liquid gig on friday

i am super stoked about my gig on friday. i've been tweaking my set over the last 2 weeks and i think it's going to be so cool. i'm excited anyway. i'm pumped to play these songs with the heavier loops. lot of heavy drum loops going on through most of the songs to …

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advent is going great

wow. what a great couple of sundays we've had. i am totally pumped about the music we're doing leading up to Christmas. we' had a blast. a great couple of weeks with a couple more to go, including a Christmas concert on DEC 19!

i am trying a whole new way of using …

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a song i wrote, part 6

my second song today! so i had an idea a while back for this song, hope is here. i had a chorus started but then just left it cause i didn't have any thing else to go with it. tonight i was watching lie to me and i've always been intrigued by the theme song. i …

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a song i wrote, part 5

so we had our monthly pray rowlett lunch today and it was pretty cool. everyone was really pumped about the thanksgiving service which is cool because we lead worship there. it's an exciting thing to lead 400 people when you're used to leading around 100. it's just a …

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update...

wow. this has been a great last week or so. we started our core values series, wide open. levi is killing it on the teachings. people have been commenting on how they needed to hear it. the music has been fun, we opened with "use somebody" this week. we'll be …

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a great last week

had a great week last week. got a lot done. i'm pumped about our new series: wide open. it's about our core values love grow and serve. the graphics were fun to make and my buddy david made an awesome sermon bumper with it. we opened yesterdays service with 'all you …

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u2 concert pics

a few weeks ago, u2 was in concert. i had a blast and it was an amazing show. i got some great pics that i thought i'd share in one space, so here you go:

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Christmas time is (almost) here

its hard to believe how fast this year is moving. pretty soon we will be living in the year 2010 and i will be 4 months away from turning 30. but before we get to kiss our loved one in public we have a little season called Christmas.

i love Christmas. it's a great …

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new 'from the inside out' intro

me and a few friends got to go to see hillsong united lead worship when they were on their recent tour. it was amazing! i've never seen, in that type of setting, a more unassuming group of humble musicians. they truly were an inspiration to how i should lead worship. …

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upcoming series graphics

ok. so we just started our current teaching series, biggest losers. i was pretty pumped about the design i came up with. it actually was one i created last year but we decided not to do the series. i lost the original when my hard drive failed but i was able to …

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we are loved track

we're planning on doing "we are loved" in november. it's one of the new crowder*band tunes. i wanted to find a loop for it but nobody has created one yet. so i decided to take a stab at it. i think it turned out ok. the sounds aren't exact but it'll do till someone …

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tractor loop

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song of the week - alleluia, sing (david crowder*band)

i'm getting really excited about doing some of the upcoming songs that we're doing at catalyst. had an awesome time on saturday listening to the new crowder album and having some ideas about when and how we can do the songs.

thought i'd do a quick vid to show how to …

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songwriting

as many of you know, i'm in fusion [worship band] and we released our first ep titled...e.p. earlier this year. we're working toward releasing a full length album in 2011 with maybe a sample ep in 2010 (with songs from the full length album).

as i have been thinking and …

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marketing

since we got out here to texas, we have done our best to get the word out that catalyst is here. we first got a web page designed by my good friend will hill at delco. i started working with illustrator to create designs and ads that we placed in various paper deals. …

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first full day of dc*b

so i spent the day working with "church music," the new album from david crowder*band, playing the background. i am blown away! seriously. it's amazing. you can definitely sense the progression of dc*b music. in the past, a lot of the sequencing/loops/electronica …

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new crowder*band album = awesome!

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busy again

so, i wanted to blog more and found myself not remembering to do so. with twitter, i can get those random thoughts that i have out into cyperspace pretty quickly so i don't have a whole lot left. but really there's a lot going on.

our church is growing. we had a crazy …

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a little diddy

not p

i had a little guitar thing i'd been messing with today and decided i'd throw it down and mess with it. i through a crazy delay on it, put a beat behind it, added a distorted bass, cello, and another guitar part, another guitar with effect and then meagan did some …

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music for september

putting together the music for the next month and i'm pretty excited. this coming sunday we're doing "you found me" by the fray. we're also gonna try some U2 and Pink Floyd this month.

we're also going to do one of my favorite hillsong united songs, "till i see You." …

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