Tonight was awesome! Celebrate Jesus was great... man tears and all.
Adam of Kingdom Productions just uploaded a "rough edit" (no color correction or pro audio) of the live concert DVD we shot last Saturday for the Pregnancy Resource Center. Pro audio and color correction will be added soon. The DVD is scheduled to be ready in 8 weeks. If you want to pre-order the DVD, you can pre-order it by contacting the PRC.
Check out the clip and let me know what you think.
They have a really great event called, "Celebrate Jesus"... I'm pretty sure that they celebrate Jesus other days, but tomorrow is special! (I'm only teasing because the Pastoral staff are friends of mine:)
You all should come out it should be fun. The last time I was there, I was crying man tears.
A few posts ago, I shared with you that we will be putting on a benefit concert for the Pregnancy Resource center.
7pm, Saturday,
January 23, 2010
Mt. Vernon Baptist Church
11220 Nuckols Road
Glen Allen, VA 23059
Our show is docu-concert style.
What is a “docu-concert”?
I’m glad you asked…
Basically, we’ve worked with Adam Samuelson of Kingdom Productions to produce a documentary for our client, Pregnancy Resource Center to tell their story of what they do. The documentary will be shown throughout the concert as we sing songs that celebrate life.
The event will be a multimedia worship concert celebrating life. We will be performing songs of different ethnicities and cultures, so come out and experience it with us. A professional DVD will be made of the event so the PRC can continue to raise money through DVD sales and awareness.
Why raise money for the Pregnancy Resource Center?
One of the criticisms of right wing conservative evangelical Christians are… “they are anti-abortion and not pro-life once a baby is born”.
The PRC in Richmond is pro-life holistically. They serve mothers and fathers in helping them navigate through the fears of an unexpected pregnancy and the many details of taking care of a child, including medical needs, parenting, career choices, and much more.
When I met Kim Warburton, executive director of the PRC, one thought dominated my mind.
“She really cares for people.”
All of the money that comes into PRC goes to help a woman and her family. The PRC doesn’t lobby at all. They are on the front lines loving people.
Kim wanted to do a concert that celebrated God’s gift of life. She wanted to celebrate what they are for instead of what they are against.
If you want an evening of celebrating life with us, come on out. It will be fun.
In my most recent post, I talked about two of the three components that are needed to find the groove.
1) Meter
2) A Feeling
3) The Subdivided Beat
Today, we’ll talk about what it means to subdivide a beat.
You already know that the meter is the consistent beat that we count (example 1 – 2 – 3 – 4). The subdivided beat is the rhythm in between the meter.
Try this:
Step 1 –
Walk around the room to a steady beat (meter) and count to 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 on each step.
Repeat this process until you get comfortable with feeling the meter.
Step 2 –
After you are comfortable with the meter, subdivide the beat by patting on your leg in 2’s. (The first pat will be on a number and the second pat will not be on a number).
Continue this process until you feel comfortable.
Step 3 –
Now that you have the patting 2’s down, subdivide the beat by patting your legs in 3’s. (The first pat will be on a number. The second and third pat will not be on a number)
Step 4 –
Did you feel the difference between patting in 2’s & 3’s? Practice walking and interchanging the subdivided beat in 2’s & 3’s. Make sure the feeling gets into your body.
Various genres of music tend to be subdivided in beats of 2’s or beats of 3’s. When you are listening or participating in a musical performance, find the groove by listening for the meter, the beats that are being accented, and see if the subdivided beat is in groups of 2’s or 3’s.
Here’s a clip of the Urbana09 International Student Track Worship Team in practice and a few performances playing songs in different grooves. When we first started, there wasn’t one person that exhaustively knew how to play or sing every song in its proper way. We had to learn from each other and we had to practice a lot to get close to sounding good for the genre we were performing.
As you watch the video, try to find the grooves. Let me know how it goes and what you think.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 at 10:33PM 
