Tacoma has the LR Baggs E6 system. I'm thinking of getting an I-Beam Classic for my Breedlove SN20. As a preamp I use the LR Baggs Gigpro then into the church's mixer.

Again, this is one of the better threads in a while.

Andy

[Mikeymac]

Sacredground,

I'm just up the road from you in Omaha - our church is literally between Gretna and Elkhorn just off 180th and Q streets: Living Faith UMC.  I'm the pastor, and, right now by default, the worship leader.  We have Roland drums, keyboard, acoustic and electric guitars (I usually play electric), congas, and several singers.  We plug the acoustics into a couple of Acoustasonic Jr.s and then run a line out to the board.

Did you get your Larrivee from Jim Nipper at Acoustic Music Plus in Lincoln?  I bought both my Larrivees from Jim, the first one 12-13 years ago when his shop was in Omaha.  

When I play acoustic, I can choose from three guitars, my two Larrivees, and a new Ovation L777 (lefty 1777 Legend); but I just had to ship the Ovation back to the factory; it's only two months old, and the ebony fingerboard started to crack up the middle!  Besides, the Larrys both sound excellent either unplugged (which the O doesn't!) or plugged in. After this experience with the O, I wish I would have never ordered it; I could have had a Larrivee Forum guitar instead!!!

Our set last Sunday was:

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name (hymncharts version)
Above All (powers...)
Shout to the Lord
Lead Me, Lord (from the UM hymnal, but a great song)
The Family Prayer Song (at the end of the service)

danerada,

De Colores, brother!!!  I'm very involved in Walk To Emmaus here in Nebraska; I've done a lot of weekends as a Spiritual Director, but in May I get to do my second weekend as the musician, which I'm really looking forward to!  WTE is really growing in Nebraska; when I "walked" in '96 we only had two or three sets of weekends each year, now we have 8-9 sets of weekends around the state.

Andy,

Do you do any John Michael Talbot stuff?   I love his stuff and ordered several copies of his "One Faith" songbook from his website; I'd love to incorporate some of those into our worship, along with other older and lesser known (but usually better written and more theologically meaningful) songs into our worship; I don't think the whole church has to play from the same "top 100" Christian set list...

[danerada]

Mikeymac -

I have so far served on three Chrysalis teams - the lates as head ALD. My WTE weekend was two years ago and it changed my life! I have yet to serve on an Emmaus weekend, but that's okay - the Chrysalis weekends are an absolute blast.

DeColres - Fly With Christ!!!!!

[Mikeymac]

danerada,

I haven't served a whole Chrysalis weekend, but I've given talks at a couple.  My daughter (now 18 and in college) loved her weekend, and has gone back and helped several times.  She already had a great spiritual walk, but it has been a real reinforcement for her...can't wait for my other three kids to go (when they're old enough)!

I can honestly say that even as a pastor, Emmaus changed my life!  And the church I now serve would not even exist if it were not for WTE: it has focused our leadership on the right priorities for ministry!

[stevelawsn]

De Colores! Its good to know that the Emmaus community is represented here. I am always amazed at the people that I meet who have their lives touched by by this wonderful ministry. ..Steve Lawson, Alabama Walk To Emmaus #157, Table of Luke

[el guitana]

I use my D-03R acoustically with a about 30 people at weekly classes. Haven't put in a PU. I also use a classical with PU for occasional special services, but I'm not regularly involved in the music ministry, though I was for many years before stepping up to preach.

[danerada]

Steve - Dane Rada Chesapeake Emmaus walk #20 St. John's Table Kent Island UMC. Do you take and play your Larry at the Emmaus events? I always get great comments on my D-09 when play at the events.

[sacredground]

Sacredground,

I'm just up the road from you in Omaha - our church is literally between Gretna and Elkhorn just off 180th and Q streets: Living Faith UMC.  I'm the pastor, and, right now by default, the worship leader.  We have Roland drums, keyboard, acoustic and electric guitars (I usually play electric), congas, and several singers.  We plug the acoustics into a couple of Acoustasonic Jr.s and then run a line out to the board.

Did you get your Larrivee from Jim Nipper at Acoustic Music Plus in Lincoln?  I bought both my Larrivees from Jim, the first one 12-13 years ago when his shop was in Omaha. 

When I play acoustic, I can choose from three guitars, my two Larrivees, and a new Ovation L777 (lefty 1777 Legend); but I just had to ship the Ovation back to the factory; it's only two months old, and the ebony fingerboard started to crack up the middle!  Besides, the Larrys both sound excellent either unplugged (which the O doesn't!) or plugged in. After this experience with the O, I wish I would have never ordered it; I could have had a Larrivee Forum guitar instead!!!

Our set last Sunday was:

All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name (hymncharts version)
Above All (powers...)
Shout to the Lord
Lead Me, Lord (from the UM hymnal, but a great song)
The Family Prayer Song (at the end of the service)

JIm Nipper is a fine friend of mine here in Lincoln. I purchased an L05 and a mahogany parlor from him.

Our set from last sunday was:

Halleluiah YOur Love is Amazing
Days of Elijah (Robin MArk)
Nothing But the Blood (Redman)
Crown Him with Many Crowns
I stand in Awe of You
KNowing You

Glad to hear from you!

[bing4sons]

Our set list from last week:

Sunrise (by Jeff Slaughter, who does many kid's camps) has "Eye of the Tiger"  
           in the middle of the song, where the kids do aerobics  :D )
Joy (Tree63 - John Ellis)
Indescribable (Chris Tomlin)