Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Hillsong Creative 01

Hey guys, I was just going through worship material in the past week, and thought that I should probably tell the rest of you guys about this (Peter already knows about it). Maybe you guys know about it too, but hey, it's good to be informed!

'droff knows best.

Hillsong recently released a workshop DVD covering several of their songs, and putting them in a workshop situation. I still haven't gotten through the entire DVD; there's about four hours of content to go through. But what I found great about the effort was how in depth it goes, visually and orally. For each of the songs, you can choose to have a panning view of all of the instruments, or keep the camera on your instrument of choice, whether that be drums, bass, guitar or keyboards. From here, the band talks about the specific arrangement and helps you think, "how can I adapt this song to my particular environment?", which is a very important part of what we do in a worship situation. I definitely recommend that you guys check it out. It provides great insight on how you might want to approach playing for worship, and hey, it's Hillsong :P. Either order it, or try to find it on the net (it's huge though, 7.57GB... so high speed's in order), but it's something beneficial that I think could definitely be worth all of our time.

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