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Great video! Really appreciate you talking to the ‘why’ instead of just another pedal demo.. really helpful. I’m pretty simply. My current favorite is the Tumnus with eq. I pair this with a super sweet boost pedal and xotic sp compressor.

This is great! Thank you!

I will not hesitate to run metronome during rehearsals, but we don’t use click or stems live. It adds a ton of complexity and I like developing musicians. You can have a fantastic worship service with one guitar or keys and a mic. Just do it well.

Been lucky and thankful with this team including our sound engineers. As a guitar player I was initially interested in joining the team BASED on the sound of the whole band every Sunday. Our live stream almost never reflects this but I’ll take the live sound over that!

that intro song messes with me in all sorts of ways. what's wrong with 4 on the floor?

Este groove ni siquiera se usa en la canción

Big fan of the positive grid (own the go and the live) stuff for learning and training. I was pretty skeptical at first but have even used them live with an air step in stomp box mode. I also appreciate their app is free and their training tools can be used for practice without buying their hardware.

anyway you could do 'HELP!!!' fellowship creative? Im doing it tomorrow and CAN NOT figure out all the notes/parts. Key of A

My problem is that I can’t play fast licks. This Sunday I’m playing I’ll Fly Away (Red Rocks) and the solo is impossible for me. It’s actually frustrating.

I may have learned something today ❤

Tracks did us in. 😂 make live human talent great again

Part 2 greatly appreciated

This was such a refreshing conversation for me. Of the 22 years I've been playing music at churches, the last five years have really been the only portion I've played with tracks, and in that short time, I'm about over it. There are pros and cons, but I think overall musicianship has suffered. I agree with one of the other commenters that said the over produced churches have unfortunately set the standard for what church music is supposed to sound like. Recently, I've been asking myself what would happen if, "the music fades and all is stripped away." Would people simply come?

Just found this channel, love watching some guitarists teaching each other new skills!

Now you know how us keyboard players felt all those years haha!

I find that one of the main ways to get out of a rut is to "embody" another guitarist's play style. Learn a song or guitar piece by somebody else, but watch the original video and try and figure out how the original guitar player did it. Then, ask yourself why they did it that way. There's an endless number of ways to play a piece on guitar, but different musicians find different techniques and positions comfortable. The trick is to emulate another artist's preference instead of your own, until you understand why they did it that way. Maybe they wanted more room to slide into notes. Maybe they liked the sustain or resonance on thicker or thinner strings. Maybe they wanted access to a droning open string. Maybe they wanted a string with more room to bend. TLDR: growth happens when you're out of your comfort zone, so get into somebody else's for a while.

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Did Nick come over from Worship Tutorials? Or is he doing both?

I’m a children’s worship leader and this was a very interesting conversation for me. We have always told our kid helpers to not be a distraction on stage as they are an example for the other kids. I do think it’s different for everyone of course but I really appreciated that the conversation came back to the core value which is that we are all there to worship God!! Thanks so much for these insights!!

I use a lot less drive playing a Les Paul. I have a harder time with the lighter sounds to add color and texture and not volume. I roll the volume of my pickups down, but then feel like I lose their voice.

I fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. I love having the click and guide. I will add tracks when I have a full band to give it more of the original recording sound, but when I don't an electric player, I am pulling out the EG parts. If I don't have a drummer, I am not having drum tracks, etc. I'd rather the sound coming from the speakers being mostly those on the stage.

This is huge. Once you have your ear in shape, going through the recording or chart without guitar in hand is so helpful to get a full picture of the song/set. Weird but it actually cuts down on prep time.

My worship team started using tracks at the request of the leader. The team has become more precise, but it was an adjustment for those of us who would adjust to minor tempo changes - which were mostly from the lead singers. Our drummer was unable to adjust and had to leave the band. Now we have track drums instead of live drums and I think we are sonically worse for the exchange. Even worse is that we've lost a Christian friend over it.

Okay this video really struck a chord (well maybe more accurately a nerve) with me lol, and so like, yeah I definitely want to share. So like okay when I first started playing modern worship music it was for my former church’s worship band for the students, specifically Middle School! I quickly learned how imperative keeping rock solid time was, because like we were playing Hillsong United & Fee and stuff like that, and so yeah it was GREAT training to try to remember the BPMs of all those songs and such and keep a band of students from rushing or dragging! Now, our WL decided that the next step in all of us improving on our time (and the fact that he kinda tried to um goat us by saying we wanna equip you to lead for the Main Service) It was decided that we started using a click. Well anyway we did, and I had to learn to stop & start it (which was harder than you would think) And of course…we all hated it lol, but once we literally submitted to it, and I cranked it up in my ears, we began to really enjoy it. And then we soon learned to play with it aaaaaaand then, we couldn’t play without it😂 (True) Personally I was involved in another different ministry that met in the “Chapel” venue of that church which was like a 350 seat auditorium-break-out room, and the worship music wasn’t normally as high energy and generally consisted of slower songs. Now remember what I said about “we couldn’t play without it” I wanted to apply my newfound skill of “tempo accuracy” carte blanche to um…the whole band. So it started causing anger and frustration, with vocalists cause they’d be like “I want to sing this faster” and I would be like fine ok 83-85 BPM. And so I’d do my level best to KEEP them at that tempo, but the problem is they’d (of course) start rushing and EXPECT me to follow them…but I wouldn’t, cause in any form of mainstream-commercial-pop-rock music, either the drumkit is the tempo authority or the click is. (Literally no band can serve two masters lol)😂 Problem is they’d get mad at ME, cause I made them sound terrible by ignoring their wrong tempo and playing the right tempo, and in a CR ministry having this kinda mindset quickly started poisoning the water so to speak. Especially because 90% of the members in this band were older adult volunteers. We actually stopped using it for a bit and the most amazing thing happened…we got better…at playing together AS A BAND!! If the singer wanted to speed up or slow down then I adjusted which helped the whole band adjust in unison, and that empowered all of us to lead the congregation with joy and confidence! Now for High School ministry the songs kinda changed and worship music changed a LOT in the mid 2000s more ambient/indie/industrial/synth rock. We used a click and it was fine, we were all used to it now and it gave me the chance to play a TON more complex-unconventional parts than I was doing initially cause now keeping tempo ain’t my primary job. There again however when it was my job it made it hard to adjust TO playing simpler parts “than the track” cause I was like “well why can’t you just suck less” 😂😏 Okay so for tracks New Comment…

I love this board and its simplicity. It’s simple and you know exactly what you want it to do and how to use it.

Well done 👍🏽

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I have received more "you are showing off" and that 's distracting. They don't understand the "getting into it" a guitar player needs to do to play well and at the level the are asking. Paul Gilbert said it best "playing guitar and not making faces is like eating without tasting"

Great info. When using a Tele the single coil hum gets amplified and I”m constantly riding the volume. Do you use a noise gate for this?

I’d love some advice/tips, on how to properly play lead (EG1) on a traditional SSS Strat in a worship setting. Mainly so it sounds good and full, worshipy 😂. And not like an SRV/Meyer/Clapton/Hendrix/input random Strat player here, etc type concert.

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There should be movement in music. That cant happen with tracks/click. Get a good drummer and a band that plays well together and you will never look back.

Wow, that was refreshing. I feel like we skip basic rudiments to find new stuff to do. Wow so simple, so profound! Thanks, guys!

I can appreciate this 😂

A rear tire tread separation on your 15 passenger band van that smashes into the coolant lines feeding the rear heater core for the HVAC system in the back...causing you to lose A TON of your coolant...yeah, that'll leave you STUCK in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. Ahhh the memories!

I like challenging myself with a new piece of music when in a rut. It can be a solo, an instrumental piece, whatever, something that stretches me

Great video. The tricky bit for me is that I can get so caught up in my tone addiction that I sometimes forget to leave time to just enjoy playing. Thanks for the insight into what creates the foundation of your boards!

Excellent tutorial. Questionable t-shirt. 🤣

So *why* is Worship guitar characterized by heavily effected "plink-plinks?" Let me offer a little perspective as one who came into contemporary worship music in the late 1980s (when the idea of "Christian Rock" was still controversial). The ethos was strongly shaped by things like Janny Grein's book "Called Appointed Annointed," which essentially put a series of *very* black-and-white choices in front of musicians and told us that if we didn't get in line we were in sin. "Worship" was framed as the opposite of "performance" so starkly that anyone who did anything unusual was accused of "performing" (=attention- seeking, =pride). Because of this, guitarists became more minimalist and textural as a way of not being singled out. Also, worship guitarists tended to not be formally trained (whereas pianists far more often were) so songwriters (I suspect) wrote simpler guitar parts in hopes that more people would play their songs.

I'm in a fairly small church in Germany, and the worshipband always uses tracks. The team doesn't seem to be very big, so the use of tracks varies depending on what instrument needs to be "replaced" because no one is there to play it. I think there can be a good balance of using tracks if it's not to ONLY fill gaps to sound like a full band. Sometimes they don't have a drummer and play with complete drum tracks instead and I think like whats the point, this sounds so odd because there is no drummer visible. Tracks overall can be helpfull, use a click, maybe use some ambience stuff to fill up the mix if you haven't got a keyboard to play that, but for the rest I think it can be so beautiful to just run with what and who you got. The music will have more life, more feeling, more variation and meaning plus it is not a performance feeling but really worshipping and being connected with the congregation. thanks for all your thoughts, I'm totally with you and will think about that!

I start my overdrive section with a JHS Morning Glory. It's my always on pedal. Then I have a Tube Screamer which sounds better with my Strat than my PRS. Then I have a TC Electronica Fuzz which sounds better with my PRS than my Strat. I don't have enough money to do everything I would like. Next I think I'm adding a HX Stomp at the end and maybe I can add some OD from there. We'll see. Thanks for the content.

Keeley tone workstation -> Kilt V2 -> Strymon Deco. The keeley is crazy already, it has their legendary compressor, and a katana (or blues breaker instead) and a modded tube screamer. But then you stack that into a kilt (sometimes I just boost it with the Katana). And then mostly using Deco for some mild saturation dueing rhythm playing.

I’ve played both ways here my take on it. It’s sad to me that tracks have ruining worship services making it more of production and entertainment and taking away from what Worship really is. I do love using clicks and a pad cause it keeps us on time. But when it come to tracks like y’all said why have 7 guitars playing in background when you have one or two guitars. What are they supposed to play? They almost feel like why am I here then if I have guitars in the background playing over me. I do believe there a right way of using tracks and eliminating all the extra stuff that’s not necessary. Give your musicians value and help develop them if your the music director that’s your job. Trust your musicians more than you trust your tracks. There’s so much more I can but I’ll just leave it as that.

praying you'll talk less and play the whole song

NuX 6ixty 5ive (always on) -> Kilt V2 -> Wampler Dual Fusion V2. I'll probably add something high-gain in the future. I like Westminster Effects too; their Doxology Podcast is really good. I've been listening to it for years. If they still made the E89, I'd probably have it on my board instead of the Dual Fusion.

been playing electric guitar at my church for 10 years and same problem we're buried somewhere in there. three things needed on our worship team. 1. drums 2. bass and 3. tracks. and due to the overuse of tracks I absolutely despise them. i'm thinking about leaving the team as a result. I actually sat down and talked to our worship leader how unhappy I am because of track heavy. and I was told he is a producer and as a result they are pushing a product. I love playing but what I don't love is practicing for hours and hours and hours and hours only to be drowned out by bass, drums, synth and tracks. I have so many people tell me they can never hear the guitars. I intentionally don't practice cool riffs because you will never hear them. it seems they want to push quality over authenticity. they load the stage with every instrument and so many vocals to make us look big. in reality its still 90% track.

You what is a distraction? If you’re on the stage, while someone is talking or preaching, and you’re noodling. Very bad form.

How about find an AMP you love? My personal approach is to set the amp for as much gain as I need for leads, then use my guitar's volume controls for edge-of-breakup or even clean. The best cleans I have ever heard were a great cranked amp with the guitar volume backed down.

One drive I don’t see enough on worship pedal boards is the Morning Glory. My drive chain goes TS->MG->Boost(1 gain, boost on volume). The MG with the red remote gives you that high gain for those moments when you need it and that’s a game changer. On low gain the MG is very saturated for rhythm.